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Music : Once: Music From The Motion Picture
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Once: Music From The Motion Picture by: Glen Hansard, Marketa Irglova List Price: £11.99 CD-Charts Price: £6.98 You Save: £5.01 (42%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0886971445923 Format: Soundtrack Label: Columbia Manufacturer: Columbia Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Columbia Release Date: October 01, 2007 Studio: Columbia Sales Rank: 210 Disc 1:
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Editorial Review: Amazon.co.uk: Even those allergic to musicals may be won over by Once, a tender-hearted Irish romance with songs by Czech Republic-born Markéta Irglová and Frames frontman Glen Hansard (the film's director, John Carney, actually used to play bass in the group). The trick here is that Irglová and Hansard also play the leads; because their characters are shown busking, writing music, or rehearsing, the songs are smoothly integrated in the film. The overall acoustic mood won't surprise fans of the Frames--some tracks ("Say It to Me", "When Your Mind's Made Up") have even popped up on the band's albums, though the arrangements are more pared-down here, befitting the scruffy, street-musician setting. Being the lesser-known entity, Irglová feels like a revelation; she sounds a bit like a folkie Björk on "If You Want Me," and her song "The Hill" is downright heartbreaking. Irglová and Hansard had already made the 2006 album The Swell Season together, so their collaboration here feels really organic--they sound particularly good together on the title track, for instance. Now that's the kind of magic you want from musicals. --Elisabeth Vincentelli Customer Reviews
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 Rating:  - ExcellentI saw the film first and bought myself this cd afterwards. I love every song on it. If it's the music from the film that you want it's all on here. I'd highly recommend this cd. Rating: - Original, easy-listening, refreshingly newWith or without the dvd, this music is new and refreshing. With the DVD, there is added meaning. Get the CD, watch the DVD. Rating: - Best soundtrack for yearsI can count the number of film soundtracks I've bought on two hands, this is one of the best. Outside of the category of film soundtracks it's still one of the best albums I've heard in a while. A superb effort from two talented musicians, I really hope the do something together again soon. Rating:  - Mellow and movingOverall a great collection of songs : I would agree it does resonate more emotionally if you have seen the film first , as the music is integral to it. However I did buy this before I had had a chance to see the film (it didn't get that wide a release unfortunately) and the songs still stand up very well by themselves. Glen Hansard was previously in The Commitments and latterly the band The Frames so the musical pedigree is very good. A couple of the tracks have previously seen the light of day on the most recent Frames album "The Cost" (2006) ("Falling Slowly", "When Your Mind's Made Up") while "Say It to Me Now" goes all the way back to their mid-90's album "Fitzcarraldo" , but the arrangements/versions here are new - the latter ... Read More: Rating: - You can't beat great songsAs a songwriter I am forever converted to five beats in the bar as well as on occation a simple approach to songwriting. The songs on this album are stunning, and just like the film, wake something that has been asleep for a while. I feel sorry for the people for whom this is not their cup of tea. |
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