Against All Odds (soundtrack)

Against All Odds
Soundtrack album by
Various artists
Released1984
GenreRock
LabelVirgin (UK & Éire)
Atlantic (Rest of the free world)
Singles from Against All Odds
  1. "Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now)"
    Released: February 1984 (US)
  2. "Walk Through the Fire"
    Released: 21 May 1984 (UK)[1]
  3. "My Male Curiosity"
    Released: July 1984
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[2]

Against All Odds: Music from the Original Motion Picture Soundtrack is the soundtrack for the 1984 film Against All Odds.

The album includes the original score by Larry Carlton, as well as several tracks by artists popular at the time of the film's release. Best known of the tracks is "Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now)", a Phil Collins single which topped the Billboard Hot 100 song chart and became Collins's first American number one song. It gave him a Grammy Award for Best Pop Vocal Performance, Male and another nomination for Song of the Year. The song received an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Song as well as a Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Original Song.

Other prior and current members of Genesis, guitarist Mike Rutherford and former lead vocalist Peter Gabriel, also contribute tracks. The album received a Grammy Award nomination for Best Album of Original Score Written for a Motion Picture or a Television Special in 1985.

  1. ^ "Music Week" (PDF). p. 14.
  2. ^ Heather Phares. "AllMusic Review". Against All Odds [Original Soundtrack]. All Media Network. Retrieved 3 April 2016.