Milk Soundtrack CD
Milk.
2008, Focus Features.
Danny Elfman.
Decca, CD, 2008, 178 9598
Rating: 
The first openly gay American politician to be elected to office, Harvey Milk was assassinated, along with the Mayor, by a vengeful colleague in 1978. Set in San Francisco during the halcyon days of disco, Gus Van Sant’s film is a lively, entertaining biopic with plenty of colour and pazazz. Danny Elfman’s score plays to the strengths of the film, offering up a restrained but spirited collection of cues that while generally too brief and a little lightweight, manage to do the job extremely well; ‘Give ‘Em Hope’ and ‘Harvey’s Will’ are melodic and memorable, in part driven by an electronic pulsing sound that reverberates through a handful of cues. ‘Politics Is Theatre’, lively and upbeat, whips you along with it. ‘Postscript’ and ‘The Kiss’ use a choir to good effect (well, it wouldn’t be Elfman without one). In deciding to separate his fairly gentle score from the disco floor fillers that precede it, he has also saved it from being swallowed up by the kind of music made on something much stronger than milk.
Milk Movie Soundtrack. Review: Tim Mowbray.
Track Listing:
1. Queen Bitch (David Bowie)
2. Everyday People (Sly & The Family Stone)
3. Rock The Boat (Hues Corporation)
4. You Make Me feel (Mighty Real) (Sylvester)
5. Hello Hello (Sopwith Camel)
6. Prelude No. 7 in E Flat (The Swingle Singers)
7. Harvey’s Theme
8. Main Title
9. Harvey’s Will
10. The Castro
11. The Kiss
12. Politics Is Theatre
13. New Hope
14. Harvey Wins
15. Proposition
16. Repealed Rights
17. Gay Rights Now!
18. Dog Poo
19. Vote Passes
20. Briggs Pushing
21. The Debates
22. Weepy Donuts
23. Harvey’s Last Day
24. Give ‘Em Hope
25. Postscript
26. Harvey’s Theme
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