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Wings Of Desire (1987 Film) [Soundtrack]
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A little bit of everything can be found on this soundtrack to German director Wim Wenders's 1987 film: theme music, songs from the film, and even some dialogue. It's an eclectic mix, but it hangs together well, instantly evoking the moody, somber texture of Wenders's remarkable story of an angel's desire to once again become flesh and blood. Jürgen Knieper's solemn, meditative string compositions dominate the first half of the disc, interspersed with actor Bruno Ganz's reading of the Rainer Maria Rilke poem "Lied Vom Kindsein (Song of Childhood)"; it's a dramatic effect that works here almost as well as it does onscreen over sweeping panoramas of a still-divided Berlin. And even if you haven't seen the film, several songs featured prominently in it make this soundtrack an essential listen--namely, Nick Cave's relentlessly spooky "The Carny" and Crime and the City Solution's brilliantly droopy "Six Bells Chime." Elsewhere, we get full-length versions of songs heard only (tantalizingly!) in the background in the film, including Tuxedomoon's très européen "Some Guys" and Laurie Anderson's ethereal "Angel Fragments." Wunderbar! --Steve Landau
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Wings Of Desire (1987 Film)
Jurgen Knieper Manufacturer: Nonesuch ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD  Movie Soundtracks
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ASIN: B000005IZL Release Date: 1990-10-25 |
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A little bit of everything can be found on this soundtrack to German director Wim Wenders's 1987 film: theme music, songs from the film, and even some dialogue. It's an eclectic mix, but it hangs together well, instantly evoking the moody, somber texture of Wenders's remarkable story of an angel's desire to once again become flesh and blood. Jürgen Knieper's solemn, meditative string compositions dominate the first half of the disc, interspersed with actor Bruno Ganz's reading of the Rainer Maria Rilke poem "Lied Vom Kindsein (Song of Childhood)"; it's a dramatic effect that works here almost as well as it does onscreen over sweeping panoramas of a still-divided Berlin. And even if you haven't seen the film, several songs featured prominently in it make this soundtrack an essential listen--namely, Nick Cave's relentlessly spooky "The Carny" and Crime and the City Solution's brilliantly droopy "Six Bells Chime." Elsewhere, we get full-length versions of songs heard only (tantalizingly!) in the background in the film, including Tuxedomoon's très européen "Some Guys" and Laurie Anderson's ethereal "Angel Fragments." Wunderbar! --Steve LandauCustomer Reviews:
Music that triggers desire.......2006-02-10
Celestial score and melancholy goth songs.......2003-12-15
"Der Sterbende auf der Brucke" (The Dying Man on the Bridge) features the melancholy cello used in the title track, as well as the harp. There is a scene in the movie where the angel Damiel joins his mind and words with the dying man, who is repeating what Damiel says and thinks as he dies. The violin and harp number "Potzdamerplatz" features the ancient poet Homer's vain quest to find the title place, which is presumably in the Soviet sector of Berlin that he can't get to.
The sweeping angelic "Urstromtal" (The Glacial Valley) with its choir is one of the most dazzling of melodic numbers in the album.
Six of the tracks are film dialogue, four of them being Bruno Ganz reciting Lied Vom Kindsein (Song of Childhood), taken from verses by Peter Handke. He does the first three verses, and each are roughly forty-seven seconds on average. The second one is the most profound; translated in German, it means "When the child was a child, it was the time for these questions: Why am I me, and why not you? Why am I here and not there? When did time begin, and where does space end? Is life under the sun not just a dream? Is what I see and hear and smell not just an illusion of a world before the world? Given the facts of evil and people, does evil really exist? How can it be that I, who I am, didn't exist before I came to be, and that, someday, I, who I am, will no longer be who I am? "
The other is a lengthy 5:45, titled "Marions Liebesklarung" (Marion's Declaration of Love) and it's Solveig Dommartin, who plays Marion the independent but lonely aspiring circus performer. And there's a brief "Final Word" by Curt Bois, who plays Homer the poet.
The rest are songs and miscellaneous stuff, such as the "Zirkusmusic" (Circus Music) performed and composed by Laurent Petitgand, who plays the circus bandleader in the movie. Laurie Anderson's haunting "Angel Fragments" with electric piano-like keyboards, and her wordless vocals is the track played when the man on the bridge is about to commit suicide, and where the angel Cassiel fails to save him.
