The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
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Free Music Notes for The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
Free Music Review: Another Randall Poster/Mark Mothersbaugh Effort
Hit: 4 Stars
Admittedly I haven't been yet to see the film. My sister gave me the soundtrack for christmas, knowing that I have the other 3 Poster/Mothersbaugh collaberations (Bottle Rockets/Rushmore/The Royal Tennebaums). I think this soundtrack is similiar in that it grows on you like mold. Good mold. The Devo song "Gut Feeling" was awesome, its the song of the album for me. Quirky Mothersbaugh does his elecronica again and he attempts another canon, it works. The Seu Jorge acoustic tracks is different and sticks in your head. I just wish there was more artists featured. On Royal Tennebaums, I ended up checking out the Nick Drake and Nico, but from this effort I may only pick up a Devo Greatest hits. Maybe the movie will inspire me to love this morning.
Free Music Review: I'm not writing this to be helpful or anything...
Hit: 4 Stars
I just had to say somewhere that I'm as surprised as other people are about the Sigur Ros song not being on this soundtrack. I saw The Life Aquatic on Christmas and I loved the movie, and I loved how Wes Anderson made music such a large part of it, as he does with every movie he makes. When they got to the last scene and 'Staralfur' played, it almost made me cry, and I was really happy because knowing Sigur Ros had 'Svefn G Englar' on the Vanilla Sky soundtrack, I figured they'd for sure put 'Staralfur' on The Life Aquatic soundtrack. With it not being on there, I just burnt my own CD of the soundtrack and added it to the end. Its really not the same without it.Free Music Review: Missing the best bits
Hit: 4 Stars
This is a great soundtrack, as a whole bunch of other people have already said.
I only have 2 gripes. The first is that my goddamn girlfriend and her friend love the Ping Island track and they play it all the time really loud in the car. I HATE THAT SONG. Jesus Christ. Mark Mothersbaugh's songs were cool in the movie, but without the movie they're just obnoxious.
The other, legitimate gripe I have is that Seu Jorge's covers of Ziggy Stardust and Space Oddity aren't on here. And as far as I know, they aren't anywhere. Which makes me sad. That's the one thing that keeps me from buying this myself. But maybe it doesn't matter too much to you.
Free Music Review: Another brilliant soundtrack for a Wes Anderson film
Hit: 4 Stars
I am totally enchanted by the music in Wes Anderson's films. Somehow, the chosen music is able to elicit such an emotional response. I've never been a fan of Devo, but the song fits the film so well that I've listened to it again and again. Seu Jorge makes David Bowie's somewhat harsh music soothing and soulful. Mothersbaugh's electronic tracks would not have had the same impact had I heard them without seeing the film. My only complaint is the lack of "Space Oddity" and "Ziggy Stardust" from the soundtrack. I really enjoyed Jorge's renditions of those songs in the film, and they were sadly absent from the soundtrack.Free Music Review: See a movie, get the soundtrack
Hit: 4 Stars
Yes, this is one of those rare instances where you see the movie and buy the soundtrack the next day. The last couple of times that happened for me was "O Brother Where Art Thou" and "Pulp Fiction". The "all-Steely Dan covers" premise for "Me Myself and Irene" I think was nicked by Wes Anderson for this project (only Bowie tunes throughout).
No, the song Bill Murray is jamming to in his underwater helmet is just the prelude to another song on the soundtrack (cut 16). But, yes, "Gut Feeling" is played when they are looking at maps, planning their journey,etc.