Any Given Sunday: Music From The Motion Picture

 (36 customer reviews)

After seeing perhaps the best film of the year,I immediately went out and bought the soundtrack and I have to admit, I was a little dissapointed. The cuts by hole, kid rock, jamie foxx, and dmx are decent, however the soundtrack would've been so much better if it had included the adrenaline pumping sports anthems ACTUALLY included in the movie such as Kid Rock's "Bawitdaba" and black Sabbath's "Paranoid". Another low point is that when I looked in the credits of the cd and saw that additional diolague was included, I thought Pacino's gut wrenching, inspiring pre-game talks would be sandwiched between tracks along with the memorable "Willie Beaman" jingle. Instead, I found some meaningless quotes sampled over looped drum beats. Overall, a poor showing for a great movie.

After seeing the movie, I was eager to get ahold of the soundtrack. Boy was I wrong. This soundtrack captures only a few of the songs that were actually used in the movie. I was extremely upset at what was a clear attempt to "market" this soundtrack as a rap/hard rock album than what it should have been, a soundtrack that stays true to the movie. What a commercial sellout by whoever put the soundtrack album together. I heard several songs by Moby and other dance/techno artists throughout the film, but none of their songs were included on the CD. If you are a fan of rap, which I'm not, then I'd recommend the album. If you saw the movie and liked the music from the movie, don't buy the soundtrack.

That song you guys are referring to is an extremely rare, unreleased song by P.O.D. entitled "Bless Me, Father". Unfortunately, it's only appearance is in the movie. They also recorded a cover of the Beatles' "Eleanor Rigby", however it too remains unreleased...