Soundtrack [Import]

Tom Waits | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• ASIN: B000025TGF
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (29 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #705,778 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Opening Montage: Tom's Piano Intro/Once upon a Town

2. Is There Any Way Out of This Dream?

3. Picking up After You

4. Old Boyfriends

5. Broken Bicycles

6. I Beg Your Pardon

7. Little Boy Blue

8. Instrumental Montage: The Tango/Circus Girl

9. You Can't Unring a Bell

10. This One's from the Heart

11. Take Me Home

12. Presents

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Gravel and glass, October 26, 2000

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Patrick Cullie (Lyons, CO USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: One From The Heart (1982 Film) (Audio CD)

"One From The Heart," the soundtrack to Francis Ford Coppola's interesting but flawed first movie from Zoetrope is one of the best kept secrets in popular music. The pairing of Wait's scratchy growl with Gayle's sweet contralto is inspired. And the album contains some of Wait's most accessible and poignant lyrics. The duet, "Picking Up After You," one of the all-time best break-up songs, contains the classic line that only Tom Wait's could write. "I told you before/I'm not going to tell you again/You don't defrost the ice box with a ball point pen." The musicianship is stellar (Shelley Manne on drums! Jack Shelton on trumpet!) and features the cream of the crop of the LA jazz scene. The sound, typical of Wait's, is intentionally retro, almost lounge in spots. Highlights are "Old Boyfriends," "Little Boy Blue," and "One from the Heart," (Is that a siren? Or a saxaphone?") A tribute to lost love, regained love and oddly enough, the city of Las Vegas, "One From The Heart" is a classic.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Who cares about the movie?, February 25, 2002

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David (The Eastern States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: One From The Heart (1982 Film) (Audio CD)

This shockingly good album is one from Tom Waits' "authentic jazz" mode. It creates a heady mood all its own, which I can only imagine has little to do with the movie.
The band is swinging (in the Frank Sinatra sense) and the songwriting is top class (in the Cole Porter sense). "Old Boyfriends" and "Broken Bicycles" are two of the most brilliantly poignant combinations of words and music you'll ever hear.
Tom Waits' vocals are at their smoothest, and while Crystal Gayle does a good job, to my taste she does sometimes tend to "over-emote" a bit. A petty quibble, but I can't help greedily imagining if, say, Roberta Flack had done the female vocal parts...
Still, this one's pure class.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Big Fan, February 23, 1999

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This review is from: One From The Heart (1982 Film) (Audio CD)

I've always been surprised that even the most rabid Tom Waits fans have never HEARD of this great album. It's soulful from beginning to end. The movie's definently a curio--but if you haven't seen the Laserdisc version, give it a chance. It's longer than the video version--and while it doesn't make the film GREAT, it certainly helps to understand the emotions of the characters better.