The Bucket List [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack] [Soundtrack]

Marc Shaiman (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (January 15, 2008)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Soundtrack
• Label: Varese Sarabande
• ASIN: B00114XRQ8
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #159,678 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Hospital Hallway - Marc Shaiman

2. Like Smoke Through a Keyhole - Marc Shaiman

3. Best in L.A. - Marc Shaiman

4. Really Bad News - Marc Shaiman

5. La vie en rose, song

6. Hotel Source

7. Did You Hear It?

8. Flying Home

9. Homecomings

10. Life and Death

11. The Mountain

12. End Credits

13. A Seed of Grain, for chorus (for the film The American President) [Theme

14. Theme

15. Theme

16. Theme

17. Theme

18. Theme

19. A Wink and a Smile, song (for the film Sleepless in Seattle) [From Sleepl

20. Blame Canada [From South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut]

See all 23 tracks on this disc

Editorial Reviews

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Genre: Soundtracks & Scores
Media Format: Compact Disk
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Release Date: 15-JAN-2008

Customer Reviews

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11 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars GREAT CD! SCORES are usually INSTRUMENTS ONLY, January 19, 2008

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R. Claire "loves good music" (us) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Bucket List [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack] (Audio CD)

While the previous reviewer stated that the songs in the movie were NOT on this CD, please keep in mind that SCORES are USUALLY instrumental - The trumpet playing of Chris Botti is spectacular!! Of course, Chris has a number of great CD's, however, if you enjoy the haunting trumpet playing in this movie, along with the others, you will be delighted with this CD.
(The song "SAY" is not included)

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Lovely, peaceful and pensive, February 20, 2009

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Carolyn Wright "round grandma" (Denver CO USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Bucket List [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack] (Audio CD)

This arrives on the eve of my brother's-in-law funeral and I immediately ripped it to my computers and took it with me on that saddest of days. Its peaceful, pensive quality lent the atmosphere of appreciation for the poignancy of a life cut short by illness without being depressing. TRULY a beautiful work I would recommend to anyone who appreciates quiet dignity for difficult times as well as anytime a thought-inspiring, unobtrusive background is desired or needed. I've not ever gotten to the second half of the album that includes other works, but will soon.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Pretty score from Marc Shaiman, September 25, 2008

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Jon Broxton (Thousand Oaks, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Bucket List [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack] (Audio CD)

It's been a while since the world had an original score by Marc Shaiman since he went off to write Hairspray and subsequently become the new darling of Broadway, but when Rob Reiner comes calling, Shaiman usually responds - and so we have The Bucket List, the latest cinematic collaboration between the two. The film stars Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman as two old men - both diagnosed with terminal illnesses - who make `the bucket list', outlining the things they want to achieve before they shuffle off the mortal coil and kick the bucket. And so, the film follows their various misadventures as the pair escape from their cancer ward and subsequently tick off all the items on their list by going skydiving, driving stunt cars, traveling the world, and living their lives to the fullest before time runs out on them. Shaiman's score is sensitive, generally understated, and short, dancing around the more obvious opportunity to layer on the sugar, and instead revealing itself to be a quiet, but sentimental reflection on the dreams and regrets of old age. There's an unexpected jazz element to much of the score, notably through the instrumental performances of trumpeter Chris Botti and saxophonist Dan Higgins. Cue such as "Like Smoke Through a Keyhole" and "Best in L.A." have an interesting, sultry vibe completely at odds with kind of music you would expect in a film like this, although the slight sense of melancholy is actually quite appropriate for the subject matter. The final few cues - "Life and Death", "The Mountain", "End Credits" - adopt a more orchestral approach than the others, and although they never quite reach the heights of the likes of The American President or Patch Adams, they still have that kind of sweeping beauty that Shaiman does so well. Because the score itself is so short - less than half an hour - and being such a wit, Shaiman padded out the album with some `junk from his trunk': a series of piano variations on themes from his own old movies like City Slickers, The Addams Family and Sleepless in Seattle, as well as a couple of songs, including the hilarious "Printmaster", which features Shaiman himself lamenting the fact that the score he slaves over is being drowned out by car chases and explosions in the dubbing mix. Priceless!