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| | American Beauty: Original Motion Picture Score | | | Music Style : | | General | | Record Label : | | Dreamworks | | Release Date : | | 2000-01-11 | | Store Price : | | $9.98 | | Artistopia's Price: $8.99 | | Usually ships in 24 hours | | |
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CD Tracks/Songs
Disc 11. Dead Already
2. Arose
3. Power of Denial
4. Lunch w/ The King
5. Mental Boy
6. Mr. Smarty-Man
7. Root Beer
8. American Beauty
9. Bloodless Freak
10. Choking the Bishop
11. Weirdest Home Videos
12. Structure & Discipline
13. Spartanette
14. Angela Undress
15. Marine
16. Walk Home
17. Blood Red
18. Any Other Name
19. Still Dead
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Customer Reviews of This Album/CD |
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 Movie DVD of American Beauty
Submitted on: 2009-04-29 |
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I am reviewing the DVD Movie itself. Not the soundtrack. An order was mixed up and one seller was gracious enough to accept return on the unwanted soundtrack.
I was very please with the service including the price, the prompt delivery time and the excellent quality of the merchandise.
I gave the seller 5 stars for a top quality review.
Thanks and all the best, Dennis Chamberlain |
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 American Beauty; Thomas Newman's finest melodies
Submitted on: 2009-01-29 |
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| This soundtrack is exactly what I wanted it to be. Very beautiful melodies, mostly piano led with underlying orchestrated richness - Newman composes this from his soul, perfectly blending with director Mendes' American Beauty's chilling tone and spontaneous edge to art. Very recommended. |
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one of the best
Submitted on: 2008-09-02 |
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| To me this music MADE American Beauty the great movie it was. Along with RUSHMORE this is my favorite sound track of the last ten years. Thomas Newman did a SUPERLATIVE job combining audio power with visual mystique and this made the movie's great plot even GREATER. I miss the fact they don't seem to make movies like this any more and it was LESS than ten years ago. Nor have I heard any soundtracks this powerful either. |
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Musical Beauty
Submitted on: 2008-01-18 |
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I've had this score for years and have always loved it. I use to write to it a lot, great music for it. I actually heard the the track "American Beauty" at a "trendy" restaurant recently and was reminded of how good it was, which prompted me to give the score another complete spin.
This music is wonderful. Anyone who would give this 1 or 2 stars simply is a tone deaf idiot, or they're trying to be cute (and we're all very impressed). Newman does an incredible job of creating mysterious, charming, and haunting pieces on this score. All of those adjectives also apply to the movie obviously, and Newman does a great job of conveying the movie's emotions through sound.
Out of the 9 or 10 Newman scores I own- this one sits atop them all though there are ones not far behind (Shawshank Redemption, Road to Perdition, Pay it Forward (very similar to this one), Green Mile, etc.) There is beautful music on all of his scores- but those are just some of the really solid "through and through" ones in my opinion.
Anyway, after 130 reviews, I'm sure this one doesn't even matter. But maybe it will help raise the overall review to the 5 stars it rightfully deserves.
Take a hit, take a sip, and lay back and get lost. If you do lay back though, beware of "Root Beer" and "Spartanette" if you have earphones in at full blast. |
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Am Beauty - Thomas Newman - Cool Stuff!
Submitted on: 2007-09-06 |
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| Thomas Newman has a style all his own. I liked the soundtrack for the Series of Unfortunate Events and American Beauty is right up there! It is light, refreshing, and mellow. I only wish the soundtrack had more tracks and had a longer run time. |
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