American Beauty: Original Motion Picture Score
Dreamworks - Dreamworks
Release date: 2000-01-11
Audio CD
Drama, Film Music, Original Score, Pop, Pop/Rock, Soundtrack, Soundtracks & Film Scores, Soundtracks & Scores
1. Dead Already
2. Arose
3. Power of Denial
4. Lunch w/ The King
5. Mental Boy
6. Mr. Smarty-Man
7. Root Beer
8. American Beauty
9. Bloodless Freak
10. Choking the Bishop
11. Weirdest Home Videos
12. Structure & Discipline
13. Spartanette
14. Angela Undress
15. Marine
16. Walk Home
17. Blood Red
18. Any Other Name
19. Still Dead
average reviews
0 vote
0 vote
React and review
American Beauty: Original Motion Picture Score
Date undefinedTo me this music MADE American Beauty the great movie it was. Along with RUSHMORE this is my favorite sound track of the last ten years. Thomas Newman did a SUPERLATIVE job combining audio power with visual mystique and this made the movie's great plot even GREATER. I miss the fact they don't seem to make movies like this any more and it was LESS than ten years ago. Nor have I heard any soundtracks this powerful either.
American Beauty: Original Motion Picture Score
Date undefinedI've had this score for years and have always loved it. I use to write to it a lot, great music for it, two particular faves being "American Beauty" and "Structure and Discipline". I actually heard the latter at a "trendy" restaurant recently and was reminded of how good it was, which prompted me to give the score another complete spin. I hadn't listened to it in a fairly long time and it just shined all the more becuase of it.
This music is wonderful. Anyone who would give this 1 or 2 stars simply is a tone deaf idiot, or they're trying to be cute (and we're all very impressed). Newman does an incredible job of creating mysterious, charming, and haunting pieces on this score. All of those adjectives also apply to the movie obviously, and Newman does a great job of conveying the movie's emotions through sound.
Anyway, after 130 reviews, I'm sure this one doesn't even matter. But maybe it will help raise the overall review to the 5 stars it rightfully deserves.
Take a hit, take a sip, and lay back and get lost. If you do lay back though, beware of "Root Beer" and "Spartanette" if you have earphones in at full blast.
American Beauty: Original Motion Picture Score
Date undefinedThomas Newman has a style all his own. I liked the soundtrack for the Series of Unfortunate Events and American Beauty is right up there! It is light, refreshing, and mellow. I only wish the soundtrack had more tracks and had a longer run time.
