The Game: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack [Soundtrack]

the game: original motion picture soundtrack [soundtrack]

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This music for a story about suspicious identities and perpetual conspiracies is splendid Twilight Zone-like cocktail music. Listeners need not even see the movie to feel Howard Shore's nightmare, but it helps to visualize a protagonist stuck in an environment where nothing is what it seems. Shore's somber orchestral backgrounds and tenuous piano phrases threaten to form some kind of Tin Pan Alley melody but never do. The outward mood is frosty, but intensity lurks beneath. Imagine the New Age sound in a midlife crisis. This is it! Better yet, this is bad-trip music for well-dressed urban sophisticates. Grace Slick singing "White Rabbit" for the finale reminds you of a world too busy screwing with your mind to feed your head. --Joseph Lanza

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The Game: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack [Soundtrack]
A Beautiful Mind: Original Motion Picture Score
Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • Haven't I heard this before?
  • a beautiful score
  • A Beautiful Mind
  • Haunting, lovely, majestic
  • Dark
 A Beautiful Mind: Original Motion Picture Score
James Horner
Manufacturer: Decca U.S.
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00005TPFV
Release Date: 2001-12-11

Tracks:

  1. A Kaleidoscope Of Mathematics
  2. Playing A Game Of 'Go!'
  3. Looking For The Next Great Idea
  4. Creating 'Governing Dynamics'
  5. Cracking The Russian Codes
  6. Nash Descends Into Parcher's World
  7. First Drop Off. First Kiss
  8. The Car Chase
  9. Alicia Discovers Nash's Dark World
  10. Real Or Imagined?
  11. Of One Heart, Of One Mind
  12. Saying Goodbye To Those You So Love
  13. Teaching Mathematics Again
  14. Prize of One's Life... The Prize of One's Mind
  15. All Love Can Be - Charlotte Church
  16. 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

Customer Reviews:

3 out of 5 stars 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.

5 out of 5 stars 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.

5 out of 5 stars A Beautiful Mind.......2006-08-09

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

5 out of 5 stars 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.

5 out of 5 stars 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.
Spy Game: Original Motion Picture Score
Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • A soundtrack Masterpiece
  • This is how a movie score should be made.
  • Still fresh after 6 years
  • A Masterpiece!
  • Maybe the best electronic soundtrack yet created
 Spy Game: Original Motion Picture Score
Harry Gregson-William
Manufacturer: Decca U.S.
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00005RIL7
Release Date: 2001-11-13

Tracks:

  1. Su-Chou Prison
  2. Muir Races To Work
  3. '...He's Been Arrested For Espionage.'
  4. Red Shirt
  5. Training Montage
  6. Berlin
  7. 'It's Not A Game'
  8. 'You're Going To Miss It'
  9. Beirut, A War Zone
  10. 'My Name Is Tom'
  11. All Hell Breaks Loose
  12. Explosion & Aftermath
  13. Parting Company
  14. Harker Tracks Muir
  15. The Long Night
  16. Muir's In The Hot Seat
  17. Back At Su-Chou Prison
  18. Operation Dinner Out
  19. Spies (Ryebot Remix)
  20. Dinner Out [Rothrock Remix]

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Director Tony Scott's buddy pic-cum-espionage thriller shrewdly unites Robert Redford and Brad Pitt, pretty-boy box-office icons from two different generations. But its tense musical score embodies a gratifying sense of cross-cultural experimentation that seems as doggedly genre-expanding as it does dramatically tough. Young composer Harry Gregson-Williams (Shrek, The Replacement Killers, Antz, The Rock) employs haunting Eastern instrumental modalities, symphonic flourishes, and spare choral touches here but crucially weds them to driving, polyrhythmic percussion and pulsing techno club grooves. Continuing a contemporary scoring trend that largely eschews thematic melodies in favor of evocative atmospherics, the composer's studio-savvy fusion has conjured up a soundscape of surprisingly emotional twists and turns, but one that also seems to grow more determinedly electro-modern with each successive cut. This is that rare score that proves that pop trend can indeed inform classical tradition--and much to the benefit of both. --Jerry McCulley

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars A soundtrack Masterpiece.......2007-05-23

The movie is rgeat, the story line is mind-boggling, the action is fantastic and the score is fabulous. These are just a view small lines that come to mind when you've watched this movie "Spy Game".

