Shrek - Music From the Original Motion Picture
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Brand: TCMComposer: Various Artists - Soundtrack
Composer: John Powell
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Soundtrack
CD Release Date: 2001-05-15
Music Label: Dreamworks
Product features:
- SOUNDTRACK SHREK 1
- Stay Home - Self
- I'm A Believer - Smash Mouth
- Like Wow! - Leslie Carter
- It Is You (I Have Loved) - Dana Glover
- Best Years Of Our Lives - Baha Men
- Bad Reputation - Halfcocked
- My Beloved Monster - Eels
- You Belong To Me - Jason Wade
- All Star - Smash Mouth
- Hallelujah - John Cale
- I'm On My Way - The Proclaimers
- I'm A Believer (Reprise) - Eddie Murphy
- True Love's First Kiss - John Powell
Free Music Notes for Shrek - Music From the Original Motion Picture
Free Music Review: superb.
Hit: 5 Stars
I have yet to figure out what all the "belly-aching" is about. Before writing my own review, I read through several pages with other reviews of this Soundtrack, and got very mixed signals.
Many have complained that "Hallelujah" is performed by Rufus Wainwright the acclaimed folk-pop singer with the haunting voice and brilliant piano skills instead of the version that is featured in the actual movie Shrek. All I can say to this is: Thank God that they did!
I am a huge Shrek movie fan and watched the movie more times than I could count, but it was not until several months later that my family acquired the soundtrack, therefore letting me enjoy it with a clean slate.
For a year and a half straight the soundtrack was in our cd-changer, and was listened to constantly. I fell in love with songs like "You Belong to Me" performed by Jason Wade (lead singer of the rock band Lifehouse) with the simplistic beauty of a man, his beautiful voice, and an acoustic guitar... all other covers of this song pale in comparison.
I am also a fan of Dana Glover's "It is you (I have loved)" because I can hear the raw emotion in it and the Eels "My Beloved Monster"
Of the more uptempo songs I enjoy Stay Home by Self and feel it should have taken the place of "All Star" for the opening montage, simply because it makes more sense... and is less annoying, as well as The Proclaimers "I'm on my way" and Bad Reputation.
(I won't even begin to describe my loathing for Ashley Carter's ultra-super-bubble-gum-poppy-makes-my-head-want-to-explode song "Like, Wow")
And out of all these great songs (and a few crappy ones) I like "Hallelujah" the best. Yes, the same "Hallelujah" performed by Rufus Wainwright and not that of John Cale. After months of not seeing Shrek, when it finally was released on VHS and DVD, I of course bought it, and watched it as soon as I could. When it came to the all important montage where Shrek and Fiona are seperated and "Hallelujah" began to play... all I could do was cringe. The words fall flat and lifeless in the movie, where they are vibrant, beautiful, and haunting on the soundtrack.
Honestly, people act as if they cannot read, where it plainly says on the back of the Soundtrack case "Hallelujah- Rufus Wainwright"
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