Ice Age [Soundtrack]

David Newman | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 14, 2002)
• Original Release Date: March 15, 2002
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Soundtrack
• Label: Varese Sarabande
• ASIN: B000066BZO
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #71,891 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Opening Travel Music

2. Angered Rhinos

3. Humans/Diego

4. Tigers Going for Baby

5. Dodos

6. Fighting Over the Melons

7. Walking Through (used in the film Ice Age)

8. Baby's Wild Ride

9. Checking Out the Cave

10. Running From the Lava

11. Baby Walks

12. Tigers Try to Get Baby

13. Giving Back the Baby

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

190 of 200 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Song not on CD, April 25, 2004

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G. Mohr (Medford, NY United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Ice Age (Audio CD)

To those of you interested in this CD in lieu of finding the "songs with lyrics" in the movie ICE AGE, got bad news for you. They are NOT here! I really do hate it when a soundtrack is put out for a movie and they don't include the best or features songs in the movie. Anyway, the song that pretty much everyone wants when Manny, Sid, Diego and the baby are together and walking towards Half Peak is called "Send Me On My Way" by Rusted Root. It is on their latest album "When I Woke". Put Rusted Root in the Amazon search engine and you should find it. Hope this helps those looking for this song.

33 of 35 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars As expected after seeing the movie., May 23, 2002

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J. P. C. Wit (The Netherlands) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Ice Age (Audio CD)

I would have to disagree with the earlier reviewer who uttered his disappointed about this soundtrack for missing the parts of the score reminiscent of `American Beauty'. These parts most certainly are included, in tracks 9 (Checking out the cave) and 13 (Giving back the baby).
For those who are compelled to buy this cd for those pieces of the score, I would like to mention that if you like those, you will certainly like score music by David Newman's brother Thomas. The style David uses here actually is the style of his brother, not the other way around. Some soundtracks by Thomas Newman I would recommend are `American Beauty' (there are two cd's: one containing the songs used in the film, another solely for the score. Be sure to get the second one: ASIN: B00003XACV!), `Meet Joe Black' and `The Shawshank Redemption'. All three of these scores are absolute gems!
As for the score for `Ice Age'... though there are quite a few tracks that are less imaginative, there are some wonderful pieces of music here, and on the overall it really is quite an enchanting score that I would not want to miss in my collection.
This soundtrack is score-only. For those people wondering what that 'upbeat, quirky song' was that was featured in the movie: you'll probably mean 'Send me on my way' by Rusted Root (from the album 'Cruel Sun') which, incidentally, was also featured in the film 'Matilda' during the end credits.

25 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Missing some of the film's best cuts! Unbelievable!!, December 26, 2002

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Don Harper (Ann Arbor, MI USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Ice Age (Audio CD)

The other reviewers are quite right to praise David Newman's excellent score to Ice Age; the problem with this CD is not Newman's music but the lack of it here! Everyone's favorite cuts from this score are the catchy opening travel theme (which IS here, briefly) and the extended travel song in the middle ("Send me on my way" with Newman's orchestration to it, ALL of which is MISSING). NO songs are on this disc. This partial soundtrack thus lacks the most memorable and enjoyable music in the film. The CD also lacks the reprise of the travel music played during the end credits; you will find ZERO end credits music here, leaving the music experience to end oddly abruptly. There is exactly 1 minute and 15 seconds of the travel theme here and that's ALL. The entire CD is only 34 minutes long! Both the listener and Newman [are not fairly represented] by this crummy job of producing. The praise in the other reviews is for David Newman's fine work, not for its "mis-"presentation this CD. You'll do better to record the movie music off your DVD than accept this very brief sampling. This release does no justice to a really enjoyable job of movie scoring. This CD is mainly frustrating.