Yes it is Vangellisesque as well!!
Here is the complete playlist to the movie soundtrack:
1. The Rocks and the Water
2. Wild Theme
3. Freeway Flier
4. Boomtown
5. The Way it Always Starts
6. The Rocks and the Thunder
7. The Ceilidh and the Northern Lights
8. The Mist Covered Mountains
9. The Ceilidh (Louis Favorite Billy's Tune)
10. Whistle Theme
11. Smootching
12. Stargazer
13. The Rocks and the Thunder
14. Going Home (Theme)
The Whistle Theme is a restating of the Going Home theme with an Irish tin whistle, and is a beautiful song. Wild Theme is another version, this time done on Knopflers legendary Stratocaster guitar with a beautiful piano accompaniment. One I especially like is The Mist Covered Mountains. It sounds like an ancient Scottish song and is haunting. It's also more than 5 minutes long, which I love. You can hear the waves crashing in the background on this one. Smootching is also very good...I think it played during the scene when the Urquarts decided to have a little afternoon delight. The Ceildh and the Northern Lights is quite magical, and is another restating of the Going Home theme. The Rocks and the Water and The Rocks and the Thunder are lovely atmospheric songs featuring oboe that set the tone.
Not all of the songs are instrumentals. "The Way It Always Starts" is performed by Gerry Raferty, Marc Clarke (the keyboardist from Dire Straits) and The Acetones (the little band that played during the ceildh). Here are the lyrics:
"It gets so dark before the dawn
That's when it gets to me
Before the city symphony of taxi horns
That's the way it always starts
Sitting here and waiting on the beating of my heart
Last night I thought I heard my name
Well it was too dark to see, but it had to be
The voice was just the same
That's the way it always starts
Sitting here and waiting on the beating of my heart
So tell me why should it have to be this way
Why can't it be all right
Why can't I sleep at night?
Why should it have to be this way?
Why must there be this price to pay?
Now all the streets are dark and bare
Oh, if you can live in this town
And stick around, you can live anywhere
That's the way it always starts
Sitting here and waiting on the beating of my heart"
It goes without saying that my least favorite cuts are Boomtown and Freeway Flier, which play during the Houston sections of the movie.
Did I ever mention that Mark Knopfler is a Scotsman? In this soundtrack, he really goes back to his roots!