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Badly Drawn Boy, About a Boy

Audio CD

Disk ID: 2038762

Disk length: 45m 42s (17 Tracks)

Original Release Date: 2003

Label: Unknown

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Tracks & Durations

1. Exit Stage right 0:24
2. A Peak You Reach 4:35
3. Something To Talk About 3:38
4. Dead Duck 0:48
5. Above You Below Me 2:42
6. I Love Nye 3:22
7. Silent Sigh 4:46
8. Wet Wet Wet 0:44
9. River, Sea, Ocean 2:27
10. S.P.A.T. 3:26
11. Rachel's Flat 0:36
12. Walking Out Of Stride 1:50
13. File Me Away 3:25
14. A Minor Incident 3:46
15. Delta 4:02
16. Donna & Blitzen 2:14
17. Bonus Track 2:47

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Review

Damon Gough, the man behind Badly Drawn Boy, opted to score the film adaptation of Nick Hornby's novel About a Boy instead of recording a regular follow-up to 2000's Hour of Bewilderbeast. Interspersed with short instrumental interludes that serve as lovely miniatures, the songs evoke the book's jaunty mood and (fittingly for something based on a Nick Hornby story) incorporate strands of pop music from the past 40 years with uncommon grace. "Something to Talk About" borrows from Brian Wilson and Paul McCartney yet doesn't feel derivative; "Above You, Below Me" is a charming waltz; the intoxicating "Donna and Blitzen" is pure Phil Spector-does-Christmas. Inspired meetings of this magnitude between film and music are rare enough that this one should be celebrated to the high heavens. --Elisabeth Vincentelli

Other Versions

Albums are mined from the various public resources and can be actually the same but different in the tracks length only. We are keeping all versions now.

About a Boy

Tracks: 16 (-1 tracks), Disk length: 44m 33s (-2m 51s)

About a Boy

Tracks: 16 (-1 tracks), Disk length: 44m 32s (-2m 50s)

About a Boy

Tracks: 16 (-1 tracks), Disk length: 44m 32s (-2m 50s)

About a Boy

Tracks: 17, Disk length: 48m 19s (+2m 37s)

About a Boy

Tracks: 16 (-1 tracks), Disk length: 42m 6s (-4m 24s)

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