The Brothers McMullen: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack [Soundtrack]

Seamus Egan | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 15, 1995)
• Original Release Date: August 15, 1995
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Soundtrack
• Label: Fox Searchlight Pictures
• ASIN: B000002VPR
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #62,496 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. I Will Remember You - Sarah McLachlan

2. A Week In January

3. Slip Jigs

4. Intro No.1/Reel Beatrice

5. Fermoy Lasses

6. When Juniper Sleeps

7. Eamon Coyne's/Longford Collector

8. Once Upon A Time...

9. Cape Breton Set

10. The Lark

11. Dark Slender Boy

12. Weep Not For The Memories

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Seamus Egan is the God of Irish music!, February 14, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: The Brothers McMullen: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Audio CD)

Sarah McLachlan the high point of this album?!?!? Listen, I own 4 of Sarah McLachlan's albums and I enjoy her very much but this is Seamus Egan's album and his musical talent is incomperable as always! I seriously doubt whether the Amazon.com reviewer who wrote the review for this CD had any knowledge of traditional Irish music at all. If he had he would certainly have recognized what masterful album it is and how brilliant Mr.Egan truly is! Sarah McLachlan didn't even write the tune for "I Will Remember You", Seamus Egan did. You've got to love clueless reviewers! Buy this album (and the rest of Seamus Egan's/Solas's cds)!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Seamus Egan Shines through. Irish/Celtic music at its best, November 13, 2002

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manav sawhney (New Brunswick Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Brothers McMullen: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Audio CD)

This album finds its feet essentially in Seamus Egan's captivating score. Sarah McLaughlan's track, albeit surreal, is in no way the "highpoint" of this album. This soundtrack showcases Seamus Egan's immense talent as a composer and juxtaposes it well with the film itself. A film about 3 Irish catholic brothers in Long Island trying to find a firm footing. It almost seems to be an estranged relationship with the new land, and their entrenchement with their culture and history, remnescient by the frequent use of the "Irish Guilt" phrase in the movie.

Its this picture of ireland and the roots/culture that Seamus Egan pulls out and paints beautifully on an alien canvas (analogous to their life in USA). The tin whistles, fiddles, harp etc. lend a magical sound.

The Second track "A week in January" opens with a rousing and well paced guitar laden track followed by a very traditional celtic ensemble. "When Juniper SLeeps" and "Once upon a time" are two of the best tracks on the album. Touch that magical chord deep within. Cape Breton set, actually transports one of the north east canadian shores, of which the music is very remniscent. Finally, the final track offers a beautiful and simple closure to the entire labour of love.

The merits of the movie are quite hotly debated, but the strenghts of this score are unquestioned, some even suggesting that whatever little substance the movie had was made bearable by the beautiful score. Certainly i am going to digress from the heated debate on the film content, and urge you to give this listen for what it is worth, the actual score that makes the album, and not the one track which is but a part of the grand ensemble.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A pleasure to listen to!, July 26, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: The Brothers McMullen: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Audio CD)

I have become a HUGE fan of Sarah McLachlan and when I first heard this song I fell in love with it. I found out later it was not on any of her CD's in the US, only in Canada. I was so glad to find it on this soundtrack. I have enjoyed this CD as well as watching the movie.