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The instrumental opening draws on the score’s martial momentum and electronic visions of space, then shifts through tension, loss, and resolve to echo Rico’s transformation from recruit to combat leader. The vocal half pairs songs about soldiers, duty, and the cost of war with the novel’s sharp contrast between unit camaraderie and the distant, impersonal scale of interstellar conflict.
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20 songs
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Klendathu Drop
Basil Poledouris · Starship Troopers (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
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Pulstar
Vangelis · Synthesizer Greats, Vol. 3 (REMASTERED 2023)
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Phaedra - Remastered 2018
Tangerine Dream · Phaedra (Deluxe Version)
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Oxygène, Pt. 4
Jean-Michel Jarre · Oxygène
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The Robots
Kraftwerk · 3-D The Catalogue
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A Warm Place
Nine Inch Nails · The Downward Spiral (Deluxe Edition)
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Strauss, R: Also sprach Zarathustra, Op. 30: I. Introduction
Richard Strauss · Strauss - Also Sprach Zarathustra
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The Planets, Op. 32: I. Mars, the Bringer of War
Gustav Holst · The Cala Series, Vol. 6: Bernstein, Franck and Holst
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Tamacun
Rodrigo y Gabriela · Rodrigo y Gabriela
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The Trooper - 2015 Remaster
Iron Maiden · Piece of Mind (2015 Remaster)
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War Pigs - 2009 Remaster
Black Sabbath · Paranoid
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Fortunate Son
Creedence Clearwater Revival · Willy And The Poor Boys (Expanded Edition)
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13
Gimme Shelter
The Rolling Stones · Let It Bleed
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Army Dreamers
Kate Bush · Never for Ever
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Masters of War
Bob Dylan · The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan
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The Unknown Soldier
The Doors · Waiting for the Sun
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I Was Only 19 (A Walk in the Light Green)
Redgum · Against The Grain (The Redgum Anthology 1976-1986)
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The Band Played Waltzing Matilda
Eric Bogle · Now I'm Easy
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Warrior
Yeah Yeah Yeahs · Show Your Bones
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