The stoner-like post-punk goth of Crime and the City Solution's slow bizarre and "Six Bells Chime" with that clanging guitar, Simon Bonney's Jim Morrison-like vocals, is my favourite vocal song here, with that "you're seventeen" refrain. Nick Cave's two songs, the gothic eight minute "The Carny" is the track Marion plays on her record player in her trailer, a sharp contrast from the punk attack of "From Her To Eternity"
Of the final three songs, the one that really gets me is the haunting and morose piano and cello-backed "When I Go" by Israeli group Minimal Impact. "Pas Attendre" (Don't Wait) by Sprung aus der Walken features a slow rhythmic drum beat and guitar that has the post-punk gothic sound prevalent in Germany.
All in all, soundtrack that ably reflects the haunting, melancholia of the movie, although English translations to the Handke text and Marion's monologue, also written by Handke, would've helped.
Inconsistent.......2003-01-15
Inconsistent.......2003-01-15
Der Himmel ueber Berlin.......2001-11-20
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Wings of Desire
Jennifer Rush Manufacturer: Columbia ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Pop Rock
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A more muted Jennifer, but still good nevertheless.......2003-11-05
The title track has a bounce and synths recalling Taylor Dayne, though it's not produced by Ric Wake. However, the theme of hesitating, waiting, and keeping one's soul in chains makes me wonder if it was Wender's film that was the inspiration. Succeed or fail, she says "I wanna soar wanna fall/I wanna feel it all on the wings of desire."
"Pleasure" definitely has a sensual atmosphere given the echoing backing vocals by Linda Taylor. Love that whistling flute-like keyboard that was used in Lionel Richie's "Hello." Jennifer's voice is at its best here. A standout cut like the title cut, which was produced by Christopher Neil. Pity he didn't do more of the album, because it could've used his touch.
Carlos Alomar's guitar gives "Midnight Mirage" a subtle U2 sound in parts. "Angel" has a quieter melodic jazz sound Sade used on her first two albums. It's another one of those "Now that you're on your own [but] there's somewhere you can go" songs prevalent on Passion. This also features Alomar's guitar, and both of them are Phil Ramone productions.
No, "Higher Ground" is not the Stevie Wonder song, but the synth keyboards pound out a soulful rhythm like Jackie Wilson's "Higher And Higher" or Phil Collins' rendition of "You Can't Hurry Love." Nice and snappy, showing Jennifer can tackle 60's style soul.
The mid-paced nightclub sound of "Love Is A Wild Thing" shows the ultimate goal of finding someone else: "Armed with the best intentions/our eyes are burning through the dark/wondering if dreams are gonna find their mark." Too true, that.
"For All That" is airy danceable 70's AM radio soul and despite extreme opposite personalities, she still affirms, "for all that I still want you."
"Love Is The Language (Of The Heart)" She sings of its mystery and the need for whoever to speak it low to her. "It's automatic/oh, don't try to analyze/love's got the texture/if you've got the touch/it loses its magic/whenever it's verbalized" she sings.
"Where Can You Run" shows that in terms of writing songwriting and music, not vocals, Michael Bolton is talented, and this song is probably the best here in terms of instrumentation and the ability to effectively showcase Jen's voice. The collapse of one's standing, self-assurance, and place in the game, leading to desertion by friends, yes that's familiar, but that one person who'll be a safety net, yes, that's what she says she'll be in troubled times.
While Jennifer's voice is still a wonder, the production here doesn't enable it to be showcased effectively, as the sound takes away from it, and Phil Ramone, despite his great work with Billy Joel and Julian Lennon, is the chief culprit here, although "Walk Away" is notable. The choice of songs is another debit as well, as there are some filler tracks I didn't bother mentioning.
