Track Listing

1. Death Or Glory - Grimethorpe Colliery Band
2. A Sad Old Day - Trevor Jones
3. Floral Dance - Grimethorpe Colliery Band
4. Aforementioned Essential Items - Trevor Jones
5. En Aranjuez Con Tu Amor - Paul Hughes
6. Years Of Coal - Trevor Jones
7. March Of The Cobblers - Grimethorpe Colliery Band
8. There's More Important Things In Life - Trevor Jones
9. Cross Of Honor - Grimethorpe Colliery Band
10. Jerusalem - Grimethorpe Colliery Band
11. Florentiner March - Grimethorpe Colliery Band
12. Danny Boy - Grimethorpe Colliery Band
13. We'll Find A Way - Trevor Jones
14. Clog Dance - Grimethorpe Colliery Band
15. Colonel Bogey - Grimethorpe Colliery Band
16. All Things Bright And Beautiful - Grimethorpe Colliery Band
17. William Tell Overture - Shaun Randall
18. Honest Decent Human Beings - Trevor Jones
19. Pomp And Circumstance - Grimethorpe Colliery Band

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #22075 in Music
• Released on: 1997-06-03
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Soundtrack
• Original language: English
• Running time: 107 minutes

From Amazon.co.uk
Mark Herman's tragi-comedy set among the fictional coal-mining community of Grimley revolves around the exploits of the local colliery's brass band and its struggle to survive imminent pit closure. Among the film's virtues are a bitter-sweet (with an emphasis on "bitter") script, strong performances all round--including Pete Postlethwaite, Tara Fitzgerald and Ewan McGregor--and a superb soundtrack. Grimley's real-life counterpart is the Penine town of Grimethorpe, and, entirely uncoincidentally, the Grimethorpe Colliery Band were chosen to perform the music. Having themselves survived pit closure to become one of the top brass bands in Britain, the Grimethorpe band know all about playing from the heart. But the script's subject-matter aside, the album is actually an uplifting, entertaining selection of classic "lollipops", including the Floral Dance, Colonel Bogey, and a meltingly good arrangement of Rodrigo's Concierto de Aranjuez ("That's Orange Juice to you", says Postlethwaite in the movie) for solo flugelhorn. Trevor Jones contributes an attractive and pleasingly low-key score, but it's the band tracks that are the real selling-point here, making Brassed Off an ideal introduction to popular brass band music. --Mark Walker