StreamingSoundtracks.com - The Brave Little Toaster

#	Track Listing	Length	Played
01	Main Title David Newman	2:22	15
02	They All Wake Up David Newman	2:42	8
03	Blanket's Dream David Newman	2:28	9
04	The Air Conditioner Blows David Newman	1:19	6
05	They Decide To Go David Newman	0:52	7
06	They Look For Transportation David Newman	0:49	7
07	Out Into The World David Newman	1:39	5
08	"City Of Lights" Van Dyke Parks	2:59	21
09	Blanket Looks For A Place To Sleep David Newman	1:03	6
10	The Pond / Busby Berkley David Newman	5:34	6
11	Toaster's Dream David Newman	1:15	5
12	The Storm David Newman	1:35	7
13	Blanket Is Blown Away David Newman	1:37	6
14	The Waterfall David Newman	0:57	5
15	Vacuum Rescues The Group David Newman	1:28	6
16	They Sink In The Mud David Newman	1:25	5
17	In The Shop David Newman	0:55	7
18	Blender's Motor Is Sold David Newman	1:29	6
19	"It's A 'b' Movie" Van Dyke Parks	3:03	20
20	Radio Is Stalked David Newman	1:03	5
21	Happy Travel David Newman	1:12	5
22	Into The City David Newman	1:28	5
23	"Cutting Edge" Van Dyke Parks	2:27	17
24	Junkyard Montage David Newman	1:23	6
25	"Worthless" Van Dyke Parks	4:25	29
26	Finale David Newman	7:00	14
27	End Title David Newman	3:36	10

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Reviewers Rating

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Another "darkish" animated film score

By:	AdamR
Date:	5 Feb 2011
Rating:

Thomas Newman's score for the independent film "Brave Little Toaster" is another of what I call a "darkish" film score--one where the orchestra is used as if it takes the film seriously, and not as something only children will watch. Film scores like these utilize choirs, solo instruments, and produce darker themes usually with brass, and low-end strings such as cellos. This score fits in that category with Goldsmith's, Secret of NIMH or Morley's, Watership Down where the score helps drive the film, and is not simply used as background noise or creating sound effects for the fun on the screen.

As an album, Newman breaks up cues into tiny pieces, and thus, any sort of cohesive theme is not present for the score. We do hear a theme as the appliances travel to the city, heard prominently in "Into the City". Some songs spatter the film and they're not that bad. "City of Lights" looks toward a happy reunion with people you love, "B-Movie" revisits horror films, "Cutting Edge" an electronic song looking at the improvements technology has made on mankind (albeit about 1987), and "Worthless" as a upbeat ballad of nearing the end of one's life as they no longer are able to do everything they once could. The songs help the film along, and unlike a lot of animated flicks, the characters don't necessarily break into song "just because".

Overall, its not a bad album, but the lack of longer cues, and a strong theme might turn some soundtrack listeners away if they like thematic material in their film scores.

-Adam R.

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