The Boxer [Soundtrack]

the boxer [soundtrack]

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[F]eaturing a combination of dirty beats, Irish traditional, trip-hop, the Irish Film Orchestra, and the choir of Dublin's Christ Church Cathedral.... There are some sublime moments ... but this album lacks that one killer song.

Product Description
Soundtrack to 1998 film starring Daniel Day Lewis & Emily Watson, with music from Gavin Friday. MCA. 2004.

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The Boxer [Soundtrack]

Average customer rating:

Not perfect, but still gritty and beautiful
More than a soundtrack.
It's as the editorial review says...
Eclectic Artists Friday & Seezer Score Again!

The Boxer
Gavin Friday , and Maurice Seezer
Manufacturer: Mca Import
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0000062XY
Release Date: 2006-03-20

Tracks:

In The Shadow Of A Gun
The Holy Family l...
To The Peace Line
The Boxer
Twelve Noon
You Broke My Heart
Semtex
Night Raid
Peace
The Fight's Over
Angus Dei
Funeral
The Holy Family II
End Of Story, Peacemaker
The Boxer (Finale)
Everything's Gonna Be Alright

Album Description

Soundtrack to 1998 film starring Daniel Day Lewis & Emily Watson, with music from Gavin Friday. MCA. 2004.

Customer Reviews:

Not perfect, but still gritty and beautiful.......2002-12-25

We've come to expect dramatic film scores to have an Oscar-nominated love theme. So, when we don't get one, it feels like the score fell short of its potential. Still, the depth of mood and funkiness of the beats keep this album from being mediocre. Friday and Seezer take some liberties with the score, and I wish they'd left in some of the briefer cues (such as Danny's reunion with Ike). Of course, I'm being a stickler because "The Boxer" is one of my all-time favorite films.

The inclusion of film dialogue is a definite plus, and most effective in track nine ("Peace"). It isn't done as well in "You Broke My Heart"; they should've used Maggie's full soliloquy. It's almost like the "Moulin Rouge" soundtracks - the music worked as is onscreen, so let it be. I'm just glad they didn't resort to the loathsome techno-remix ploy that pops up on some soundtracks.

This score strikes a good balance between orchestral melancholy and urban trip-funk. Sometimes, the two styles merge ("Everything's Gonna Be Alright," "In The Shadow of A Gun"). The purely orchestral pieces have an Anne Dudley appeal.

It's pretty hard to get your mitts on this disc. If you enjoy Baz Luhrman's scores and/or Gavin Friday's solo work, the "Boxer" soundtrack is worth the hunt.

More than a soundtrack........2002-07-03

Classical Music by Gavin Friday and Maurice Seezer, what more is there to say? Gavin Friday and Maurice Seezer are proboly the best music duo ever. They have brought poetry back to music, in a very buitiful way. If I could review thier three albums now they would all get 6 out of 5 stars, yes thats how good they relly are. But in the mean time, there are only a few ways to get thier music here in the states. Soundtracks, (like the Boxer, In The Name Of The Father, Romeo and Julliet, and Mission Impossible) all showcase thier art.
Now to this album. It is very nice classical, even for the most moddest music listener. My favorit part is how well the coincided the storyline with the music. it is also surpising to see how good they use dialog in movies. The album also has very nice Irish thems to it, its hard to explane, just buy the album, before it is discontinued.

It's as the editorial review says..........2000-03-26

This is a wonderfully atmospheric score; Gavin Friday and Maurice Seezer are possibly the most underrated thing in music. If you can find their three albums (EACH MAN KILLS THE THING HE LOVES, ADAM 'N' EVE, and SHAG TOBACCO), do so. But where each of those albums had at least one tour-de-force piece of music to rally around, THE BOXER lacks one -- just as is mentioned above. "In The Shadow Of A Gun" is powerful, but sounds just like every other intense movie theme song, and "Everything's Gonna Be Alright" is almost obnoxiously uninvolving. The instrumentals are varied and fascinating, but almost all end before their chance at greatness. A beautiful but frustrating soundtrack.

Eclectic Artists Friday & Seezer Score Again!.......1999-08-17

THE BOXER soundtrack is perfect eclecticism, as ambient music; something to set a mood. I own a vast collection of eclectic music, and I must say this is one of the best eclectic scores I've heard in a while. There is true sentiment and talent evident in the work, and while dialogue excerpts in soundtracks can sometimes be annoying, the quality of genius from SHAG TOBACCO musicians Seezar & Friday make the soundtrack an experience all its own. THE BOXER soundtrack will provide endless pleasure for your lifestyle, from an early rise with the Choir arangements to slumber time with its heart-gripping strings and passive melodies. A must have for collectors of film soundtracks, as I am.

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