Track Listing

1. Possibility
2. Car Trouble
3. Washer Vodka
4. Cereal Bum
5. Come Out Jerry
6. Fixture Vodka
7. Rat Bastard
8. One Kiss
9. Tardiness
10. In Recovery
11. Jaguar
12. Dumpster
13. Sleepover
14. Cosmic Aristotle
15. Euphemism
16. Homeless
17. Pay It Forward
18. Night And Day And Night
19. Asthma
20. Powers Of Three
21. Desert Drive
22. Wasted Air
23. The Bad Thing
24. Gasoline
25. Velocity Organ
26. I Forgive You
27. Calling All Angels - Jane Siberry

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3963 in Music
• Released on: 2000-11-07
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Soundtrack
• Original language: English

Customer Reviews

Definitely worth the money
If you love Thomas Newman, then you'll love Pay It Forward. If you've never heard his stuff, I highly recommend him. Pay It Forward is wide-ranging, almost eclectic, but all of his themes blend together wonderfully. I especially love the softer orchestral themes. I do wish the songs were longer, but if you've watched the movie, then you know that those were the full lengths of music found in the film. The CD is well worth the money I paid for it, and is one of the few CDs I have that I can listen to constantly.

A decent listening that doesn't quite pay off
First off I want to say Happy Holidays to everyone. Thomas Newman is one of the most experimental composers out there. His use of melodies and harmonies are unlike any other and his sound is fresh and unique. As usual, with Thomas Newman, I like to list all of the instruments that he uses in his scores, most of them you have probably never heard of. For Pay It Forward, he uses an electric autoharp, dutar, guitars, song bells, wave drums, processed loops, tap eko gate 1 (what the heck is that?), freeze 3 (??), prepared guitars (I guess the other ones are not prepared), alto flute, spit rhythms (I don't even want to know), processed glass (??), slow tubes (unlike the fast ones I suppose), phonographs, an ewi, a processed saz (??), and a piano (finally, something I know). A unique blend of instruments as you can see. There are 2 kinds of music found in the soundtrack. The first is upbeat and lively with plenty of percussion sounds and the use of the odd instrumentation listed above. The second is soft and more laid back with the piano carrying most of the music. The theme itself is found in "Possibility", "Tardiness", and "Desert Drive" and contains the more upbeat type of music described with guitars, piano, and off beat percussion. Other noteworthy cues include the soft piano tracks, including "Fixture Vodka", "One Kiss", "Night and Day and Night", and "Sleepover". Great orchestral music is found in "In Recovery", which Newman does the best at. Most of the rest of the score contains mainly filler music with lots of sound effect related sounds in it. The song "Calling All Angels" by Jane Siberry doesn't really sound much like Angels are being called to me. But, the score is okay and is not Newman's best. Still, a decent listenings worth and that's about it.

"this score...scores high on the must have scale"
Earning Oscar-nominations, no stranger to composing scores and coming from a musical dynasty - father was (Alfred Newman-Music Director at 20th Century Fox) is trudging forward with flying colors in this his latest release from Varese Sarabande - "Pay It Forward".

Something to think about from his past works - "Fried Green Tomatoes", "The Shawshank Redemption", "Scent of a Woman", "Little Women", "Horse Whisperer", "Lost Boys", "Corrina, Corrina", "Phenomenon", "Up Close & Personal" and "American Beauty"...all of which are outstanding scores, but hold on this may not be my final answer, the best is yet to come.

This score is moving, emotional and very close to his Academy Award nominated score for "American Beauty", but listen to "ONE KISS", very touching, warm and tender with piano coloring the scene with heart-felt love...another stand out is "I FORGIVE YOU", again a piano setting the mood, with strings echoing and blending the moment, total awareness is this beautiful cue.

In closing "CALLING ALL ANGELS" by Jane Siberry is lyrical with a message for all, nice effect and a wonderful addition to the already unique and kinetic arrangements by Newman...this my "movie-music" and "film-score-buffs" is a keeper!

Total Time: 45:47 on 27 Tracks...Varese Sarabande 066195...(2000)