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The Italian Job

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To be blunt - its a good CD if you are a major fan of the film. However, most of the tunes are good only as backing music to classic Michael Caine acting, and lose a lot when played alone. There are one or two good tracks, suck as Matt Monros opening song 'On Days Like These' and the 'Self-Preservation Society' from the end of the film. Listening it through you'll recognise many parts but none of the other tracks are paticuarluy noteable on their own. As part of a CD soundtrack they rock but each one isnt brilliant. I guess it all depends if you were a major Italian Job fan.

Just got this from Amazon.co.uk for £4.24 new along with the Blu-Ray version of the film (The Italian Job - 40th Anniversary Edition [Blu-ray]) for £8.49 new with £4.07 for shipping making the total £16.80 which AMEX converted to be $28.40. Far less than what is being asked for here.
As for the disc Mr. Cobb's review is spot on. Only true die hard fans of the movie will enjoy this album in its entirety. The best tracks (or most widely recognized) would have to be Matt Monro's On Days Like These (Track 1) and Getta Bloomin' Move On (Track 12). The rest of the tracks are the movie's filler/background music but without the action and dialogue of the movie, these tracks themselves just seem to fall a bit short.
The whole disc is about 28 minutes long and if you're like me and buying this mostly for just those 2 great tracks, then spending $40 on it is hard to justify.