
1. | "Shine Your Way" (performed by Owl City and Yuna) | 3:25 |
2. | "Prologue" | 2:08 |
3. | "Smash and Grab" | 4:09 |
4. | "Bear Owl Escape" | 2:45 |
5. | "Eep and the Warthog" | 3:52 |
6. | "Teaching Fire to Tiger Girl" | 1:55 |
7. | "Exploring New Dangers" | 3:33 |
8. | "Piranhakeets" | 2:24 |
9. | "Fire and Corn" | 2:06 |
10. | "Turkey Fish Follies" | 4:17 |
11. | "Going Guys Way" | 3:15 |
12. | "Story Time" | 3:55 |
13. | "Family Maze" | 3:21 |
14. | "Star Canopy" | 2:07 |
15. | "Grug Flips His Lid" | 1:44 |
16. | "Planet Collapse" | 1:44 |
17. | "We'll Die If We Stay Here" | 5:28 |
18. | "Cave Painting" | 1:12 |
19. | "Big Idea" | 2:34 |
20. | "Epilogue" | 4:25 |
21. | "Cave Painting Theme" | 2:52 |
22. | "The Crood's Family Theme" | 5:54 |
23. | "Cantina Croods" | 1:12 |
The opening track is the only vocal song on the soundtrack. Written by Alan and Glen Ballard, with Kirk DeMicco and Chris Sanders as well; this song is very beautiful as sung by Owl City and Yuna. It fits the movie's central theme perfectly, unlike some other songs that are shoehorned into a movie. Some of the other stronger tracks on this soundtrack include "Smash and Grab" which is a marching band song that features the USC Marching Band. "Fire and Corn" which goes through the action scene and ends on a theme note, a perfect song for a movie to help with the scene. "Going Guys Way" uses the theme from "Shine Your Way" as a melody that plays out beautifully. "Star Canopy" uses hymnal sounding voices mixed with the theme from "Shine Your Way" that while short, is mixed together in perfect harmony with the theme. "Epilogue" is very well done finale track to close the movie with that combines most of the major themes used throughout the movie in a powerful way. The last two tracks are also very powerful and subtle at the same time - "The Croods Family theme" and the "Cantina Croods" invokes a memory of classic cantina music with horns while playing the "Shine Your Way" theme. In all this is a wonderful soundtrack by one of the current era's best movie score composers.
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-- Roger Longenbach