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About a Boy [SOUNDTRACK]

Badly Drawn Boy
4.2 out of 5 stars  (53 customer reviews) | More about this product

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Product Details

  • Audio CD (April 23, 2002)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Format: Soundtrack
  • Label: Reincarnate Music
  • ASIN: B0000640NN
  • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  (53 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #86,439 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Track Listings

1. Exit Stage Right
2. A Peak You Reach
3. Something to Talk About
4. Dead Duck
5. Above You, Below Me
6. I love NYE
7. Silent Sigh
8. Wet, Wet, Wet
9. River, Sea, Ocean
10. S.P.A.T.
11. Rachel's Flat
12. Walking Out of Stride
13. File Me Away
14. A Minor Incident
15. Delta (Little Boy Blues)
16. Donna and Blitzen
On this CD:
  1. About A Boy, film score
    Composed by Badly Drawn Boy
    Performed by London Metropolitan Orchestra, Jonathan Rees
    with Jon Brion

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com
Few artists choose to follow a highly acclaimed debut album with a soundtrack, but Badly Drawn Boy isn't your run-of-the-mill popster. Damon Gough, the man behind Badly Drawn Boy, opted to score the film adaptation of Nick Hornby's novel About a Boy instead of recording a regular follow-up to 2000's Hour of Bewilderbeast. But the joke's on those who raise their eyebrows, because About a Boy stands heads and shoulders above the vast majority of pop albums and soundtracks. Interspersed with short instrumental interludes that serve as lovely miniatures, the songs perfectly evoke the book's jaunty mood and (fittingly for something based on Hornby) incorporate strands of pop music from the past 40 years with uncommon grace. "Something to Talk About" borrows from Brian Wilson and Paul McCartney yet doesn't feel as derivative; "Above You, Below Me" is a charming waltz; the intoxicating "Donna and Blitzen" is pure Phil Spector-does-Christmas. If there were any justice, this would show up at Oscar® time, but we're not holding our breath. --Elisabeth Vincentelli