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JennYVarious Artists - Twilight Soundtrack Review
November 17th 2008 23:21
Genre: Alternative Rock, Punk Rock, Soundtrack
Length: 45:30
Label: Chop Shop / Atlantic Records
I'm going out of my comfort zone this week with something a little bit different a movie soundtrack. Twilight is one of the most anticipated movies of the year. Don't ask me why though, I don't really understand why there's such a big hype for another romantic-fantasy flick Underworld and Blood & Chocolate both had the same premise with Underworld being the only one of the three not based on a novel. Twilight's soundtrack debuted at number one on the Billboard 200, selling 165,000 copies in its first week.
The soundtrack starts with Supermassive Black Hole, the first single from Muse's fourth album, Black Holes And Revelations. It sounded familiar to my ears, like a song out of a commercial or something. Musically, it sounded like a slow version of industrial rock band Celldweller. It's a pretty good track.
Supermassive Black Hole Video
Decode is one of two Paramore tracks on this soundtrack. Released as the first single for Twilight, it's an average track that isn't really memorable.
Decode Video
Electronic duo The Black Ghosts bring some dark flow to the soundtrack with Full Moon. The singing is like a distant echo, and the drum machine brings some kick to the song.
The fourth track is Leave Out All The Rest by rock band Linkin Park. It is the fifth and final single out of their third album, Minutes To Midnight. There's nice continuation here between this track and Full Moon because the drum pattern is almost the same albeit a bit slower on Leave Out All The Rest.
Leave Out All The Rest Video
Spotlight (Twilight Mix) by Mute Math sounds like 70s rock. Its psychedelic flow makes a nice transition to the next track titled Go All The Way (Into The Twilight) by Perry Farrell which has a sound a little more on the techno side. Go All The Way is also the soundtrack's second single.
Tremble For My Beloved by Collective Soul is another average track but its lyrics go really well with movie, so it's a nice inclusion.
I Caught Myself is the second song from Paramore. It's much more better than Decode thanks to Hayley Williams' singing which brings a bit of life to the melody.
Eyes On Fire by Blue Foundation, Never Think by Robert Pattinson, and Flightless Bird, American Mouth by Iron & Wine are all guitar-driven songs. Eyes On Fire reminded of Beck's work on Modern Guilt while Never Think is a simple track with only an acoustic guitar accompanying the singer. Finally, Flightless Bird, American Mouth sounds like old-school rock.
Twilight's soundtrack concludes with Bella's Lullaby by Carter Burwell, a beautiful melody with a piano along with an orchestra. It's more of a score than a song. In fact it's also included on the Twilight Score CD. It feels a bit out of place with all those electronic rock/folk rock tracks.
So, the soundtrack isn't extraordinary, just average. But then again, I'm usually more into movie scores than soundtracks. Twilight's soundtrack is a 3.25/5 for me. The tracks I would recommend are Supermassive Black Hole, Full Moon, Leave Out All The Rest, Eyes On Fire, and Bella's Lullaby.
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Comment by May
Music Dime
Cool post.
May
EDIT: Ok, thanks to the information superhighway, I have had a taste of the other Paramore song, I caught myself. It is a different feeling, slightly less dark i feel...but really good. Hayley is a surprisingly good singer.