The Passion of the Christ: Songs Inspired By [Soundtrack]

the passion of the christ: songs inspired by [soundtrack]

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Over the last few months, Mel Gibson worked with his close friend, documentary filmmaker and music video director Lian Lunson (Leon Russell, U2, Willie Nelson, Dwight Yoakam) to put together an album that they felt would honor the emotional voyage experienced by watching the film. Gibson felt that the songs should compliment the message in the film and inspire spiritual reflection, but not in an obvious way. The CD takes the listener on a journey, often a dark and reflective one.

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The Passion of the Christ: Songs Inspired By [Soundtrack]

Passion of the Christ: Songs (Original Songs Inspired by the Film)

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Praise!
the passion shines through
Amazon is by far the best!!!!
Good songs, regardless of who wrote them
A Good Album With Some Noteworthy Tunes.

Passion of the Christ: Songs (Original Songs Inspired by the Film)
Various Artists
Manufacturer: Lost Keyword
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0002L582M
Release Date: 2004-08-31

Tracks:

I See Love - Third Day, Steven Curtis Chapman, MercyMe
Relearn Love - Scott Stapp, The Tea Party, 7Aurelius
Truly Amazing - P.O.D.
New Again - Sara Evans, Brad Paisley
Rainy Day - Big Dismal
The Passion - Lauryn Hill
How Many Lashes - Kirk Franklin featuring Yolanda Adams
The Empire - MxPx featuring Mark Hoppus
Finding My Own Way - Charlotte Church
Miracle of Love - BeBe Winans, Angie Stone
To Give Love - Dan Lavery
Reason I Live - Big Dismal

Customer Reviews:

Praise!.......2006-05-24

Praise all the artists in this album for a truly Christian but suitable for the secular ear album!

Keep the Good Work to POD, 3rd Day, Creed etc. We need more LOVE of the DIVINE kind on the Radio and on MTV!

the passion shines through.......2005-11-30

Alright, I wasn't the one to think that a movie like "The Passion of the Christ" (which I did cry when I saw it, like everyone else who was with me when I saw it) would have a soundtrack with actual songs... I thought it would be an instrumental CD. However, while on this lovely website :) I found this CD while looking for stuff on P.O.D. (featured on the CD), bought it, and never regretted it. The tracks on this CD are:

1. I See Love - Third Day, Steven Curtis Chapman, MercyMe
2. Relearn Love - Scott Stapp (former "Creed" vocalist), The Tea Party, 7Aurelius
3. Truly Amazing - P.O.D. (the best song on here)
4. New Again - Sara Evans, Brad Paisley
5. Rainy Day - Big Dismal
6. The Passion - Lauryn Hill
7. How Many Lashes - Kirk Franklin featuring Yolanda Adams (not bad)
8.The Empire - MxPx featuring Mark Hoppus
9. Finding My Own Way - Charlotte Church
10. Miracle of Love - BeBe Winans, Angie Stone
11. To Give Love - Dan Lavery
12. Reason I Live - Big Dismal

Overall: I was very impressed with the song selection and will definitely be listening to it for a long time.
Overall rating: infinity/100 (my usual rating for CDs this good)

Amazon is by far the best!!!!.......2005-08-22

I had a very speedy delivery!! My CD was shipped to me the very next week, and that was standard shipping!!!! Thanks, Amazon:)

Karen-Salisbury, MD.

Good songs, regardless of who wrote them.......2004-11-19

For the reviewer who thinks that every Christian is perfect or that only fundamentalist bible thumpers like yourself can write songs that glorify God, this CD is all about the music and it does a great job of capturing some of the beautiful themes in Mel Gibson's film. It's been in my player all day and I love it!

