About a Boy (soundtrack)

Infobox Album |
Name = About a Boy


Type = Soundtrack
Artist = Badly Drawn Boy
Released = April 23, 2002
Recorded =
Genre = Rock and Roll/Folk music
Length = 44:22
Label = Stoinked Paramount Recordings/ Viacom Records/ Epic Records
Producer = Badly Drawn Boy, Tom Rothrock, Steve McLaughlin
Reviews =
* Allmusic Rating|4.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:y4ae4j375wae link]
* musicOMH.com (Positive) [http://www.musicomh.com/albums/badly-drawn-boy-2.htm link]
* Pitchfork (4.9/10) [http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/15274-about-a-boy link]
Last album = "The Hour of Bewilderbeast" (2000)
This album = "About A Boy" (2002)
Next album = "Have You Fed the Fish?" (2002)
Misc = Extra album cover 2
Upper caption = Alternate cover
Type = Soundtrack
Background =

"About a Boy" is an album that was released by Badly Drawn Boy (Damon Gough) in 2002. The album was the soundtrack to the movie "About a Boy". Unusually, Gough was chosen to compose and perform the entire soundtrack for the movie.

In About a Boy author Nick Hornby's book 31 Songs, he lists Gough's track "A Minor Incident" as one of the songs that has had an effect on his life.

Track listing

#"Exit Stage Right" – 0:21
#"A Peak You Reach" – 4:33
#"Something to Talk About" – 3:40
#"Dead Duck" – 0:46
#"Above You, Below Me" – 2:40
#"I Love NYE" – 3:20
#"Silent Sigh" – 4:44
#"Wet, Wet, Wet" – 0:42
#"River-Sea-Ocean" – 2:24
#"S.P.A.T." – 3:24
#"Rachel's Flat" – 0:34
#"Walking Out of Stride" – 1:48
#"File Me Away" – 3:23
#"A Minor Incident" – 3:44
#"Delta (Little Boy Blues)" – 4:00
#"Donna & Blitzen" – 4:19