Me Without You [Soundtrack]

me without you [soundtrack]

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U.K. writer-director Sandra Goldbacher's sophomore feature details the friendship of two London girls from their teens into their 40s, a journey that's typically fraught with as much pathos as humor. As much of the film spans the new wave/punk-besotted '80s, it leans handily on some well-chosen pop tracks from the era, including the Normal's pulsing, electro-macabre "Warm Leatherette," "Just Can't Get Enough" by the original Vince Clarke edition of Depeche Mode, a couple early Clash tracks, "Another Girl, Another World" by the woefully underrated Only Ones, Wreckless Eric's "Whole Wide World," and Scritti Politti's "The Sweetest Girl." But it also underscores a diversity that was easily overlooked in the era, with the arty efforts of the Stranglers ("Skin Deep") and Nick Drake ("Cello Song") helping map out the film's psychic landscape. The remainder spans everything from Sonny & Cher and Tim Buckley to the Super Furry Animals, with Lucy Street's standout pop ballad "White Horses" emphasizing the score's back-to-the-'80s sensibility in winning fashion. --Jerry McCulley

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Me Without You [Soundtrack]

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The songs stand on their own
Sounds Very Good
Nice remix but nothing outstanding
MY FAIR LADY SOUNDTRACK FINALLY GIVEN ITS DUE ON SACD

My Fair Lady

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ASIN: B00005J9XS
Release Date: 2001-05-22

Tracks:

Overture
Why Can't the English? - Alan Jay Lerner,
Wouldn't It Be Loverly?
I'm an Ordinary Man
With a Little Bit of Luck
Just You Wait
Rain in Spain
I Could Have Danced All Night
Ascot Gavotte
On the Street Where You Live - Orchestra African Fiesta
You Did It - Rex Harrison, , Wilfried Hyde-White,
Get Me to the Church on Time
Hymn to Him - Isobel Elsom, Marni Nixon
Without You
I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face - Stanley Holloway
Embassy Waltz [*] - Marni Nixon
You Did It - Rex Harrison, Marni Nixon
Just You Wait (Reprise) - Rex Harrison
On the Street Where You Live (Reprise)
Show Me
Flower Market
Get Me to the Church on Time
Hymn to Him
Without You
I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face
End Titles
Exit Music

Customer Reviews:

The songs stand on their own.......2006-05-27

Many people can associate this sound track with the movie, "My Fair Lady" that was that is a film version of Bernard Shaw's play "Pygmalion". This is a classic musical with many well known songs by Lerner and Loewe.

However unlike many musicals the songs have a life of their own. Even though they matched the story perfectly, they are they type of songs that one could instantly blurt out in the thrill of the moment. I my self found that "On the Street Where you live" matched perfectly when I was in love in my youth.

Sounds Very Good.......2006-05-16

This album and CD format sound very good. I was quite pleased. THE RAIN IN SPAIN and ON THE STREET WHERE YOU LIVE are favorites of mine. I am glad this soundtrack got a top notch presentation. Well worth the wait.

Nice remix but nothing outstanding.......2004-03-06

After reading one review that gave this recording five stars I purchased it. Although it probably is a better recording than past CDs - don't expect the sound of a modern recording. A couple of the songs are very much clearer, but over-all I did not find this recording to be a revelation.

MY FAIR LADY SOUNDTRACK FINALLY GIVEN ITS DUE ON SACD.......2001-08-02

Warner Bros' 1964 film version of My Fair Lady, Lerner and Loewe's brilliant musical adaptation of Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion, is a genuine motion picture classic, fully worthy of all the awards and praise it has garnered since it's release nearly forty years ago.

My Fair Lady boasted a discrete 6 track stereophonic sound mix, which was state of the art for it's time and still probably sounds better than the majority of today's pictures.

This new SACD format CD offers the best sonic presentation of this soundtrack ever made available to the music buying public. With this release Sony has corrected a horrible injustice done to My Fair Lady in its previous CD. Gone is the sloppy editing of bits and pieces of meaningless dialogue excerpts and intrusive Foley effects, which served only to show the total lack of respect the producers had for these performances. While this SACD is not completely free of such tampering, this time the small amount of dialogue is beautifully edited and serves properly as lead in to the songs. Unlike the original LP release the extended versions of all the songs are presented here, along with The Embassy Waltz and the Entr'acte music.

