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Advantages: beautiful songs by famous singers!
Disadvantages: you may prefer one or other original...

...past successful songs. I must confess I think the job was not hard, the songs were already great, the audience already knew, for sure, the great majority of the chosen tracks. But yet, I found myself surprised with some amazing pearls I heard in this record. For those who saw the movie, this record will make you recall some of the strongest moments of it. The most impressive thing, for me, was the consistency between the album songs, though they ...
...different backgrounds and roots. But in the end it sounds perfectly coherent and pleasurable. Because of the nature of the movie these are mostly love songs, and therefore it is kind of a love-record to listen in very special moments at the candle lights. Among my favourites are Sarah McLachlan's brilliant version of "Blackbird", Vedder's soul touching cover of "You've Got to Hide Your Love Away", The Crowes' "Lucy in the sky with diamonds" and ... Read review

Advantages: Highly original realisation, still sounds fresh today
Disadvantages: None

...symphony (entitled "March From A Clockwork Orange") way back in the early 1970's, when a clip from the movie was shown on the BBC's "Film Night” (the part where the anti-hero Alex ambles through the music store, dressed in the “height of fashion”, and looking for willing young ladies to join him in the bedroom ). I was completely bowled over by Anthony Burgess' vision of a moribund future Britain, brought to the screen through Stanley ...
...2. March From A Clockwork Orange (7.00) For me, this has to be the highlight of the entire album. Here, Carlos has made use of the vocoder (or “Spectrum Follower”) to magnificent effect, recreating the choral parts of the Fourth Movement of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony in a totally new way (well, for 1972 anyhow). The music is performed as Beethoven wrote it (albeit in an abridged form), but the electronic performance adds a completely ... Read review

Advantages: a great film, catchy music
Disadvantages: quite a dark film to watch

...With Johnny Depp playing Sweeney Todd and Helena Bonham Carter playing Mrs Wilhemina Lovett, you can't go wrong. Depp's singing voice is so husky and gritty, so well suited for the part, where as Carter's singing voice is somewhat sweet and innocent for the most part, it really gives the character a twist. Without giving any detail of the film and it's story/endings away (that wouldn't be fair to those of you who have yet to see it) I can confirm ... Read review

Advantages: Original songs, Superb lyrics and melodies
Disadvantages: Some of the cast's voices are not quite up to scratch

This amazing soundtrack includes 20 great tracks recorded by the actual cast! When we heard Johnny Depp would be doing his own singing on the tracks, we were unsure as to how attuned his vocal chords were, but as it has become evident with the soundtrack and the film, his voice is just right for the part! The best 3 tracks of the soundtrack are Johanna, By the sea and not forgetting, the soon to be classic, A little priest, which is the comical pinnacle ... Read review

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I recently reviewed the film Love Actually in which I wrote of what a great film, I thought it was, and that it was different in the way that there were so many stories going on all at one, however it did not make it confusing in any way, shape or form. One of the other reasons, what makes Love Actually a great film is the soundtrack. A film can be great, however without the right songs in the appropriate places, it can actually spoil the film. ...
...within the film, majority of them being very well known, which makes it even better if you know the song, you are more likely to associate yourself with the film more and appreciate it. Although Love Actually has been around for quite a while now, the songs on the soundtrack are very well chosen and make listening to the album easy, because they are a great variety of tracks. Girls Aloud - Jump (For My Love) Although it was not the version that ... Read review