Fantastic Four [Soundtrack]

fantastic four [soundtrack]

Track Listings

1. Main Titles

2. Cosmic Storm

3. Superheroes

4. Experiments

5. Planetarium

6. Entanglement

7. Power Hungry

8. Changing

9. Lab Rat

10. Unlikely Saviors

11. Bye Bye Ned

12. Battling Doom

13. Bon Voyage

14. Fantastic Proposal

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Fantastic Four [Soundtrack]

Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer

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Norrin Radd

Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer

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ASIN: B000Q66IC2
Release Date: 2007-06-19

Tracks:

Silver Surfer Theme
Galactus Destroys/Opening
Pursuing Doom
Wedding Day Jitters
Chasing the Surfer
Camp Testosterone/Meeting the
A Little Persuasion
Botched Heroics
Someone I Once Knew
The Future/Doom's Deal
Sibling Switch
Outside Help
Springing the Surfer
Doom's Double Cross
Mr. Sherman/Under the Radar
Four in One
Silver Savior/Aftermath
Gunshot Wedding
Noren Radd

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The past couple of years have been, er, super-busy for composer John Ottman: He wrote super-heroic scores for movies such as Superman Returns, X2: X-Men United and two Fantastic Four installments, including this one. Being a sequel, Rise of the Silver Surfer reintroduces some themes from its predecessor (as on "Botched Heroics"). The main new development, of course, is associated with the titular hero, and it starts off the CD. Appropriately, considering Silver Surfer's conflicted nature, a moody undercurrent courses through the track, even when it finally gets to soar. New villain Galactus is a big ol' cosmic cloud of evil; appropriately again, his theme ("Galactus Destroys/Opening") is distinguished by a certain synthetic, low-end fuzziness. Overall, the CD is relatively low key for a big summer action movie. The suspense/action cues don't pummel your eardrums; a track like "Sibling Switch" brings to mind the classicism of Bernard Herrman circa Psycho, while the use of the choir of "Four in One" isn't that different from what you could hear in 1960s sword-and-sandals epics. This relative restraint may frustrate those who enjoy contemporary bombast, but it will be a pleasant surprise for fans of a more restrained approach. --Elisabeth Vincentelli

Customer Reviews:

Norrin Radd.......2007-06-20

-The album opens magnificently with an almost 5 minute suite dedicated to fleshing out the fantastic Silver Surfer theme which is nothing short of orgasmic. The theme is by far the best thing the album has to offer and it's a shame that no other thing on the album quite lives up to the fantastic theme. Since the Surfer is from outer space Ottman employs some very nice synths to give it an other worldly feel and he pulls it off quite nicely.

-The album does have a lot of skittering action writing which I'm not really a huge fan of. Elfman and Powell can pull that kind of stuff of well but here it just sounds so generic. "Chasing the Surfer" and "Pursuing Doom" are great examples of that kind of writing, but luckily the whole album is jam packed with that and does have a lot of nice melodic writing that provides some great musical moments.

-Tracks like "Someone I Once Knew" are a delight to listen to and once again shows Ottman using the weird little synths very nicely. I love how he blends the synths with this mysterious choir around the 45 sec. mark on that track. Makes it sound so mysterious and creepy. I haven't seen the movie yet but hopefully that great cue won't be ruined by loud sound effects or dialog. We get to see Ottman's romantic side with beautiful cues like "Wedding Day Jitters" and "Gunshot Wedding". Wish we could have gotten more stuff like that but the small ones we get here are nice enough. "Silver Savior/Aftermath" contains some great action and moments where the Surfer theme gets to shine. I'm guessing it accompanies the big, loud CGI battle that we should except at the end of the movie.

-The album finally closes with "Norrin Radd" which contains a choral rendition of the Surfer theme. Really wish it were longer and wish Ottman had done more grand choral writing like that because that was a treat to listen to and easily my favorite track on the album.