A Movie soundtrack is not only adding sound to the picture, it is of utmost importance that it brings a total picture to the storyline. Composer and writer Harry Gregson Williams is known for his synthesizer orgestrated music. Normally a soundtrack to a movie would be only a hugh orchestra with string's, brass, percussion en more. But Mister Williams add's even more to that picture with his knowledge of Computer software and synthesizers.

This soundtrack is from start to finish a journey to relive the entire story of Spy game over and over again. Plus adding the two remixes as a bonus.

5 out of 5 stars This is how a movie score should be made........2007-04-07

Spy Game is one of my favorite movies, and I've always been amazed by the music score. The music is incredibly well done and holds up on its own on CD. Whether or not you've seen the movie, this is good music. I'm glad I finally broke down and bought this CD!

5 out of 5 stars Still fresh after 6 years.......2007-02-20

HGW is an exceptional electronic musician and a definite hero of mine, his classical training has easily transitioned to genre, and he has admitted that he is not even into computers. This may well have handicapped him until he could harness their undeniable power, and provide an additional platform for his talent. I was first introduced to him through the Metal Gear Solid series on the Playstation. I was very impressed with his musical abilities then because he can turn emotion from soft and dark to edgy and triumphant effortlessly. This soundtrack is his best work. He is not afraid to break the rules. Buy it!

5 out of 5 stars A Masterpiece!.......2006-01-07

The following words describe this score perfectly: emotional, triumphant, energetic, melancholy.

This is one of Gregson-Williams' masterpieces that consists of an amazing blend of all types of emotion and excitement. Absolutely one of my favorites in the same class as "The Rock".

5 out of 5 stars Maybe the best electronic soundtrack yet created.......2005-07-12

While the general job of anyone getting the "Music By" credit is to underscore the emotional context of the filmed image, electronic music is often overlooked as a tool by which this can be meaningfully achieved. Indeed, most electronically-rendered scores ARE easily forgettable, and in some cases flatly inappropriate for the action being described.

But Gregson-William here chooses precisely the right instruments and displays his absolute studio-side mastery. In part this is because the film itself, being so heavily involved with electronic surveillance, obviously calls for a more artificial musical score. But his real genius is in finding a way to give both cultural context and recognizable motifs. Whether the current action on the screen is set in Asia, Europe, America or the Middle East, the music feels like it belongs both in those locales AND in the same movie. The main theme for Redford's character doubles as the SPY GAME theme, and it's worked and reworked throughout to give a thoroughly satisfying evolution through the action.

If you've been disappointed by electronic soundtracks in the past--and who living through the 80s wasn't?--this score will show you just how expressive the genre can be, when handled by the right artist.
For Love Of The Game: Original Motion Picture Score
Average customer rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
  • GREAT MUSIC!!!
  • A must buy for any film soundtrack fan!
  • THIS IS NOT THE SOUNDTRACK
  • A disappointment...
  • Classic score that evokes baseball and more
 For Love Of The Game: Original Motion Picture Score
Basil Poledouris
Manufacturer: Varese Sarabande
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ASIN: B00002MYX6
Release Date: 1999-11-16

Tracks:

  1. Main Theme
  2. Relationship Montage
  3. Tuttle Knockdown
  4. Jane's Home
  5. Gus Hits
  6. Lemonade
  7. The Apology
  8. No Hits
  9. The Decision
  10. Last Pitch

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars GREAT MUSIC!!!.......2003-12-24

This CD has absolutely great music - it's the "Score" from the music as anyone can tell if they look at the selections. I have the other CD with the songs from it too, and I rate them BOTH 5 stars! They're different, but each one is great in its own way. I wasn't disappointed in the least!

