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The Straight Story: Music from the Motion Picture Soundtrack | 
 enlarge | Artist: Angelo Badalementi
Creator: Angelo Badalamenti
Label: RCA Victor
Category: Music
List Price: $11.98
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Rating:  27 reviews
Sales Rank: 20537
Format: Soundtrack
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.4 x 4.9 x 0.4
MPN: 11513
UPC: 019341151326
EAN: 0019341151326
ASIN: B00001XDRG
Release Date: October 12, 1999
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| Tracks:
| • | Laurens, Iowa | | • | Rose's Theme | | • | Laurens Walking | | • | Sprinkler | | • | Alvin's Theme | | • | Final Miles | | • | Country Waltz | | • | Rose's Theme | | • | Country Theme | | • | Crystal | | • | Nostalgia | | • | Farmland Tour | | • | Montage |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.com
We've come to expect a few things from composer Angelo Badalamenti's numerous collaborations with David Lynch. His scores for Twin Peaks, Wild at Heart, and Blue Velvet all took a smoky jazz-noir aesthetic into the orchestra pit. The results were memorable--and sometimes haunting--just like the films. For The Straight Story--the G-rated (yes, that's right) tale of an elderly man's epic journey on a John Deere lawnmower to see his sick brother--we get a different side to both the composer and the director once again. Here the orchestrations are atmospheric, but a subtle strain of folk music is evident throughout. "Rose's Theme" is filled with acoustic guitar finger-picking against a string section, "Alvin's Theme" has a fiddle mimicking a locomotive, and "Country Waltz" is just that. "Farmland Tour" is the Twin Peaks theme gone sentimental. A hint of nostalgia, a certain Midwestern innocence, and plenty of vast-sounding passages make this the perfect sonic backdrop for a film set in America's heartland. Just like that setting, it can seem a little repetitive at times, but--as a whole--it's another memorable effort from Badalamenti. --Jason Verlinde
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| Customer Reviews: Read 22 more reviews...
 Great Soundtrack December 20, 2008
We love this soundtrack to what is a sweet movie. We actually bought it to play in our newborn daughter's room during calm down time. Definitely a soothing soundtrack.
The Straight Story February 13, 2008
Seeing the DVD first is what inspired me to order the soundtrack. Very good and relaxing music. The movie is very heartwarming.
Simple yet powerful January 15, 2008
Gentle, relaxing and calm music... A well worth soundtrack to add to your collection (collector or not). Badalamenti creates here a soothing soundtrack that support well the film's thematic. Very effective but simple orchestration (lots of stringed guitars). You could sense a very powerful spirit of hope and self-determination from the whole album.
Music from Heaven January 12, 2007
This Soundtrack is moving and full of the meanings expressed in the movie it is related to, moreover it lets you see in your mind the West of USA, even without going there, it's amazing, this musci is so full of passion and the violin player makes his instrument talk to our heart. Angelo Badalamenti is a genius.
I'll ponder whatever January 7, 2006
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
The Straight Story is a film that I really like and a major reason for this is the music. I can't think of another movie I've seen in which the musical score is this gripping, especially song 3, which I think is called Laurens walking.
After hearing what Angelo Badalamenti did on Twin Peaks, as well, makes me aware I'm in the hands of genius.
Though David Lynch and his editors (Mary Sweeney, I think, is a key one) didn't create any of this music with Angelo (at least, I don't think), they accentuate it so immensely by using it in such beautiful ways with the images in the film that it seems they should almost get a small songwriting credit as well.
I didn't think watching a 79-year old man riding on a tractor from Iowa to Wisconsin could feel so haunting, endearing and sometimes spooky.
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