Committed: Music from the Miramax Motion Picture [Soundtrack, Import]

Calexico | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 25, 2000)
• Original Release Date: April 25, 2000
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Soundtrack, Import
• Label: Chapter III Records
• ASIN: B00004SUAT
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #183,492 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Mercy Mercy - Don Covay & The Goodtimers

2. Release Me (And Let Love In) - Ester Phillips

3. Wichita Lineman - Glen Campbell

4. Folsom Prison Blues - Johnny Cash

5. Hello Walls - Faron Young

6. Donna - Ritchie Valens

7. Rueda De Fuego (Ring Of Fire) - Vaqueros Del Oeste

8. Bliss/Spokes

9. How Do You Know You've Gone Too Far

10. Empty Home

11. Snake Magic

12. TBO

13. Chasing Carri

14. It Was Me

15. Tested To The Limit/Spiritual Vigil

16. A Glimpse

17. Texas

18. Untitled

19. Grampy

20. Shape Shifting

See all 24 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

9 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars It's re-recorded instrumentals of Spoke/Black Light/Hot Rail, December 22, 2000

By 

Chris Pearson (Denver, CO United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Committed: Music from the Miramax Motion Picture (Audio CD)

First, I'm a huge Calexico fan and basically have to own everything they release, or my life is like a book missing a chapter. Second, if you've ever listened to their seminal album 'The Black Light', you know they should have been chosen to do the soundtrack to "All the Pretty Horses", not Marty Stuart. Their music lives and breathes the ambient whispers and southwestern desert soul of the novels of Cormac McCarthy. Heck, they're even from Tucson. Well, we can only hope that if "Blood Meridian" ever gets made into a movie, Calexico is chosen to make the original soundtrack recording.

So I saw the description of the Committed soundtrack as "music composed and performed by Calexico", and was immediately drawn to buy it. Then, much to my dismay I get the disc and Calexico has re-recorded instrumental versions of their greatest hits of their past three albums. They even renamed the songs! After a string of great albums, including The Black Light (incredible), Road Map '98-'98 (very good), Descamino (awesome), and Hot Rail (so so), they stumble here while pulling the wool over our eyes. At least they spared us the overdose of sappy mariachi horns prevalent on Hot Rail. Next time tell us what we're getting!

5.0 out of 5 stars beautiful soundtrack work from masters, March 22, 2004

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Chris Whitehead (AUSTIN, TX United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Committed: Music from the Miramax Motion Picture (Audio CD)

The first part of the cd is very good with classic Cash and a smokin' Tejano version of Ring Of Fire in Spanish(not by Cash).
The big payoff for this is the Calexico material which althought not 100% new material, is great. Its mostly reworkings of Calexico songs acoustically without vocals, very moody and smooth but not boring.

1 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great, June 11, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Committed: Music from the Miramax Motion Picture (Audio CD)

this soundtrack is great. i love all of the songs