StreamingSoundtracks.com - Cars - Sheryl Crow, Rascal Flatts, Randy Newman

#	Track Listing	Length	Played
01	Real Gone Sheryl Crow	3:20	276
03	Life Is A Highway Rascal Flatts	4:33	315
09	Opening Race Randy Newman	2:02	40
10	McQueen's Lost Randy Newman	2:26	12
12	Bessie Randy Newman	0:56	15
13	Dirt Is Different Randy Newman	1:26	13
14	New Road Randy Newman	1:14	16
15	Tractor Tipping Randy Newman	1:18	20
16	McQueen And Sally Randy Newman	1:57	40
17	Goodbye Randy Newman	2:38	44
18	Pre-Race Pageantry Randy Newman	1:27	10
19	The Piston Cup Randy Newman	1:50	13
20	The Big Race Randy Newman	3:06	91

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Reviewers Rating

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One cool vocal track, and then nothing special

By:	LadyInque
Date:	25 Feb 2016
Rating:

Since my three-year-old has had me watch this movie about five times in the past two weeks, and listen to the soundtrack at least three, here comes my review. The movie itself is just okay. The visuals are dazzling at times, but the story is predictable and often dull. Unfortunately, the same can be said of the score.

I’ll be reviewing the album as presented here on SST, which is incomplete; many of the vocal tracks have not been added to the library. This is probably the right call. You can check out the missing tracks at Amazon. Some of them are oldies, used diegetically within the movie. Two others, “Our Town” and “Find Yourself,” seem to have been written for the movie, but I find them slow and sometimes preachy.

The two vocal tracks that remain are “Real Gone” and a cover of “Life is a Highway” by Rascal Flatts. The latter is fun, if not remarkably different from the original by Tom Cochrane. “Real Gone,” on the other hand, was written for the movie by Sheryl Crow, and it rocks. I can see why it’s requested so often. It doesn’t hurt that this song opens the film, and plays under the most exciting, entertaining part of it.

The score is by Randy Newman, who has also written for Disney movies like Toy Story and Monsters, Inc. What I found initially striking about these tracks is how short they are. It doesn’t seem like it would give the composer a lot of room to work. The movie plays up the contrast between the high-speed world of car racing and interstates, and the more leisurely pace of forgotten Route 66 America. So the score tracks tend to represent one side or the other.

The best racing track is probably “Opening Race,” which begins with a fanfare, but brings in different music styles, like an ’80s rock pastiche, to represent some of the different cars in the race. “The Piston Cup” does something similar, but not as well. “The Big Race” is the longest score track. So if you liked “Opening Race,” here’s more of it, with some of the nostalgia stuff thrown in to represent Doc’s return to racing. (Oh, don’t look like that; it’s hardly a spoiler.)

The nostalgia tracks in the middle are, to me, less interesting, and they underscore the more boring parts of the film. “Bessie” is a short, working-man’s blues. “Goodbye” is sad and wistful. Seriously, there are no surprises with these tracks. They get the job done, and they’re easy to listen to, and that’s about it.

Request: “Real Gone,” “Bessie,” “Opening Race.”

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