5 out of 5 stars A must buy for any film soundtrack fan!.......2002-08-20

Wow! What a treat. When I first picked up this soundtrack, I didn't pay it much mind. Then it started to grow on me and now it's one of my favorites. Even though the music is aimed at baseball, try listening to the closing theme while standing at the rim of the Grand Canyon. Knocked my socks off!

If nothing else, the opening theme is something to behold and well worth the price of the CD. Buy it now!

1 out of 5 stars THIS IS NOT THE SOUNDTRACK.......2002-01-24

Don't confuse the "Original Motion Picture Score" with the "Original Motion Picture SOUNDTRACK". If you are interested in hearing the music and artists you heard in the movie. DON'T BUY IT!

2 out of 5 stars A disappointment..........2001-09-23

MISSING from this CD is the score for what is perhaps the movie's climax: Scarecrow's potential homerun snatched out of the air by Mickey Hart.

I haven't been this disappointed in a score since Luke's-hand-being-chopped-off was left off "The Empire Strikes Back."

Who makes these decisions?

5 out of 5 stars Classic score that evokes baseball and more.......2000-08-10

Basil Poledouris came up with a beautiful haunting score. This score has already been used by professional sports broadcasts on tv from the end of the baseball season for the Chicago Cubs last fall to the AT&T Pro-Am at Pebble Beach last February. The CD brings back all the moments from the movie...drama and emotion. Although the cd is a little short in length, part of that is due to the fact you don't want it to end. You won't go wrong with this soundtrack!
The Crying Game: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Average customer rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
  • It's worth buying, if you're a fan of the movie.
  • As enigmatic as the movie that spawned it!
  • A scattered soundtrack to a great movie
  • THE SONG "THE CRYING GAME" IS TRULY A HAUNTING TUNE!
  • I mainly listen to the hit.
 The Crying Game: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Anne Dudley
Manufacturer: Capitol
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000002US8
Release Date: 1993-02-23

Tracks:

  1. The Crying Game - Boy George
  2. When A Man Loves A Woman - Percy Sledge
  3. Live For Today (Orchestral) - Cicero
  4. Let The Music Play - Carroll Thompson
  5. White Cliffs Of Dover - The Blue Jays
  6. Live For Today (Gospel) - Cicero
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  9. The Soldier's Wife
  10. It's In My Nature
  11. March To The Execution
  12. I'm Thinking Of You
  13. Dies Irae
  14. The Transformation
  15. The Assassination
  16. The Soldier's Tale

Customer Reviews:

3 out of 5 stars It's worth buying, if you're a fan of the movie........2003-10-02

If you really liked the movie it's worth it, because you get to hear the songs from beginning to end and understand the lyrics a little better. One of the reviewers, who said that the song "White Cliffs of Dover" had nothing to do with its title, should have listened to the words, right at the start ("There'll be blue birds over/The white cliffs of Dover" anyone?) I like the old, second world war sound that it has. I just wish they had included the movie version of "The Crying Game", the one that's sung by the leading lady. I don't like the original version (why couldn't they have left that one out?) and the Boy George/Pet Shop Boys version is a flop. It just doesn't have the same glamour and intensity, or beauty for that matter. For fans only.

3 out of 5 stars As enigmatic as the movie that spawned it!.......2003-04-03

"The Crying Game" has to be one of the oddest soundtrack albums of all times, probably befitting the film from which it came. It features old school R & B, dance/disco, pop, and orchestral/incidental music. The first half of vocal selections paired with the second's Anne Dudley score makes for a quite erratic listening experience.

The album is like an "appetizer platter" where there's something for everyone but not enough to satisfy the "hunger".

3 out of 5 stars A scattered soundtrack to a great movie.......1998-09-03

If the album had nothing beyond Boy George's haunting re-make of "The Crying Game," it still might be worth buying it. Unfortunately, there's not much great about the soundtrack beyond the title tune.

