For Love Of The Game: Music From The Motion Picture [Soundtrack]

for love of the game: music from the motion picture [soundtrack]

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A romantic drama directed by Sam Raimi and starring Kevin Costner as a professional ballplayer who must reconcile the conflicts between his job and his wife (Kelly Preston), For Love of the Game includes an unusual soundtrack that spans musical styles and decades. Much of the soundtrack centers around a light soul groove (Kami Lyle's "Lover Man" screams romantic moment) from Shaggy ("Hope"), Jennifer Day ("The Fun of Your Love"), the late Roy Orbison, and the sultry and bluesy Joan Osborne ("Baby Love"). Country music is represented by Vince Gill and Trisha Yearwood, who takes Paul Simon's somber and slow "Something So Right" and manages to make it more so. Steely Dan's "Reeling in the Years" is the lone classic rock original. However, Jonny Lang locates the psychotic thrust of the Rolling Stones' "Paint It, Black," if not the subtle hues that made it a standard. Now, how all this relates to baseball...? --Rob O'Connor

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For Love Of The Game: Music From The Motion Picture [Soundtrack]

A Beautiful Mind: Original Motion Picture Score

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A Beautiful Mind: Original Motion Picture Score
James Horner
Manufacturer: Decca U.S.
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ASIN: B00005TPFV
Release Date: 2001-12-11

Tracks:

A Kaleidoscope Of Mathematics
Playing A Game Of 'Go!'
Looking For The Next Great Idea
Creating 'Governing Dynamics'
Cracking The Russian Codes
Nash Descends Into Parcher's World
First Drop Off. First Kiss
The Car Chase
Alicia Discovers Nash's Dark World
Real Or Imagined?
Of One Heart, Of One Mind
Saying Goodbye To Those You So Love
Teaching Mathematics Again
Prize of One's Life... The Prize of One's Mind
All Love Can Be - Charlotte Church
Closing Credits

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This Ron Howard film parlays the troubled story of Nobel laureate John Forbes Nash Jr., a gifted Princeton mathematics professor tormented for decades by paranoid schizophrenia, into something considerably richer than typical Hollywood triumph-against-all-odds fare. Howard has teamed here again with frequent collaborator James Horner, and it's the composer who deftly shades the film's difficult emotional landscape and helps impart a compelling humanity. Horner's first task is not inconsiderable: musically portraying the arcane realm of mathematical theorems that are the story's backdrop. In doing so, the composer leans heavily on modern minimalist technique, bright flourishes that recur briefly throughout an orchestral score that increasingly reflects Nash's bleak inner landscape in its quietly somber and brooding tones. And while Horner has frequently been accused of excessively repeating himself in his scores, the neo-minimalist gambit employed on this reflectively pastoral, postmodernist soundscape neatly nips such criticism in the bud. Nash's triumph is ultimately an intensely personal one, well reflected in Welsh soprano Charlotte Church's lilting performance of the Horner/Will Jennings ballad "All Love Can Be." This enhanced CD also features notes by the director and composer, as well as exclusive photos and the film's trailer. --Jerry McCulley

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Haven't I heard this before?.......2007-06-20

As other reviewers will tell you yes this is another Horner machine made soundtrack. But it still sounds good! If you are a Horner fan by all means buy it otherwise "at your own risk"!

And another thing that gets me is no one even bothered to mention "Alicia Discovers Nash's Dark World" I happened to like this one this is the song that plays when he is in the hospital.

a beautiful score.......2007-02-09

James Horner's soundtrack for A BEAUTIFUL MIND is as psychologically intense as the film it so effectively embellishes.

Charlotte Church provides an appropriately eerie and largely non-verbal soprano to this remarkable motion picture score, yet one that would seem only quirky were it not so beautifully embedded in a musical stream that draws one inexorably and almost vicariously into the emotional turbulence of the Princeton mathematician John Nash.

There is an angelic nature to the shape and texture of this music, one that is able to turn demonic as the story line requires. Both by brilliance and by dementia, Nash seems the object of external forces, rising with supreme heroism (at least in the film's version of events) to conquer. The music is there at each score, coaxing the viewer into empathic solidarity with this deeply troubled man and his long-suffering and preternaturally beautiful wife.

This is mood music of the deeply engaging variety. Its lush tonal landscape is achieved under the baton of the composer himself. The score's vast range of volume and expression would certainly have made it a joy to watch in performance.

Alas, we don't have that.

But we have this.

An ethereal, compelling, even gripping tone poem. Buy it.

A Beautiful Mind.......2006-08-09

Absolutely gorgeous - my husband keeps it in his car and listens to it whenever he's driving.

Haunting, lovely, majestic.......2006-04-04

The sound track for "A Beautiful Mind" stayed with me long after the movie. The CD has all the themes that made the movie so emotionally powerfull. James Horner, composer and conductor, perfectly matches the excitement of genius and the terror of mental disability. Charlotte Church's clear and gentle voice compliments the music and used instrumentally creates a haunting refrain. I loved the movie and this music is wonderful.

