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Album: Twilight Soundtrack
Say what you will about the Twilight movies, but their soundtracks thus far have kicked some major ass. It is actually kind of baffling sometimes how such mediocre movies can have such fantastic soundtracks. Most of the time when I fall in love with a movie’s soundtrack, the logical next step (or parallel step, at least) is to watch the movie until I can quote it line for line (re: Angus, Empire Records, Almost Famous, Forrest Gump), and I guess to a degree that can be said about Twilight, because in the interest of full disclosure, I will tell you that I can and have been known to quote at least a few lines from this flick.
Yeah, I know, I have seen all of the Twilight releases at midnight. I am aware. But I have also seen all of the Harry Potter movies at midnight for the last six years and have never seen any of them again after that (guys, I even drove six hours after work back in October to see Part 1 with Devin in New York. Do you know when the next time I saw that movie is? This coming Thursday, at the theater right before we see Part 2.)
There is something magical about the Twilight soundtrack. That sounds so cheesy and im sorry for being that way, but it’s the truth. Eyes on Fire by Blue Foundation is such an incredible song, I didn’t listen to anything else for a good month after I first heard that song. I still end up repeating it a few times when it pops up in a play list or when my ipod is shuffling through.
Because the soundtrack came out before the movie, I knew that there was an Iron & Wine song in the movie, and that it was going to be used during the prom scene. I was slightly pissed about this, because I have been an Iron & Wine fan for a while now, and I didn’t want to lose my band to teeny boppers, but thankfully most of the Twihards ignored them again after a brief stint, and they came back to me mostly unharmed. One of the defining moments of my life was during an Iron & Wine show (which I have talked about before, so I won’t get into again) and I didn’t want to lose how special that was because I lost my band. Thankfully, they have musical acts like Justin Beiber and the Disney Channel stars to cling to, and they left the grown-up music to the grown ups.
This is not to say that this soundtrack is full of hits. There are some misses. I am not a Linkin Park fan, so I really could have done without them on the soundtrack. The song isn’t bad as a song goes, its just not something I’m really thrilled about hearing. I kind of feel the same way about Muse. I actually get those two bands confused in my mind…I walked out of a festival where one of them was headlining, but I cannot for the life of me remember which one it was, and since Mandy doesn’t read this, I don’t know that ill ever remember (I do, however, remember being totally trashed by 10am in the parking lot before we went into the festival. I don’t forget the important parts.)
Bella’s Lullaby, however, is the most horrendous thing I have ever had the displeasure of hearing. I read the books. I know what the song is supposed to sound like. I know that the crap that Carter Burwell penned for this song is not it. This song sounds like someone with no piano experience sat down one day and just started tinkering around with the keys, and it was recorded and claimed to be written for the movie. I mean, this song is such a joke that whenever it pops up in the car when I’m with Nicole, I look at her and just say “tinker, tinker, tinker” until she distracts me or I break into laughter and the juvenility of the song. Edward is 100+ years old. I think he’d be able to write something a little more…substantial. Ugh. That song depresses me.
Sometimes I feel like I should be grading these albums at the end of every entry. While that is probably useless and definitely arbitrary, if I were doing this, id give this album a B-. Yes, it kicks some major ass, mostly. Some of the low-lights are prevalent enough to bring the grade down almost two whole letters.
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