After opening with the Boy's tremulous vocal stylings, it breaks off into the Percy Sledge's original version of "When A Man Loves a Woman," a nice slice of 1960s soul, followed by another great track, Cicero's 'orchestral' version of "Live for Today," produced by Pet Shop Boys. The soaring vocals of featured singer Sylvia Mason-James make for dance heaven, with a message in the music (be yourself, try to be honest in love, seize the moment).

So far, so good.

Following the opening is a disastrous remake of Shannon's 1983 dance classic "Let the Music Play." The vocals are too watery, the backing too slow. Next, a screechy-voiced '60s group, the Blue Jays, render the oddly-named "White Cliffs of Dover" (the song has nothing to do with cliffs or Dover), which sounds as though it was recorded in a wind-tunnel with drowning cats as the backing band. Cicero and Sylvia Mason-James return to sing a 'gospel' version of "Live for Today," which falls flat after the earlier orchestral version. After having heard Boy George, Dave Berry's original version of "The Crying Game" is rendered utterly obsolete; although it worked wonderfully in the film, here it sounds dated. The first side closes with Lyle Lovett singing Tammy Wynette's country classic "Stand By Your Man." It works, in an odd sort of way, and was, again, perfect in the context of the film.

Side two is totally orchestral, with Anne Dudley conducting the Pro Arte Orchestra of London. The opening piece, "The Soldier's Wife" is a tense, beautiful song, foreshadowing events in the movie. Beyond that, though, many of the movements on side two begin to sound a bit repetitive. They're very well done, though, and worth listening to, as a sort of classical mood music.

Overall, it's a hodgepodge. If you loved the brilliant movie from director Neil Jordan, then chances are you'll love the soundtrack. It's worth watching the movie before taking a chance on buying this uneven album.

4 out of 5 stars THE SONG "THE CRYING GAME" IS TRULY A HAUNTING TUNE!.......1998-08-29

I'M TOTALLY IN LOVE WITH THE SONG "THE CRYING GAME"; I DON'T HAVE THE CD BUT I HAVE THE VIDEO OF THE MOVIE. I'VE WATCHED IT SEVERAL TIMES; I WAS FASCINATED WITH THE MOVIE & I WATCH IT WHEN I GET IN A MELANCHOLY MOVIE. THE LEAD TUNE IS SO HAUNTINGLY BEAUTIFUL. THANKS TO AMAZON.COM, I'M NOW GOING TO BUY THE CD.

4 out of 5 stars I mainly listen to the hit........1998-07-16

"The Crying Game" is Boy George chortling about the misery of love. It is produced by the Pet Shop Boys and sounds like their stuff; you can even hear PSB singer Neil Tennent in the background whispering "Kisses." "Live For Today" is in two forms; one disco-y and one like a gospel organ number. It is by the hamfisted Pet Shop Boys protege Cicero (the first artist on their now-defunct Spaghetti label). You get the original version of "When A Man Loves A Woman" (which opened the film) and a Lyle Lovett version of "Stand By Your Man." There is also the original version of "The Crying Game" and a song called "White Cliffs of Dover" which are both sort sad 60s songs that sound like they were filtered through a tube compressor or something (they sound old!!)
The Game: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • The Game O.S.T. - Howard Shore
  • Creepy pleasure
  • Chillingly Beautiful
  • Haunting Piano Music
  • Classic simplicity
 The Game: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Howard Shore
Manufacturer: Polygram Records
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ASIN: B0000042I3
Release Date: 1997-09-09

Tracks:

  1. Happy Birthday, Nicholas
  2. Consumer Recreation Services
  3. Harlequin Clown
  4. House Of Pain
  5. Van Orton Mansion
  6. Congratulations On Choosing C.R.S.
  7. Room 277
  8. Illegal Surveillance
  9. Reckless Endangerment
  10. Attempted Murder
  11. Mausoleum
  12. Tung Hoy
  13. Pulling Back The Curtain
  14. White Rabbit - Jefferson Airplane

