For Love Of The Game: Music From The Motion Picture [Soundtrack]

Basil Poledouris | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 14, 1999)
• Original Release Date: September 14, 1999
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Soundtrack
• Label: Mca
• ASIN: B00000K3WB
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (25 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #12,600 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Summer Wind

2. Hope

3. The Fun of Your Love

4. Come Around

5. For the Love of the Game

6. Baby Love

7. Loving You Makes Me a Better Man

8. The Only One

9. Paint It Black

10. Reelin' in the Years

11. Lover Man

12. Something So Right

13. Just One Breath

14. I See You in a Different Light

15. The Suite

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

28 of 30 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Decent, but check the song selection first - no Dylan!, May 26, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: For Love Of The Game: Music From The Motion Picture (Audio CD)

This soundtrack is okay, but I have to say I'm VERY disappointed that a few of the great songs from the movie were left out - especially the Dylan classic "I Threw it all Away," which carries the emotional high of the movie to the climactic "pitch out of a jam" scene in the 8th inning. I went after this soundtrack figuring it would be a foregone conclusion that this jem of a song would be on it, but I was wrong.

I will go as far as saying that I am so disappointed that this song didn't make this compilation, that I regret buying it. For those of you who are in my camp; and are looking for this Dylan classic, you will find it on Nashville Skyline (Dylan's quintessential country classic from 1969) - and make sure you get the digitally remastered 2003 reissue.

That's my uncensored take on this soundtrack - because they left this particular track off, I consider it a MASSIVE blunder and give it 3 stars when I otherwise may have given it 4 or 5. What makes this even more of a humorous joke is the fact that I'm giving it this rating for a mere 2.5 minutes of music that could have easily been fit onto a compilation that turned out to be an hour+ of music - but the knock is justified and a well-earned one, I will submit.

For those of you who don't give a hoot about my "issues" with this Dylan song being left off this soundtrack - this is a decent soundtrack - especially if you don't own work from these other artists. I true music lover, however, who is familiar with Dylan's work might stray to my camp and share some of these sentiments.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good, November 10, 2002

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Chuck - See all my reviews

This review is from: For Love Of The Game: Music From The Motion Picture (Audio CD)

I thought so. I bought this soundtrack ..., and I didn't expect much out of it, but I must say, I got my money's worth and more! Okay, you might say, so it's worth two bucks, is it worth 9 at Amazon?

The answer is, it depends on your musical taste. This soundtrack has a wide variety of genres and performers, from Roy Orbison to Steely Dan to Jennifer Day to Semisonic to K-Ci and JoJo. It all seems to flow together though, the CD has a definate sense of continuity. BUT. If you want something fast-paced and exciting, this album is not for you.

So, good relaxing music, espcially the classical track at the end.

~C~

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Soundtrack ..With A Large Mixed Bag Of Musical Styles!, September 19, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: For Love Of The Game: Music From The Motion Picture (Audio CD)

After seeing this movie (which was awesome but that is another review),I had to have the soundtrack for several reasons. I love the Trisha Yearwood remake of the Paul Simon song "Something So Right". Mulberry Lane (new to me) does a heartfelt song called "Just One Breath" and Vince Gill closes out the movie with one of the best songs on the album called "Loving You Makes Me A Better Man". Also included, a long list of covers that are enjoyable including Lyle Lovett "Summer Wind",Jonny Lang "Paint It Black" and Joan Osborne "Baby Love". "For Love of The Game" delivers the music with 15 songs on the CD each one a part of the movie itself which is refreshing as often sountrack albums often contain songs that were not even in the movie. A must buy!