A Good Album With Some Noteworthy Tunes........2004-09-04

When the world first learned Mel Gibson was shooting "The Passion Of The Christ" in Italy few people suspected it would be one of the top 10 films of all time in the American box office, much less one of those movies that would have an accompanying CD featuring various popular artists. The film was a masterpiece of sight, sound and feeling and here is one of the few CD tie-in albums that was actually inspired by watching the film instead of being pre-packaged for a simultaneous release. True, John Debney's score album is the superior work, a rich, skillfull work of art in itself. "Original Songs Inspired By The Film" is surely better than the previous song collection which featured artists you wouldn't normally connect with the film (Bob Dylan?). The real secret reason a lot of people will be purchasing this CD is to see how former Creed frontman Scott Stapp does solo (and of course die-hard Creed fans will buy it JUST BECAUSE Stapp is a featured performer). As a solo artist Stapp is actually a bit impressive. "Relearn Love" has all the country meets gospel meets heavy metal flourishes that made Creed so popular. It's a good song with a sense of emotion and has some soaring moments of celestial chord playing. Stapp's voice hasn't suffered from his recent notorious alcohol excesses and there's still hope for this guy's career. The album is a mix of secular and Christian artists. Representing for the Christian category are Third Day with Steve Curtis Chapman and Mercy Me and P.O.D. who I guess could still be called a Christian band. The Day, Chapman and Me collaboration, "I See Love" is an effective, optimistic song that pays faithful homage to the film's messages and ideas. It's one of the album's best moments. P.O.D.'s "Truly Amazing" has some moments of real evocative instrumentals but the lyrics are strange and the song dies down when it takes on the feel of a love song disguised as a Christian anthem. Charlotte Church delivers a classically popish "Finding My Own Way" that reveals a surprising, pleasant side of her. Kirk Franklin and Yolanada Adams give us one of the weaker moments with "How Many Lashes," a somewhat cheesy stab at Christian R&B (does this guy always have to start the song sounding like a street-wise Socrates?). MxPx and Mark Hoppus roar in with "The Empire," it's a sometimes strange but not too bad attempt at Punk with poetic aspirations. One of the reasons the album falls short of expectations is because we expect a more visceral experience from the artists. "The Passion Of The Christ" is one of the great, epic and theological cinematic works of our time and the album feels too soft and simple. There's nothing here you can't find in any other Christian album or Gospel collection sound-wise. The first three opening tracks have so much promise that you're let down by the end result. In the end the album is for the collectors and Scott Stapp fans.

The Passion of the Christ: Songs Inspired By

Average customer rating:

Poor song choice
Intense, Beckoning Collection of Spiritually Driven Music
Hauntingly beautiful, but.....
not the sound track
Absolutely Amazing

The Passion of the Christ: Songs Inspired By
Various Artists
Manufacturer: Universal South
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0001N9WFK
Release Date: 2004-04-06

Tracks:

How Can You Refuse Him Now - Holly Williams
Stranger In A Strange Land - Leon Russell and the Shelter People
Are You Afraid To Die - Ricky Skaggs (Intro by Reverend Dr. Billy Graham)
Please Carry Me Home - Jessi Colter & Shooter Jennings
Ave Maria - Dolores O'Riordan
Why Me - Lee Ryan
Darker With The Day - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Where No One Stands Alone - Elvis Presley
Harm's Way - The Ghost Who Walks
By The Rivers Dark - Leonard Cohen
Precious Lord - The Blind Boys Of Alabama
Not Dark Yet - Bob Dylan

Album Description

Over the last few months, Mel Gibson worked with his close friend, documentary filmmaker and music video director Lian Lunson (Leon Russell, U2, Willie Nelson, Dwight Yoakam) to put together an album that they felt would honor the emotional voyage experienced by watching the film. Gibson felt that the songs should compliment the message in the film and inspire spiritual reflection, but not in an obvious way. The CD takes the listener on a journey, often a dark and reflective one.

Customer Reviews:

Poor song choice.......2007-02-04

I'm sorry but any CD that contains a song that disrespects Christ, while retaining His Name and claiming to be biblical is outright foolishness. I am of course, speaking of the Ave Maria. The apostle Paul says "...There is one God and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, who gave himself s a ransom for all men...." (1 Timothy 2:5) Mary cannot intercede for us.

Intense, Beckoning Collection of Spiritually Driven Music.......2004-09-25

"The Passion" as a movie was an event. Even the atheists went to see it. There was a sort of social pressure to see it. Not here. This CD has its own life, without the subsequent pressure from a media frenzy. It came out unannounced, and that's too bad. It is a superb collection of folk-blues songs that ask the same questions of the movie.

The movie's premise was simple: A man is killed because he claimed to be the Messiah in a culture which expected someone more grandiose and less humble. In the end, that man rises from the dead. The movie's implicit question was not complicated: is the story in the movie true? This CD carries that question forward, repeating it through songs of varied intensity.