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This music for a story about suspicious identities and perpetual conspiracies is splendid Twilight Zone-like cocktail music. Listeners need not even see the movie to feel Howard Shore's nightmare, but it helps to visualize a protagonist stuck in an environment where nothing is what it seems. Shore's somber orchestral backgrounds and tenuous piano phrases threaten to form some kind of Tin Pan Alley melody but never do. The outward mood is frosty, but intensity lurks beneath. Imagine the New Age sound in a midlife crisis. This is it! Better yet, this is bad-trip music for well-dressed urban sophisticates. Grace Slick singing "White Rabbit" for the finale reminds you of a world too busy screwing with your mind to feed your head. --Joseph Lanza

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars The Game O.S.T. - Howard Shore.......2002-08-30

Most people would consider this soundtrack boring. They would call Jefferson Airplane's "White Rabbit" the most interesting, and the apotheosis of the album. The fifty-five other minutes of music, they would consider superfluous. Uninteresting, dreary, lacklustre.
After my first hearings (a few years before "The Fellowship Of The Ring" for those who would give value to that fact), I could only agree with these people. There is little instrumental variation in this score. On the foreground, there is a plinking solo piano, sometimes more - on the background, mysterious winds, and threatening brass. Some more, but only little. Fifty-five minutes long.

However, somewhere along the way something changed. I am not quite sure of how to put my finger on it. It visualised itself by me returning to the soundtrack. Not often, but regularly. I dimmed the lights, sat in a comfortable chair; sometimes I listened to it in bed before falling asleep. At times, I came into moods that matched the soundtrack, and I put it on and I enjoyed it.

I enjoy this music.

This composition should be played back-to-back every time you listen to it. This composition is an ocean. A grey ocean and an autumn morning. You stand on the muddy, mussel-strewn beach that stretches like a smooth precipice from horizon to horizon. The stubbled dunes at your back still sleep, blanketed under the mists that ghost out from the sea. You wear a faded bomber jack and a sou'wester on your head. There is a sun, but it is hidden behind a thick layer of grey cloud (you can see where it is, because at that spot the layer is bleached to a creamy white). A cover, stretching from one horizon to the other. The strong, moist wind blows in your face and tugs at the hair that sprouts out from under your hat. This is not a comfortable situation; it is not cheery or exuberant. The wind is wintry and moist. Nevertheless, you stay where you are and you behold. Fifty-five minutes long.

You are the piano: alone, thoughtful, and small - a little out of element. The waves are the wind instruments - they bring hints of what is going to happen - yet you never come to know the whole story. You do not speak the language of the waves well enough. They undulate - stroking and slipping of the beach. They undulate, colourless waves with grey crests further out into the ashen plane. The plane itself undulates, like a blanket in the wind. Far away, a containership rises and falls. Up, and down - rise and fall. And again, slowly. And again. A meditative breathing, a presence in deep slumber. The brass are the large showers that crawl over the sea like enormous snails. They keep their distance to the shore, but as you stand there, onlooking, one slug slowly approaches. The others drift far off, clouds unloading their cargo. But that one keeps advancing. The nearer the fifty-fifth minute comes, the more threatening seems the rainstorm. It grows. Yet, you remain watching, ensorcelled. Not happy, not bemused, yet rather... fascinated. Transfixed. When the first raindrops splatter on your yellow cap with plastic thuds, and you see the hails crashing down on the waters further away on the plane, you turn around and slowly return to your car, waiting like a patient butler. You do not run - you do not rush. The first of the shower falls over you, yet you do not care. You step into your car and when the door closes with a dull thump, the charm is broken.

"White Rabbit" marks your arrival at the city or village where you live: bustling civilisation and sophistication. Edgar Allen Poe and the easy rhythm of modern-day living. It feels like an illusion now, all this culture, after your conversation with primordial nature. What do we imagine to accomplish with all these growing complexities and deeper sciences? If we seek redemption, or enlightenment - what for do we need material possession? It is all there; all we need to do is sacrifice and listen.

