The Straight Story: Music from the Motion Picture Soundtrack [Soundtrack]

the straight story: music from the motion picture soundtrack [soundtrack]

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We've come to expect a few things from composer Angelo Badalamenti's numerous collaborations with David Lynch. His scores for Twin Peaks, Wild at Heart, and Blue Velvet all took a smoky jazz-noir aesthetic into the orchestra pit. The results were memorable--and sometimes haunting--just like the films. For The Straight Story--the G-rated (yes, that's right) tale of an elderly man's epic journey on a John Deere lawnmower to see his sick brother--we get a different side to both the composer and the director once again. Here the orchestrations are atmospheric, but a subtle strain of folk music is evident throughout. "Rose's Theme" is filled with acoustic guitar finger-picking against a string section, "Alvin's Theme" has a fiddle mimicking a locomotive, and "Country Waltz" is just that. "Farmland Tour" is the Twin Peaks theme gone sentimental. A hint of nostalgia, a certain Midwestern innocence, and plenty of vast-sounding passages make this the perfect sonic backdrop for a film set in America's heartland. Just like that setting, it can seem a little repetitive at times, but--as a whole--it's another memorable effort from Badalamenti. --Jason Verlinde

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The Straight Story: Music from the Motion Picture Soundtrack [Soundtrack]
The Straight Story: Music from the Motion Picture Soundtrack
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • Music from Heaven
  • I'll ponder whatever
  • Touching, beautiful, and straight to the heart.
  • sublime
  • awesome driving music
 The Straight Story: Music from the Motion Picture Soundtrack
Angelo Badalamenti , and Angelo Badalementi
Manufacturer: RCA Victor
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00001XDRG
Release Date: 1999-10-12

Tracks:

  1. Laurens, Iowa
  2. Rose's Theme
  3. Laurens Walking
  4. Sprinkler
  5. Alvin's Theme
  6. Final Miles
  7. Country Waltz
  8. Rose's Theme (Variation)
  9. Country Theme
  10. Crystal
  11. Nostalgia
  12. Farmland Tour
  13. Montage

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We've come to expect a few things from composer Angelo Badalamenti's numerous collaborations with David Lynch. His scores for Twin Peaks, Wild at Heart, and Blue Velvet all took a smoky jazz-noir aesthetic into the orchestra pit. The results were memorable--and sometimes haunting--just like the films. For The Straight Story--the G-rated (yes, that's right) tale of an elderly man's epic journey on a John Deere lawnmower to see his sick brother--we get a different side to both the composer and the director once again. Here the orchestrations are atmospheric, but a subtle strain of folk music is evident throughout. "Rose's Theme" is filled with acoustic guitar finger-picking against a string section, "Alvin's Theme" has a fiddle mimicking a locomotive, and "Country Waltz" is just that. "Farmland Tour" is the Twin Peaks theme gone sentimental. A hint of nostalgia, a certain Midwestern innocence, and plenty of vast-sounding passages make this the perfect sonic backdrop for a film set in America's heartland. Just like that setting, it can seem a little repetitive at times, but--as a whole--it's another memorable effort from Badalamenti. --Jason Verlinde

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Music from Heaven.......2007-01-12

This Soundtrack is moving and full of the meanings expressed in the movie it is related to, moreover it lets you see in your mind the West of USA, even without going there, it's amazing, this musci is so full of passion and the violin player makes his instrument talk to our heart. Angelo Badalamenti is a genius.

4 out of 5 stars I'll ponder whatever.......2006-01-07

The Straight Story is a film that I really like and a major reason for this is the music. I can't think of another movie I've seen in which the musical score is this gripping, especially song 3, which I think is called Laurens walking.

After hearing what Angelo Badalamenti did on Twin Peaks, as well, makes me aware I'm in the hands of genius.

Though David Lynch and his editors (Mary Sweeney, I think, is a key one) didn't create any of this music with Angelo (at least, I don't think), they accentuate it so immensely by using it in such beautiful ways with the images in the film that it seems they should almost get a small songwriting credit as well.

I didn't think watching a 79-year old man riding on a tractor from Iowa to Wisconsin could feel so haunting, endearing and sometimes spooky.

5 out of 5 stars Touching, beautiful, and straight to the heart. .......2005-10-26

After hearing Mulholland drive, and reviewing it earlier, this is switch to a more peaceful, sunny, world. I love many forms of music and Angelo Badalamenti seems to have the touch for almost anything. This soundtrack is rural America or just plain backroads in its lovely and peaceful soundscape. It is a journey across and through the world of hope, sadness, and redemption. This is what I felt with this score as well as in the wonderful movie. Again, David Lynch is a man who can bring so many different moods into film, and Angelo is is muscial guide. Enjoy the tour through the fields and backroads! It is inspirational.

5 out of 5 stars sublime.......2004-06-24

As I type this at 3:30 in the morning because of the odd sounds outside my bedroom that won't go away.... I yearn to hear the lilting beauty of this soundtrack. Angelo Badalamenti has created a warm tapestry that speaks to the love and yearning that The Straight Story, the film, so wonderfully captures. To listen to this music is to give yourself over to the notes; time is transcended and you float in a dream of bliss and love.

Beauty rests easily in this soundtrack.

5 out of 5 stars awesome driving music.......2004-04-28

A-Bad and Lynch are great on this cd.You've got to see the movie to truly appreciate it,I think,but it also stands by itself as a calming series of guitar peices and light-hearted orchestrations.my favorite on the album is"nostalgia" because the intro sounds like an old record with the "hiss and pops".All in all,if you're an Angelo/Lynch fan,or just like relaxing music after a hard day's work,this one is definatly worth the $.

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