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Soundtrack: Banditsx

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Label: Columbia Records
Released: 2001.10.09
Time:
 60:48
Category: Soundtrack
Producer(s): See Artists ...
Rating: *******... (7/10)
Media type: CD
Web address: www.columbiarecords.com
Appears with:
Purchase date: 2001.12.24
Price in €: 1,99



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[1] Gallows Pole (Page/Plant) - 4:10
[2] Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum (Dylan) - 4:46
[3] Holding Out for a Hero (Pitchord/Steinman) - 4:41
[4] Twist in My Sobriety (Tikaram) - 4:52
[5] Rudiger (Knopfler) - 6:00
[6] Just Another (Yorn) - 3:14
[7] Walk on By (Bacharach/David) - 2:48
[8] Superman (It's Not Easy) (Ondreasik) - 3:42
[9] Crazy 'Lil Mouse (Tucker/Wilson) - 3:33
[10] Just the Two of Us (MacDonald/Salter/Withers) - 3:59
[11] Wildfire (Cansler/Murphey) - 4:48
[12] Total Eclipse of the Heart (Steinman) - 6:59
[13] Bandits Suite (Young) - 7:16

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MIKE LANG - Keyboards
SID PAGE - Fiddle
GEORGE DOERING - Guitar
BELFORD HENDRICKS - Arranger, Conductor
DOUG LIVINGSTON - Pedal Steel
DEAN PARKS - Guitar
PETE ANTHONY - Conductor, Orchestration

CHRISTOPHER YOUNG - Producer, Engineer, Orchestration, Mixing
JONATHAN PRYCE - Programming, Producer, Engineer, Mixing
BRAD WOOD - Producer, Production Assistant
GREGG WATTENBERG - Producer, Engineer
ROD ARGENT - Producer
JIM STEINMAN - Producer
BOB JOHNSTON - Producer
MARK KNOPFLER - Producer
PETER VAN HOOKE - Producer
CHUCK AINLAY - Producer
CLYDE OTIS - Producer
NEIL CITRON - Producer
PETE YORN - Producer
ALLAN MASON - Executive Producer
GLEN BRUNMAN - Executive Producer
BARRY LEVINSON - Executive Producer
PAULA WEINSTEIN - Executive Producer
JOEL SILL - Executive Producer
ROBERT FERNANDEZ - Engineer, Mixing
BRIAN SCHEUBLE - Engineer
BOB CLEARMOUNTAIN - Mixing
JIM SCOTT - Mixing
DAVID DONNELLY - Mastering
CHRISTINE WILSON - Package Design
ANITA CAMARATA - Executive in Charge of Music
MARYLOU EALES - Coordination
KONSTANTINO CHRISTIDES - Score Coordinator
DEBBIE PATTON - Coordination

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2001 CD Sony 86180
2001 CD Sony 86180



The soundtrack album for the crime comedy Bandits, which stars Bruce Willis, Billy Bob Thornton, and Cate Blanchett, and was directed by Barry Levinson, is one of those seemingly random collections of tracks that may work in the film, but make no particular sense comprising a various artists album. Bob Dylan's "Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum," taken from his 2001 Love and Theft album, for example, serves as a comment on the bank-robbing abilities of the two main male characters, while Jimmy Page and Robert Plant's "Gallows Pole" accompanies a prison break and Bonnie Tyler's '80s hits "Holding Out for a Hero" (recycled from the Footloose soundtrack) and "Total Eclipse of the Heart" give some insight into the motivations of the main female character. But tracks like Pete Yorn's "Just Another" and Five for Fighting's "Superman (It's Not Easy)" (already on its way up the charts when this album was released) seem to be here mainly for the purpose of promoting acts on the Sony Music roster, and there's no telling what function a 1964 recording of Burt Bacharach and Hal David's "Walk on By," in which a young Aretha Franklin makes like Dionne Warwick, or Michael Martin Murphey's evergreen horse tribute "Wildfire" have to do with anything, since they aren't actually heard in the film at all. Christopher Young's seven-minute suite of his score for the film is appropriately varied in such disparate company, moving from a slow, ominous, and bluesy segment into an aggressive dance segment. Maybe this album represents the favorite songs of somebody connected with the film, and there are certainly some good songs here, but as a stand-alone album, the collection doesn't make much sense. Not that that's kept other albums of this sort from succeeding.

William Ruhlmann - All Music Guide
© 1992 - 2001 AEC One Stop Group, Inc.



Bruce Willis, Billy Bob Thornton, and Cate Blanchett play an unlikely trio of bank robbers in Barry Levinson's outlaw comedy, and this eclectic soundtrack reflects the quirky personalities of their characters. Heard quietly under the film's opening credits, Bob Dylan's "Tweedle Dee & Tweedle Dum" refers to the bickering duo played by Willis and Thornton, while two '80s hits by Bonnie Tyler ("Holding Out for a Hero" and "Total Eclipse of the Heart") virtually define the neglected housewife-on-the-run played by Blanchett. You'll have to listen closely to hear some of these songs in the film, and two tracks ("Walk on By" and "Wildfire") are exclusive to this release. And while there's not much connective thread from one song to another, their sequencing has an idiosyncratic appeal, just like the film itself. From the soothing effect of Mark Knopfler's "Rudiger" to Five for Fighting's whimsical hero's lament "Superman (It's Not Easy)," these songs convey the same emotional range explored in Christopher Young's "Bandits Suite," a score sampler that closes the disc with instrumental flare.

Jeff Shannon - Amazon.com



Bruce Willis, Billy Bob Thornton und Cate Blanchett spielen ein unglaubliches Bankräuber-Trio in Barry Levinsons Gaunerkomödie, und dieser erlesene Soundtrack spiegelt die schrulligen Persönlichkeiten der Filmhelden sehr gut wider. Bob Dylans "Tweedle Dee & Tweedle Dum" ist bei der Vorstellung der Mitwirkenden zu Beginn des Films leise zu hören und bezieht sich auf das zänkerische Duo, das von Willis und Thornton gespielt wird. Die beiden Hits aus den 80er-Jahren von Bonnie Tyler ("Holding Out For A Hero" und "Total Eclipse Of The Heart") beschreiben ziemlich treffend die vernachlässigte und durchgebrannte Hausfrau, die von Blanchett gespielt wird. Man muss schon sehr genau hinhören, um einige dieser Songs während des Films überhaupt heraus zu hören, und zwei Tracks ("Walk On By" und "Wildfire") sind nur auf dieser Platte zu hören. Zwischen den einzelnen Songs gibt es kaum einen roten Faden, aber ihre Folge hat eine ganz eigenartige Wirkung - genauso wie der Film selbst. Angefangen von der beruhigenden Wirkung von Mark Knopflers "Rudiger" bis hin zu der launischen Heldenklage "Superman (It's Not Easy)" von Five for Fighting vermitteln diese Songs die gleiche Palette von Gefühlen wie in Christopher Youngs "Bandits Suite", einem Sampler, mit dem diese Platte in einem Trommelfeuer an Instrumentalstücken ihren würdigen Abschluss findet.

Jeff Shannon - Amazon.de

 

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