Napoleon Dynamite [Soundtrack]

napoleon dynamite [soundtrack]

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In a promising filmmaking debut, young BYU grad Jared Hess informs this indie tale of an aggressively nerdy backwater teen's foibles with the bittersweet dimensions of the director's own small-town upbringing, making it the dry comic hit of Sundance. Its soundtrack picks up on that earnest awkwardness via dollops of '80s new wave, both underexposed (Yaz's "Only You", Alphaville's "Forever Young") and otherwise (Bow Wow Wow's "I Want Candy," a faithful cover of "Time After Time" by Sparklemotion), as well as moodier contemporary cuts by Rogue Wave (a live take on "Every Moment"), Figurine in full synth-pop revivalist mode, and the nuevo-soul of Jamiroquai and Money Mark. Interspersed with a generous sampling of dialogue snippets, John Swihart's shrewd, intimate underscore runs the gamut from "The A-Team Theme" to geek-friendly exotica and nervous cocktail jazz, stitching the score's disparate parts into a memorably quirky whole. --Jerry McCulley

Product Description
Music from the "cult" hit of the summer "Napoleon Dynamite" featuring original score by John Swihart, songs from the film and your favorite "laugh out loud" classic Napoleon dialogue! Sweet!

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Napoleon Dynamite [Soundtrack]
Napoleon Dynamite
Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • missing my favorite tune!
  • Unique, fun
  • Just like watching the movie
  • What!?? Are you kidding me?! The Main Title Song Is MISSING!!
  • Fiction Company???
 Napoleon Dynamite
John Swihart , and Various Artists
Manufacturer: Lakeshore Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0002XL1WG
Release Date: 2004-10-05

Tracks:

  1. What Ever I Feel Like - Dialogue
  2. I Want Candy - Bow Wow Wow
  3. Bus Rider - John Swihart
  4. Locker Room1 - Dialogue
  5. Every Moment - Rogue Wave
  6. Pull in town - Dialogue
  7. Nap Pulls Kip Return - John Swihart
  8. Nap Pulls Kip - John Swihart
  9. You Do Speak English? - Dialogue
  10. New Mate - Figurine
  11. Granny ATV - John Swihart
  12. Cagefighter - Dialogue
  13. A-Team Theme - John Swihart
  14. Here's Rico - John Swihart
  15. Summer's Cake - John Swihart
  16. Vote for me - Dialogue
  17. Design - Fiction Company
  18. Locker Room 2 - Dialogue
  19. Sometimes You Gotta Make It Alone - Money Mark
  20. Worst Video - Dialogue
  21. Thrifty - John Swihart
  22. Suit - Dialogue
  23. Suitwalk - John Swihart
  24. Talons - Dialogue
  25. Kip Waits - John Swihart
  26. Chapstick - Dialogue
  27. Solamente Una Vez - Trio Los Panchos
  28. Loch Ness - Dialogue
  29. Nap Store Video - John Swihart
  30. Ask It By Pedro - Dialogue
  31. Canned Heat - Jamiroquai
  32. D-Qwan Boogie - John Swihart
  33. Nap Dance Bedroom - John Swihart
  34. Whole Milk - Dialogue
  35. Only You - Yaz
  36. Nap Rico Van - John Swihart
  37. Nap Hangs Up The Phone - John Swihart
  38. Forever Young - Alphaville
  39. Time After Time - Sparklemotion
  40. Ninja Moves - Dialogue
  41. Alternate Ending Montage - John Swihart
  42. The Promise - When In Rome

Amazon.com

In a promising filmmaking debut, young BYU grad Jared Hess informs this indie tale of an aggressively nerdy backwater teen's foibles with the bittersweet dimensions of the director's own small-town upbringing, making it the dry comic hit of Sundance. Its soundtrack picks up on that earnest awkwardness via dollops of '80s new wave, both underexposed (Yaz's "Only You", Alphaville's "Forever Young") and otherwise (Bow Wow Wow's "I Want Candy," a faithful cover of "Time After Time" by Sparklemotion), as well as moodier contemporary cuts by Rogue Wave (a live take on "Every Moment"), Figurine in full synth-pop revivalist mode, and the nuevo-soul of Jamiroquai and Money Mark. Interspersed with a generous sampling of dialogue snippets, John Swihart's shrewd, intimate underscore runs the gamut from "The A-Team Theme" to geek-friendly exotica and nervous cocktail jazz, stitching the score's disparate parts into a memorably quirky whole. --Jerry McCulley

Album Description

Music from the "cult" hit of the summer "Napoleon Dynamite" featuring original score by John Swihart, songs from the film and your favorite "laugh out loud" classic Napoleon dialogue! Sweet!

Customer Reviews:

3 out of 5 stars missing my favorite tune!.......2007-03-29

This is a good album. But I give it three stars because it's missing THE best song on the soundtrack, a beautiful acoustic guitar piece with a Irish folk lilt that plays just before the end of the film. Why the producers would leave this gem out is beyond me. I would have replaced "I want Candy", which everyone's heard a million times, for this one any day.

4 out of 5 stars Unique, fun.......2007-02-24

Do you like unique, fun, stupid funny? We do...and this really delivers - fantastic nostalgia for Napoleon Dynamite movie lovers.

5 out of 5 stars Just like watching the movie.......2006-11-13

This is a great sound track. It includes bits of dialogue from the movie between songs. As a bonus, there are several songs/dialogue bits that were deleted from the final cut of the film. My only beef is that many songs are not in the order they appear in the film. Be warned...the last track is handled just like in the movie, so you sit through 30 seconds or so of silence, and then there is a final bit from the movie.

1 out of 5 stars What!?? Are you kidding me?! The Main Title Song Is MISSING!!.......2006-09-20

Am I the only person who gets annoyed with so-called soundtracks which leave out songs which were used during the movie? The Napolean Dynamite soundtrack includes songs that were NOT even used in the film (one example I Want Candy), but then it fails to include THE MAIN THEME by The White Stripes. I think if a CD is going to be called a soundtrack it should at least include all the music that was used in the film. And, how can a soundtrack not include the MAIN TITLE THEME SONG?! Granted, there is a lot of good music on this CD, but I still refuse to purchase this CD based on the principle that a soundtrack should, at the least, include music actually used and played in the film.

4 out of 5 stars Fiction Company???.......2006-07-20

Napoleon Dynamite is a great movie. I actually relate a bit and some of the characters remind me of my friends from high school. Anyways, about one of the songs on the soundtrack. Fiction Company does a song called "Design" on the soundtrack. I love this song and I've never heard of Fiction Company before. I tried looking for more of their songs or even a discography or any information and I can't find anything. Does anyone know if they have any more music out there?

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