That is the message I perceive after processing this music. Only after I wrote all of this did I remember it is the message of the movie as well. It might have been a subconscious train of thought, but I do not actually believe that. I believe it was the music.
It is Howard Shore translating what goes on on the screen into music, and me translating the music to what goes on on the screen. Even if I had never seen the film, I would have drawn the same conclusion. It is the greatest compliment a filmmusic composer can receive, and Shore deserves it.

"White Rabbit" is an excellent choice as title song. Not only for the above mentioned reasoning, but also for its composition and message. It calls us to see Western technology for what it really is: a tool, and not a goal. There is another world out there, where you can discover happiness without possession and ambition. Just as Nicholas Van Orten eventually discovers, one can be very happy with what one has without striving to possess more.

This score proves you do not need an 80+ orchestra to deliver a message.

This one gets three for the music and an extra one for the brilliant manner it embraces the visuals on screen.

Bram Janssen, The Netherlands

5 out of 5 stars Creepy pleasure.......2001-10-14

I have to tell you that this album is one of my favorite. When I first heard it I couldn't believe my ears, it was just a nightmare! Yeah, but I like nightmares. When you listen to it it sounds like you hear the same song but always in a slighty different view. And what a view! I haven't heard such a 'sick' music ever since and I can't understand how anybody is able to create music like this! Get it on your own responsibility!

4 out of 5 stars Chillingly Beautiful.......2000-04-17

Not since Diva have I enjoyed such a penetrating soundtrack. Its melancholy hooked me from the beginning of the film. If you enjoyed the soundtrack from Diva or Joe Jackson's sountdtrack from Mike's Murder, you'll enjoy this.

5 out of 5 stars Haunting Piano Music.......1999-08-24

Howard Shore's chilling piano music only adds to the award winning suspense thriller "The Game." I highly recommend this CD to anyone who appreciates a good soundtrack or piano music in general.

5 out of 5 stars Classic simplicity.......1999-08-20

Music has changed and grown over the centuries and one would be hard-pressed to find music today that could be aptly named a modern-day classic, but "The Game" Soundtrack is just that. In its simplicity it leads the listener on an intriguing journey just as the movie did. The feel of this soundtrack is sinister and its pace chillingly steady. This work is truly reminiscent of great works in the past, with its effortless style and nonchalant dymanic.

A must for non-distracting yet thought-provoking music lovers.
The Dentist (1996 Film) / The Dentist II (1998 Film): Original Motion Picture Soundtracks
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    		The Dentist (1996 Film) / The Dentist II (1998 Film): Original Motion Picture Soundtracks

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    ASIN: B00000HY6K
    Release Date: 2005-09-13

    Tracks:

    1. Dentist Theme
    2. Toothache
    3. Not Again
    4. Perfect Fit
    5. 11 Roses
    6. Truth Or Tooth
    7. New Game
    8. Wisdom Teeth?
    9. Encounter/Escape
    10. Complete Examination
    11. Pool Service
    12. Night In Paradise
    13. Back In the Chair
    14. Incompetent Dentist
    15. Finestone The Bitch
    16. Can I Look At It?
    17. He's Good For This Town
    18. Dental Tools

    Music:

    1. The Importance of Being Earnest [Soundtrack]
    2. The Italian Job [Import] [Soundtrack]
    3. The Ladies Man: Music from the Motion Picture (2000 Film) [Soundtrack]
    4. The Legend of Bagger Vance: Music from the Motion Picture (2000 Film) [Soundtrack] [Import]
    5. The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker O.S.T. [Import] [Soundtrack]
    6. The Meteor Man [Soundtrack]
    7. The Music of Cosmos
    8. The One: Original Motion Picture Score [Soundtrack]
    9. The Princess and the Warrior [Soundtrack]
    10. The Snow Files: Film Music of Mark Snow [Soundtrack]

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