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Average Rating: Rating: - Good Driving Music I remember when I first saw this movie my pop-tuned ears heard some of the strangest musical notes that ever caught my ear. Ry Cooder paints a somber mood with his slide guitar, giving the movie another dimension for us to view the tormented soul. Excellent guitar work on this CD. The music has a quiet simplicity to it but is laden with ghostly emotions. He plays that one riff that just echos throughout the CD. The melancholy songs are interrupted by a very different, but beautiful sound of Cancion Mixteca, a traditional Mexican piece about longing for home. Morphing the country blues sounds of Blind Willie Johnson and traditional Mexican guitar he creates a interesting texture of music. The best tracks are Dark was the Night and Cancion Mixteca. Johnson's Dark was the Night ( I went out to buy that CD also) was the muse for creating Paris, Texas. So the down side of this soundtrack is that it is only 34 minutes and 7 seconds and 26% of that time is filled with I Know These People (track 9) a monologue that goes on for to long...and he ran again... It's a good for the first few listens but if one listens to this CD a lot it becomes quite tiresome. It becomes more palatable when the guitar kicks in halfway through the track. Ry Cooder probable recorded the best soundtrack for a movie that I ever seen. Rating: - The soundtrack for your mind if you enjoy the southwest I think maybe I first heard this music from some documentary or maybe even in my own mind as I made up the notes driving accross the country enroute to Tucson Arizona. I know that Ry Cooder was the first to put the notes to a tape for the movie Paris, Texas but we have all heard them in our mind at one time or another. The slide guitar is the southwest and he made you feel as though you are there as you watch the movie or just hear the soundtrack. This is a must have. Rating: - Atmospheric masterpiece One of the immortal scenes: Harry Dean Stanton in the desert, scrambling out of nowhere, a tortured Everyman in search of solace. And then Ry Cooder`s slide guitar notes, modeled on Blind Willie Johnson`s " Dark was the night" - when have so few notes said so much? The music and the film images fit like hand and glove. I do not know whether "Paris, Texas" is a great movie, but I do know that it, for me and a host of others, is one of the most unforgettable movies ever, with images and feelings that refuse to let go, creeping under the skin and staying there. The music underlines this feeling, with not a surplus note, every little vibrato inuitively perfectly suited to the atmosphere conveyed in the movie - love and loss, union and aloneness, and, above all, compassion . If the music doesn`t reach these feelings, the experience may be that of the 1-star reviewer quoted. But to me, this music is one of the most durable selections I have in my 1000-piece collection, one of the few that always brings rewards and new nuances when listened to.

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