Customer Reviews

Superb - By: B. Kelly, 27 Apr 2008
I bought this cd because Amazon offered it as a double deal for under a tenner! I loved the last song - Somewhere over the Rainbow & thought why not treat yourself to it, it costs nothing! Anyway,it is such a beautiful collection & I totally love it. Very relaxing to listen to butin no way boring, it lulls you, then teases you, then absorbs you - superb. I think it allows you to have a glass of wine & ponder or as I just did peel the potatoes & ponder!!! There's more than one gem on this cd - it is a collection of gems. Treat yourself!

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Beautiful - By: Craig Mills, 07 Mar 2007
Meet Joe Black is a great movie & one of my all time favs, i recently bought the soundtrack as it occured to me how much i needed it, it works with the film so well, Thomas Newman also done the soundtrack for another great film, the Shawshank Redemption, he is a wonderful composer, with a real talent for emotional music, his music is very atmospheric, & hauntingly beautiful. I was very pleased with this cd, it reminds me of parts of the film when i listen to it & serves very nicely as some calm, chilling out music. There really is some truly beautiful music on this cd, if you liked the movie, or if your into calming, uplifting music, then you should check this out.

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Meet Joe Black Soundtrack Review - By: Mark Bebbington, 20 Dec 2006
I bought this CD for one reason only Track 6 Whisper of a Thrill. It was used by BBC 1 Countryfile as background for a feature on a Scottish lighthouse. I recognised the beautiful haunting melody but frustratingly I couldn't place it. I ended up writing to the BBC & the Countrywide Team was kind enough to reply. I loved the movie but like many other reviewers I didn't truly appreciate the Newman score until I listened to the CDin isolation. The score offers a re-occuring mixture of sentimental, provocative & sometimes mischievous themes with the addition of a few uplifting Irving Berlin orchestrations. It is a work of artin its own right. This music has compelled me to write to the BBC & post a rewiew - I have never done either of these things before- It is that good.

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Calming, intense, ethereal, take your pick - By: asmsr, 22 Nov 2005
Having just received the album this morning, I have to say that it was a delight to have my room filled with such a presonal collection of music. Whilst the tracks were obviously written to compliment the film, the album works well on its own, with a combination of playful, uplifting tracks to the darker & more brooding extended tracks, all of which serve to form an album of understated quality. A rare treat.

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Haunting Reveries of sheer delight - By: , 09 Nov 2004
I saw the film "Meet Joe Black a few years ago & apart from the powerful message of the film itself, the thing that most stayed with me was the soundtrack; it was breathtakingly haunting & beautiful. I found myself drifting away from the world & lift into a musical paradise. I have since brought the DVD & watched it twice more, just to hear the music. Now I have the soundtrack. If you like to hear real orchestrated music at is exquisite best then you simply MUST get this CD, it will leave youin a state of extreme bliss. Each track is impeccable & you find yourself reliving the filmin your head. I cannot do without hearing it over & over again, it is music of which you can never tire. Newton is a genius!