| Product Summary | | Label: Universal Music Group | | UPC: 00602517507739 | | Release Date: 10/16/2007 | | Buy.com Sku: 205769727 | | Item#: M3T7XY | | Buy.com Sales Rank: 269 | Format:  CD |
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Disc 1
| | Song Title | Sample | | 1. Girl - Jim Sturgess ~ Original Soundtrack |  | | 2. Hold Me Tight - Evan Rachel Wood ~ Original Soundtrack | | | 3. All My Loving - Jim Sturgess ~ Original Soundtrack | | | 4. I Want To Hold Your Hand - T.V. Carpio ~ Original Soundtrack | | | 5. With A Little Help From My Friends - Jim Sturgess/Joe Anderson ~ Original Soundtrack | | | 6. It Won't Be Long - Evan Rachel Wood ~ Original Soundtrack | | | 7. I've Just Seen A Face - Jim Sturgess ~ Original Soundtrack | | | 8. Let It Be - Carol Woods/Timothy T. Mitchum ~ Original Soundtrack | | | 9. Come Together - Joe Cocker ~ Original Soundtrack | | | 10. If I Fell - Evan Rachel Wood ~ Original Soundtrack | | | 11. Dear Prudence - Evan Rachel Wood/Dana Fuchs ~ Original Soundtrack | | | 12. Flying - Secret Machines ~ Original Soundtrack | | | 13. Blue Jay Way - Secret Machines ~ Original Soundtrack | |
(P) 2007 Interscope Records
(C) 2007 Interscope Records
| | Album Notes and Credits |
Notes & Personnel Info |  | Composer: Elliot Goldenthal. | | Audio Mixers: Joel Iwataki; Mike Piersante; Brandon Mason. | | Recording information: Brooklyn Recording, New York, NY; Legacy Recording, New York, NY; Manhattan Center, New York, NY; The Village, Los Angeles, CA. | | Author: Julie Taymor. | | The 2007 movie musical ACROSS THE UNIVERSE celebrates beloved songs by the Beatles in the context of a fictional romantic tale from director Julie Taymor. Anchored by young love-struck characters named Jude (Jim Sturgess) and Lucy (Evan Rachel Wood), the film features the cast, which also includes Joe Cocker and U2's Bono, performing Fab Four tunes with great gusto. Among the many highlights of the soundtrack are Sturgess's emotive rendition of the title track, Cocker's stomping version of "Come Together," and an energetic take on "I Am the Walrus" by Bono and the Secret Machines. Like Cirque du Soleil's LOVE show, UNIVERSE presents Beatles classics cast in a dramatic light, giving the album a wide appeal with its boisterous, Broadway veneer. | | Following the release of the original soundtrack by just a matter of a month (thereby ensuring the irritation of some fans), the deluxe version of Across the Universe is a double-disc, 29-track set containing almost all of the songs featured in Julie Taymor's film, all presented in the order they are in the film. The very fact that this expanded version appeared so closely after the original single-disc soundtrack is bound to confuse fans of the film, but what will confuse them even more is that there is another double-disc version of Across the Universe that contains all 31 songs featured in the film, including "I Want You (She's So Heavy)" and "Why Don't We Do It in the Road." That longer version only appeared at Best Buy and iTunes, which is frustrating because anybody who loves this film enough to have all the music should be able to acquire it easily, especially since the single-disc version really has all the noteworthy moments that will interest casual fans. So, this is a compromised version -- one that is just close enough to having it all to seem to satisfy, but in truth it's far enough away from its goal to be truly maddening. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine | | As soundtracks to Beatles-inspired movies go, Across the Universe -- the companion piece to Julie Taymor's pseudo-psychedelic fantasmagoria extravaganza that tells the story of the '60s through the tunes of the Fab Four -- has bewilderingly gaudy moments, but it's not as appallingly tacky as Sgt. Pepper or as stuffy as All This and World War II. Still, Taymor's overly designed fantasia is at once too tasteful and too garish, which is an odd combination for an odd movie -- and something that may be more gripping onscreen than it is on record. Dana Fuchs furiously channels Melissa Etheridge (especially on "Helter Skelter") when her performance is isolated as music, although the biggest surprise is that Bono not only looks like a dead ringer for Robin Williams in the film, but he sounds a bit like him too, with overly earnest readings of "I Am the Walrus" and "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds." Much of the rest slides by agreeably enough. Jim Sturgess has the same plainspoken delivery as Ewan MacGregor in Moulin Rouge, which helps in love songs from "All My Loving" to "Something" -- and he does a credible job on the rockabilly revamp of "I've Just Seen a Face" -- while Joe Cocker steals the show with his slinky, funky, spacy version of "Come Together." And, apart from Bono and Fuchs' too-strong soulful belting, nothing is distracting -- but the biggest strength of Across the Universe may be that, when considered in its entirety, it mainly whets the appetite for the original recordings. [The deluxe version of Across the Universe is a double-disc, 29-track set containing almost all of the songs featured in Taymor's film, all presented in the order they are in the film.] ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine |
Producer: Elliot Goldenthal; T-Bone Burnett; Teese Gohl; Josh Garza; Brandon Curtis; Benjamin Curtis |
Engineer: Yohei Goto; Emile Kelman; Bryan Pugh; Vanessa Parr; Missy Webb; Jason Wormer; Adam Haggar; Halsey Quemere; Sheldon Yellowhair; Frank Filipetti; Stacy Parrish; Joel Iwataki; Mike Piersante; Steve McLaughlin; Brandon Mason; Lawrence Manchester; Ghian Wright |
| | Technical Info | | Release Date : 10/23/2007 | | Original Release Date : 2007 | | Catalog ID : 001027102 | | Label : Interscope Records (USA) | | Number of Discs : 2 | | Runtime : 94m : 21s | | Studio/Live : Studio | | Mono/Stereo : Stereo | | SPAR Code : n/a | | UPC : 00602517507739 |
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| Customer Reviews | ![]() | | Production |  4 | | Performance |  4.5 | | Composition |  5 | | Overall Satisfaction | 4 |
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5 of 5 Great album, would recommend Monday, July 21, 2008
A Listener from NJ
This is a great soundtrack to a fantastic movie. If you are a Beatles fan you will appreciate both the movie and album. Enjoy! Was this review helpful?  
3 of 5 Movie? Great. Songs? Stick with the original Wednesday, April 02, 2008
mattgb1 from Brooklyn, NY
I actually bought this by accident, thinking I was buying the DVD, but I kept it anyway. The movie was superb, but the song renditions can't even begin to hold a candle to the Beatles themselves. If all you want is listening pleasure, stick to the Fab Four. If you want to see a great movie that tells the story of a generation, watch the movie Was this review helpful?
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