By: Various Artists Average Rating: Binding: Audio CD Format: Soundtrack Label: Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation Number of Discs: 1 Release Date: January 11, 2005
Album Description: Includes NEW TRACKS from Taking Back Sunday, Jet, Alter Bridge, and Evanescence.
Amazon.com: This Jennifer Garner-starring film version Marvel Comics' martial arts expert/assassin-as-superhero never quite found its focus as successful big-screen adaptation. But its modern-rock song-score "Album" (Christophe Beck's more traditional orchestral score is also available) has no such obstacle, gathering together new recordings that punctuate the film's milieu with often forceful effectiveness. Jet keeps things lively with "Hey Kids," another rollicking dose of snotty retro-pop from the Aussie newcomers, while "Breathe No More" by Evanescence (previously only available as a live cut) is essentially a solo showcase for the emotive moodiness of singer Amy Lee's dusky voice, yet one that finds ample resonance with the film's title character. A shadowy remix of Finger Eleven's "Thousand Mile Wish," Taking Back Sunday's new "Your Own Disaster" and Strata's "Never There" mine a similarly introspective vein, contrasting well with more lively cuts like The Donnas' "Everything Is Wrong" and NYC's Twenty-Twos giving Veruca Salt's "5 Years" a nervy kick. --Jerry McCulley
Disc 1:
Strata - Never There (She Stabs)
Jet - Hey Kids
The Donnas - Everyone Is Wrong
Switchfoot - Sooner or Later
Finger Eleven - Thousand Mile Wish (Elektra mix)
Megan McCauley - Wonder
Taking Back Sunday - Your Own Disaster
Evanescence - Breathe No More
12 Stones - Photograph
Alter Bridge - Save Me
The Dreaming - Beautiful
Submersed - Hollow
Hawthorne Heights - Angels With Even Filthier Souls
Great Album... I just love the movie Elektra and had a hard time finding the album in a store and when I was able to find it through Amazon I was thinking- COOL! So far I am really enjoying this cd, there are alot of great songs. I like Meghans song because she also sings the same song on the Fantastic 4 album, Stone Sour's song is sweet and Evanescene's song with Amy Lee- always cool.
Decent The album is ok but I really only bought it to get the Evanescence song on it, which is fantstic :)
Great cd This cd is really good. It has a lot of good rock songs. Even if you don't like ELEKTRA you will like this cd if you like rock music.
eh... I'm not really sure what to say about this compilation. For starters, I really did enjoy the addition of new songs by SpiderMan II-famous Jet, Evanescence with their previously live-only track Breathe No More, Strata, and a few more artists. Then we have Megan McCauley, who I think so deserves at least an MTV Music Award for this song. Yet, despite these praises, it really wasn't as good as I thought it was. It might be me just comparing it to the Daredevil soundtrack (as Elektra is the cohort to Daredevil)... or maybe I'm comparing one Evanescence song on this CD to two on Daredevil ("Bring Me to Life" and "My Immortal"). Not sure. I mean, don't get me wrong, it's not the worst CD out there... not by far. In fact, I really liked it. I just didn't like it enough to give it a full 5 stars. Maybe if they put stuff like "Before I Forget" or "Duality" by Slipknot or "Numb" or even "Frgt:10" by Linkin Park (the latter from Reanimation), I could have given it a higher rating. Don't let this scare you away from getting this, though. It's an awesome CD; it's also not the best in the world... but then again, what is?
It's decent The songs on the soundtrack are either really good or really bad. The ones I think that are really good (and the reasons why I bought the soundtrack) are Tracks 6, 9, 12, and 15. The rest of the songs aren't that good. So basically the movie is better than the album. (Elektra receives 4 stars from me.) If you like this soundtrack you will like the Daredevil Soundtrack.
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