City Of Angels: Music From The Motion Picture
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Free Music Notes for City Of Angels: Music From The Motion Picture
Free Music Review: Just About Perfect- In More Ways Than One!
Hit: 5 Stars
How does one evaluate a soundtrack? There are seemingly at least two ways:(1) It evokes a memory and feeling of the film.
(2) It stands on its own as a musical statement.
This album succeeds in doing both!
This is one of those rare soundtracks that feels more like the spirit of the movie than the movie itself-- if that is possible! So it covers the first point easily.
And besides that: Each of these songs is just really quite wonderful.
If anyone hasn't seen the movie, here's the gist: Woman's lover dies, she is comforted by an angel who subsequently falls in love with her (which he isn't supposed to do, and which has never happened before!), angel gives up his immortality to become human to be with her, woman dies, angel is left alone to learn human pain, love and compassion.
In short, it is a movie of essential contrasts: about loss and love, yearning and joy, sacrifice and pain, life and death. It is melancholy, uplifting, erotic, ethereal, earthy, depressing... and moving.
In short, it is about Heaven and Earth-- and whether these can
exist together or must always be, now and forever, separate.
And this album magically captures all those feelings and tensions in an eclectic, but perfectly selected, group of songs.
Starting with the haunting lament by U2, "If God Will Send His Angels," and continuing to the moving forbidden-love song "Uninvited" by Alanis, with it's vaguely Middle-Eastern vibe fleshed out by a powerful and driving full-string orchestra, we are then brought to one of Jimi Hendrix's most powerfully [rendered] blues songs, "Red House"-- another song about love and loss, but with a more earthly conclusion... Any soundtrack gets a plus with John Lee Hooker, as this one does with the unrequited love of "Mama, You Got a Daughter." "Angel" by Sarah McLachlan is another memorable song that must be called haunting. This leads to what I feel is the central song of the album, the Goo Goo Dolls' "Iris," a song that brings together all the main themes of the movie in one tortured, yet ultimately moving, song. "I Grieve" is one of the most depressing, moving and honestly disturbing songs about death that I have ever heard-- thanks a lot, Peter Gabriel! The Jude song "I Know" is pretty good, and not out of place, but my least favorite of the album. Clapton's "Further On Up The Road" is a a rocking blues song about love and karma. Finally, the Gabriel Yared instrumentals that end the album are just about perfect.
If you want to explore life and death, love and loss, joy and pain-- in short, Heaven and Earth--- those things that are Ultimately Important--- then you owe it to yourself to take a listen to this profoundly moving album.
Free Music Review: Superb Soundtrack
Hit: 5 Stars
I heard the soundtrack before I saw the movie. And the soundtrack was still phenomenal. These are songs that you fall in love with on the first listen, and fall deeper as you listen to it over and over again. I was mesmerized by the U2 song, "If God Will Send His Angels". The soundtrack is solid, through and through, from the opening U2 song to the three Top 40 hits by Alanis Morrisette ("Uninvited"), Sarah McLachlan ("Angel"), and Goo Goo Dolls ("Iris"), as well as songs by artists that I'd never heard of, like Peter Gabriel and Jude, to Gabriel Yared's score of the movie, which is pretty amazing. The Hendrix song ("Red House"), John Lee Hooker song, Eric Clapton song, and those songs, they were indeed out of place on the CD, which was a sountrack to a heartbreaking movie with heartbreaking tunes. But modern technology allows us to program what we want to listen to on a CD, so I'm not complaining too much. They are great songs, nonetheless, just completely out of place. (on a side note, Eric Clapton's song should not have been "Tears in Heaven", out of propriety: The song was a tribute to Clapton's baby son, who had died when he was like four or five. "Would you know my name... would you hold my hand..." are more heartbreaking when you realize it's a father asking his dead son if the baby would even remember his daddy who loved him so much, just because he never got to spend any time with him, because the baby was so young and because Clapton was never there for him.) But nonethless, it is the best thirteen bucks I have spent in a long while, and doubtlessly the best soundtrack since the Lion King.Free Music Review: Love your Guardian Angel
Hit: 5 Stars
This is one of the best movie soundtrack. It does a great justice to the film. 'City of Angels' is an American version of the German film, 'Wings of Desire'. I'm very cautious of buying movie soundtracks but this is a must to any music collection. It's not overly hyped commerically. The music tells the fantasy story of supernatural love. The best about the CD that it bubbles over with some of the best musicians of the music business. Plus the gifted talent of award-winning music composer, Gabriel Yared ('The English Patient', 'Message in a Bottle').