I won't get into the debate over Audrey Hepburn's casting except to say that at this point in time Julie Andrews, although obviously a better singer than Hepburn and probably wonderful on the stage, could not have even come close to the level of brilliance displayed by Audrey Hepburn in this role on the screen.

Unfortunately precious little of Hepburn's superb performance is to be heard on this SACD, which leaves us with a debate over how Marni Nixon, Hepburn's vocal double, compares to Julie Andrews. Other than the fact that her Cockney accent is not so great, Nixon acquits herself quite admirably in the role, although I believe that Hepburn should have been allowed to do more of the singing with Nixon stepping in vocally when the going got rough, such as she did for Deborah Kerr in The King and I. But even so, Marni Nixon is arguably every bit as good a singer as Julie Andrews and performs the songs beautifully.

Add to that the fact that this soundtrack offers Rex Harrison's most polished performance of Professor Henry Higgins and since his songs were recorded live at the time of filming, there is a spontinenity in them lacking in the Broadway and particularly in the London Cast Recordings.

Stanley Holloway performs his songs with much more zest in this recording as well. But the greatest improvements over the original are the outstanding orchestral arrangements and conducting by Andre Previn assisted by Robert Tucker's excellent choral work. The brassy, puny orchestras and shrill choruses on all other recordings pale by comparison.

Still, the Original 1956 Broadway Cast Recording should be a part of any serious music lover's collection, if only to savor Julie Andrews' sterling vocal performance as the original Eliza Doolittle. The 1964 soundtrack reviewed here should be equally enjoyed on its own merits, as mentioned above, and for allowing one to hear in brilliant stereo sound a more complete and better orchestrated version of Lerner and Loewe's musical masterpiece.

Tracks:

A River Runs Through It
Casting Presbyterian Style
A Land Filled With Wonder
Down The Alley (With You)
A Summer Of Lumber And Fishing
Shooting The Schutes
Three Fishermen
A Trip To The Unknown
A Four Count Rhythm
The Shiek Of Araby
Bye Bye Blackbird - Prudence Johnson
Je Ne Sais Quois
Swing Me High, Swing Me Low
A Place Remembered
A Remark Was Passed
Rugged Cross
Muskrat Ramble
Rawhide
The Wild Ride
Early Departure
The Splendor In The Grass
Jessie And Norman
Lolo's
The High Road
Yes, Quite A Day
A Fine Fisherman And The Big Blackfoot River
The Moment That Could Not Last
Too Deep For Tears
Without Complete Understanding
In The Half-Light Of The Canyon
Haunted By Waters - A River Runs Through It (Reprise)
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Album Description

A River Runs Through It features Mark Isham's Grammy-and Academy Award-nominated score, plus the songs "The Sheik of Araby" written by Harry B. Smith, Ted Snyder & Francis Wheeler, "Bye Bye Blackbird" written by Mort Dixon & Ray Henderson, and "Muskrat Ramble" written by Ray Gilbert and Edward 'Kid' Ory.

Customer Reviews:

Review(How original huh?).......2007-01-25

Personally, this is one of the absolute BEST soundtracks I have ever listened to. The music is calming, soothing, and truly wonderful. The music is so well put together and nicely coordinated and I feel like I am watching the movie again...it also makes great to read the Laura Ingalls Wilder books too. Try it...you might be suprised how well it fits. :)

Music that transcends simple meaning..........2006-07-16

Mark Isham's score for the motion picture A River Runs Through It is one of the most memorable and emotionally captivating film scores of all time. The arrangements of strings, piano, woodwinds create a meditative and reflective range of music throughout the film capturing all the emotions of this powerful drama about an American family in rural Montana. It is at once deeply haunting, moving, nostalgic and sentimental and captures the innocence and beauty of nature and childhood, as well as darker themes of rebellion and tragedy. There is a profound sense of emotion that is embedded within the music that sweeps over me every time I hear it. A combination of happiness, sadness, excitement, and reflection. There is something simply sweeping and majestic within his music. I couldn't think of anything else that would better compliment the film. Highly recommended.