-I was never a huge fan of the first FF score and this one isn't perfect either but it is a huge improvement over the first one. It's no match for Ottma's stronger outings like "X2" or "House of Wax" but I still really did enjoy this an awful lot.

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Pitiful,Mtv,Hip Hop,Clubb'in SHITE
some great songs- overall good
Three stars for Ten out of Twenty Tracks that were pleasing
Eh....it's so-so.
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Fantastic Four - The Album
Various Artists
Manufacturer: Wind-Up
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ASIN: B0009OPO12
Release Date: 2005-07-05

Tracks:

Come In, Come On- Velvet Revolver
Error Operator- Taking Back Sunday
Relax- Chingy
Whatever Happened To The Heroes- Joss Stone
Waiting (Save Your Life)- Omnisoul
Always Come Back To You- Ryan Cabrera
Everything Burns- Anastacia; Ben Moody
New World Symphony- Miri Ben-Ari featuring Pharoahe Monch
Die For You- Megan McCauley
Noots- Sum 41
Surrender- Simple Plan
I'll Take You Down- T.F.F. featuring Chris Cestor (from JET), Brody Dalle (from The Distillers), Dolf de Datsun (from The Datsuns) & Nick Zinner (from the Yeah Yeah Yeahs)
On Fire- Lloyd Banks
Reverie- Megan McCauley
Goodbye To You- Breaking Point
Shed My Skin- Alter Bridge
In Due Time- Submersed
Disposable Sunshine- Loser
Now You Know- Miss Eighty 6 featuring Classic
Kirikirimai- Orange Range

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There are four good reasons to pick up the Fantastic Four soundtrack. The first three are kinda buried in the middle of the CD--and they all happen to be new songs. First, there's "I'll Take You Down," a nifty rocker by a combo called T.F.F. Never heard of them? They're an ad hoc supergroup featuring the Distillers' banshee Brody Dalle, Yeah Yeah Yeahs' guitarist Nick Zinner, the Datsuns' singer-bassist Dolf de Datsun, and Jet's drummer Chris Cester. Second, Joss Stone's "Whatever Happened to the Heroes" is a lot better than its obvious title suggests; it's a rollicking, old-school rock-soul track namedropping Joe DiMaggio (a hero in Stone's native Devon?) and Marilyn Monroe. Finally, there's "Everything Burns," which sees former Evanescence guitarist Ben Moody collaborating with Anastacia on his first solo outing. It looks like an odd-couple combination but somehow it works--probably because Moody knows how to write bombastic power ballads. (It's certainly less icky than "Hero" from Spiderman.) The fourth good reason is the very last track: "Kirikirimai" is a hyperactive rock/hip-hop hybrid that introduces Japanese band Orange Range to the American market. The rest of the CD, which mixes new tunes and recycled ones, is surprisingly solid with muscular but melodic contributions from Velvet Revolver, Sum 41, Simple Plan, and Lloyd Banks's infectious "On Fire." Just try to get its organ riff out of your head. --Elisabeth Vincentelli

Album Description

Featuring new music from Platinum and Gold recording artists Velvet Revolver, Joss Stone, Ben Moody featuring Anastacia, Sum 41, Taking Back Sunday, Chingy, and much more.

Customer Reviews:

Pitiful,Mtv,Hip Hop,Clubb'in SHITE.......2006-09-25

This is one of those thrown together soundtracks.All the cookie cutter,whoever is on the "popular music chart" crap music.There was only one cool song in the entire film and it's not even on the soundtrack.I hope the band sues.Don't waste your money on this garbage.There is nothing remotely interesting about anything on this soundtrack,but if you are a gullable sheep who doesn't mind being led to the slaughter,by all means buy the C.D,we need stupid consumers like you out there,you help the economy.

some great songs- overall good.......2006-05-17

not all of the songs are great, but the 1 by simple plan is pretty good & Error Operator was sweet (in my oppinion error operator gave ths ablum 2 of its 4 stars!)