Holly Williams introduces the CD with a song beguiling its author, her grandfather Hank Williams. It is reminiscent of the delicate piano found in the soundtrack to the "The Mission" and "Chariots of Fire." 'How Can You Refuse Him Now?" asks the obvious, that after acknowledging Christ's sacrifice, what stops us from following him.

"Stranger In A Strange Land" by Leon Russell steps us back to the Jesus Movement, when great musicians like Larry Norman gave us blues rifts and graveled voices in the midst of music about Christ. Russell's classic is charged with the energy and spiritual excitement of the 1960s.

Billy Graham is in top form as he answers the question, if he's absolutely sure he's going to Heaven, then returns that question to his massive audience. Ricky Skaggs turns to the fold again, poignantly posing the similar thought, "Are You Afraid To Die?"

"Please Carry Me Home" is a country song, sung by Jessi Colter & Shooter Jennings. As life is troubled, and we are tired and torn apart by the daily moments, she wants to go where her savior is.

Any Catholic will know "Ave Maria." Dolores O'Riordan of Cranberries fame does it as well as any version out there.

"Why Me?" sung by Lee Ryan is not asking, "What did I ever do to deserve this pain?" but, "What did I ever do to deserve your grace?" A slight guitar is played in the background, but never takes over the song.

Nick Cave's steady vocals points out that Christ wasn't about public opinion, nor should we be. "Darker With The Day" is joined by the The Bad Seeds in chorus, with a drum modulating the pace. In a single song, Cave is soulful, like David Bowie, Greg Brown, Bob Dylan, Joe Cocker and Lyle Lovett all at once, but with more direct melody.

Elvis Presley is usually enough. His gospel work transcends the best of his songs. "Where No One Stands Alone" resonates with strength, brought to life in solid Presley style, but without losing sight of the message, asking God to take his hand, in that place "where no one stands alone."

"Harm's Way" by The Ghost Who Walks is a tough follow-up to Elvis. It is the weakest song, with vocals sounding like Freddie Mercury (lead singer of Queen), minus the range of Mercury. Later in the song, the singer comes to life, in a neo-George Michael style. It never meets the mark, despite some decent lyrics.

Raspy, hiding, tremulously invigorating in his understatement is Leonard Cohen in "By The Rivers Dark." The mystery of Christ, and his power against the darkness which oft-pursues us paces this careful song.

"Precious Lord" by The Blind Boys of Alabama might be one of the best songs I have heard in a long while. Like Ray Charles in "America," they find something very big in simplicity. With a piercing guitar, they sing a heart-breaking devotion to their Lord.

Bob Dylan's Christian era seemed to be long over by the time "Not Dark Yet" was released in 1997 on "Time Out of Mind," but Dylan's music has never been spiritually shallow. It closes an album that left me numb with introspection and spiritual curiosity.

I fully recommend "Songs Inspired By The Passion of the Christ."

Anthony Trendl
editor, HungarianBookstore.com

Hauntingly beautiful, but............2004-08-07

I received this CD as a gift and it has been on my stereo for the last week. This is the kind of sweet and surreal music that lingers with you afterwards...insisting to be played again.

One quibble though. My favorite song on the CD was "Darker with the Day" and I had difficulty understanding all the lyrics.
I Googled the lyrics on several sites only to find the lyrics and...well, let's just say I was more than a bit dissappointed to find a pretty offensive word buried in the song. I have to take at least one star off for that, but it's still lovely, thought provoking music.

not the sound track.......2004-05-09

Everybody's complaining that these songs are old and that the artists wrote the songs long before the Passion of the Christ movie was released. I'm 37 years old and am thankful to have been exposed for the first time to the music of Leon Russell, Jessi Colter, The Ghost Who Walks, Leonard Cohen, etc. I've heard the Blind Boys of Alabama before and even purchased their Christmas Album, which I highly recommend. Amazing, simply amazing. I loved this CD. Such a refreshing soulish, bluesy escape from the noise that's on the radio these days, in secular AND contemporary Christian music. Thanks Mel Gibson for bringing these talented artists to our attention. Yes, somewhere post MTV and good looks radio, there are still a few people making good music out there and some of them are on this CD. Don't mistake this for the sound track though; it's a totally different genre.

Absolutely Amazing.......2004-04-25

This CD is awesome. I must say that the first track by Holly Williams is absolutely provoking and powerful.

Buy this CD. You won't regret it.

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