The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy [Original Soundtrack]
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Music CD Cover Composer: Joby Talbot Edition: Music CD Audio: English (Original Language) Format: Soundtrack CD Release Date: 2005-04-26 Music Label: Hollywood Records Soundtracks:
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Free Music Notes for The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy [Original Soundtrack] Album
Free Music Review: very well rounded soundtrack
Hit: 4 Stars
This soundtrack has it all and is very well-rounded. Most of the music is composed by Jolby Talbot and is very imaginative and very very well integrated into the feature film.
All in all though, the orchestral scores from this movie work perfectly with the movie but are a little lacking while listening to them without it. As great as Jolby Talbot's score is, it is uncomparable to those by composers such as John Williams and Jerry Goldsmith.
The real standouts in this soundtrack are "So Long & Thanks For All The Fish" (featured in the film) and "Vote Beeblebrox" (not in the movie, but there is a wonderful music video of this out on the internet released to promote the movie) - they are really great songs, both written by Joby Talbot.
"The Journey Of The Sorcerer" is a great song and was the theme song to both the radio series and tv series of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy," so I'm glad that it made its way into the movie and at the appropriate time.
The real stinker in this soundtrack album is "Reasons To Be Miserable (His Name Is Marvin)" performed by Stephen Fry. It is just horrendous.
I have no problem with the song itself, written by Douglas Adams, Stephen Moore (the voice of marvin in the radio series and tv series), and John Sinclair. In fact, I quite like it.
I just abhor this new remix of it with Stephen Fry singing it. The new beat to it is horrible and makes my head dizzy. It is also hard to hear the lyrics. Stephen Fry was the voice of "the guide" in the movie - NOT Marvin. It is also irritating to hear it sung in the third person.
The song is from 1981 and was released on a pop singles album called "Reasons To Be Miserable" with the songs "Reasons To Be Miserable" and "Marvin, I Love You" (featured in a couple Dr. Demento CDs as well) Another album was entitled "Marvin" and had the songs "Marvin The Paranoid Android" and "Metal Man" For more on them, do a search on google.
The original release of the "Reasons To Be Miserable" song of course were sung by Stephen Moore, the actual voice of Marvin from the radio series and tv series and co-writer of the songs. And they are sung in the first person.
Alan Rickman should be singing hte "Reasons To Be Miserable" song and not Stephen Fry. They also should not have remixed it. Can you believe that there is actually an CD released called "The Marvin Mixes" that has Stephen Fry singing like 7 different versions of the "Reasons To Be Miserable Song" ?? I can't.