Three stars for Ten out of Twenty Tracks that were pleasing.......2006-03-13

As many have said before more this is not the "greatest Superhero themed soundtrack" to indeed purchase and their words could not speak a louder truth. But as long as your Radio has PROGRAM installed within its system then your days should be a whole lot better when listening to this SOUNDTRACK for the 2005 "Fantastic Four" film. MARVEL and WIND-UP RECORDS have probably released some decent soundtracks for the MARVEL movies that didn't make that big-buck in the theaters that made up for it in DVD sales. The following being, DAREDEVIL, ELEKTRA, THE PUNISHER, and now this one. While the two before the latter do not stand up to the original SPIDER-MAN soundtrack (2002) which also had its fair share of hits and misses, The Punisher soundtrack should've been able to please any hard rock/metal fan with the presence of Drowning Pool's "Stand Up" and Seether's "Broken" featuring Amy Lee (shudders) of Evanescence (glare). Getting back on track, the FANTASTIC FOUR soundtrack indeed reflects the mixed feeling and light atmosphere your most likely to receive when watching the film itself. However, unlike the movie, this soundtrack (or wind-up for that matter) feels as though it doesn't try hard enough to select some actual music worth listening to all the way through. Instead they throw a lot tone-deaf artists that probably have the lesser of the PR and reviews from the masses and attempts to advertise them on the soundtracks for films. A good example would be the little piece of paper that comes fluttering out of the CD case of the soundtrack egging you to buy Megan McCauley's "new" CD, a shameless advertising trick to blunt.

Seriously, I picked up on this long ago and while I knew this was just the case with this soundtrack, there are some redeeming points with this soundtrack. There's a little bit of something for everyone on "FF," the case being that the music genres span from Hard Rock --- the main reason I purchased this CD--, POP/POP-ROCK, SOFT ROCK, and HIP-HOP of the edited kind. You won't find any explicit lyrics on the four tracks featured on the CD. I'm not fan of HIP-HOP in general, but the tracks here like Chingy's "Relax" (here I thought movie/tv theme songs were limited children's television and movies!) ---which isn't a bad theme song for the film, the rapping is bearable---, and Miri Ben-Ari's "New World Symphony," which is also easy listen to, but at the same time corny to the point where you don't want anyone know your even listening to it. Other HIP-HOP songs like Loyd Banks' "On Fire" - had potential to be catchy like "Relax," but fails miserably with droll lyrics, delivery of vocal performance and musical overall. Missy Eight's "Now You Know," reminded me why I don't like HIP-HOP to begin with.

The POP-ROCK and HARD ROCK is a mixed bag to frank. Some of its good, the good spanning from Velvet Revolver's "Come on, Come In" to Submerged's "In Due Time," in truth isn't as good compelling as "Hollow" on the Elektra soundtrack but just as good. Megan McCauley's two tracks, "Die for you" and "Reverie" don't show off her vocal talents like "Wonder" had (also on the Elektra soundtrack). Nonetheless, "Die for you" is indeed the better of the two. Breaking Point's "Good-bye to you" is a bit lame and isn't as good as their first slow songs from COMING OF AGE, "Live for today" or "Phoenix," it isn't horrible, but lacks the convincing lyrics of their earlier CD. The bad spanning from Taking back Sunday to the Japanese Rock band Orange Range, which sounds like something that would've been stuck on the APPLESEED soundtrack if it were the better band. Boom Boom Satellites is the better of the invading J-Rock bands anyhow.