Rent (Highlights from the Original 2005 Motion Picture Soundtrack)

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Amazing CD
We're Not Gonna Pay Rent!
Amazing CD!
Good Compialition
Was very very impressed with special features

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Tracks:

Seasons of Love
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Light My Candle
Today 4 U
Tango: Maureen
Out Tonight
Santa Fe
I'll Cover You
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Yes, it's true that 90% of the time Broadway fans will want the original Broadway cast recording over any other version, and 95% of the time the full recording will beat any set of "highlights." But this collection of songs from the Rent movie may defy both trends. Rentheads surely have the two-disc Broadway version already, and this well-selected 65 minutes may satisfy their desire to have performances from the movie as well (and the movie has less music than the show anyway). On the other end of the spectrum, people who enjoyed the movie but don't feel the compulsion to own every note of what they heard might well be pleased with a single disc of highlights. Pick it up and live La Vie Boheme all over again. --David Horiuchi

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Customer Reviews:

Amazing CD.......2007-02-17

This is the perfect CD for those who love the music from the film, or even the Broadway show. I just bought this CD because I am new to "RENT". I first saw the movie 2 weeks ago and I am completely hooked!! I am also addicted to this CD, I listen to it atleast once a day (if not more)!! This is perfect for any "RENT" fans out there!!

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We're Not Gonna Pay Rent!.......2006-06-11

I loved Rent, but I just couldn't bring myself to spend the money for the full version of the soundtrack. Highlights from Rent was PERFECT! It has all the main songs from the movie I was looking for, and that was important to me. I play this soundtrack constantly, from beginning to end, singing along the whole way. Every song on her deserves to be on here - it's amazing.

Amazing CD!.......2006-04-19

I got Rent the CD for my birthday, and I looked and I thought it did not have my favorite song on there:No Day But Today well I was exploring the Rent website, and I found out that it was NOT called No Day But Today, it was called Finale B I was so happy and I listen to it over and over and over and over again without me getting sick of it! Great CD totally recommended ALL THE WAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The Best Songs On The CD Are:

*********Finale B*************(The Best)
Seasons Of Love
Light My Candle
Tango:Maureen
Out Tonight
One Song Glory
La Vie Boheme

Good Compialition.......2006-03-29

This is truly a highlights cd, with the only dissapointment, to me, being that the song "Another Day," is not included. But the rest of my favorites Without You, Rent, Tango Maureen, and, of course, La Vie Boheme, make this a great cd for any Broadway lover.

Was very very impressed with special features.......2006-03-24

An original "Rent Head", I saw this movie at the cinemas and was less than impressed with the finished product. I found that on watching the DVD I have since completely changed my opinion. The CD is fantabubulous - I love IT!. It is all the wonderful music from the movie and if I gush anymore it will come across as very very ridiculous! Just buy it - its great!

It is an absolute must for anybody who fell in love with the musical!

Average customer rating:

White horses and the Only Ones
Great soundtrack
Some surprisingly little known 80s music
New Wave (again)
Best Soundtrack in a long time!

Me Without You
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Release Date: 2002-07-16

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White Horses - Lucy Street
I Got You Babe - Sonny & Cher
(White Man) In Hammersmith Palais - The Clash
Just Can't Get Enough - Depeche Mode
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The Cutter - Echo & The Bunneymen
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U.K. writer-director Sandra Goldbacher's sophomore feature details the friendship of two London girls from their teens into their 40s, a journey that's typically fraught with as much pathos as humor. As much of the film spans the new wave/punk-besotted '80s, it leans handily on some well-chosen pop tracks from the era, including the Normal's pulsing, electro-macabre "Warm Leatherette," "Just Can't Get Enough" by the original Vince Clarke edition of Depeche Mode, a couple early Clash tracks, "Another Girl, Another World" by the woefully underrated Only Ones, Wreckless Eric's "Whole Wide World," and Scritti Politti's "The Sweetest Girl." But it also underscores a diversity that was easily overlooked in the era, with the arty efforts of the Stranglers ("Skin Deep") and Nick Drake ("Cello Song") helping map out the film's psychic landscape. The remainder spans everything from Sonny & Cher and Tim Buckley to the Super Furry Animals, with Lucy Street's standout pop ballad "White Horses" emphasizing the score's back-to-the-'80s sensibility in winning fashion. --Jerry McCulley

Customer Reviews:

White horses and the Only Ones.......2007-01-30

If you didn't grow up at the time watching BBC1 on Saturday morning then you wouldn't know that White Horses was an east European children's program long before Swap Shop ever existed. For the life of me I can't remember what it was about but the tune is instantly recognizable to anyone who watched it as a 6-8 year old in 1973 which is where Me Without You begins. I also seem to remember reading somewhere that it was voted best ever theme song in the UK.

