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Track Listings

1. Paris, Texas

2. Brothers

3. Nothing Out There

4. Canci�n Mixteca - Ry Cooder, Jim Dickinson, Nastassja Kinski, David Lindley, Harry Dean Stanton

5. No Safety Zone

6. Houston in Two Seconds

7. She's Leaving the Bank

8. On the Couch

9. I Knew These People - Ry Cooder, Jim Dickinson, Nastassja Kinski, David Lindley, Harry Dean Stanton

10. Dark Was the Night

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Ry Cooder has done some of the best soundtracks in the last 20 years or so (I wouldn't live without The Long Riders or the two-disc Music By Ry Cooder compilation, either)--most of them superior to the movies. (Sorry about that, Walter Hill--but it's true.) His lonesome, steel-guitar music for Wim Wenders' Paris, Texas is one of those cases where the movie and its music are equally great. I can't imagine one without the other. Every time I hear Cooder's opening theme, I see those wide western spaces and Travis (Harry Dean Stanton) wandering through them; and every time I see a still from the movie, I can hear Cooder's music playing in my head. --Jim Emerson

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Soundtrack for a sparse summer, April 11 2002

By	Liza Radley (NYC) - See all my reviews

I listened to this album (LP, at the time) ceaselessly during the summer of 1987. I lived in a sparsely furnished apartment, painted stark white, with my first and only platonic male roommate.
When I woke up, the album went on. The sun shone brightly through our south and east windows. The ominous, pensive sounds generated by Ry Cooder were the perfect accompaniment to my barely post-adolescent A.M. ponderings.
This album makes an unforgettable background to a life. The movie was good, if melodramatic. The monologue on the soundtrack that people are complaining about is the explanation of the whole movie. It is important. We have CD players so we can program the tracks we don't want to hear out of our listening experience. But I recommend letting the monologue track stay. Let it meander through your head. Imagine the scenes and the logic Stanton describes. Then apply the music to the words and you will see why they are equally deserving of space on the disc.

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Masterpiece, Nov 13 2001

By	Direct73 (Brooklyn, New York USA) - See all my reviews

Ry Cooder drop-tunes his guitar and creates an incredible piece of film music. The title theme, Dark Was The Night are haunting and beautiful. But the real underrated treasure on this soundtrack is "She's Leaving The Bank." Creative, atmospheric and brilliant.

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Waste of money, Oct 11 2001

By	Garry Gaudet (Lantzville, BC Canada) - See all my reviews

We all blunder into an ill-informed blind buy now and again. I confess that this was mine for 2001.

The film was an exceptional piece of work and so, by and large, is Cooder's music. The recording quality is superb too. Pity it includes a huge swack of film dialogue, and too little music (less than 26 minutes total when you subtract the 8:38 dialogue track, less than you'd have got with an LP in days of yore).

Cooder's music is wonderfully dusty and melancholy, and even given the reiteration of a couple of main themes, well worth hearing. I find the only way to even tolerate the CD is to program it to skip track 9 and Harry Dean Stanton's blather.

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Almost perfect.
This is a beautiful accompaniment to Wim Wenders's fine film. The soundtrack would be perfect if it had music in place of a rather long dialogue between the two main characters... Read more

Published on Aug 6 2001 by galexy3

Winning music for a loser's tale
I am interested to read these reviews because they are all correct. The track of dialog IS a waste. Indeed, it's a RIP-OFF. Read more

Published on Jul 9 2001 by moehiggins

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. Read more

Published on Jan 9 2001 by e. zapata

Better than the movie
Despite the excellent screenplay by Sam Shepherd and the solid acting by Harry Dean Stanton, I found "Paris, Texas" a rather unimpressive film, and the only thing that kept it... Read more