Raising Arizona / Blood Simple: Original Motion Picture Soundtracks [2 on 1] [Soundtrack]

raising arizona / blood simple: original motion picture soundtracks [2 on 1] [soundtrack]

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The story goes that composer Carter Burwell owes his fortuitous, ongoing collaboration with the filmmaking's Brothers Coen to one crucial requirement: he worked cheap. But the Coens' low-budget film noir debut, Blood Simple (which also launched the career of cinematographer-turned-director Barry Sonnenfeld), certainly got the best of the bargain, a wonderfully less-is-more score highlighted by a compelling solo piano theme. For the Coens' next film, Raising Arizona, a darkly goofy kidnapping-themed comic vehicle for Nicolas Cage and Holly Hunter, Burwell veered bravely into the ozone, mixing heavily Gothic organ, soaring sopranos, bluegrass banjo, whistlers, synths, yodelers, and samples of what sounds like a tin can being kicked down the longest hill in the world into a delightfully heady farrago that recalls Morricone at his most mischievous. --Jerry McCulley

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Raising Arizona / Blood Simple: Original Motion Picture Soundtracks [2 on 1] [Soundtrack]
Raising Arizona / Blood Simple: Original Motion Picture Soundtracks [2 on 1]
Average customer rating: 3 out of 5 stars
  • Some good tracks but missing others
  • Get the original recordings.
  • Missing the only reason I bought the soundtrack...
  • Missing banjo playing from Raising Arizona.
  • Not at all what I expected
 Raising Arizona / Blood Simple: Original Motion Picture Soundtracks [2 on 1]
Skip La Plante , and Alan Drogin
Manufacturer: Varese Sarabande
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000001548
Release Date: 1994-03-15

Tracks:

  1. Introduction - A Hole In The Ground
  2. Way Out There
  3. He Was Horrible
  4. Just Business
  5. The Letter
  6. Hail Lenny
  7. Raising Ukeleles
  8. Dream Of The Future
  9. Shopping Arizona
  10. Return To The Nursery
  11. Crash And Burn
  12. Blood Simple
  13. Chain Gang
  14. The March
  15. Monkey Chant
  16. The Shooting
  17. Blood Simpler

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The story goes that composer Carter Burwell owes his fortuitous, ongoing collaboration with the filmmaking's Brothers Coen to one crucial requirement: he worked cheap. But the Coens' low-budget film noir debut, Blood Simple (which also launched the career of cinematographer-turned-director Barry Sonnenfeld), certainly got the best of the bargain, a wonderfully less-is-more score highlighted by a compelling solo piano theme. For the Coens' next film, Raising Arizona, a darkly goofy kidnapping-themed comic vehicle for Nicolas Cage and Holly Hunter, Burwell veered bravely into the ozone, mixing heavily Gothic organ, soaring sopranos, bluegrass banjo, whistlers, synths, yodelers, and samples of what sounds like a tin can being kicked down the longest hill in the world into a delightfully heady farrago that recalls Morricone at his most mischievous. --Jerry McCulley

Customer Reviews:

3 out of 5 stars Some good tracks but missing others.......2007-02-20

Overall I like this CD very much, however I was hopeful that it would've included the end credits music that had a fade in of Beethoven's "Ode to Joy" chiming in. Nutz

4 out of 5 stars Get the original recordings........2005-04-21

This CD is not bad at all for the music that Carter composed.
He borrowed quite a bit from other sources and you can find them
right here on Amazon. The banjo music and yodel is by Pete Seeger
from the CD "Darling Corey And Goofing-Off Suite". The wonderful
Monkey Chant is the Balinese Ramayana Monkey Chant and can be found
on the CD "Bali: Golden Rain" in its original 22 minute version.

1 out of 5 stars Missing the only reason I bought the soundtrack..........2005-02-19

I bought this soundtrack for the great Raising Arizona music that I heard while watching the DVD--the best part is the end credits with banjo etc. and a variation on "Ode to Joy". IT IS NOT THERE. Only one or two tracks I find enjoyable on the CD for a grand total of about 2 minutes.

2 out of 5 stars Missing banjo playing from Raising Arizona........2005-01-21

The Raising Arizona part of the CD is almost exclusively electronic and only one 90 second track of the great banjo that I remember from the movie. I recommend listening to samples before you buy.

1 out of 5 stars Not at all what I expected.......2001-07-23

Junque music. Sorry I bought it. There are two songs off of the Raising Arizona tracks that I do like, however... I'm really not happy with this one at all. Maybe I can go up to a pawn shop and trade it for something listenable. Sorry Carter.

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