Good Will Hunting

My thoughts:A couple songs skip when the record is played. I'll try to clean it up again to see if it improves.Regarding the music, this album is pretty much about the "pop" songs in the soundtrack. Only a couple Danny Elfman pieces. But I knew this before buying it.It doesn't include any sleeves with lyrics or any other paper inside. And despite it is a double record album, it doesn't open like many double gatefold albums. Therefore the two records are pressed against each other.Anyway, I bought it because I love the movie and Elliot Smith's music, so I'm happy with my purchase.

I'm biased, but this movie reminds me of one of the best dates of my life and is one of the best compilations of the sad, tortured genius that was Elliot Smith. Probably one of Robin Williams best performances (e.g. Good Morning, Vietnam, Dead Poets Society, and The Fisher King). Too bad Matt Damon and that other kid turned out to be such political hacks and haven't come close to doing quality film-making they did when they hit a homerun with this movie. Kudos for the decision to bravely use Elliot Smith as much as he was incorporated and for using great recall to bring back Al Green and Gerry Rafferty with such creativeness...

I really like the music in this CD. Good will hunting is one of my favorite films

Elliot Smith is so amazing. The rest of the songs are pretty mediocre though.

Bought the album because I'm such a huge fan of the movie. I love listening to it and being able to picture different scenes and put myself in the the frame of mind of whatever was happening in the film. Led me to listen to other music by Elliot Smith as well!

This contains a great collection of Elliot Smith songs including his best songs ever written: "Between the Bars" and "Miss Misery." If you didn't feel like owning XO (because you are really poor or you live under a wicked stepmother that only lets you own one cd) then this would be a great one to own. If you have even a meager salary however, be sure to get XO as well as Either/Or by Elliott Smith.

Tops

Bought this to replace the CD that I lost. Don't love all of the songs, but most!

I have seen the film many times and wondered who the musical artist was who sung the song that the credits went up to. Elliott Smith voice is amazing! I would have bought an album solely with his music on - I might still do so, but I also love Gerry Rafferty's Baker Street it has so many memories for me. So all in all I highly recommend this Album.

A lovely, haunting soundtrack to a wonderful film. Beautifully relaxing.

Perfectly mastered for vinyl. Best to be heard like this.

Great quality of sound!!

Die Filmmusik des Films "Good will Hunting" bedeutete den Durchbruch des amerikanischen Songwriters Elliott Smith (1969-2003), denn mit sechs Tracks alleine von ihm dominierte er den 52:23 Minuten Soundtrack mit eher ruhigen, musikalisch aber gut gemischten 15 Tracks. Das Stück "Miss Misery" entstand exklusiv für den Film und bescherte ihm eine Oscarnominierung, die er leider nicht gewann. Auch die leider viel zu kurze Orchesterversion von "Between the Bars", entstanden in Zusammenarbeit mit Danny Elfman, findet der Smith-Fan nirgends sonst. Die anderen vier Songs stammen von seinen Alben "Either/Or" und "Roman Candle". Der Score von Danny Elfman kam leider etwas zu kurz und beschränkte sich, neben besagter Zusammenarbeit, auf zwei Ausschnitte seiner Filmmusik. er war mit Recht sauer; man hätte gleich eine Doppel-CD daraus machen sollen oder Score und Pop einzeln veröffentlichen.Des weiteren finden sich die Klassiker "Baker Street" von Gerry Rafferty und "How Can You Mend A broken Heart" von Al Green, einzelne Tracks von Dandy Warhols, Waterboys, Luscious Jackson und Andru Donalds. Besonders gefreut habe ich mich über ein Wiederhören mit Jeb Loy Nichols (The Fellow Travellers) mit einem Stück von seinem Solodebut "Lovers Knot" von 1997. Vielleicht bietet der Soundtrack zu wenig Originalscore, ist ansonsten jedoch spitze.