Call me crazy, but am I the only one who would rather stick a needle in my eye than listen to the There Will Be Blood Soundtrack? I found it deafening, irritating, and terribly distracting. Loud clanging dischords might have been effective at a couple climatic moments - but constantly?? It was awful.

Were you actually expecting something good from a member of Radiohead?

I, too, found Greenwood's score unbearable.

This film's score is a complete joke and the fault largely resides with the choices of this oftentimes pretentious and perverse director, PTA. The score is far too attention-seeking and emotionally inconsistent. Although I applaud a director that takes a risk with an atypical score for a Hollywood movie, this one misfires too often to be considered successful.

I thought the score for Blood was odd and basically terrible because it didn't do what that movie badly needed -- namely, to be given it some heart and emotional resonance.

But afterwards I re-thought my first impression-- most scores are so predictable and safe and many are just crappy (I expect Slate readers are familiar with the term "mickey mousing") -- why, then, do I complain when someone tries to do something completely different? I am still a bit conflicted about it.

I went to see "Blood" for a second time for a number of reasons, and the score was a bit more tolerable, but still inadequate.

I enjoyed this writers comparison between this score and the far superior one in No Country.

NB -- Greenwood's score didn't get nominated for an Oscar because it didn't qualiify. [Best Original Score is for music specifically written for a movie, not "the best bits of existing music we felt went well with the images"]

But it should have not made the cut purely bc it's not good enough.

Saying you liked TWBB overall but didnt like the soundtrack strikes me as myopic. It would be like saying you liked everything about the movie except Day-Lewis: the score is an inextricable aspect of the film.

Also, NCFOM had no music in its soundtrack whatsoever.