Dark.......2006-02-20

This is one of the darkest and most emotional soundtrack, and yet it is filled with more inspiring songs.
Best soundtrack ive ever heard.

For Love Of The Game: Music From The Motion Picture

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Decent, but check the song selection first - no Dylan!
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For Love Of The Game: Music From The Motion Picture
Various Artists - Soundtracks , and Basil Poledouris
Manufacturer: Mca
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Tracks:

Summer Wind - Lyle Lovett
Hope - Shaggy
The Fun Of Your Love - Jennifer Day
Come Around - Kim Richey
For The Love Of The Game - Semisonic
Baby Love - Joan Osborne
Loving You Makes Me A Better Man - Vince Gill
The Only One - Roy Orbison
Paint It Black - Jonny Lang
Reelin' In The Years - Steely Dan
Lover Man - Kami Lyle
Something So Right - Trisha Yearwood
Just One Breath - Mulberry Lane
I See You In A Different Light - Chante Moore
The Suite - Basil Poledouris

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A romantic drama directed by Sam Raimi and starring Kevin Costner as a professional ballplayer who must reconcile the conflicts between his job and his wife (Kelly Preston), For Love of the Game includes an unusual soundtrack that spans musical styles and decades. Much of the soundtrack centers around a light soul groove (Kami Lyle's "Lover Man" screams romantic moment) from Shaggy ("Hope"), Jennifer Day ("The Fun of Your Love"), the late Roy Orbison, and the sultry and bluesy Joan Osborne ("Baby Love"). Country music is represented by Vince Gill and Trisha Yearwood, who takes Paul Simon's somber and slow "Something So Right" and manages to make it more so. Steely Dan's "Reeling in the Years" is the lone classic rock original. However, Jonny Lang locates the psychotic thrust of the Rolling Stones' "Paint It, Black," if not the subtle hues that made it a standard. Now, how all this relates to baseball...? --Rob O'Connor

Customer Reviews:

looking for a song and artist.......2006-08-01

WHEN KEVIN COSTNER AND KELLEY PRESTON MEET FOR A SECOND TIME AND END UP WALKING AND TALKING THERE IS A SONG THAT IS SUNG BY A FEMALE ARTIST. I CAN'T FIND THE SONG ON THE SOUNDTRACK AND IT'S DRIVING ME CRAZY. CAN ANYONE TELL ME THE TITLE OF THE SONG AND WHO SINGS IT?

MEL IN MO.

Musicas faltantes.......2004-07-26

A m'suica do Bob Seger - Against The Wind, n?o faz parte da trilha, mas toca no filme em um momento muito importante!!

Decent, but check the song selection first - no Dylan!.......2003-05-27

This soundtrack is okay, but I have to say I'm VERY disappointed that a few of the great songs from the movie were left out - especially the Dylan classic "I Threw it all Away," which carries the emotional high of the movie to the climactic "pitch out of a jam" scene in the 8th inning. I went after this soundtrack figuring it would be a foregone conclusion that this jem of a song would be on it, but I was wrong.

I will go as far as saying that I am so disappointed that this song didn't make this compilation, that I regret buying it. For those of you who are in my camp; and are looking for this Dylan classic, you will find it on Nashville Skyline (Dylan's quintessential country classic from 1969) - and make sure you get the digitally remastered 2003 reissue.

That's my uncensored take on this soundtrack - because they left this particular track off, I consider it a MASSIVE blunder and give it 3 stars when I otherwise may have given it 4 or 5. What makes this even more of a humorous joke is the fact that I'm giving it this rating for a mere 2.5 minutes of music that could have easily been fit onto a compilation that turned out to be an hour+ of music - but the knock is justified and a well-earned one, I will submit.

For those of you who don't give a hoot about my "issues" with this Dylan song being left off this soundtrack - this is a decent soundtrack - especially if you don't own work from these other artists. I true music lover, however, who is familiar with Dylan's work might stray to my camp and share some of these sentiments.

Awesome.......2002-11-29

This soundtrack offers a great variety of music. If you loved the movie, you will love this Cd!

Good.......2002-11-11

I thought so. I bought this soundtrack ..., and I didn't expect much out of it, but I must say, I got my money's worth and more! Okay, you might say, so it's worth two bucks, is it worth 9 at Amazon?

The answer is, it depends on your musical taste. This soundtrack has a wide variety of genres and performers, from Roy Orbison to Steely Dan to Jennifer Day to Semisonic to K-Ci and JoJo. It all seems to flow together though, the CD has a definate sense of continuity. BUT. If you want something fast-paced and exciting, this album is not for you.

So, good relaxing music, espcially the classical track at the end.

~C~

Baby Love: Music From the Motion Picture Soundtrack "For Love of the Game" (Cd Single)
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