Ice Age (Score) [SOUNDTRACK]

David Newman

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 14, 2002)
• Original Release Date: March 15, 2002
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Soundtrack
• Label: Varese Sarabande
• ASIN: B000066BZO
• Average Customer Review: 2.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #66,527 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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178 of 186 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Song not on CD, April 25, 2004

By	G. Mohr (Medford, NY United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

To those of you interested in this CD in lieu of finding the "songs with lyrics" in the movie ICE AGE, got bad news for you. They are NOT here! I really do hate it when a soundtrack is put out for a movie and they don't include the best or features songs in the movie. Anyway, the song that pretty much everyone wants when Manny, Sid, Diego and the baby are together and walking towards Half Peak is called "Send Me On My Way" by Rusted Root. It is on their latest album "When I Woke". Put Rusted Root in the Amazon search engine and you should find it. Hope this helps those looking for this song.

31 of 33 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars As expected after seeing the movie., May 23, 2002

By	J. P. C. Wit (The Netherlands) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I would have to disagree with the earlier reviewer who uttered his disappointed about this soundtrack for missing the parts of the score reminiscent of `American Beauty'. These parts most certainly are included, in tracks 9 (Checking out the cave) and 13 (Giving back the baby).
For those who are compelled to buy this cd for those pieces of the score, I would like to mention that if you like those, you will certainly like score music by David Newman's brother Thomas. The style David uses here actually is the style of his brother, not the other way around. Some soundtracks by Thomas Newman I would recommend are `American Beauty' (there are two cd's: one containing the songs used in the film, another solely for the score. Be sure to get the second one: ASIN: B00003XACV!), `Meet Joe Black' and `The Shawshank Redemption'. All three of these scores are absolute gems!
As for the score for `Ice Age'... though there are quite a few tracks that are less imaginative, there are some wonderful pieces of music here, and on the overall it really is quite an enchanting score that I would not want to miss in my collection.
This soundtrack is score-only. For those people wondering what that 'upbeat, quirky song' was that was featured in the movie: you'll probably mean 'Send me on my way' by Rusted Root (from the album 'Cruel Sun') which, incidentally, was also featured in the film 'Matilda' during the end credits.

30 of 32 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Where is everything?, January 12, 2003

By	GuanoLad (Malvern, VIC Australia) - See all my reviews

This CD is absurdly short and incomplete. All the coolest pieces of music aren't here - what's up? There is space for 76 minutes of music on a CD, and it's not even half used up. There's a track that's only 42 seconds, for pete's sake! And most of the others are only a couple of minutes or less. The final track ends like it's cut off part way through.

This is a weird selection, and I can't fathom it. Even Shrek had the decency to release two versions of its soundtrack: one of the score, one of the pop songs that were scattered through it, which made it geekily complete. I see no reason for at the least a single CD of a similar compilation of score and song.

I am stunned. The music that IS here is worth 4 stars, while the music that is NOT here would bring it up to 5. Its absence, however, drags it down to 3 stars only.