Thief (soundtrack)

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Thief
LP cover USA
Soundtrack album by Tangerine Dream
Released	March 1981
Recorded	February – November 1980
Venue	Berlin
Studio	Chris Franke's studio
Genre	Electronic music
Length	39:07 or 40:11
Label	Virgin
Tangerine Dream chronology
Quichotte (1981) Thief (1981) Exit (1981)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]

Thief (1981) is the fifteenth major release and second soundtrack album by Tangerine Dream. It is the soundtrack for the 1981 American neo-noir crime film Thief, directed by Michael Mann.^[2] It reached No. 43 on the UK Albums Chart in a 3-week run.

"Beach Theme" and "Beach Scene" are two different mixes of the same piece. The album version of "Dr. Destructo" is quite different from the film version.^[3] An extended version of "Dr. Destructo" was available only on a promo single. "Igneous" is a remix of "Thru Metamorphic Rocks" from the 1979 album Force Majeure. Neither "Beach Theme" nor "Trap Feeling" appear in the film.

After Tangerine Dream completed the soundtrack, Mann needed another sequence. As Tangerine Dream was on tour, Craig Safan composed and performed "Confrontation". The original 1981 Elektra LP released in the U.S. featured "Confrontation", but subsequent releases featured "Beach Scene" instead.^{[citation needed]}

During the 1980s, Toronto television station CITY-DT used "Scrap Yard" as their background music when inserting technical difficulties slide cards. Scrap Yard was also used as theme for local television newscasts on KFTY (now KEMO-TV) in Santa Rosa, California and WNDU in South Bend, Indiana.

The soundtrack was also nominated for Worst Musical Score at the 2nd Golden Raspberry Awards.