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New American Trumpet Sonatas
Manufacturer: Capstone ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General
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Wings of Desire (Soundtrack)
Original Soundtrack Manufacturer: Elektra/Nonesuch ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General
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Wings of Desire
JENNIFER RUSH Manufacturer: SONY ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General
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1. Wings Of Desire 2. Pleasure 3. Midnight Mirage 4. Angel 5. Higher Ground 6. Love Is A Wild Thing 7. For All That 8. Love Is The Language (Of The Heart) 9. Cry 10. Walk Away 11. Where Can You Run
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Wings of Desire
Various Manufacturer: Mute U.K./Fine Line ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Movie Soundtracks
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ASIN: B000003SEV Release Date: 1997-06-17 |
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A little bit of everything can be found on this soundtrack to German director Wim Wenders's 1987 film: theme music, songs from the film, and even some dialogue. It's an eclectic mix, but it hangs together well, instantly evoking the moody, somber texture of Wenders's remarkable story of an angel's desire to once again become flesh and blood. Jürgen Knieper's solemn, meditative string compositions dominate the first half of the disc, interspersed with actor Bruno Ganz's reading of the Rainer Maria Rilke poem "Lied Vom Kindsein (Song of Childhood)"; it's a dramatic effect that works here almost as well as it does onscreen over sweeping panoramas of a still-divided Berlin. And even if you haven't seen the film, several songs featured prominently in it make this soundtrack an essential listen--namely, Nick Cave's relentlessly spooky "The Carny" and Crime and the City Solution's brilliantly droopy "Six Bells Chime." Elsewhere, we get full-length versions of songs heard only (tantalizingly!) in the background in the film, including Tuxedomoon's très européen "Some Guys" and Laurie Anderson's ethereal "Angel Fragments." Wunderbar! --Steve LandauCustomer Reviews:
Music that triggers desire.......2006-02-10
Celestial score and melancholy goth songs.......2003-12-15
"Der Sterbende auf der Brucke" (The Dying Man on the Bridge) features the melancholy cello used in the title track, as well as the harp. There is a scene in the movie where the angel Damiel joins his mind and words with the dying man, who is repeating what Damiel says and thinks as he dies. The violin and harp number "Potzdamerplatz" features the ancient poet Homer's vain quest to find the title place, which is presumably in the Soviet sector of Berlin that he can't get to.
The sweeping angelic "Urstromtal" (The Glacial Valley) with its choir is one of the most dazzling of melodic numbers in the album.
Six of the tracks are film dialogue, four of them being Bruno Ganz reciting Lied Vom Kindsein (Song of Childhood), taken from verses by Peter Handke. He does the first three verses, and each are roughly forty-seven seconds on average. The second one is the most profound; translated in German, it means "When the child was a child, it was the time for these questions: Why am I me, and why not you? Why am I here and not there? When did time begin, and where does space end? Is life under the sun not just a dream? Is what I see and hear and smell not just an illusion of a world before the world? Given the facts of evil and people, does evil really exist? How can it be that I, who I am, didn't exist before I came to be, and that, someday, I, who I am, will no longer be who I am? "
The other is a lengthy 5:45, titled "Marions Liebesklarung" (Marion's Declaration of Love) and it's Solveig Dommartin, who plays Marion the independent but lonely aspiring circus performer. And there's a brief "Final Word" by Curt Bois, who plays Homer the poet.
The rest are songs and miscellaneous stuff, such as the "Zirkusmusic" (Circus Music) performed and composed by Laurent Petitgand, who plays the circus bandleader in the movie. Laurie Anderson's haunting "Angel Fragments" with electric piano-like keyboards, and her wordless vocals is the track played when the man on the bridge is about to commit suicide, and where the angel Cassiel fails to save him.
The stoner-like post-punk goth of Crime and the City Solution's slow bizarre and "Six Bells Chime" with that clanging guitar, Simon Bonney's Jim Morrison-like vocals, is my favourite vocal song here, with that "you're seventeen" refrain. Nick Cave's two songs, the gothic eight minute "The Carny" is the track Marion plays on her record player in her trailer, a sharp contrast from the punk attack of "From Her To Eternity"
Of the final three songs, the one that really gets me is the haunting and morose piano and cello-backed "When I Go" by Israeli group Minimal Impact. "Pas Attendre" (Don't Wait) by Sprung aus der Walken features a slow rhythmic drum beat and guitar that has the post-punk gothic sound prevalent in Germany.
All in all, soundtrack that ably reflects the haunting, melancholia of the movie, although English translations to the Handke text and Marion's monologue, also written by Handke, would've helped.
Inconsistent.......2003-01-15
Inconsistent.......2003-01-15
Der Himmel ueber Berlin.......2001-11-20
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Wings of Desire
Various Artists Manufacturer: Milan ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General
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ASIN: B000025Y1N Release Date: 1994-03-06 |
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