Anastacia's "Everything Burns" still isn't my favorite song, it doesn't utilize her vocals that well, but after listening a couple times more it isn't horrible. It could do without Ben Moody's vocals though. Its no "Hero" killer, I can tell you that; Quite far from it. By far the best song on the FF soundtrack is probably Sum 41's "Noots" which a good time, high energy rock ballad worthy of the repeat button. I honestly hadn't liked a song from them since "Rock (is what we're all about)." But all in all Its pretty clear to anyone that not this soundtrack isn't bad. The problem it suffers from clearly is that WIND-UP Records doesn't choose wisely in terms of entertaining and talented tracks from various artists. They just wanted to make a quick buck off an over hyped movie.

[THE GOOD]

(HARD ROCK):

15. Good-bye To You - Breaking Point - 3/5

9. Die For You - Megan McCauley - 3/5

1. Come In, Come On - Velvet Revolver - 4/5

10. Noots - Sum 41 - 5/5

18. Disposable Sunshine - Loser - 5/5

17. In Due Time - Submersed - 5/5

(SOFT ROCK)

7. Everything Burns - Anastacia/Ben Moody - 4/5

(HIP-HOP):

3. Relax - Chingy - 4/5

8. New World Symphony - Miri Ben-Ari featuring Pharoahe Monch - 3/5

[THE BAD]

(POP-ROCK)

2. Error Operator - Taking Back Sunday - 1/5

11. Surrender - Simple Plan - 1/5

12. I'll Take You Down - T.F.F - 1/5

(POP)

4. Whatever Happened To The Heroes - Joss Stone - 2/5

5. Waiting (Save Your Life) - Omnisoul - 2/5

6. Always Come Back To You - Ryan Cabrera - 1/5

(HIP-HOP)

19. Now You Know - Miss Eighty 6 featuring Classic - 1/5

13. On Fire - Lloyd Banks - 2/5

(HARD ROCK)

14. Reverie - Megan McCauley - 2/5

16. Shed My Skin - Alter Bridge - 1/5

(JAPANESE-ROCK)

20. Kirikirimai - Orange Range - 1/5 -------- [a 3 out of 5]

Eh....it's so-so........2006-02-17

I am not gonna say but the album, but again, it actually doesn't suck. If you compare it to the queen of the damned album, then it comes nowhere near it. It does have some pretty good voice talent in the way of ben moody, anastacia, lloyd banks, chingy, and others. You aren't doing yourself a favor by buying it, but it isn't worth skipping over. Look into it only if you liked the movie OR you like the artists. 'Nuff said.

hi.......2006-01-23

hi, I'm billy and i'm 8.
thid aoundtrsck is swesome!!!
i loove it!
my moom won't lemme wattxh FF...y not?
Grrr

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Not bad.
One of the best scores of the year and arguably Ottman's best!
"another Marvel Comic-Book Hero victory ~ John Ottman"
Good Job
All the right notes.......unfortunately

Fantastic Four
John Ottman
Manufacturer: Varese Sarabande
ProductGroup: Music
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ASIN: B0009W5K4A
Release Date: 2005-07-12

Tracks:

Main Titles
Cosmic Storm
Superheroes
Experiments
Planetarium
Entanglement
Power Hungry
Changing
Lab Rat
Unlikely Saviors
Bye Bye Ned
Battling Doom
Bon Voyage
Fantastic Proposal

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Not bad........2005-08-20

The main title theme is heroic as its supposed to be but one song is not enough to hold an entire album together. If you liked Ottman's score to X-men 2 you'll enjoy this one.

The main theme is used throughout the album but not enough, in my opinion. The theme has different variations to it. The deep-noted variation of the theme is the "theme" for Dr. Doom. The main variation of the theme is the theme for the Fantastic Four. The subtle theme is for The Thing. Sadly, there isn't any thematic development just the main theme in different variations. The rest is just underscore.

