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A Good Year
Various Artists
A Good Year
Genres: Pop, Soundtracks
 
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In a distinct break from their muscular triumph Gladiator, Russell Crowe and Ridley Scott teamed up again to bring Peter Mayle's sunny Provençal romance to the screen, a change of milieu that's spawned an equally warm...  more »

     
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All Artists: Various Artists
Title: A Good Year
Members Wishing: 0
Total Copies: 0
Label: Legacy
Original Release Date: 1/1/2006
Re-Release Date: 11/7/2006
Album Type: Soundtrack
Genres: Pop, Soundtracks
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Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 886970306522

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In a distinct break from their muscular triumph Gladiator, Russell Crowe and Ridley Scott teamed up again to bring Peter Mayle's sunny Provençal romance to the screen, a change of milieu that's spawned an equally warm, often sentimentally tinged soundtrack and score. Using a trio of pop songs by the great Harry Nilsson (including the joyous demo of Nilsson Schmilsson's "Gotta Get Up") as an axis that's as effusive as it is unlikely, this is a collection that romps through Franco-pop nuggets variously contemporary (Makali's elegant "Il Faut du Temps..."), vintage (Charles Trenet's "Je Chante," Jean Sablon's "J'Attendrai," Tino Rossi's "Le Chant du Guardian"), and downright loopy (Richard Anthony's French redux of "Yellow Polka-Dot Bikini"), making room for Patti Page, Josephine Baker, and Delaney & Bonnie along its merry way. Also included are three cues from newcomer Marc Streitenfeld's underscore, a nimble exercise in instrumental post-modernism whose electronica/folk/neoclassical mélange is as eclectic as the song choices, yet characterized by subtlety and grace. --Jerry McCulley

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CD Reviews

Good...but next time if you use a song put it on the soundtr
J. Tavernier | San Diego, Ca United States | 11/28/2006
(3 out of 5 stars)

"Good music was set to this movie but the soundtrack is lacking a large number of songs you will have enjoyed in the movie. Here is a running list of the songs not on the soundtrack but in the movie.



40ft. -Franz Ferdinand

Hey Joe-Johnny Hallyday

Chances-Athlete

Room With a View-Noel Coward

Walk Right Back-Everly Brothers

Quand on s'promene au bord de l'eau-Jean Gabin

Les ex-Camille

Vous qui passez sans me voir-Jean Sablon

Lounge Lizard-Joe Lervold

Paris-Stephen Lang

Sur Les Chemins-Makali

Le linge seche au vent-Makali

Boum-Adrien Chevalier/Charles Trenet

La puissance-Jonathan Rotem

La fleur que tu...-Georges Bizet

Moi..Lolita-Alizee

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Loved the Movie but don't know about soundtrack
Barbara Monte | Houston | 06/15/2007
(3 out of 5 stars)

"Would have liked the soundtrack more if more songs from movie were on it."
A Good Year Soundtrack missing lots of favorites
MG | New Jersey | 03/18/2008
(3 out of 5 stars)

"Ordered the soundtrack and immediately sent it back because many of the really good songs from the movie were omitted. I'll just have to watch the DVD a lot to enjoy that music, especially when Russell Crowe and Marilyn Cotillard are sitting at the outside cafe watching the movie and listening to the song being sung. I believe the song is called Boum...not on the soundtrack. I would rather have had that than Patti Paige."