The Pacific [Music from the HBO Miniseries]

Hans Zimmer / Geoff Zanelli / Blake Neely

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The Pacific [Music from the HBO Miniseries] Review

by James Christopher Monger

Credited to composers Hans Zimmer, Geoff Zanelli, and Blake Neely, the soundtrack to the HBO mini-series The Pacific owes more than a courtesy nod to the late Michael Kamen’s elegiac work on the Steven Spielberg/Tom Hanks-produced 2001 companion series Band of Brothers. Appropriately melancholy and drenched in French horns and sepia-toned nostalgia, The Pacific yields a more reflective tone than its older brother, although Zimmer makes sure to toss in a few of the bold, heavily percussive military themes that have become his forte over the years. This uniquely American, stoic, brass-heavy approach to scoring historical military drama may feel well worn (the main theme could be applied to nearly every WWII film, documentary, or video game released since Saving Private Ryan), but that’s because it works so remarkably well, acting as a cooling agent for the horrific images that war so deftly burns into our collective psyche.

Track Listing

	Title/Composer	Performer	Time	Stream
The Pacific
1	Honor - Main Title Theme Blake Neely / Geoff Zanelli / Hans Zimmer	Blake Neely / Geoff Zanelli / Hans Zimmer	02:57	Amazon
2	With the Old Bread -- End Title Theme Blake Neely / Geoff Zanelli / Hans Zimmer	Blake Neely / Geoff Zanelli / Hans Zimmer	04:04	Amazon
3	You Have No Idea Blake Neely / Geoff Zanelli / Hans Zimmer	Blake Neely / Geoff Zanelli / Hans Zimmer	02:15	Amazon
4	Terrible Solomons Blake Neely / Geoff Zanelli / Hans Zimmer	Blake Neely / Geoff Zanelli / Hans Zimmer	01:40	Amazon
5	Torn Souls Blake Neely / Geoff Zanelli / Hans Zimmer	Blake Neely / Geoff Zanelli / Hans Zimmer	01:23	Amazon
6	Nightfall on Okinawa Blake Neely / Geoff Zanelli / Hans Zimmer	Blake Neely / Geoff Zanelli / Hans Zimmer	01:41	Amazon
7	Private First Class Robert Leckie Blake Neely / Geoff Zanelli / Hans Zimmer	Blake Neely / Geoff Zanelli / Hans Zimmer	02:40	Amazon
8	Fallen Friend Blake Neely / Geoff Zanelli / Hans Zimmer	Blake Neely / Geoff Zanelli / Hans Zimmer	01:50	Amazon
9	We've Gone Respectable Blake Neely / Geoff Zanelli / Hans Zimmer	Blake Neely / Geoff Zanelli / Hans Zimmer	03:04	Amazon
10	Iwo Jima Blake Neely / Geoff Zanelli / Hans Zimmer	Blake Neely / Geoff Zanelli / Hans Zimmer	04:08	Amazon
11	Praying for You Blake Neely / Geoff Zanelli / Hans Zimmer	Blake Neely / Geoff Zanelli / Hans Zimmer	03:19	Amazon
12	Even the Trees Hate Us Blake Neely / Geoff Zanelli / Hans Zimmer	Blake Neely / Geoff Zanelli / Hans Zimmer	03:41	Amazon
13	Get the Wounded Aboard Blake Neely / Geoff Zanelli / Hans Zimmer	Blake Neely / Geoff Zanelli / Hans Zimmer	01:56	Amazon
14	Memories of Home Blake Neely / Geoff Zanelli / Hans Zimmer	Blake Neely / Geoff Zanelli / Hans Zimmer	02:31	Amazon
15	Landing Peleliu Blake Neely / Geoff Zanelli / Hans Zimmer	Blake Neely / Geoff Zanelli / Hans Zimmer	03:22	Amazon
16	Adagio for Peleliu Blake Neely / Geoff Zanelli / Hans Zimmer	Blake Neely / Geoff Zanelli / Hans Zimmer	02:07	Amazon
17	The Peleliu Hills Blake Neely / Geoff Zanelli / Hans Zimmer	Blake Neely / Geoff Zanelli / Hans Zimmer	04:37	Amazon
18	Dear Vera Blake Neely / Geoff Zanelli / Hans Zimmer	Blake Neely / Geoff Zanelli / Hans Zimmer	01:46	Amazon
19	Where Do We Go from Here? Blake Neely / Geoff Zanelli / Hans Zimmer	Blake Neely / Geoff Zanelli / Hans Zimmer	01:55	Amazon
20	Men at War Blake Neely / Geoff Zanelli / Hans Zimmer	Blake Neely / Geoff Zanelli / Hans Zimmer	02:33	Amazon
21	Sledge's Humanity Blake Neely / Geoff Zanelli / Hans Zimmer	Blake Neely / Geoff Zanelli / Hans Zimmer	06:08	Amazon
22	War Is Hell Blake Neely / Geoff Zanelli / Hans Zimmer	Blake Neely / Geoff Zanelli / Hans Zimmer	02:15	Amazon
23	Homecoming Blake Neely / Geoff Zanelli / Hans Zimmer	Blake Neely / Geoff Zanelli / Hans Zimmer	04:51	Amazon
24	New Kind of Bomb Blake Neely / Geoff Zanelli / Hans Zimmer	Blake Neely / Geoff Zanelli / Hans Zimmer	02:19	Amazon
25	Honor (for oboe and strings) Blake Neely / Geoff Zanelli / Hans Zimmer	Blake Neely / Geoff Zanelli / Hans Zimmer	02:59	Amazon