About a Boy

About a Boy Artist: Badly Drawn Boy
Label: Reincarnate Music
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Format: Soundtrack
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 801190101924
EAN: 0801190101924
ASIN: B0000640NN


Release Date: 2002-04-23

About a Boy


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Tracks:

  1. Exit Stage Right
  2. A Peak You Reach
  3. Something to Talk About
  4. Dead Duck
  5. Above You, Below Me
  6. I love NYE
  7. Silent Sigh
  8. Wet, Wet, Wet
  9. River, Sea, Ocean
  10. S.P.A.T.
  11. Rachel's Flat
  12. Walking Out of Stride
  13. File Me Away
  14. A Minor Incident
  15. Delta (Little Boy Blues)
  16. Donna and Blitzen

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Amazon.com

Damon Gough, the man behind Badly Drawn Boy, opted to score the film adaptation of Nick Hornby's novel <I>About a Boy</I> instead of recording a regular follow-up to 2000's <I>Hour of Bewilderbeast</I>. Interspersed with short instrumental interludes that serve as lovely miniatures, the songs evoke the book's jaunty mood and (fittingly for something based on a Nick Hornby story) incorporate strands of pop music from the past 40 years with uncommon grace. "Something to Talk About" borrows from Brian Wilson and Paul McCartney yet doesn't feel derivative; "Above You, Below Me" is a charming waltz; the intoxicating "Donna and Blitzen" is pure Phil Spector-does-Christmas. Inspired meetings of this magnitude between film and music are rare enough that this one should be celebrated to the high heavens. <I>--Elisabeth Vincentelli</I>

Customer Reviews:

1 out of 5 stars CopyProtected - Unable to play on computer.......2005-03-28

Great album. Unfortuantely it appears to be copy protected and unable to play on computer systems.

5 out of 5 stars beautiful.......2005-02-06

This is one of the best motion picture soundtracks out there right now- right along with Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind soundtrack. Badly Drawn Boy has achieved something here, something beautiful and bittersweet. I like what John Brookes wrote. I love "I Love N.Y.E."

The movie's great too. =)

4 out of 5 stars Lovely.......2004-06-15

Badly Drawn Boy's gift is that he writes songs that end up stuck in your memory without you even realising it. Six months after listening to this album, I woke up with "River, Sea, Ocean" going round in my head and had to spend two days tracking it down. "Delta (Little Boy Blues)" was used as repeating incidental music on NPR recently and every time I heard it I went "I'm *sure* I know that song", and here it is too. You leave this album singing some songs, you leave it remembering all of them. His unique mixture of shyness and brashness is the perfect match for Hugh Grant and the movie. And he has Andy Rourke from the Smiths in his live band!

5 out of 5 stars I love NYE.......2004-06-06

This is an outstanding soundtrack, possessing a melancholy beauty that captures the bittersweet flavor of the movie perfectly. In my opinion it's on par with The Graduate's soundtrack - at least, I'd be hard-pushed to think of another comtemporary movie soundtrack that's as heartfelt and moving (although Jon Brion's excellent classical compositions for "Eternal Sunshine of the spotless mind..." impress too).

I am surprised however, how people have overloooked the stand-out track on this inspiring soundtrack - I love NYE. I'm just blown away every time I hear this instrumental masterpiece. (I even noticed that the last series of Sex and the City threw it in for poignant effect at one point.)

In About a Boy Nick Hornby and Badly Drawn Boy were just one of those perfect pairings. And subsequently it's is one of my favorite films... something, I hasten to add, I'm slightly embarassed about because it was marketed like most Hollywood garbage (ie cheesy and over-sentimental which it wasn't) and I can't stand Hugh Grant normally, but he was surprisingly great in this.

5 out of 5 stars

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