Merry Christmas (Joyeux Noël)...original soundtrack by Philippe Rombi

A special treat for the festive season. This is one of those soundtracks that can not only be listened to at Christmas, but any time of the year.

One of Those Rare Film Soundtracks of Significance....Philippe Rombi is the main composer on this Soundtrack.The entire music excerpts of significance are intact, even the artists who were guests, providing professional opera singers for the voices of the two cinematic actor/singers.

Rombi opens the film about WWI with very eloquent, quiet, lovely solo piano music, and very often he is so sensitive to the message of the film that just when the action looks as though the music should be of the Carmina Burana ilk, Rombi settles for orchestral Adagios. He has elected to use the carols Stille Nacht and Adeste Fidelis for the actor Sprink to sing and uses the voice of the gifted tenor Rolando Villazon to intone the music. To establish the relationship between the two opera singers, Sprink and Anna (Villazon and Natalie Dessay), he has them perform a duet version of Bach's 'Bist du bei mer' - the words of which take on deep meaning as the film progresses. When he has a moment for Anna to sing a solo, he writes his own version of Ave Maria for Anna/Natalie Dessay to sing. It is very lovely.

There are several 'tunes' written for the score - 'Fraternizers' Hymn' ('I'm Dreaming Of Home'), the theme for Anna and Nikolaus - which very well could endure long after the score and film disappear, they are that good.

In all the score is very strong and well played, sung, and conducted. This is a soundtrack that bears attention for lovers of beautiful music.... Grady Harp (Amazon review)

1. Ave Maria London Symphony Orchestra (LSO) 4:24

2. Overture London Symphony Orchestra (LSO) 4:05

3. Hymne des fraternisés (piano) Philippe Rombi 1:26

4. Anna et Nikolaus London Symphony Orchestra (LSO) 2:06

5. La guerre London Symphony Orchestra (LSO) 6:00

6. Enterrement des soldats London Symphony Orchestra (LSO) 3:07

7. Bist du bei mir Philippe Rombi 4:05

8. Stille Nacht Philippe Rombi 4:18

9. La lettre de Jonathan London Symphony Orchestra (LSO) 0:51

10. Les souvenirs de Ponchel London Symphony Orchestra (LSO) 1:18

11. Le match de football Edouard Dubois 1:49

12. Le discours de l'évêque London Symphony Orchestra (LSO) 3:14

13. Le courrier des soldats London Symphony Orchestra (LSO) 1:32

14. War adagio London Symphony Orchestra (LSO) 5:07

15. Thème de l'absence London Symphony Orchestra (LSO) 7:13

16. Hymne des Fraternisés: I'm dreaming of home London Symphony Orchestra (LSO) 4:24

17. Adeste fidelis Philippe Rombi 4:15

18. Invitations: I'm dreaming of home London Symphony Orchestra (LSO) 2:58

19. Anna et Nikolaus (film version including Nuit de Noël) London Symphony Orchestra (LSO) 2:29

20. Aria pour violon et orchestre London Symphony Orchestra (LSO) 3:59

21. Hymne des fraternisés (murmures et vocalises) London Symphony Orchestra (LSO) 4:25

Merry Christmas

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21...music from the motion picture

Original soundtrack to the 2008 motion picture featuring cuts from The Rolling Stones (a remix of 'You Can't Always Get What You Want'!), MGMT, LCD Soundsystem, UNKLE, Mark Ronson with Kasabian, Peter Bjorn and John, and many others. A great soundtrack to go with a great movie. The music is interesting, varied, and  very, very cool.


1. You Can't Always Get What You Want (Re-Mixed and Re-Edited by Soulwax) - The Rolling Stones
2. Time To Pretend - Mgmt
3. Big Ideas - LCD Soundsystem
4. Giant - D. Sardy featuring Liela Moss
5. Always - Amon Tobin
6. Young Folks - Peter Bjorn And John
7. Mad Pursuit - Junkie XL featuring Electrocute
8. Sister Self Doubt - Get Shakes
9. I Am The Unknown - Aliens
10. Shut Up And Drive - Rihanna
11. Alright - Knivez Out
12. Tropical Moonlight - Domino
13. Hold My Hand - Unkle
14. L.S.F. - Mark Ronson featuring Kasabian
15. Tender Buttons - Broadcast

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200 Cigarettes....music from the motion picture

