Changing Lanes [Soundtrack]

David Arnold (Composer)

Product Details

• Composer: David Arnold
• Audio CD (April 30, 2002)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Soundtrack
• Label: Varese Sarabande
• ASIN: B000065UND
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #388,997 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

Those who've spent inordinately large parts of their commuting on America's bustling thoroughfares could appreciate the premise: a traffic accident intersects two lives, with fate taking darker turns when responsibility is not heeded and vengeance consumes them both. Composer David Arnold, who spent his formative years on the fringes of British punk and then composing for British TV, provides a techno-infused sonic panorama here that is the film's urban soundscape as well as its troubled moral compass. Tossing aside the largely slavish adherence to tradition he displayed on previous scores for director Roland Emmerich's big-budget popcorn films like Stargate and Godzilla, Arnold employs a file full of slick club beats, metallic samples, and percussive interludes--crucially fusing them to a real orchestra as the score builds--to paint a picture about two lives who are more in conflict with themselves than they are with each other. It's that sense of techno-impressionism that drives this richly atmospheric--and decidedly nontraditional--modern score. While it doesn't always approach Tom Newman's almost preternatural sense of the aurally organic, that's the league Arnold's playing in here. --Jerry McCulley

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Nice music, Annie Lennox song not included..., January 1, 2003

By	Mad Max (Seattle, WA USA) - See all my reviews (VINE VOICE)

Nice background music, although the soundtrack is short and does not include the end credit song by Annie Lennox ("Waiting in Vain"). If you're primarily interested the Annie Lennox song, it can be found in her Medusa album - available used on Amazon.com for under $5.00.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great soundtrack, May 12, 2002

By A Customer

While watching the movie on the big screen, I remember saying how... infectious the score had been. However... I have but two regrets: The disc was cheated by the lack of Annie Lennox's closing song; and two: The disc is only a modest 39 minutes in comparison to a two-hour film.

This soundtrack possesses great perks. It's WONDERFUL background music.

I'm looking forward for Mr. Arnold's future work. He's got it in him....

4.0 out of 5 stars Refreshing, February 16, 2003

By	G. Thomas "directorG" (San Carlos, CA United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Most people purchase pop music; I purchase film score soundtracks. Arnold's score captivated me upon first watching the actual film "Changing Lanes," particularly the opening theme, with its electronic minor chord motifs surrounded by heavy techno-percussive rhythms. I found this CD interesting in its format as well, as the songs are really just one long track split up as if they were chapters of a DVD.

Because the sound volume varies quite a bit from track to track, it may be difficult to listen to this CD while concentrating on something else, such as homework, and hence, the four- star rating instead of five- occurs. However, if you could care less about homework, like me, and actually plan to listen to this CD fully at any one sitting, than this CD is more of a "CD nouveau," worthy of five stars. Truly innovative.