The Departed (Music From the Motion Picture) [Soundtrack]

The Beach Boys (Artist), The Rolling Stones (Artist), Badfinger (Artist), Dropkick Murphys (Artist), LaVern Baker (Artist), Patsy Cline (Artist), Howard Shore (Composer) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 7, 2006)
• Original Release Date: 2006
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Soundtrack
• Label: Warner Bros / Wea
• ASIN: B000J3FBVG
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (34 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,564 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #37 in Music > Country > Classic Country > Nashville Sound

Track Listings

1. Comfortably Numb - Rogers Waters feat. Van Morrison & The Band

2. Sail On, Sailor - The Beach Boys

3. Let It Loose - The Rolling Stones

4. Sweet Dreams - Roy Buchanan

5. One Way Out - The Allman Brothers Band

6. Baby Blue - Badfinger

7. I'm Shipping Up To Boston - Dropkick Murphys

8. Nobody But Me - The Human Beinz

9. Tweedle Dee - LaVern Baker

10. Sweet Dreams (Of You) - Patsy Cline

11. The Departed Tango - Howard Shore Featuring Marc Ribot (dobro) and

12. Beacon Hill - Howard Shore Performed by Sharon Isbin

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

With Goodfellas, Martin Scorsese completely reinvented the way popular songs--instead of a made-to-measure score--can be used all the way through a movie to emphasize mood and action. He continues in that vein for The Departed, whose soundtrack is full of tunes by classic acts. If a theme emerges, it's great guitar work: on Pink Floyd's "Comfortably Numb," on the Allman Brothers' "One Way Out," on Badfinger's "Baby Blue," and on Roy Buchanan's "Sweet Dreams." (Even the two selections from Howard Shore's score highlight that approach, with performances by Marc Ribot and Larry Saltzman on "The Departed Tango" and by Sharon Isbin on "Beacon Hill.") A couple of numbers also deliver slight twists: the version of Pink Floyd's "Comfortably Numb" is the live one from 1990, when it was performed with Van Morrison and the Band; and the Beach Boys' obscure 1972 song "Sail On, Sailor" isn’t sung by its cowriter Brian Wilson. Thankfully, LaVern Baker and Patsy Cline help offset a very white, very male, very classic-rock selection. While it looks as if Scorsese stopped listening to music sometime around 1975, Beantown's Dropkick Murphys do contribute "I'm Shipping Up to Boston," a nod to the movie's setting. --Elisabeth Vincentelli

Product Description

The Departed has been hailed as director Martin Scorsese's most powerful film since Goodfellas. With critical acclaim, major stars and all the punch of an explosive crime drama, The Departed is set to be a box-office smash. The soundtrack album features songs from all-time greats The Rolling Stones, The Beach Boys, The Allman Brothers Band, Roy Buchanan and Badfinger along with a collaboration between Pink Floyd's Roger Waters, Van Morrison, and The Band. Add cult faves The Human Beinz, current South Boston punkers Dropkick Murphys, an R&B gem from LaVern Baker, a country- pop selection from the immortal Patsy Cline, and a pair of selections from Grammy® Award-winning score composer Howard Shore and The Departed's soundtrack album promises to be as widely popular as the film.

Customer Reviews

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17 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Wonderfully captures the feel of the film, July 19, 2007

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The Departed finally won Martin Scorsese the long overdue Oscar he has so very much deserved over the years. Like Goodfellas and Casino before it, The Departed utilized a soundtrack of previously available songs to set the mood and capture the feel of the film, and this soundtrack succeeds on just about all counts. The blistering live rendition of Pink Floyd's "Comfortably Numb" by Roger Waters, Van Morrison, and The Band starts the disc off, and is followed by classic tracks from the Beach Boys, the Rolling Stones, the Allman Brothers Band, and Patsy Cline. Sandwiched in between these older acts and the two score tracks contributed from composer Howard Shore, is the instantly catchy "I'm Shipping Up to Boston" from punk favorites the Dropkick Murphys, which you'll no doubt remember nodding your head to when watching the film. There may not be anything featured here that you haven't heard before or seen somewhere else, but the soundtrack for The Departed is a blast regardless and wonderfully captures the feel of the film. In those regards alone, the soundtrack, much like the film itself, is a pleasently wonderful treat.

10 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Departed-Very good tunes!!!, May 12, 2007

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J. Townsend "Julie Elaine Townsend" (Williams Bay, Wisconsin USA) - See all my reviews
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Soundtrack is very good !!! But should not have left out -"Gimme Shelter"-Rolling Stones. Too bad. But otherwise worth playing!!!

25 of 34 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars missing song, December 6, 2006

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JOHN H. PARK "tenxtone" (Arcadia, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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The strongest song of the whole film, without a doubt, is the Rolling Stones' "Gimme Shelter". Of course, the soundtrack doesn't include it.