Starring Ben and Casey Affleck, Courtney Love, Martha Plimpton, and Christina Ricci, among others, 200 Cigarettes is a romantic comedy set on New Year's Eve 1981 in New York City's East Village. Supporting the film is a representative collection of late-'70s and early-'80s new-wave pop-rockers. The Ramones nail down the ferocious end of the spectrum ("I Don't Care"), but the emphasis is on straight pop with Nick Lowe ("Cruel to Be Kind"), the Cars ("Just What I Needed"), Joe Jackson ("It's Different for Girls") and the Go-Go's ("Our Lips Are Sealed"). Roxy Music deliver the sensuous "More Than This." Dire Straits' epic "Romeo and Juliet" is a tad out of place among the slam-bang pop-rock. Modern rockers Girls Against Boys effectively cover Earth, Wind and Fire's "Boogie Wonderland." Blondie contribute "In the Flesh" and a special megamix of "Rapture," plus two newer songs from their comeback effort. --Rob O'Connor...Amazon.com

1. Cruel To Be Kind - Nick Lowe 
2. In The Flesh - Blondie
3. Just What I Needed - The Cars 
4. Save It For Later - Harvey Danger 
5. Our Lips Are Sealed- The Go-Go's 
6. I Want Candy - Bow Wow Wow  
7. I Don't Care - Ramones   
8. Boogie Wonderland - Girls Against Boys  
9. Ladies Night - Kool and The Gang   
10. It's Different For Girls - Joe Jackson   
11. Nowhere Girl - B. Movie 
12. More Than This - Roxy Music  
13. Romeo And Juliet - Dire Straits  
14. Peace, Love And Understanding - Party 
15. Blondie Medley: Rapture  -Blondie

 200 Cigarettes

                                                                 

Occasional Course Language..soundtrack from Australian independent movie from 1998

soundtrack from Australian independent movie from 1998 with a fine collection of tracks from the cream of Aussie Alternative and Indie artists

1. Spiderbait - Calypso
2. Jebediah - Simple
3. Automatic - Pump It Up
4. The Living End - From Here On In
5. Leonardo's Bride - Even When I'm Sleeping
6. John Paul Young - I Hate The Music
7. Grinspoon - Just Ace 
8. Turnstyle - I'm A Bus 
9. Ammonia - Keeping My Hands Tied
10. Hot Rollers - Wickerman's Shoes 
11. Monique Brumby - Up and Down 
12. Even - Don't Wait 
13. Needle Drop - Miss Me When I'm Gone
14. Sister Madly - Something Deep
15. You Am I - Purple Sneakers

Occasional Course Language

I Am Sam - Music From and Inspired By the Motion Picture..with bonus tracks

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Jessie Nelson's poignant tale of a mentally challenged man named Sam (Sean Penn) who recruits a lawyer to help him regain custody of his young daughter leans heavily on the lead character's obsession with Beatles songs, and his innocent trust in their wisdom and emotional truth. It's an artistic gambit that shrewdly lends itself to this mostly rewarding collection of Beatles covers by a wide range of contemporary artists, many of whom no doubt leapt at the chance to record a treasured song by their own musical heroes. The renditions are by and large faithful, and inform the elemental genius of the originals by the strength and variety of the artist's voices alone. The husband-wife team of Aimee Mann and Michael Penn (Sean's brother) can't help but find resonance in "Two of Us," just as Nick Cave's latter-day, heart-on-his-sleeve crooner infatuation makes "Let It Be" all his own. It's the reinterpretations that are riskier. While Paul Westerberg's stripped-down, nasal reading of "Nowhere Man" perceptively underscores Lennon's inherent Dylan fetish and Howie Day turns "Help!" from anxious plea to desperate dirge, Grandaddy smugly alt-rocks the energy right out of "Revolution." The Beatles hardly need anyone to burnish their reputation, but this album goes a long way toward underscoring their most undersung legacy as rock's most transcendent melting pot. -Jerry McCulley

