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Any Given Sunday: Music From The Motion Picture

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After seeing perhaps the best film of the year,I immediately went out and bought the soundtrack and I have to admit, I was a little dissapointed. The cuts by hole, kid rock, jamie foxx, and dmx are decent, however the soundtrack would've been so much better if it had included the adrenaline pumping sports anthems ACTUALLY included in the movie such as Kid Rock's "Bawitdaba" and black Sabbath's "Paranoid". Another low point is that when I looked in the credits of the cd and saw that additional diolague was included, I thought Pacino's gut wrenching, inspiring pre-game talks would be sandwiched between tracks along with the memorable "Willie Beaman" jingle. Instead, I found some meaningless quotes sampled over looped drum beats. Overall, a poor showing for a great movie.

After seeing the movie, I was eager to get ahold of the soundtrack. Boy was I wrong. This soundtrack captures only a few of the songs that were actually used in the movie. I was extremely upset at what was a clear attempt to "market" this soundtrack as a rap/hard rock album than what it should have been, a soundtrack that stays true to the movie. What a commercial sellout by whoever put the soundtrack album together. I heard several songs by Moby and other dance/techno artists throughout the film, but none of their songs were included on the CD. If you are a fan of rap, which I'm not, then I'd recommend the album. If you saw the movie and liked the music from the movie, don't buy the soundtrack.

That song you guys are referring to is an extremely rare, unreleased song by P.O.D. entitled "Bless Me, Father". Unfortunately, it's only appearance is in the movie. They also recorded a cover of the Beatles' "Eleanor Rigby", however it too remains unreleased...

I keep running into this movie on HBO and I am always captivated by the incredible mix of sports action shots and fantastic music. I have been disappointed by movie soundtracks before, but I really wanted to hear the full songs behind the electrifying music cuts. I was disappointed again.

Apart from the stellar Missy Elliot and the always amazing LL Cool J, I found this to be yet another featureless pile of bland gangsta rap with a few pieces of random heavy metal shrapnel tossed in. Those of you who are into this style of rap will probably say that the music choices are fabulous. For me, none of the wonderful musical texture in the movie is reflected here.

I specifically remember watching a slow motion shot of a long pass spiraling in toward the camera and in the background I heard "Do you wanna revolution? - whoop whoop whoop - Do you wanna revolution? - whoop whoop whoop." It was a great cut. Is it on the album? No. Where are all the great cuts that really helped to plug this movie into the wall socket? Give up, They're not on this album.

Bottom Line: If you're into this style of rap, why are you reading this review anyway? You know what you like and you'll probably like this. On the other hand, if you are like me and you find this kind of rap textureless and dry, don't expect to find any of the musical excitement of the movie on this CD.

This is the ultimate trading soundtrack; the first CD is worth the price admission for Missy Elliot's "Who You Gonna Call" alone---a rap song sampling Mozart's Requiem (which lent gravitas to the opening sequences of the movie).

Actually, it seems that Ollie Stone is discovering his true talent as a music video montage editor; much of the power of the film (which is fun, but not nearly so fun as his first venture into jump cut-MTV era film-making chaos, Natural Born Killers) came from the steroid-pumped soundtrack.

Without a doubt one of the best movie soundtracks ever put together; almost as good as raw adrenaline.

where is all the techno/electronic music they played throughout the whole movie, (like fatboy slim's "right here right now" from the opening football scene)? This cd has way too much rap, and not the techno that was played throughout the movie.

This movie was full of good "clips" but the songs on the soundtrack are not what I was looking for. It is loaded with "gansta" rap. If that is your style, then this album is for you. Can anyone tell me what song is playing after the priest's speech? the lyrics go "bless me father for I have sinned..." I can't find anything on this one at all.

That song is called "Revolution" and the artist is Kirk Franklin.

I also have a question ... there is an almost purely instrumental song during a game, not sure who they are playing, but it's a beaty song and I know that in the beginning of the song, they say ".... Baja, California ... " It's really good, but I don't know the artist or the name of it. Please help!

Fer cryin' out loud. The big songs IN THE FILM aren't on this cd or on "Volume 2". Maybe there will be a "Volume 3: The Songs You Expected and Paid For" edition.

This album is a great album even though the songs arent on the movie anyone can tell by reading the tracklist but anyhow the cd is good. LL Cool J's song is a classic and all the songs are very listenable. If you like rap and rock this is a great mix of both.