Beowulf by Alan Silvestri (2007)
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For sheer over-the-topness, this soundtrack takes the cake in 2007: You’d be hard-pressed to find a more bombastic piece of music than “Beowulf Main Title”… until you reach, oh, “What We Need is a Hero,” for instance, or “I Did Not Win the Race,” or “Beowulf Slays the Beast.” Pounding, relentless, swaggering, Alan Silvestri’s score explodes out of the speakers, all crashing tympani and supersized choirs. Fittingly for the tale of a battle between a mighty warrior and a rampaging monster, this is movie music on a goofily epic scale–halfway between Carmina Burana and Rammstein. Three songs interrupt the demented flow (although “raging torrent” would be a better word than “flow”). Actress Robin Wright Penn performs “Gently as She Goes” and “A Hero Comes Home,” two ballads in soothing, medieval-type arrangements. Idina Menzel (Wicked) reprises a different version of “A Hero Comes Home” at the very end: Good thing she’s a belter, because a meeker interpreter would have vanished under the catchy power-ballad arrangements.
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Beowulf Soundtrack - A Powerful Musical Interpretation, December 30, 2007
Silvestri’s Heroic Spin on “Beowulf”, November 27, 2007 Great soundtrack with great themes, April 15, 2008 The best new score I’ve heard in years, December 3, 2007 13th Warrior on steroids, December 28, 2007Track listing
| 1. | Beowulf Main Title (00:56) |
| 2. | First Grendel Attack (01:53) |
| 3. | Gently As She Goes (01:37) performed by Robin Penn-Wright |
| 4. | What We Need Is A Hero (01:42) |
| 5. | I’m Here To Kill Your Monster (01:49) |
| 6. | I Did Not Win The Race (02:18) |
| 7. | A Hero Comes Home (01:09) performed by Robin Penn-Wright |
| 8. | Second Grendel Attack (04:03) |
| 9. | I Am Beowulf (04:34) |
| 10. | The Seduction (04:04) |
| 11. | King Beowulf (01:46) |
| 12. | He Has A Story To Tell (02:42) |
| 13. | Full Of Fine Promises (01:13) |
| 14. | Beowulf Slays The Beast (06:02) |
| 15. | He Was The Best Of Us (05:25) |
| 16. | The Final Seduction (02:26) |
| 17. | A Hero Comes Home (End Credits Version) (03:13) performed by Idina Menzel |
Total Duration: 00:46:52
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