Blur, Mory Kante - The Beach: Motion Picture Soundtrack

Help please?

Does anyone know the name of the song that is played on the start menu on the dvd? Like right before you would select Play???? October 23, 2007

Excellent!

This is the best soundtrack for any movie ever!!!!!!! And the movie is awesome too! My personal favorite is Woozy but every song on the album is great(although I have to admit, Im not too crazy about the Blur song...the intro matches the movie with the exotic feel, but about 10 seconds into the song it goes way off course)....If I was in charge of putting the soundtrack together I couldn't have done a better job. I recently went to Thailand and saw this place and its magnificent even though its overrun with tourists now and not such a "big secret" anymore. I brought this soundtrack along with my own soundtrack I made with songs such as Peter Gabriels "Red Rain" and Stings "Desert Rose". Those 2 songs really capture the feel of Thailand, the same feel this soundtrack captures. Thailands the best! The movie is the best(except the movie kind of goes downhill towards the middle, but the whole first half makes up for it)! And the soundtrack is even better! And like the others said...VAST-TOUCHED IS THE SONG THAT IS NOT INCLUDED ON THE SOUNDTRACK BUT IN THE TRAILERS FOR THE MOVIE..GREAT SONG! THANKS FOR LETTING ME KNOW THAT ONE GUYS! July 30, 2007

Perfect album to travel with

A really good mix of various electronic music. I was surprised that "Spinning Away" was a track from Sugar Ray. It is quite a good track with a very island feel to it. While I thought the movie could have been better, this soundtrack is one of the best I have heard. January 24, 2006

Bombastic Best Beach Broadcast

The sountrack really matches every scenes in the movie. The sequencing and timing of the music with the scenes are uncanny. I used this sountrack as background for any occassion and it was just too perfect and listeners love it. September 30, 2005

A pleasant slice of electronica

Let me start by saying I have never seen "The Beach". When it came out, it did not seem like the type of movie I would be intersted in seeing. Because I had never seen the movie, I had no impulse to listen to the soundtrack either. However, I recently borrowed the soundtrack CD from a friend, and was pleasantly surprised.

I love techno and electronica music. I have been a fan of this type of music going back to it's new-wave/techno roots of the early 80's. This CD offers a wide sampling of electronica, including some of the usual suspects/pioneers of the genre such as Moby, New Order, and Orbital. The CD also gives some artists not known for this type of music a "techno" vibe. All Saints, who were pretty much a Spice Girls clone of the late 90's, are given the electronica treatment on a tune called "Pure Shores". I actually like this song better than some of the material they recorded on their own. Perhaps they might have stayed popular a little longer if they had moved more in this direction than in the Spice Girl direction. Another group given a new spin is Sugar Ray. I had to check the track listing twice, because Mark McGrath sounds almost completely different on "Spinning Mary".

This CD is ambient enough to put on your computer and play in the background while you work and/or study. It is certainly not a masterpiece, but worth a spin. April 27, 2005

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