SOUNDTRACK
To this day there are
three different versions of the No Retreat No Surrender soundtrack
plus a very nice cover version of Hold On To The Vision. All of them are presented below.
Basically responsable for the music is composer Frank Harris. An interview in which he talks about the NRNS soundtrack and recent developments can be found here.
(1) ORIGINAL MOTION PICTURE SOUNDTRACK (2010)
© Perseverance Records
The world-premiere release of Frank Harris' score to the original, international version to NRNS. The album features, besides all the tracks heard in the film, four versions of Hold On To The Vision with vocals Kevin Chalfant featuring Joe Satriani on guitar.
Playlist
1
Hold On To the Vision [Original Mix]
2 Hold On To the Vision [08 Remix]
3 Hold On To the Vision [Lionshare Mix 87]
4 Hold On To the Vision [Karaoke Remix]
5 Bottle and a Song [Remix]
6 Ask Me To Stay [Original Mix]
7 Ask Me To Stay [Remix]
8 Opening
Listen
9 Opening [Remix]
10 Training Sequence
11 Training Sequence [Remix]
12 Opening Credits
13
Dojo Fight Drone 1
14 Dojo Fight Stringers
15
Dojo Fight 2
16 At the Hospital/ Lighting Candles
17 To Seattle
18 Set Up Garage
19 Rj/ I'm Bad 1
20 Breakdance In Garage
21
Training In Garage
22 Escape On Skateboard
23 Fat Boy Fall
24 At Bruce Lee's Grave
25 Burger Joint Music
26 Jason's Rage
27 Ian the Champ
28 Pre Escape Stinger
29
The Escape
30 Close To You
31 No Violence Stinger
32 Fight At Party
33
Sensei Lee, Help Me
34 Peaceful At Training House
35
Sensei Lee Appears
36 Training Sequence 1
37 Sandbags
38 Training Sequence 3
39 Bottle and a Song
40 Sensei Leaving
41 Hold On To the Vision
42 Bar Lot Fight Stingersd
43 Bar Lot Fight
44 Breakdance Night Party
45 Get Up and Dance
46 Ask Me To Stay
47 The Championship
48 Reilly Vs. Ivan Listen
49 Russian
50 Reflect On Sensei
51 Race To Victory
52
Unused [Ask Me To Stay]
53
Unused Cue #2
54 Unused Cue #3
55 Unused Cue #4
56 Unused Cue #5
(3) ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK RECORDING (1994)
© Silva Screen Records
The very rare player has been for a very long time the only existing soundtrack for NRNS. It was published in a very limited edition and can therefore hardly be found on the market.
A big deception for a lot of collector was and still is that it only contains instrumental versions (music composed and conducted by Paul Gilreath) and lacks first and foremost Kevin Chalfant's Hold On To The Vision.
Playlist
1 "Making Contact" - Trailer Music
2 It's Showtime
3 "Stand on Your Own"
4 Main Theme
5 Reflections
6 No Seattle
7 Country Music Hell
8 Bruce Lee Appears
9 1-5
10 Training Montage
11 Russian Appears
12 Pike Place Markets
13 Young Lovers
14 Aroma of Tacoma
15 Rescue
16 Night Out in Fife
17 Time to Kick Ass!
18 Race to Victory
19 Lovers Kiss
20 "No Retreat, No Surrender Love Song"
(2) ORIGINAL MOTION PICTURE SCORE (2008)
© Frankie Business (ASCAP) and Season Fim Corp. Hong Kong
This record was a pre-release to the then upcoming OST (1).
Some notes by composer Frank Harris:
"Finally
after 22 years of waiting, fans of the movie “No Retreat No Surrender” and
“Karate Tiger” can enjoy the original musical score by me via digital download
that will include four versions of the main theme song “Hold on to the Vision”.
For the movie score collector, I have included the complete music underscore in
the three bonus tracks! There is about 30 minutes of original music content on
those tracks. Unfortunately for reasons that are not entirely clear to me to
this day, the version of “No Retreat No Surrender” that was released in the USA
did not include my original score. This music however, does exist in the
versions found in Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Asia etc.. Fans have been
asking for this music for many years and the difficulty of getting permission
from the original film company “Seasonal Films” out of Hong Kong, has been
challenging. Fortunately, we now have a co-venture to make this possible."
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Playlist
1 Hold On to the Vision Remix '08
2 Hold On to the Vision Orig '85
3 Hold On Lionshare Remix '87
4 Hold On to the Vision Karaoke
5 Training Sequence Remix '08
6 Training Sequence Orig '85
7 Opening Credits Remix '08
8 Opening Credits Orig '08
9 Ask Me to Stay Remix '08
10 Ask Me to Stay Orig '85
11 Bottle and a Song Remix '08
12 Disco Scene Orig '85
13 Bonus Tracks 1
14 Bonus Tracks 2
15 Bonus Tracks 3
Listen to samples here.
(3) NO SURRENDER - PROJECT: HOLD ON THE VISION (2008)
© Marcel Deckers
"No Surrender", a German music project (www.vvolverine.de), made an outstanding cover of Hold On The Vision in order the meet the high demand of a quality version of the song. Unfortunately, this took place right before Frank Harris decided to release a remastered version of the song himself.
Still, it's very nicely done and I recommend this record that can be purchased
here at CDDeal.
Playlist
1 Hold On To The Vision (Single Edit)
2 Hold On To The Vision (Long Version)
3 Hold On To The Vision (Single Edit Instrumental)
4 Hold On To The Vision (Long Version Instrumental)