Meet Joe Black: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
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Free Music Notes for Meet Joe Black: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Free Music Review: Beautiful music by Thomas Newman
Hit: 5 Stars
Thomas Newman wrote an amazing score for my favorite movie of all time Meet Joe Black. The music revolves around a very beautiful main theme, which is used throughout the entire score. This is a superb theme, very sweeping, both dramatic and peacefull, depending on the orchestrations. With a big orchestra and solo instruments like piano, clarinet and violin Newman creates a very romantic sound. The best track is without a doubt "That Next Place", which goes on a wonderful 10 minutes and leaves you wanting more. All the themes get splenid renditions with full orchestral backup. Other highlights are "Walkaway" which is a short, but georgeous melody of strings. Also on the soundtrack are big band versions of famous songs, like "Cheek to Cheek" and "What a Wonderful World" and a version of "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" performed by Israel Kamakawiwoole, that's actually very good considering I only listen to classical music. I remember the first time I saw this movie. I was 18 years old and I went to the theatre with some friends and went to see the movie. Mind you, this movie is over three hours long, but the time flew by. When it was over I was moved to tears. The music and storylike in the movie was a powerhouse of emotions. I searched everywhere for the piano sheet music to the soundtrack, but unfortunately I don't think they made one since I never found it. What Thomas Newman gives us here is easily one of the most emotional, moving and beautiful scores I have ever heard in my enitre life.
Free Music Review: A solid beautiful and lush score
Hit: 5 Stars
This is without a doubt Thomas Newman's best work to date. He uses a full orchestra in this one and none of the unusual and quirky instruments that are in his other scores are present in this one. The music is very delicate, beautiful, and lightly scored. The main theme is a delight with beautiful string and piano passages. The theme really shines in tracks such as "Walkaway", "Whisper of a Thrill", "Cold Lamb Sandwich" (never tried one of those), "Someone Else", and "That Next Place". Some playful passages for strings can be found in "Everywhere Freesia", the slightly suspenseful "Peanut Butter Man" and "Mr. Bad News", and "Fifth Ave." "Someone Else" begins with a flute solo that builds up with strings, a light touch of brass, a harp, and a piano. "That Next Place" is simply breathtaking and lets the orchestra soar into the heavens for 10 solid minutes. Lots of timpani rolls and tremendous cymbal crashes lead to the orchestra giving a full blown performance of the main theme that leaves you wanting much more, which is no understatement. A truly remarkable and phenomenal score that is sheer orchestral delight and should have won an academy award or at least have been nominated for one.Free Music Review: beautiful
Hit: 5 Stars
The music in the soundtrack is best described by the film it goes along with. The music is sad, but reflective. Most of it suggests the changing of seasons, passing along, death, but it does it in a sad reflective way. It gives the allusion to growing old, almost like a soundtrack for your own life. It makes you feel almost as if you are an innocent bystander or an observer to all this change. A lot of tracks are very good at describing setting (5th avenue, peanut butter man). Tracks are cleverly placed to bring about the full effect of the movie through the soundtrack, esp. "Lets face the music and dance," which really kind of gives you the dark feeling that it's the last dance before something's up. The music is actually really beautiful in a depressing way. Some of the songs make you want to look out the window and cry because you imagine your own life changing right before your eyes. The song "Someone Else," played at the anti-climax of the movie is absolutely beautiful and is really what made everyone cry at the part in the movie it coincided with. If you like beautiful, dramatic, sad, but happily reflective music, you'd best buy this soundtrack. It parallels the movie exquisitely, and doesn't do so bad as music to listen to for a quiet night at home.Free Music Review: relaxxxx
Hit: 5 Stars
Meet Joe Black is very boring, self-indulgent and hugely overlong film. However, it is redeemed by two things. The first is how well Clare Forlani wears a little black dress, the second is the beautiful score by Thomas Newman. This is unlike his big hit soundtracks to Road to Perdition and American Beauty which include lots of rhythmic sounds that you can replicate in your kitchen by hitting a decent set of pans with a wooden spoon. MJB is a lush and romantic, mainly orchestral score that outlasts and outlives the film it was written for. Even in the most lush kissy kissy moments Newman manages to confound the listener: with interesting and unpredictable chords and the introduction of hints of discordancy that, to my ears, echo the best of 20th music - Ives, Janacek, Stravinsky, even Glenn Branca. What I am essentially saying is that the lush and Romantic elements in Newman's music avoid sugar and predictability, neither do they stray towards the pomp that many score composers mistake for seriousness and emotion.
Forget the film, buy this CD.
Free Music Review: mmmm, this is one of those
Hit: 5 Stars
Joe Black had his peanut butter and cold lamb sandwhich to make him feel at home. I have my muscial score from this movie and oh, does it taste good. Newman fans will love it; music fans will love it; Democrats will love it; Republicans will love it; YOU WILL LOVE IT!
Why did I bring politics into this review? Because I heard track #6 on a PBS special that featured Bush and Gore and when I heard it, I thought, "that has to be Newman." Later I found out I was right and soon, after sampling some of the songs from amazon.com, I asked for this one for my birthday. Much to my delight, my brother bought it for me and it's been one of my all-time favorites ever since.
The great thing about this cd, besides the obvious Newman magic, is the ending track, Somewhere Over the Raindow, performed by the late Brother Is. You will love this cd and if you are an avid Newman lover, you could probablly compare this one to Scent of a Women or The Horse Whisperer. But please note, this one still stands on its own in terms of Newman creativity.