Comfortably Numb - Rogers Waters feat. Van Morrison & The Band
Sail On, Sailor - The Beach Boys
Let It Loose - The Rolling Stones
Sweet Dreams - Roy Buchanan
One Way Out - The Allman Brothers Band
Baby Blue - Badfinger
I'm Shipping Up To Boston - Dropkick Murphys
Nobody But Me - The Human Beinz
Tweedle Dee - LaVern Baker
Sweet Dreams (Of You) - Patsy Cline
The Departed Tango - Howard Shore Featuring Marc Ribot (dobro) and
Beacon Hill - Howard Shore Performed by Sharon Isbin
The Departed has been hailed as director Martin Scorsese's most powerful film since Goodfellas. With critical acclaim, major stars and all the punch of an explosive crime drama, The Departed is set to be a box-office sm... more »ash. The soundtrack album features songs from all-time greats The Rolling Stones, The Beach Boys, The Allman Brothers Band, Roy Buchanan and Badfinger along with a collaboration between Pink Floyd's Roger Waters, Van Morrison, and The Band. Add cult faves The Human Beinz, current South Boston punkers Dropkick Murphys, an R&B gem from LaVern Baker, a country- pop selection from the immortal Patsy Cline, and a pair of selections from Grammy® Award-winning score composer Howard Shore and The Departed's soundtrack album promises to be as widely popular as the film.« less
The Departed has been hailed as director Martin Scorsese's most powerful film since Goodfellas. With critical acclaim, major stars and all the punch of an explosive crime drama, The Departed is set to be a box-office smash. The soundtrack album features songs from all-time greats The Rolling Stones, The Beach Boys, The Allman Brothers Band, Roy Buchanan and Badfinger along with a collaboration between Pink Floyd's Roger Waters, Van Morrison, and The Band. Add cult faves The Human Beinz, current South Boston punkers Dropkick Murphys, an R&B gem from LaVern Baker, a country- pop selection from the immortal Patsy Cline, and a pair of selections from Grammy® Award-winning score composer Howard Shore and The Departed's soundtrack album promises to be as widely popular as the film.
JOHN H. PARK | Arcadia, CA United States | 12/06/2006
(2 out of 5 stars)
"The strongest song of the whole film, without a doubt, is the Rolling Stones' "Gimme Shelter". Of course, the soundtrack doesn't include it."
Wonderfully captures the feel of the film
N. Durham | Philadelphia, PA | 07/19/2007
(4 out of 5 stars)
"The Departed finally won Martin Scorsese the long overdue Oscar he has so very much deserved over the years. Like Goodfellas and Casino before it, The Departed utilized a soundtrack of previously available songs to set the mood and capture the feel of the film, and this soundtrack succeeds on just about all counts. The blistering live rendition of Pink Floyd's "Comfortably Numb" by Roger Waters, Van Morrison, and The Band starts the disc off, and is followed by classic tracks from the Beach Boys, the Rolling Stones, the Allman Brothers Band, and Patsy Cline. Sandwiched in between these older acts and the two score tracks contributed from composer Howard Shore, is the instantly catchy "I'm Shipping Up to Boston" from punk favorites the Dropkick Murphys, which you'll no doubt remember nodding your head to when watching the film. There may not be anything featured here that you haven't heard before or seen somewhere else, but the soundtrack for The Departed is a blast regardless and wonderfully captures the feel of the film. In those regards alone, the soundtrack, much like the film itself, is a pleasently wonderful treat."
Departed-Very good tunes!!!
J. Townsend | Williams Bay, Wisconsin USA | 05/12/2007
(4 out of 5 stars)
"Soundtrack is very good !!! But should not have left out -"Gimme Shelter"-Rolling Stones. Too bad. But otherwise worth playing!!!"
It's all about The Murphys
Mr. D | detroit, mi usa | 10/02/2007
(2 out of 5 stars)
"Ah, the movie soundtrack. What a consumer dilemma. If I love a movie this much, and it is directed by the Christopher Columbus of the use of popular songs in movies (instead of just a written score ), won't I love the soundtrack as well? Unfortuantely, very rarely. When great directors follow Scorcese's lead and use pop songs to move their films along we are often much more attracted to those soundtracks. Who wants to listen to 50 minutes of a written score when we can listen to The Rolling Stones and The Beach Boys? What cannot be overlooked is that the filmmakers use only snippets of songs. The best example seems to be in "Goodfellas" when Martin Scorcese uses Clapton to actually follow the movement of his camera on a tracking shot focusing on the pink Cadillac with a dead mobster and his dead wife. Maybe the 2nd best use by Scorcese is the blast of the Dropkick Murphys at the beginning of "The Departed" to set the stage for Irish/Boston violence. The thing is, most of the other songs on this soundtrack, and others, are rarely needed to listen to in their entirety. "Boobie Nights' is even a better example. How brilliant the disco music moves the porn stars in the coke-fueled nightclubs. Listen to the entirety of the tracks at home, though , and we are reminded of why we yelled "Disco sucks" when we were Rock n roll teenagers. So, buy the bands who you like best on these soundtracks. Buy Dropkick Murphys' Warriors Code, for instance. Soundtracks just never seem to make me relive a great movie. And I keep trying over and over again. Must be obsessive compulsive."
The Departed Soundtrack
Jena M. Tuite | Philadelphia, PA | 03/15/2007
(4 out of 5 stars)
"The Soundtrack is great but some of the good songs from the movie arent on it. Overall it is a good product"