1. Two of Us - Aimee Mann & Michael Penn

2. Blackbird - Sarah McLachlan

3. Across the Universe - Rufus Wainwright

4. I'm Looking Through You - The Wallflowers

5. You've Got to Hide Your Love Away - Eddie Vedder

6. Strawberry Fields - Ben Harper

7. Mother Nature's Son - Sheryl Crow

8. Golden Slumbers - Ben Folds

9. I'm Only Sleeping - The Vines

10. Don't Let Me Down - Stereophonics

11. Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds - The Black Crowes

12. Julia - Chocolate Genius

13. We Can Work It Out - Heather Nova

14. Help - Howie Day

15. Nowhere Man - Paul Westerberg

16. Revolution - Grandaddy

17. Let It Be - Nick Cave

18. Lucy In the Sky With Diamonds - Aimee Mann*

19. Two of Us - Liam Finn & Neil Finn*

* bonus tracks

I Am Sam

                                                          

Grace Of My Heart: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack ... music by various artists

A terrific sampler of greatest hits from the heyday of girl groups and the Brill Building--except that none of the songs are actually from that era. What we have here is an incredible simulation--from Allison Anders' unjustly overlooked 1996 movie about the tempestuous life and career of a Carole King- like singer-songwriter (the magnificent Illeana Douglas) who spends years writing for others before finding her own voice. But instead of just licensing the old Shirelles' recordings of Goffin-King hits, the filmmakers came up with the brilliant idea of doing original songs by combining the sensibilities of contemporary artists and their songwriting forebears. 

So, for example, Elvis Costello and Burt Bacharach teamed up to write and perform the power- ballad "God Give Me Strength"; Leslie Gore teams with Larry Klein and David Baerwald for "My Secret Love" (performed by Miss Lily Banquette of Combustible Edison); Gerry and Louise Goffin team with Baerwald for "Between Two Worlds" (performed by Sean Colvin); J. Mascis of Dinosaur Jr. writes and sings some Brian Wilson/Beach Boys-type stuff ("Take a Run at the Sun," "Don't You Think It's Time"), and so on. Buy the record; see the movie. You won't be disappointed. --Jim Emerson

1. God Give Me Strength - Burt Bacharach And Elvis Costello
2. Love Doesn't Ever Fail Us - The Williams Brothers
3. Take A Run At The Sun - J Mascis
4. I Do - For Real
5. Between Two Worlds - Shawn Colvin
6. My Secret Love - Miss Lily Banquette
7. Man From Mars - Kristen Vigard
8. Born To Love That Boy - For Real
9. Truth Is You Lied - Jill Sobule
10. Unwanted Number - For Real
11. Groovin' On You - Juned
12. In Another World - Portrait
13. Don't You Think It's Time - J Mascis
14. Absence Makes The Heart Grow Fonder - Tiffany Anders And Boyd Rice
15. A Boat On The Sea - Kristen Vigard

Grace of My Heart

                                                       

Mystery Men

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Mystery Men, the movie, is the saga of hero wannabes trying to strut their stuff. Mystery Men, the soundtrack, is an album of modern rockers doing the same. Smash Mouth's "All Star" is the one of the disc's finer moments, an upbeat, dance-ready tune. The Dub Pistols perform their trademark blend of funky rap on "Keep Keep Movin'" while Kel and the M.A.F.T. Emcees give us a taste of the real thing on "Who Are Those Mystery Men." Freak Power (Fatboy Slim's other band) contributes the catchy "No Way." But, ultimately, the Bee Gees' classic "Night Fever" helps save the day. --Jason Verlinde

Mystery Men

                                    

                                                              

Swingers...Get A Nightlife!....music from the motion picture by various artists

a "coollection" of swingin' tracks by the likes of Dean Martin, Louis Jordan, Bobby Darin, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, Count Basie and Tony Bennett. This will get your party movin', groovin' and SWINGIN'..yeh baby!

1     –Dean Martin     You're Nobody 'Til Somebody Loves You     2:12
2     –Love Jones      Paid For Loving     3:23
3     –Count Basie And Tony Bennett     With Plenty Of Money And You     1:33
4     –Big Bad Voodoo Daddy  You & Me & The Bottle Makes 3 Tonight (Baby)    
5     –Louis Jordan     Knock Me A Kiss     2:46
6     –The Jazz Jury     Wake Up     0:52
7     –King Floyd     Groove Me     2:59
8     –Big Bad Voodoo Daddy     I Wan'na Be Like You     3:25
9     –Joey Altruda     Mucci's Jag M.K.II     5:33
10     –Roger Miller     King Of The Road     2:27
11     –The Jazz Jury     Pictures     1:04
12     –George Jones     She Thinks I Still Care     2:33
13     –The Jazz Jury     Car Train     1:32
14     –Average White Band     Pick Up The Pieces     3:59
15     –Big Bad Voodoo Daddy     Go Daddy-O     3:11
16     –Bobby Darin     I'm Beginning To See The Light     2:17

