A Home at the End of the World [Soundtrack]

Duncan Sheik | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (July 20, 2004)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Soundtrack
• Label: Milan Records
• ASIN: B0002IQC4S
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #29,609 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Something Somewhere

2. There's a Home [Live][Instrumental]

3. Wishin' and Hopin'

4. Only You

5. Soave Sia il Vento

6. Leaving [Live][Instrumental]

7. Because the Night

8. Somebody to Love

9. Look Out Cleveland

10. Brothers [Live][Instrumental]

11. There's a Home

12. I Shall Be Released

13. Section VI

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

Adapted from the novel/screenplay of Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Cunningham (The Hours), Colin Farrell gives an inspired performance as a tragedy-stricken youth whose search for identity and happiness forms the core of its unconventional friendship and romance. Its warm, admirably eclectic song-based soundtrack echoes the film's two decade arc with selections that span both era and emotion, from the innocence of Dusty Springfield's "Wishin' and Hopin'" and Yaz' infectious "Only You" to the angst-ridden classic rock-era bookends of "Somebody to Love" by the Jefferson Airplane and Patty Smith's epochal "Because the Night." The score's classical selections continue that thread with excerpts from Mozart's Cosi Fan Tutte and contemporary minimalist Steve Reich's vibrant Music for Eighteen Musicians. But it’s the half-dozen warm, introspective new tracks from Duncan Sheik that form the soundtrack's evocative emotional core, with melancholic, production-rich standouts like "Something Somewhere" infusing it with a smart, contemporary atmosphere in the bargain. --Jerry McCulley

Customer Reviews

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69 of 71 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars What is Up?, August 13, 2004

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MICHAEL ACUNA (Southern California United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: A Home at the End of the World (Audio CD)

For two of Laura Nyro's songs, that play such a big part of the overall soundscape of "A Home at the End of the World" NOT to be on the soundtrack CD is utterly ridiculous. "Desiree" and "Gonna Take A Miracle" are Bobby's (Colin Farrell) favorite songs and they are prominently featured in two long scenes in this movie.
Duncan Sheik is fine but Laura Nyro has withstood the test of time: if she were alive today she would be beaming that two of her songs from the early 1970's are included in a film made this year. But for those of us who are fans, this is as it should be, for her music is timeless.
As Bobby says: "She (Laura Nyro) is a goddess." Amen brotha, Amen.
(both "Desiree" and "Gonna Take a Miracle" are on Nyro's CD, "Gonna Take a Miracle")

18 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars missing some tracks, but a stellar soundtrack overall..., November 3, 2004

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Jacob Gomez (El Paso, TX USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: A Home at the End of the World (Audio CD)

I bought this soundtrack yesterday hoping it would serve as the perfect companion to this beautiful and unforgettable film. It comes pretty close. Though like others have mentioned, it's missing some key songs like 'It's Gonna Take A Mirale' or 'Desiree', it still captures the essence of the film quite beautifully. After listening to the half-dozen Duncan Sheik compositions, it made me re-discover his breathtaking music and realize how truly underrated he is. I can't remember the last time a movie and the soundtrack have effected me the way this one has. Dissapointiingly,this didn't fair well at the box office but I hope that more people, straight, gay, whatever, will watch this film,and perhaps like it so much that they will pick up this wonderful soundtrack. It will definitely have a long shelf-life.

27 of 33 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Unforgivable absences, November 2, 2004

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Pedro Corbett (Rio de Janeiro, BRAZIL) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: A Home at the End of the World (Audio CD)

No matter who's to blame for the absence of the tracks by Leonard Cohen, Laura Nyro and Paul Simon, amongst others - it's just unforgivable. This is the first movie I've ever watched to feature 'Suzanne' performed by the song's author Leonard Cohen. Moreover, in the scene just before the song plays, Jonathan (Dallas Roberts) enters the room and hands Bobby (Collin Farrel) an original vinyl recording of Leonard Cohen's 'Songs Of Leonard Cohen' album (which contains 'Suzanne') he had just bought. Being a huge Leonard Cohen fan, of course I have all of his albums, so my disappointment stems from the fact that the inclusion of his song in the soundtrack album might have helped to introduce his music to a new generation of listeners. So here's to everybody who watched the movie and wants some more of that late sixties/early seventies feeling: go get the 'Songs Of Leonard Cohen' album, and the albums by the other artists who were left out, and leave this soundtrack album on the shelf, where it deserves to be.