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!

Timestamps0:00 – Intro Tag: Chelsea Hopkins8:26 – 1. Opening Escape17:25 – 2. Main Titles28:55 – 3. The Evil Mrs. Tweedy35:36 – 4. Rats!38:08 – 5. Chickens Are Not Organized40:32 – 6. We Need a Miracle45:23 – 7. Rocky and the Circus47:28 – 8. Flight Training52:04 – 9. A Really Big Trucks Arrives55:33 – 10. Cocktails & Flighty Thoughts56:35 – Inspiration for Pirates of the Caribbean?1:01:00 – 11. Babs’ Big Break1:03:38 – 12. Flip Flop and Fly (Performed by Ellis Hall)1:06:42 – 13. Up on the Roof1:08:42 – 14. Into the Pie Machine1:13:56 – 15. Rocky, a Fake All Along1:16:07 – 16. Building the Crate1:24:58 – 17. The Wanderer (Performed by Dion)1:26:39 – 18. The Chickens Are Revolting1:30:41 – 19. Lift Off1:38:10 – 20. Escape to Paradise1:43:44 – Final Thoughts