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| | Meet Joe Black: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack | | | Music Style : | | General | | Record Label : | | Umvd Labels | | Release Date : | | 1998-11-03 | | Store Price : | | $13.98 | | Artistopia's Price: $10.99 | | Usually ships in 24 hours | | |
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CD Tracks/Songs
Disc 11. Yes
2. Everywhere Freesia
3. Walkaway
4. Meet Joe Black
5. Peanut Butter Man
6. Whisper of a Thrill
7. Cheek to Cheek
8. Cold Lamb Sandwich
9. Fifth Ave.
10. Frequent Thing - Israel Kamakawiwo'ole
11. Death and Taxes
12. Served Its Purpose
13. Sorry for Nothing
14. Mr. Bad News
15. Let's Face the Music and Dance
16. Question
17. Someone Else
18. What a Wonderful World
19. That Next Place
20. Over the Rainbow/What a Wonderful World
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Customer Reviews of This Album/CD |
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 High Quality Recording
Submitted on: 2009-09-24 |
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| Digitally mastered using HDCD recording, this is one of the finest soundtracks I've heard. The music ranges from the tranquil and reflective to comical and fun. There are several tracks that have a very strong emotional component to them. Thomas Newman scored this one well with music that stands very well on its own away from the movie. This soundtrack is entirely instrumental, mixing a blend of big orchestral with more subtle pieces of strings and piano. I tend to be a fan when someone has invested a great deal of effort in mastering a recording and the use of HDCD here reflects the producers desire to create an audiophile level recording. |
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 Good Stuff
Submitted on: 2009-02-09 |
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| Another good album from Newman, with one great theme appearing in various guises throughout. This is often the case with film composers, and Newman himself, but this album has enough different material to remain interesting. |
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Great "after the kids are in bed" date music!
Submitted on: 2008-03-19 |
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| My wife absolutely loves the movie and has been dying to get the soundtrack. I gave it to her for Valentine's Day and she just started crying. Needless to say I scored some serious relationship points. This soundtrack has a good mix of slow and fast music, and it is very romantic, especially if you've seen the movie. We like to turn the lights down low and play it through the home theater after the kids are in bed. Best $13 I've ever spent. |
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"JOE BLACK" Soundtrack,the genius of Thomas Newman
Submitted on: 2008-02-09 |
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| Thomas Newman is just simply too much: Hollywood's 2004 Composer of the Year,Grammy Award Winner American Beauty: Original Motion Picture Score,Emmy Award Winner for Six Feet Under,8 time Oscar nominated and multiple BMI winner for Finding Nemo, Erin Brockovich: Motion Picture Soundtrack as well as 11 other films;let us not forget his 1998 score to the romantic 3 hour film MEET JOE BLACK.Newman seems to be an expert at "other-world" films that involve death such as Angels in America,Six Feet Under - The Complete Series Gift Set,Phenomenon,The Green Mile (Two-Disc Special Edition) and my personal favorite Oscar & Lucinda for which Newman won the Australian Oscar. MEET JOE BLACK also deals with the subject of passing to the "other world" and Newman again uses his open forths and fifth's on the piano (signifying eternity), and his sweeping Orchestral underpinnings in order to make death palatable and gently welcoming. Also on this CD are the 1930's standards 'Cheek to Cheek','Let's Face the music and Dance',What a Wonderful World' and 'Somewhere Over the Rainbow' which were all used to great effect in the film starring Brad Pitt as "Death", Joe Black, and his target Anthony Hopkins. Once you become acquainted with the music of Thomas Newman,like John Williams etal,he has an unmistakable style all his own.Newman's scores go back all the way to the 1978 television series 'The Paper Chase', and in 1984 he broke onto the silver screen with Revenge Of The Nerds: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack.Since then,74 movies later, Thomas Newman's music,alone, makes a film worth a view for me! |
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Touching
Submitted on: 2008-01-01 |
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| This CD was better than I'd hoped. The movie was mediocre but the music was far better than in most other movies. There are a handful of excellent music writers who tend to pop up over the years only in movies of quality so this was a surprize. Highly sensitive, delicately feeling, touching movie score. |
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