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The original motion picture soundtrack for “The Courier” is scarcely original in format, offering a mixture of specially composed incidental music and the now mandatory string of pop songs. | |||
The eight mood pieces from Elvis Costello sound suitably moody - “Stalking” is just the kind of thing you would stalk to and “Mad Dog” sounds just right for foaming at the mouth while running a magazine. “Funeral Music” features solo piano from Steve Nieve and Don Weller’s plaintive sax solo, also called “Funeral Music”, provides the essential sax element required by all Irish films. The two substantial pieces, the brassy “Rat Poison” and “Long Boat Leaving” (Elvis’s “The Long Road”?) stand up well in their own right. | |||
The seven pop songs on the first side of the album show the current state of Irish pop, with tracks from bands like Cry Before Dawn and Aslan who have already made successful albums and from those like Hot House Flowers and Something Happens’s second track “She Came From Here” sticking out. Too Much For The White Man draw the short straw with “Try A Little Harder” which, unless there is a folk-mass scene in the film, has to try too hard to strike a note of unlikely optimism amidst all the stalking and snorting. | |||
Perhaps the incidental pieces should have been interspersed with the pop songs for as it is the album falls into two very different modes and leaves the way clear for U2 to steal the show. Their “Walk to the Water” (previously available only as a B-side) falls physically and musically between the blocks of pop and mood and because it is not trying to be either registers more deeply than both. | |||
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