World Famous Comics: Across The Universe [Deluxe Edition]
Across The Universe [Deluxe Edition]
By: Original Soundtrack Average Rating: Binding: Audio CD Format: Extra tracks, Soundtrack Label: Interscope Records Number of Discs: 2 Release Date: October 23, 2007
Album Description: ACROSS THE UNIVERSE - MUSIC FROM THE MOTION PICTURE DELUXE - 2 DISC VERSION
A love story set in the 1960's amid the turbulent years of anti-war protest, mind exploration and rock `n roll. Jude (Jim Sturgess) and Lucy (Evan Rachel Wood), along with a small group of friends and musicians, are swept up into the emerging anti-war and counterculture movements with "Dr. Robert" (Bono) and "Mr. Kite" (Eddie Izzard) as their guides.
FEATURING SONGS FROM THE GREATEST SONGWRITERS OF ALL TIME, PERFORMED BY THE CAST INCLUDING EVAN RACHEL WOOD, JIM STURGESS, DANA FUCHS, MARTIN LUTHER McCOY, BONO, JOE COCKER AND EDDIE IZZARD
Package art will incorporate stills from pivotal scenes from the movie and a 16-page folder foldout poster with a strawberry image.
Amazon.com: Given a track record littered by misfired oddities like the Bee Gees starring in the 1978 movie version of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, successfully transforming The Beatles' epochal oeuvre into film musicals has been an elusive alchemy. Yet director Julie Taymor's 1968-centered, socio-political romance is more than just a stunning visual achievement. Its soundtrack brings a crucially intimate, emotionally engaging sensibility to its rich catalog of Beatles source material. Using an approach she rightly dubbed "organic," Taymor never gets too ambitious with the original arrangements, balancing the plaintive, often stark performances of central young stars Jim Sturgess and Evan Rachel Wood with equally compelling turns by supporting players Carol Woods and Joe Anderson. The stars successfully evoke early Beatlemania via the energetic charms of Sturgess' "All My Loving" and Wood's "It Won't Be Long," then get straight to the canon's often melancholy heart on his take of "In My Life," and her gentle cover of "Blackbird." Taymor's use of star turns--the entire point of too many Beatles-rooted projects--is as sparing as it is deft. Eddie Izzard's effusive "Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite" is the product of several edited improvisations, while U2's Bono and Edge re-imagine "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds" by way of Pink Floyd. Joe Cocker's swamp-dirge "Come Together" shows why he's long been one of the best interpreters of the Lennon-McCartney catalog, and Dana Fuchs alternately evokes the heavenly and hellish via her tender "Dear Prudence," as well as her manic, Joplin-channeling burn through "Helter Skelter." Elsewhere on the CD, Bono teams with Secret Machine for the straightforward "I Am the Walrus," while the Dallas indie rockers also take dream-pop turns on the instrumental "Flying" and George Harrison's haunting "Blue Jay Way." Remarkably, Taymor claims the bulk of the performances here were not lip-synced, but recorded live as the cameras rolled.--Jerry McCulley
Disc 1:
Girl - Jim Sturgess
Hold Me Tight - Evan Rachel Wood
All My Loving - Jim Sturgess
I Want To Hold Your Hand - T.V. Carpio
With A Little Help From My Friends - Jim Sturgess
It Won't Be Long - Evan Rachel Wood
I've Just Seen A Face - Jim Sturgess
Let It Be - Carol Woods
Come Together - Joe Cocker
If I Fell - Evan Rachel Wood
Dear Prudence - Evan Rachel Wood
Flying - Secret Machines
Blue Jay Way - Secret Machines
Disc 2:
I Am The Walrus - Bono
Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite - Eddie Izzard
Because - Evan Rachel Wood
Something - Jim Sturgess
Oh! Darling - Dana Fuchs
Strawberry Fields Forever - Jim Sturgess
Revolution - Jim Sturgess
While My Guitar Gently Weeps - Martin Luther McCoy
Across the Universe Really happy with with CD. Music follows same order as it does in the movie. Only a few songs left out. Disappointed I Want You was not on it, but all in all am satisfied.
Awesome! We thoroughly enjoyed the movie and the soundtrack puts you right back there. My only quibble is that it is missing one or two tracks from the movie.
reminds me of my youth I am enjoying this CD although, I do wish they had used the complete songs, and not just the parts used in the movie.
Great album but.... I adored the movie and the soundtrack, but if you loved this, also try to get the soundtrack to I Am Sam, another effective re-thinking of how to use the Beatles canon.
GREAT! The deluxe edition is the way to go with the soundtrack. It has all the songs in the exact order of the movie. If you like the movie, you will like this DVD.
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