About a Boy
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Performer: Hugh GrantPerformer: Nicholas Hoult
Performer: Sharon Small
Performer: Madison Cook
Performer: Jordan Cook
Performer: Nicholas Hutchison
Performer: Ryan Speechley
Performer: Joseph Speechley
Performer: Toni Collette
Performer: Natalia Tena
Performer: Laura Kennington
Performer: Tanika Swaby
Performer: Peter McNicholl
Performer: Christopher Webster (III)
Performer: Ben Ridgeway
Performer: Jack Warren (II)
Performer: Russell Barr
Performer: Isabel Brook
Performer: Orlando Thor Newman
Performer: Paulette Williams
Edition: Music CD
Format: Soundtrack
CD Release Date: 2004-11-09
Music Label: Xl Recordings
Soundtracks:
- Exit Stage Right
- Peak You Reach
- Something to Talk About
- Dead Duck
- Above You, Below Me
- I Love N.Y.E.
- Silent Sigh
- Wet, Wet, Wet
- River-Sea-Ocean
- Spat
- Rachel's Flat
- Walking Out of Stride
- File Me Away
- Minor Incident
- Delta (Little Boy Blues)
- Donna & Butzon
Free Music Notes for About a Boy
Free Music Review: beautiful autumnal soundtrack
Hit: 5 Stars
Like most of you who are reading this review, this wasn't my first BDB purchase -- that would go to Hour of Bewilderbeast. In fact, this was my 3rd BDB album purchase.
This album is amazing. Just different enough from his non-soundtrack albums to be interesting yet containing all of the things you love about him. On first listen, you may think the musical interludes are filler -- you'd be wrong, though. On subsequent listens, this album reveals itself as the perfect creation it is. I'd liken it to Marvin Gaye's What's Going On in the sense that all the songs have a very similar feel, and musical interludes have some melodies repeated throughout the album.
So buy this, jump in the car on a rainy, autumn day and prepare to be completely astounded by how good these melodies and songs are.
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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."Soundtrack to 2002 film, based on the Nick Hornby ('High Fidelity') novel of the same name, starring Hugh Grant, Rachel Weisz, & Toni Colette. Includes the singles, 'Silent Sigh' & 'Something To Talk About'.
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