About a Boy Soundtrack (Reis)
List Price:
Our Price: $5.25
You Save: $6.73 (56%)
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Buy Used: from $0.01 (click here)
Category: Music CD
See more CD details
Buy this Music CD at online store in your country
Canadian Music Store
Canadian Music Store
CD Details
Composer: Damon GoughEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Soundtrack
CD Release Date: 2004-11-09
Music Label: Xl Recordings
Soundtracks:
- Exit Stage Right
- A Peak You Reach
- Something To Talk About
- Dead Duck
- Above You Below Me
- I Love Nye
- Silent Sigh
- Wet Wet Wet
- River Sea Ocean
- S P A T
- Rachels Flat
- Walking Out Of Stride
- Five Me Away
- A Minor Incident
- Delta (Little Boy Blues)
- Donna And Butzon
Music reviews of About a Boy Soundtrack (Reis)
Music Review: About A Badly Drawn Boy
Rating: 4 Stars
Badly Drawn boy tackled a different kind of project in this album -- the soundtrack for the amusing movie adaptation of Nick Hornby's novel, "About A Boy." His blend of melodic folk-pop and all-too-brief instrumentals are just like the novel -- bright, breezy and subtle. What's even better? "About A Boy Soundtrack" is just as good when separated from the film.
It opens with a sunny piano melody, just a cute little ditty that doesn't last half a minute. Then it shifts into the mellow, sharp keyboard pop of "A Peak You Reach," before blossoming into a blend of poppy folk (the soothing "Something To Talk About" and fun "River Sea Ocean") and folky pop (the slightly eerie "Silent Sigh and bouncy "File Me Away").
Sprinkled through these are instrumental interludes, some less than a minute long. But despite their brevity, these little instrumentals manage to feel well-rounded and full. One a particular highlight is "Delta (Little Boy Blues)," an enchanting pop tune augmented by horns and what sounds like an organ.
No wonder Nick Hornby wanted Badly Drawn Boy (real name: Damon Gough) for the soundtrack to "About a Boy." While there are occasional lapses -- "S.P.A.T" is a fragmented electronic mess -- the mellow, autumnal sound of this soundtrack is just entrancing. Yes, the Hugh Grant movie about a Peter-Pannish thirtysomething was good -- but the music alone is a prize.
Gough is to be commended for having his songs "flow" into one another -- it feels a bit like a sprawling, many-toned song that has been carefully divided into bits and pieces, then stitched back together. It doesn't have the experimental feel of his non-soundtrack albums, but the delicate piano, guitar, strings, harmonica and blazing brass blend into a smooth, mellow sound.
Gough's voice sounds sort of... well, timid, as if he doesn't want to make it too prominent in the music. But his voice is a pleasant voice, almost childlike in its exuberance and emotion. Which makes his sometimes melancholy songs sound even more so, when he sings almost pleadingly, "Silent sigh, silent sigh silent sigh/Keeps down all move me down/Could we love each other?"
It's no "Hour of Bewilderbeast." Instead, this breezy pop album is "About A Boy," a "bewilderbeast" in its own category. Badly Drawn Boy's second release is a thoroughly pretty, sweet and often entrancing creation. Bravo, Damon.
Description of About a Boy Soundtrack (Reis)
What's a budding musical genius to do in the pent-up lull between albums? Mercury Prize-winning singer-songwriter Badly Drawn Boy (nee Damon Gough), in his spare time between heralded debut THE HOUR OF BEWILDERBEEST, and a follow-up to be released later in 2002, approached the filmmakers adapting Nick Hornby's acclaimed novel ABOUT A BOY about the soundtrack for the film starring Hugh Grant. There's no question to the logic of the combination as Gough's sublimely literate, disaffected yet still charmingly breezy pop music fits the story of life's apparent losers at two stages of life, one an apathetic womanizer approaching his 40s, the other a bullied misfit boy passing into his teens, between whom an unlikely friendship ensues. A folky singer/songwriter scoring songs to help set the tone of a movie about unlikely friendship could stir up memories of Cat Stevens's unreleased soundtrack for "Harold & Maude," a fair enough assessment. In a similar fashion (but in its own way), Badly Drawn Boy's take on ABOUT A BOY weaves a mournful, yet upbeat tapestry drawing from its source material while managing to enrich the story itself. There are even some pop megahit hooks such as in the rolling "Silent Sigh" and in the head-bobbing, ostensible theme song "Something To Talk About."Alternative Rock CDs
Music Genres
Bestsellers in Alternative Rock CDs
Bouncing Souls - Maniacal LaughterRelease date: 1996-01-26; Music CD
Best price: $30.00
Blondie - Parallel LinesRelease date: 1994-07-29; Music CD
Best price: $149.98
Doors - L.A. WomanRelease date: 1993-04-09; Music CD
Best price: $99.99
Amon Duul - Phallus DeiRelease date: 1997-04-08; Music CD
Price in other shops:
Tangerine Dream - MelroseRelease date: 1990-10-02; Music CD
Best price: $74.98
Tangerine Dream - Private Music of Tangerine DreamRelease date: 1992-11-10; Music CD
Best price: $5.00
Price in other shops:
![Ska Explosion [VHS] Image](/images/Ska-Explosion-VHS-6303381014-X.jpg){kind=small}
Ska Explosion [VHS]Cleopatra; Release date: 1995-02-28; VHS Tape; VHS Video
Best price: $14.99
Price in other shops:
![Little Earthquakes [VHS] Image](/images/Little-Earthquakes-VHS-6302488664-X.jpg){kind=small}
Little Earthquakes [VHS]Atlantic / Wea; Release date: 1992-11-10; VHS Tape; VHS Video
Best price: $12.50
Price in other shops:
Exileby Geoffrey Oryema
Music CD
Best price: $4.95
![Louder Than Live [VHS] Image](/images/Louder-Than-Live-VHS-6301627865-X.jpg){kind=small}
Soundgarden - Louder Than Live [VHS]A&M Video; Release date: 1991-07-01; VHS Tape; VHS Video
Best price: $192.68
Similar CDs
Sufjan Stevens - Come On Feel the IllinoiseRelease date: 2005-07-05; Music CD
Best price: $8.98
Price in other shops:
The HolidayTCM; Release date: 2007-01-09; Music CD
Best price: $12.39
Price in other shops:
Badly Drawn Boy - Have You Fed the FishRelease date: 2002-11-05; Music CD
Best price: $5.29
Price in other shops:
Badly Drawn Boy - Born in the UKRelease date: 2006-10-17; Published: 2006-10-17; Music CD
Best price: $9.39
Price in other shops:
Badly Drawn Boy - One Plus One Is OneRelease date: 2004-07-27; Published: 2004-07-27; Music CD
Best price: $7.03
Price in other shops:
About a Boy (Widescreen Edition)Universal; Release date: 2003-01-14; DVD
Best price: $2.50
Price in other shops:
Badly Drawn Boy - It's What I'm Thinking: Photographing SnowflakesRelease date: 2010-10-12; Music CD
Best price: $1.95
Price in other shops:
Badly Drawn Boy - Is There Nothing We Could Do?Release date: 2010-02-23; Music CD
Best price: $3.34
Price in other shops:
Badly Drawn Boy - The Hour of BewilderbeastRelease date: 2000-10-03; Music CD
Best price: $0.70
Price in other shops:
Badly Drawn Boy - About a BoyRelease date: 2002-04-23; Music CD
Best price: $4.99
Price in other shops: