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Erin Brockovich: Motion Picture Soundtrack

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This soundtrack is deceptive. What I remembered from the movie were the acoustic piano songs, and they are on here, but are only about a minute long, as is almost every track of this CD. 23 tracks, but only 35 minutes long... It does have the two Sheryl Crow songs, and those are good. The rest of the tracks are just too short to really enjoy.

I bought this Erin Brockovich for the first track, which I simply adore, but the whole album is definately worth a listen. It has a perfect balance of bright tracks (Useless, On The Plume) and the more moving tracks such as Miss Wichita and the wonderful Technically A Woman. I am a great fan of Thomas Newman's and this soundtrack did not disappiont. In regard to the Sheryl Crow tracks I feel that Redemption Day is misplaced and I usually skip this track. Everyday Is A Winding Road, however, proves a fitting conclusion to this album. Most of the tracks are too short and the mechanical sounding percussion introductions take a little getting used to, but the good much outways the bad, as most of the tracks are delightful. Four stars.

I agree with the previous reviewers: the content is good, but too short. When I first played the CD I thought it was a sampler of the soundtrack - the tracks aren't allowed to run long enough to establish the mood. It's a tad dissapointing.

While I have to agree with previous reviewers complaining about the short tracks on this CD, the quality of the music itself is absolutely top-notch. Newman shines in intimate, keyboard-centered music, and here we have some exquisite examples of this minimalist approach. "Miss Wichita," for instance, is heartbreakingly pure, communicating Brockovich's readjusted expectations for herself even more clearly than the scene's dialogue did.

I've been a fan of Newman's work since seeing "Scent of a Woman" and being transfixed by his luminous opening theme for that movie. "Erin Brockovich" is another quirkier sountrack, along the lines of "American Beauty," as opposed to the more symphonic sountracks such as "Scent" or the new "Road to Perdition." Newman is at his best painting miniatures rather than murals, and this sountrack gleams with insight.