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

Various Artists - Soundtracks - 1999, Basil Poledouris
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Product Details

  • Audio CD (September 14, 1999)
  • Original Release Date: September 14, 1999
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Format: Enhanced, Soundtrack
  • Label: Mca
  • ASIN: B00000K3WB
  • Also Available in: Audio Cassette
  • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (23 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #49,647 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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1. Summer Wind - Lyle Lovett
2. Hope - Shaggy
3. Fun of Your Love - Jennifer Day
4. Come Around - Kim Richey
5. For the Love of the Game - Semisonic
6. Baby Love - Joan Osborne
7. Loving You Makes Me a Better Man - Vince Gill
8. Only One - Roy Orbison
9. Paint It Black - Jonny Lang
10. Reelin' in the Years - Steely Dan
11. Lover Man - Kami Lyle
12. Something So Right - Trisha Yearwood
13. Just One Breath - Mulberry Lane
14. I See You in a Different Light - Jojo, Chanté Moore
15. Suite - Basil Poledouris

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A romantic drama directed by Sam Raimi and starring Kevin Costner as a professional ballplayer who must reconcile the conflicts between his job and his wife (Kelly Preston), For Love of the Game includes an unusual soundtrack that spans musical styles and decades. Much of the soundtrack centers around a light soul groove (Kami Lyle's "Lover Man" screams romantic moment) from Shaggy ("Hope"), Jennifer Day ("The Fun of Your Love"), the late Roy Orbison, and the sultry and bluesy Joan Osborne ("Baby Love"). Country music is represented by Vince Gill and Trisha Yearwood, who takes Paul Simon's somber and slow "Something So Right" and manages to make it more so. Steely Dan's "Reeling in the Years" is the lone classic rock original. However, Jonny Lang locates the psychotic thrust of the Rolling Stones' "Paint It, Black," if not the subtle hues that made it a standard. Now, how all this relates to baseball...? --Rob O'Connor

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23 of 24 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 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.
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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Good, November 10, 2002
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~

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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
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!
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1.0 out of 5 stars For Love of The Game, movie soundtrack
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Published on July 25, 2004 by Isabeau

5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome
This soundtrack offers a great variety of music. If you loved the movie, you will love this Cd!
Published on November 29, 2002 by A. Owarzani

5.0 out of 5 stars WHAT A FABULOUS SOUNDTRACK YOU SHOULD POSSESS!
I'm so lucky because i got this album "for love of the game"
on last sunday.All i wanna say is that the songs from this
album are very wonderful! Read more
Published on March 27, 2002 by Kevin Guo

5.0 out of 5 stars A Welshman who loves music
It is not only a picture that paints a thousand words, but also this soundtrack, it has wide and varied tracks that give meaning
to the film. Read more
Published on March 4, 2002 by Roger Marsh

4.0 out of 5 stars Movie Was A Strikeout-Music Is A Grand Slam
Ok, so the movie was, hmmmmm, less than an off the wall double. The music is truly a Grand Slam! From the title track, "For Love Of The Game", done by Lyle Lovett to... Read more
Published on August 9, 2000 by goldcoastreviews

5.0 out of 5 stars Basil Poledouris's theme is absolutely exquisite!
I bought the entire album for Basil Poledouris's theme music, and I am eagerly awaiting the musical soundtrack. I think the score is absolutely exquisite.
Published on November 8, 1999

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