Welcome to Hut 41 of Sideshow’s soundtrack farm for the next Score Guide. Will & Wend return to Dreamworks to count their chickens and guide you through the memorable score to the 2000 stop-motion claymation, Chicken Run by John Powell and Harry Gregson-Williams.

Your regular armchair musicologists shall be pulling back the perimeter fence to reveal the catchy themes, the spirit of Ginger, the indefatigable instrumentation, the nods to Elmer Bernstein’s The Great Escape, and the parallels to other film scores, in an informative and entertaining track-by-track flight through the 20-track soundtrack release.

Kazoos at the ready!

Release

Chicken Run Dreamworks Records (2000)

Timestamps

0:00 – Intro Tag: Chelsea Hopkins

8:26 – 1. Opening Escape

17:25 – 2. Main Titles

28:55 – 3. The Evil Mrs. Tweedy

35:36 – 4. Rats!

38:08 – 5. Chickens Are Not Organized

40:32 – 6. We Need a Miracle

45:23 – 7. Rocky and the Circus

47:28 – 8. Flight Training

52:04 – 9. A Really Big Trucks Arrives

55:33 – 10. Cocktails & Flighty Thoughts

56:35 – Inspiration for Pirates of the Caribbean?

1:01:00 – 11. Babs’ Big Break

1:03:38 – 12. Flip Flop and Fly (Performed by Ellis Hall)

1:06:42 – 13. Up on the Roof

1:08:42 – 14. Into the Pie Machine

1:13:56 – 15. Rocky, a Fake All Along

1:16:07 – 16. Building the Crate

1:24:58 – 17. The Wanderer (Performed by Dion)

1:26:39 – 18. The Chickens Are Revolting

1:30:41 – 19. Lift Off

1:38:10 – 20. Escape to Paradise

1:43:44 – Final Thoughts