SWINGERS

                                                   

Garage Days

Garage Days is the Australian film by internationally acclaimed director Alex Proyas (The Crow, Dark City). It follows the in's and out's of a struggling Sydney based garage band. The soundtrack is a collection of tracks by Alternative, Indie and Punk artists. Also includes a cover of ACDC's "High Voltage".


1. High Voltage - The D4
2. Alright - Supergrass
3. Kooks - Motor Ace
4. Buy Me A Pony - Spiderbait
5. Rockin It - David McCormack And Andrew Lancaster
6. Garage Days - David McCormack And Andrew Lancaster
7. Love Is The Drug - Roxy Music
8. Add It Up - Sonicanimation
9. Walk Up - David McCormack And Andrew Lancaster
10. Ghost Town - Rhombus
11. Smash It Up - The (International) Noise Conspiracy
12. Say What - 28 Days
13. Thats Entertainment - The Jam
14. Masterplan - David McCormack
15. Stop Thinking About It - Joey Ramone
16. Mad Man - The Hives
17. Get The Tarp - David McCormack And Andrew Lancaster And Anth
18. Lucky Number Nine - The Moldy Peaches
19. Help Yourself - Tom Jones

Garage Days

                                                               

Sweet and Lowdown

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Although Woody Allen has been using jazz from the '20s and '30s on his soundtracks since Sleeper, Sweet and Lowdown is his first movie featuring the musicians of the period. The story is about Emmett Ray, who is a brilliant guitarist but is always being unfavorably compared to Django Reinhardt. Allen hired the guitarist Howard Alden and the Dick Hyman Group to play the music of Ray and his band, and they have done an excellent job of recreating the small band swing of the '30s. Alden has assimilated the music of such guitarists as Eddie Lang, Karl Kress, and Django to create a guitar style that is unique yet also sounds thoroughly authentic. He is the Zelig of guitar players. This music has all of the excitement of '30s jazz with none of the stodginess that sometimes plagues other jazz revivalists. --Michael Simmons

1. I'll See You In My Dreams
2. Caravan - Bunny Berigan & His Orchestra
3. Sweet Georgia Brown
4. Unfaithful Woman
5. Viper Mad - Sidney Bechet And Noble Sissle's Swingsters
6. Wrap Your Troubles In Dreams (And Dream Your Troubles Away)
7. Old-Fashioned Love
8. Limehouse Blues/Mystery Pacific
9. Just A Gigolo
10. 3:00 A.M. Blues
11. All Of Me/The Peanut Vendor
12. It Don't Mean A Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)
13. Shine
14. I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles
15. There'll Be Some Changes Made

Sweet and Lowdown

                                                           

Performance...original motion picture soundtrack...produced by Jack Nitzsche, feat.Ry Cooder

OST of the movie 'Performance' directed by Donald Cammell and Nicolas Roeg. This eclectic and now RARE soundtrack from the 1970 film was produced by Jack Nitzsche and features contributions from Ry Cooder, Randy Newman, Buffy Sainte-Marie and Mick Jagger. Both Ry Cooder and Randy Newman went on to become excellent film score artists themselves after this one.

A dark, experimental film with the cut-up technique dealing with issue of identity crisis which included graphic depictions of sex, drug use and violence. Warner Bros. studio executives, who believed they were getting a Rolling Stones equivalent of the Beatles 'A Hard Day's Night' (1964), denied the film a cinematic release. 'Performance' was finally released in 1970 after several recuts and changes but is now frequently cited as a classic of British cinema. 

The lyrics of 'Memo From Turner' were re-written for this film and so different than on the Rollings Stones' 'Metamorphosis' LP from 1975. 

According to Colin McCabe (in his book 'Performance') the Moog synthesizer was so new that none were commercially available and a prototype was used for these recordings in 1968 by Bernie Krause.