All my favorite top hits are here. 'If God Will Send His Angels' by U2 from their 'POP' album. 'Uninvited' from Alanis Morrisette's 'Jagged Little Pill' album. 'Angel' from Sarah McLachlan's 'Mirrorball' album. 'Iris' from Goo Goo Dolls' 'Dizzy Up the Girl.' Classics from Peter Gabriel and Eric Clapton. Bluesy numbers by Jimi Hendrix and John Lee Hooker around out this great album. Yared pieces are beyond genius in their effectiveness of telling a story through music. It's just exquisite. For example in the title track, City of Angels you can feel the emotions of the angel as he laments and feels his heart breaking. What else can I say but just try it out for yourself. The DVD version has behind the scene documentary, great interviews of Peter Gabriel and Alanis Morissette, plus music videos by U2 and the Goo Goo Dolls.
Free Music Review: Your Guardian Angel kisses you as you listen to this.
Hit: 5 Stars
This soundtrack is so true to the story of the film , it also stands alone as a masterpiece as a sort of concept CD. Anyway the lowdown: Sarah Maclachlan's `Angel' and Alanis Morissettes `Uninvited' give virtuoso performances. It's a consistent CD every track is either cool, rocking, or melancholy. The last 4 tracks are my fave by Gabriel Yared who won an Oscar for his score on `The English Patient' he also scored the music for `Betty Blue' Message in A Bottle' and `The Lover' , The 14th track ( City OF Angels ) is so emotive climaxing in a crescendo of Angels screaming in a mass falsetto of heartbreak and lament.There is nothing to compare it to with exception to ` Passion / The Last Temptation Of Christ'.
I recommend this to anyone as its musical variation , lyrical consistency , and EFFECT is timeless , buy it today and I can guarantee you will be buying some of the other stuff from the compilation of artists who appear on this soundtrack.
Someone once wrote of Guardian Angels , that it is the flapping of Angels wings that makes our heartbeat and when your heart is broken they take you soul to God so he can reincarnate you in to a new host so you have another chance of finding truelove.
Whoever wrote it must have had this CD.
Free Music Review: Your Guardian Angel kisses you as you listen to this.
Hit: 5 Stars
This soundtrack is so true to the story of the film , it also stands alone as a masterpiece as a sort of concept CD. Anyway the lowdown: Sarah Maclachlan's `Angel' and Alanis Morissettes `Uninvited' give virtuoso performances. It's a consistent CD every track is either cool, rocking, or melancholy. The last 4 tracks are my fave by Gabriel Yared who won an Oscar for his score on `The English Patient' he also scored the music for `Betty Blue' Message in A Bottle' and `The Lover' , The 14th track ( City OF Angels ) is so emotive climaxing in a crescendo of Angels screaming in a mass falsetto of heartbreak and lament.There is nothing to compare it to with exception to ` Passion / The Last Temptation Of Christ'.
I recommend this to anyone as its musical variation , lyrical consistency , and EFFECT is timeless , buy it today and I can guarantee you will be buying some of the other stuff from the compilation of artists who appear on this soundtrack.
Someone once wrote of Guardian Angels , that it is the flapping of Angels wings that makes our heartbeat and when your heart is broken they take you soul to God so he can reincarnate you in to a new host so you have another chance of finding truelove.
Whoever wrote it must have had this CD.