Waking Ned Devine: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
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Composer: Shaun DaveyEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language); Latin (Original Language)
Format: Soundtrack
CD Release Date: 1998-11-03
Music Label: Decca
Soundtracks:
- Let The Draw Begin
- Fisherman's Blues
- Red Herrings
- Maggie And Finn
- Cursing In Heaven
- The Ballad Of Ned Devine / The Witches Reel
- Jackie's Theme
- Michael's Ride
- Beyond Dreams And Spirits
- Hear Me
- An Angel Will Cry
- The Lotto Man Cometh
- Lux Eterna, My Eternal Friend
- The Tullymore Polka / The Witch, The Fiddle, And The Phonebox
- The Parting Glass
Free Music Notes for Waking Ned Devine: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Free Music Review: Sit back and enjoy a bit of Irish shenanigans
Hit: 4 Stars
"The Waking of Ned Devine" is a wonderful movie where the village in the Isle of Man has bought lottery tickets and hears the announcement that someone from that village won the grand prize.
The soundtrack is based on Irish folk and tells much of the story in song.
The prize winner has not come forward and now two of the men in the village try to win favor with whomever the prize winner could be. Here the music is crisp as the adventure begins and we see the various characters.
They have a big dinner, which they could hardly afford, invite all the lottery buyers and attempt to find who won.
At the end of the evening they are still in the dark as to who the winner could be and then realize that one contestant, named Ned Devine didn't come to the dinner.
They check his cottage and find him dead in old age with the winning lottery ticket in his hand and his TV still on.
Since there are millions of dollars to be won and Ned doesn't have any relatives, they agree for one of the characters to pose as Michael to get the money.
Now the lottery agent is coming to interview Ned Devine and give him the check so they must get all the townspeople to agree with the trickery. One lady, a shriveled shrew of a person wants much more than the share everyone has agreed to or she'll turn them in.
Should they give her more and everyone less?
This plays off on the various characters including what these relative modest income people will do with their share of the millions of dollars.
The soundtrack is excellent and can be enjoyed with or without seeing the movie first.
It's a wonderful movie that I would recommend owning and playing again and again.
Waking Ned Devine: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Poster
Traditional Irish instrumentation mixes with classical orchestration on the soundtrack to Waking Ned Devine, and the results are impressive, to say the least. On "Red Herrings," a traditional fiddle-and-whistle lineup gets truly funky, and other tracks brim with the playful innocence of a tiny Irish hamlet. The Waterboys' single "Fisherman's Blues" is, of course, included as well. But the score that Irish composer Shaun Davey has created is magnificent--a delightful mix of old and new with some truly great playing. --James HendricksonMiscellaneous Music CDs
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