Tracklist:
–Randy Newman Gone Dead Train 2:55
–Merry Clayton & Bernard Krause* Performance 1:47
–Ry Cooder Get Away 2:05
–Ry Cooder Powis Square 2:23
–Bernard Krause* Rolls Royce And Acid 1:47
–Buffy Sainte-Marie Dyed, Dead, Red 2:32
–Jack Nitzsche Harry Flowers 4:00
–Mick Jagger Memo From Turner 4:02
–Ry Cooder & Buffy Sainte-Marie The Hashishin 3:35
–The Last Poets Wake Up, Niggers 2:43
–Bernard Krause* & Merry Clayton Poor White Hound Dog 2:45
–Bernard Krause* Natural Magic 1:37

–Bernard Krause* & The Merry Clayton Singers Turner's Murder 4:15

Performance

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Reservoir Dogs

This Quentin Tarantino production was pre-Pulp Friction but still packed a punch and set the style for future Tarantino movies. The soundtrack features some classic early 70s tracks and hilarious DJ intros by comedian Steven Wright

Reservoir Dogs

 

                                                         

Mystery Train..original music by John Lurie plus tracks from various artists

Another one of my favourite movies AND soundtracks. This Jim Jarmusch production has become a cult classic and the soundtrack features early Elvis and Memphis artists

Mystery Train

         

                                                        

A Mighty Wind....The Album...original soundtrack to the movie

This mockumentary about the sixties folk scene revival has become a cult classic and is from the team that made "Waiting For Guffman" and "Best In Show". 

The songs are so evocative of the early 60s "Ivy League folk" era that one marvels at the fact that they're all newly written, especially for this project. Highlights include the hit "novelty song" that the Folksmen [Kingston Trio, Limeliters, etc.] can't seem to shake, "Old Joe's Place"; their earnest "authentic" rendition of the ridiculous "Never Did No Wanderin'" and then the whitewashing of that same song by the squeaky-clean New Main Street Singers [New Christy Minstrels]; two heartbreaking duets by Mitch and Mickey [Ian & Sylvia, the Farinas], "When You're Next To Me" and "A Kiss at the End of the Rainbow," beautifully performed by Eugene Levy and Catherine O'Hara (nominated for an Oscar), and a folk version of the Rolling Stones' "Start Me Up", this is highly recommended...

Mighty Wind

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BACKBEAT.....songs from the motion picture

soundtrack to the 1994 Beatles biopic that's long out-of-print. Set in 1960 through 1962, lain Softley's Backbeat is a swift little film about the Beatles' early labors in Hamburg. Greg Dulli of the Afghan Whigs on vocals, Dave Pirner of Soul Asylum on guitar, Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth on guitar, Dave Grohl of Nirvana and the Foo Fighters on drums, and Mike Mills of R.E.M on bass cut the performance soundtrack that was produced by Don Was...with 12 classic rock'n'roll cuts, this one ROCKS!

BACKBEAT

                                         



                                                              

Mary and Max...music from the motion picture

This “eclectic” soundtrack is a mixture of several genres and artists, which makes for very interesting listening. MARY AND MAX is a claymation feature film from the creators of the Academy Award winning short animation "Harvey Krumpet". A simple tale of pen-friendship between two very different people; Mary Dinkle, a chubby lonely eight year old girl living in the suburbs of Melbourne, and Max Horovitz, a 44 year old, severely obese, Jewish man with Asperger's Syndrome living in the chaos of New York.

Mary and Max

  

                                               

Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood...produced by T Bone Burnett

With the soundtrack to Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, producer T Bone Burnett has compiled another gently nostalgic gem. Filled with covers of jazz standards, sparse blues picking, and traditional Cajun pieces, Sisterhood matches Brother in ambiance and impeccable musicianship. The highlights are numerous: Bob Dylan's lively song waltzes with a raspy narrative, Lauryn Hill uses acoustic plucking to complement her soulful croon, and Bob Schneider contributes an understated love-ballad rumbling with piano. Even the cover songs are first-rate; Macy Gray jive-jumps through a faithful Billie Holiday cover, and Tony Bennett slows things down with a dapper and distinguished Nat "King" Cole homage. Despite the diffuse genres covered, the superior quality of Sisterhood's songs renders these differences negligible, and the album's pacing ensures a pleasing alternation of styles that never lags. In fact, there's nary a bad song on the entire album. The divine secret's out--Sisterhood is an essential listen. --Annie Zaleski..AMAZON..

Divine Secrets