And forget about Adam Ant, the Only Ones is superb, one of the best intros to any song early punk song. Also used as the signature tune
by Dave Fanning for years on his Irish radio show.

Love the CD but have to say the Barbara Dickson track means I couldn't give it 5 stars.

Great soundtrack.......2005-02-01

I really like this movie and the soundtrack. All the songs are great. The guy who said Adam and the Ants was "shoddy music". Hello?? What planet are you from dude? Whatever...

Anyway REAL music lovers will like this cd very much.

Some surprisingly little known 80s music.......2004-08-24

I was shocked that they used Scritti Politti "Sweetest Girl" in this movie. This tune came out around 1982 or so. Americans and other nationalities probably wouldn't know this song. Only the Brits. They did an excellent job of researching the era that most of the music is released. Where I got confused is during the <?> mid-to-late 80s. Like the scene where they go to the dance club with Kyle M who plays the randy professor. I think they would have synth-pop playing other than Depeche Mode "I Just Can't .." This song is from 1981-82. I assumed that it was a few years later. Back then it seemed like music was constantly changing; and Elvis Costello was still king. ...They would have heard Culture Club and Eurythmics. ...yada yada

New Wave (again).......2004-04-20

For anyone born in the mid-1960s this movie and this soundtrack are like a replay of your life. Glam rock on television that you were too young to understand. Sitting at and watching the Sonny and Cher show with your parents. Bad psychedelia which is like childhood revisted. The pleasurable slide into punk and reggae. Endless plays of "Warm Leatherette" by The Normal to figure what it was about. Listening to the only band that matters, The Clash, at high volume. Those were the days of Adam Ant and Depeche Mode. Drugs followed. The music was a background hum to our post college amnesia. Maybe you even read a few books in the meantime? Then now your favorite band is Super Furry Animals. I guess that is more about me than you. You probably liked Michael Jackson and voted for George Bush.

This album evokes the time and so does the movie. Mostly the time around 1977-1984. They even threw some weird songs like "White Horses" by Lucy Street which opens up the great film about two close female friends over decades. Apparently this is what Ian Broudie has been up to lately. "I Got You Babe" is here mainly because it's a song about interdependence, and in this case an unhealthy one. A few Clash songs thrown in just remind us that punk was important at some point. Bands like Depeche Mode, The Stranglers, and Echo and The Bunnymen remind us that the 1980s was not all drugs but some good music occasionally. Some sensitive music by Tim Buckley and Nick Drake is thrown in. Girls love it.

"January February" by Barbara Dickson sounds like some bad television sitcom music and must be for pavlovian reasons. Some music is on this soundtrack is horrible and sentimental. Now we know where Celine Dion has been. The disc gets back on course with tracks by The Normal and Wreckless Eric. The one single by The Normal and the previous song "The Cutter" by The Bunnymen are like bookends and evokes those years better than any songs. "White Riot" is used in a scene when the girls, now known as "Harina," to jump up and down on a bed. Girls do this. They take baths together too. Anna Friel and Michelle Williams are great actors. Adam and The Ants and The Only Ones are here because there was some shoddy music in the 1980s too, and hence the drugs. The soundtrack ends with a present day song by Super Furry Animals. This is a reminder that me, and the director, and the people this movie was based on, and maybe you too, are all older and nearing 40. It's a wake up call. Life is a blink really. Enjoy.

Best Soundtrack in a long time!.......2003-06-28

I was so surprised with this soundtrack. It is full of great music that is not so commonly heard. I loved the movie and the songs fit each era perfectly. Favorite would have to be Whole Wide World and The Normal

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A masterpiece

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A masterpiece.......2004-02-03

The melody that gives the title to this cd, "On Broadway" is a masterpiece of arrangement: every instrument is on the very right key and it truly makes you live that very special feeling that you only get every once in a while with very special music. Listen to it, you will buy it instantly.

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