Seabiscuit [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack] [Enhanced, Soundtrack]

Randy Newman (Composer) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Composer: Randy Newman
• Audio CD (July 22, 2003)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Enhanced, Soundtrack
• Label: Umvd Labels
• ASIN: B0000A4G4K
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (25 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #42,212 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Main Title

2. Idea

3. The Crash

4. Seabiscuit

5. Call Me Red

6. Frankie

7. La Tequilera

8. Marcela/ Agua Caliente

9. Campfire

10. Red's First Win

11. Tanforan

12. Infield Folks

13. Pumpkin

14. The Derby

15. Wedding

16. Night Ride / Accident

17. To The Line

18. The Unkindest Cut

19. Ready?

20. A Nice Ride

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

32 of 35 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Missing the good stuff, March 9, 2004

By 

J. Lester "tigger7694" (Dayville, CT) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Seabiscuit [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack] (Audio CD)

If you're like me you buy soundtracks because you liked what you heard while watching the movie. If you appreciated the music during the first forty minutes or so of Seabiscuit then buy the CD; you won't be disappointed. The soundtrack contains pretty much everything up until that point. Opening credits, Howards bike shop, Frankies demise, the backwoods racetracks where Red Pollard gets his start and pretty much every scene at Agua Caliente, including the all female band at the Molino Rojo brothel. It's when the major characters come together that the soundtrack starts to fall apart. The stirring piece from Red and Seabiscuits first win together is nowhere to be found. Track 10 may be titled Reds First Win but it should be called Reds Second Loss since it's the music from their defeat to Rosemont in the Hundred Grander, a piece so out of context with the rest of the themes it was only used that once in the film. The anxiety ridden complement to the match race is missing. Track 14-The Derby (what Derby?) starts out like the match race but there is no slow build up of tension and no release into Seabiscuits main theme as in the movie; instead it goes into that horrid Hundred Grander theme again after a brief pseudo match race intro. The lovely little guitar bit played while Red and the Biscuit are trotting around the tree during their healing days is another notable omission. You'd think Track 20-A Nice Ride would be the emotional final race at Santa Anita but it's not. It's actually the end credits sans "If I Had A Million Dollars", unfortunately. Overall, this CD is not a good representation of what on film is an excellent soundtrack.

21 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars the guitar song everyone is looking for, February 8, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: Seabiscuit [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack] (Audio CD)

the guitar song everyone is looking for is
from moby's "play" album: everloving.

12 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars trailer music, August 25, 2003

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Avid Reader (Cambridge, MA, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Seabiscuit [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack] (Audio CD)

People who were asking about the music in the trailers -- Music you hear in the trailer for a movie is rarely (if ever) the actual music for the movie. This is for two reasons -- (1) the music hasn't been mixed and recorded yet, so it isn't ready when the trailer is ready for theatres, and (2) if the music is finished, it is likely that the copyrights haven't been completed so they won't be able to release the music with the trailer. That's why you'll often hear the score from a familiar movie on the trailer of a new movie. Hope this helps. And Seabiscuit is a wonderful movie with great music!