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Friday Night Lights [Original Movie Soundtrack]
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- Release Date: 10/12/2004
- Sales Rank: 8,341
- Label: HIP-O RECORDS
- UPC: 602498644102
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Friday Night Lights [Original Movie Soundtrack]
| 1 | From West Texas / Explosions in the Sky 2:41 |
| 2 | Your Hand in Mine / Explosions in the Sky W/Strings 4:08 |
| 3 | Our Last Days as Children / Explosions in the Sky 2:41 |
| 4 | An Ugly Fact of Life / Explosions in the Sky 2:55 |
| 5 | Home / Explosions in the Sky 2:38 |
| 6 | Sonho Dourado / Daniel Lanois 3:25 |
| 7 | To West Texas / Explosions in the Sky 4:06 |
| 8 | Your Hand in Mine (Goodbye) / Explosions in the Sky 2:05 |
| 9 | Inside It All Feels the Same / Explosions in the Sky 4:23 |
| 10 | Do You Ever Feel Cursed / David Torn 3:23 |
| 11 | Lonely Train / Explosions in the Sky 6:51 |
| 12 | Seagull / Bad Company 4:03 |
| 13 | The Sky Above, The Field Below / Explosions in the Sky 5:40 |
| 14 | A Slow Dance / Explosions in the Sky 3:53 |
Editorial Reviews
For small-town America, high-school football is a religion. The home team in Peter Berg's Friday Night Lights has to travel over 250 miles of sun-parched southwest highway to meet their rival team, and who better to paint those Texas skies than the Lone Star State's own Explosions in the Sky? Soundtrack producer Brian Reitzell, whose fluid work on The Virgin Suicides and Lost in Translation is instantly recognizable here, throws Daniel Lanois, David Torn, and Bad Company into the mix as well, resulting in a collection of music that redirects its intended genre into something altogether spiritual. Sports dramas usually rely on an infuriating blend of swelling strings and "We Will Rock You" bombast, so it's a real treat to hear the post rock quartet's guitar-driven soundscapes illuminating camera close-ups of down-to-the-wire scoreboards and off-field bonding. The wistful, string-driven "Your Hand in Mine" -- courtesy of arranger and father of Beck, David Campbell -- is as close to "traditional" as Friday Night Lights gets, but the atmospheric centerpiece owes a lot more to Brian Eno than it does John Williams. Much of the material was culled from bits and pieces of the band's two Temporary Residence releases -- the director had grown used to them in the context of the work print of the film -- then combined with all-new compositions, making FNL a must-have for fans, but it's the patient way the soundtrack unfolds, Bad Company and all, that gives it an edge over soulless, hit-driven opponents like Remember the Titans or Any Given Sunday. Reverend Lee Power, All Music Guide
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