The Devil's Own


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Beyond Music UK (5029831120430)
Movie | Released: 1997 | Film release: 1997 | Format: CD
 

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# Track Artist/Composer Duration
1.Main Title4:35
2.God Be With YouDolores O'Riordan3:32
3.Ambush2:30
4.The Irish Republican Navy1:20
5.The New World4:31
6.Launching the Boat3:03
7.Secrets Untold5:02
8.The Pool Hall2:30
9.Rory's Arrest - Diaz is Killed4:21
10.Quiet Goodbyes1:02
11.Rooftop Escape1:45
12.The Mortal Blow5:10
13.Going Home7:10
 46:31
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The Devil's Own - 06/10 - Review of Tom Daish, submitted at
This isn't an especially exciting score, however, it is most atmospheric and as ever, Horner pushes all the right emotional buttons. The Main Title starts with an interesting twanging bass, but soon gets into a rather lovely Irish folk song, There Are Flowers Growing Upon the Hill. The opening track has it sung in Gaelic but it also appears later on in English as well as the melody sung as a wordless vocal. This melody is basically all the melodic material in the score and perhaps ingrains the Irish flavour even more than Braveheart (which I know was meant to be Scottish, but the sound, to my ears at least, is very much more Irish). Virtually all the score is low key. If you didn't know better you would think that there was no action at all in the film, although there was at least some here and there. Ambush has to be one of the most boring cues Horner has ever written and is basically a bass plonking away with not a lot else going on around it. The later cues which seem to imply a little more life aren't any more exciting although they are appropriately dramatic.

Perhaps the most delightful track is Launching the Boat (a Real Audio file of which was the reason I bought it in the first place) and is a lovely folksy, Gaelic whistle tune with a little percussion and a delightful acoustic guitar backing. There isn't really anything desperately original in this score but then there isn't much that seems directly taken from anything else, except for the occasional Uillean Pipes riff. The style has Braveheart written all over it, but it's mainly just the same use of orchestration that implies this. The music is much more intimate than the epic romance of Braveheart and I think people expecting a sort of sequel to that will be disappointed, but taken on it's own it makes for gentle although occasionally dramatic listening.


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