If you're a superhero score collector, you need this in your collection. John Ottman's best so far is SUPERMAN RETURNS so check that one out. Other than that, you could skip over this one and purchase Batman Begins. :)

One of the best scores of the year and arguably Ottman's best!.......2005-08-14

One hundred percent action is how I describe John Ottman's new score to the F4! It has a heavy use of a choir, drums, church bells, horns and more! Several great themes are heard which include the main theme, the Dr. Doom theme, and what I call the space theme. There are a couple other small tunes heard more than once on the album. The choir is just so awesome! I love how heroic this score is. Ottman is definitely one of My favorites now and I seriously hope that he is nominated for an Academy Award! If you want to hear some of the best music that Ottman has composed then purchase this score today!

"another Marvel Comic-Book Hero victory ~ John Ottman".......2005-08-03

Varese Records demonstrates with this latest release from John Ottman - "FANTASTIC FOUR", just how varied this composer can be. Do not restrict this talented man of music with his past achievements - "The Usual Suspects", "The Cable Guy", "Bubble Boy", "Incognito(Score)", "Eight Legged Freaks(Score)", "Urban Legends-Final Cut", "Apt Pupil", "Goodbye Lover", "Lake Placid", "X2:Original Motion Picture Score", "Cellular", "Hide and Seek", and "Portrait of Terror"...which is just the tip of the iceberg.

Instead of a classical approach, the producers decided the score should be more contemporary, well our composer took on the challenge and wrote a strikingly unique, emotionally deep score with an eccentric blend of beat rhythms, Hollywood Studio Symphony and the Page LA Studio Voices....there are layers of underscore, infusing complex moods with passages of modern themes, very effective and wonderfully original.

Ottman always brings the necessary emotions to a film through his music, which could explain why this composer is always in demand...recorded at The Newman Stage, 20th Century Fox...once again, special thanks to Robert Townson (executive producer), Casey Stone (producer), Damon Intrabartolo (conductor), Varese Sarabande and of course Composer John Ottman for releasing this "movie-music" collectors dream...a must have for ALL the "film-score-buffs" out there!

Total Time: 46:00 on 14 Tracks ~ Varese Records 66667 ~ (7/12/2005)

Good Job.......2005-07-27

I learned something interesting from a John Ottman interview. He didn't say he wanted to be the next John Williams, but rather that Williams has so defined the superhero-score genre that half a composer's job is just keeping out of his shadow; you have to be careful not to imitate him.

Well, Danny Elfman succeeded at this Spiderman and John Ottman succeeds with Fantastic Four, turning in a score that is both memorable and his own. Like another reviewer, I'm a little disappointed that Dr. Doom doesn't really have his own theme; let's hope they make a sequel so Ottman can correct this. The main title kept sticking in my head and finally made me buy the album, and I ended up playing it over and over. Besides the main title, my favorites so far are Superheroes, Battling Doom, Lab Rat, and Fantastic Proposal. And I'm sure there'll be more...

All the right notes.......unfortunately.......2005-07-17

In listening to Ottman's score for Marvel's Premiere Family I can't help but notice that he is trying desparately to be the next John Williams. In interviews he is always talking about Williams and how He tries to have that same kind of grandeur.

Well. number 1: This score sounds more like Danny Elfman and 2: It tries too hard to be exciting.

I was the most disappointed in the fact that Dr. Doom(who was underused and inadequately served in the film) doesn't have a specific theme track on the album. You hear snippets of it in "Bye Bye Ned", "Battling Doom" and "Bon Voyage".

Also, is it just me or does the FF theme sound like "Beer Barrel Polka" to anyone else?

All this negativity aside I did like things about the score. The afore-mentioned "Bon Voyage" is by far the standout piece and I also like the jig that stops and starts during "Entanglement", I just wish it would've been played all the way through.

You could do worse for a superhero score,i.e. Batman Forever,
But it doesn't break any new ground the way Superman, Batman, or Spiderman did.

10/4/05 post script: I have listened to the CD again recently and have a slightly better opinion of it. It comes accross less noisy two months later and was a more enjoyable listen. I don't know if I would add a star or not but It has grown on me.

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ASIN: B0009J8GBW
Release Date: 2005-06-28

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