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List Price: $13.98 | | Label: Hip-O Records
Salesrank: 4590
Released: October 12, 2004 |
| Our Price: $9.96 |
| Used Price: $7.25 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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Friday Night Lights Track Listing:
1. From West Texas
2. Your Hand In Mine
3. Our Last Days As Children
4. An Ugly Fact Of Life
5. Home
6. Sonho Dourado
7. To West Texas
8. Your Hand In Mine
9. Inside It All Feels The Same
10. Do You Ever Feel Cursed?
11. Lonely Train
12. Seagull
13. The Sky Above, The Field Below
14. A Slow Dance
Editorial Review:
Novelist H. G. Bissinger's story about a high school football team in Texas went to the big screen with Billy Bob Thornton in the lead role. The score and background music was largely composed for the film by indie faves Explosions in the Sky, with a little help from Daniel Lanois, David Torn, and Bad Company. Producer Brian Reitzell has gone against convention in designing musical atmospheres for the film that don't conform either to the martial music generally associated with football or the C&W associated with Texas. Instead, he opted for a more autumnal, introspective sound that serves as a perfect backdrop for the film, but also stands up on its own without benefit of any other audio-visual cues.
Friday Night Lights Reviews:
"Be Perfect" 
2008-03-11 - For anyone who grew up in Texas, this film should strike a chord. This soundtrack which serves as a calling card for the group, Explosions In The Sky" captures the highs and lows and the ghostly whispers West Texas. My only gripe is that The Stooges' "I wanna be your dog" ZZ tops "Just Got paid" along with "New Noise" by Refused were left off, perhaps for fear of unbalancing this great soundtrack. At any rate this soundtrack should have a place in your collection.
Powerful, Inspirational, and Emotional 
2007-12-09 - I absolutely love the movie and the song Sonho Dourado at the end of the movie always touches me in special ways. The movie, the music, and the emotional story of these young men should be seen by young and old. The music beautifully helped to weave the story of these young men.
Great MUSIC, GREAT MOVIE, GREAT STORY!
Dr. Warren Bruhl
Glencoe, IL
Pediatric and Family Chiropractic Physician
Friday Night Lights + Exlosions in the Sky = Beautiful Chaos
2007-09-25 - I've been listening to Explosions in the Sky for quite some time now--ever since the beginning of this year.. and this was before i watched Friday Night Lights. the fact that they don't use any vocals whatsoever makes me love them even more--that their pieces leave it all up to you to feel and visualize whatever you want. My boyfriend just mailed me the first season of F.N.L. and i just thought the pilot was really mindblowing. (partially b/c of the intensity in the football game, mostly b/c of E.I.T.S.) i'm looking forward to seeing the rest of the episodes!! (if i have time).
P.S. to all E.I.T.S. fans--they are coming back to the east side (NYC) on March 2008
Good listen...
2006-04-08 - If you want the great sounds you hear in the movie which gives it that emotion to go along with the ride this is the right disc. Whoever is talking about the Motley Crue and Poison songs can easily get that junk off the internet. I play it for my artists while they work all the time. Great disc.
Good Soundtrack-For those who don't know the band 
2006-03-17 - Get this if you've never heard of Explosions in the Sky..Maybe, just maybe, you will be introduced to a new band that can do incredible things for you- that is if you have some sort of attention span, and respect for what beauty via audio would want to do for you!..If you are a fan however, and are looking for a good addition to your collection, steer clear, as the majority of the songs are variations on themes from their real, infinitly better albums..
