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| Artist: Soundtrack
Label: Warner Bros / Wea
Category: Music
List Price: $18.98
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Rating:  30 reviews
Sales Rank: 7260
Format: Soundtrack
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 43259
UPC: 093624325925
EAN: 0093624325925
ASIN: B000J3FBVG
Release Date: November 7, 2006
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Tracks:
| • | Let It Loose - The Rolling Stones | | • | Comfortably Numb - Rogers Waters feat. Van Morrison & The Band | | • | Sail On, Sailor - The Beach Boys | | • | Sweet Dreams - Roy Buchanan | | • | One Way Out - The Allman Brothers Band | | • | Baby Blue - Badfinger | | • | I'm Shipping Up To Boston - Dropkick Murphys | | • | Nobody But Me - The Human Beinz | | • | Tweedle Dee - LaVern Baker | | • | Sweet Dreams (Of You) - Patsy Cline | | • | The Departed Tango - Howard Shore Featuring Marc Ribot (dobro) and | | • | Beacon Hill - Howard Shore Performed by Sharon Isbin |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.com
With Goodfellas, Martin Scorsese completely reinvented the way popular songs--instead of a made-to-measure score--can be used all the way through a movie to emphasize mood and action. He continues in that vein for The Departed, whose soundtrack is full of tunes by classic acts. If a theme emerges, it's great guitar work: on Pink Floyd's "Comfortably Numb," on the Allman Brothers' "One Way Out," on Badfinger's "Baby Blue," and on Roy Buchanan's "Sweet Dreams." (Even the two selections from Howard Shore's score highlight that approach, with performances by Marc Ribot and Larry Saltzman on "The Departed Tango" and by Sharon Isbin on "Beacon Hill.") A couple of numbers also deliver slight twists: the version of Pink Floyd's "Comfortably Numb" is the live one from 1990, when it was performed with Van Morrison and the Band; and the Beach Boys' obscure 1972 song "Sail On, Sailor" isn't sung by its cowriter Brian Wilson. Thankfully, LaVern Baker and Patsy Cline help offset a very white, very male, very classic-rock selection. While it looks as if Scorsese stopped listening to music sometime around 1975, Beantown's Dropkick Murphys do contribute "I'm Shipping Up to Boston," a nod to the movie's setting. --Elisabeth Vincentelli
Album Description
The Departed has been hailed as director Martin Scorsese's most powerful film since Goodfellas. With critical acclaim, major stars and all the punch of an explosive crime drama, The Departed is set to be a box-office smash. The soundtrack album features songs from all-time greats The Rolling Stones, The Beach Boys, The Allman Brothers Band, Roy Buchanan and Badfinger along with a collaboration between Pink Floyd's Roger Waters, Van Morrison, and The Band. Add cult faves The Human Beinz, current South Boston punkers Dropkick Murphys, an R&B gem from LaVern Baker, a country- pop selection from the immortal Patsy Cline, and a pair of selections from Grammy Award-winning score composer Howard Shore and The Departed's soundtrack album promises to be as widely popular as the film.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 25 more reviews...
nice mix April 28, 2008
This is a great soundtrack... even the pieces made just for the movie aren't so cinematic that you can't listen to them and enjoy them.
 the departed January 18, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This was another fine performance from Leonardo DiCaprio. The movie was as good as any I've seen in the past few years. The cast was a large part of it, but the story line was well thought out and put together well. If one likes action movies without action for its own sake and a great plot, this movie is for you.
I'm Not Wearing Any Pants November 7, 2007
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
A very solid selection, but I'm getting sick of this 12 track hogwash. 16 tracks. That's what us loyal non-pirating cd grubbers deserve. For the other 4 tracks maybe they could have thrown on The Stone's "Gimme Shelter," Joe Cuba's "Bang Bang," and one of the NYPD Emerald Society & Donizetti numbers. Also, the order is all out of whack, and they should have taken a more chronological approach in the arrangement. But, as I said, a very solid selection nonetheless.
Side note: maybe "Gimme Shelter" came too quickly after Layer Cake, and that's why they left it off the CD. Two classic rock songs in two modern mob movies - coincidence, or piggybacking?
My fingernails smell funny.
Powerful soundtrack from an outstanding film October 17, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I love this soundtrack because it perfectly captures the essence of the film "The Departed," and also really evokes the spirit of Boston. This CD consists of many classic favorites as well as some newer tunes that feature great guitar solos. There isn't a single crappy track on this album, but my favorite songs include the Rogers Waters/Van Morrison version of "Comfortably Numb" (very relaxing and also incredibly long, but in a good way), "Baby Blue" by Badfinger, and the fantastic "I'm Shipping Up To Boston" by Dropkick Murphys, which is the best song in the movie. This is a fabulous soundtrack that fans of "The Departed" will enjoy, but it's also an awesome collection of music that's a lot of fun to listen to while driving fast in your car with the windows down.
 It's all about The Murphys October 2, 2007
9 out of 11 found this review helpful
Ah, the movie soundtrack. What a consumer dilemma. If I love a movie this much, and it is directed by the Christopher Columbus of the use of popular songs in movies (instead of just a written score ), won't I love the soundtrack as well? Unfortuantely, very rarely. When great directors follow Scorcese's lead and use pop songs to move their films along we are often much more attracted to those soundtracks. Who wants to listen to 50 minutes of a written score when we can listen to The Rolling Stones and The Beach Boys? What cannot be overlooked is that the filmmakers use only snippets of songs. The best example seems to be in "Goodfellas" when Martin Scorcese uses Clapton to actually follow the movement of his camera on a tracking shot focusing on the pink Cadillac with a dead mobster and his dead wife. Maybe the 2nd best use by Scorcese is the blast of the Dropkick Murphys at the beginning of "The Departed" to set the stage for Irish/Boston violence. The thing is, most of the other songs on this soundtrack, and others, are rarely needed to listen to in their entirety. "Boobie Nights' is even a better example. How brilliant the disco music moves the porn stars in the coke-fueled nightclubs. Listen to the entirety of the tracks at home, though , and we are reminded of why we yelled "Disco sucks" when we were Rock n roll teenagers. So, buy the bands who you like best on these soundtracks. Buy Dropkick Murphys' Warriors Code, for instance. Soundtracks just never seem to make me relive a great movie. And I keep trying over and over again. Must be obsessive compulsive.
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