| Product Summary | | Label: Uni/dream Works Records | | UPC: 00600445030527 | | Release Date: 5/15/2001 | | Buy.com Sku: 60479527 | | Item#: M3YGMS | | Buy.com Sales Rank: 25050 | Format:  CD |
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Disc 1
| | Song Title | Sample | | 1. Stay Home - Self ~ Original Soundtrack |  | | 2. I'm A Believer - Smash Mouth ~ Original Soundtrack | | | 3. Like Wow! - Leslie Carter ~ Original Soundtrack | | | 4. It Is You (I Have Loved) - Dana Glover ~ Original Soundtrack | | | 5. Best Years Of Our Lives - Baha Men ~ Original Soundtrack | | | 6. Bad Reputation - Halfcocked ~ Original Soundtrack | | | 7. My Beloved Monster - Eels ~ Original Soundtrack | | | 8. You Belong To Me - Jason Wade ~ Original Soundtrack | | | 9. All Star - Smash Mouth ~ Original Soundtrack | | | 10. Hallelujah - Rufus Wainwright ~ Original Soundtrack | | | 11. I'm On My Way - The Proclaimers ~ Original Soundtrack | | | 12. I'm A Believer (Reprise) - Eddie Murphy ~ Original Soundtrack | | | 13. True Love's First Kiss ~ Original Soundtrack | |
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Notes & Personnel Info |  | Original score composed by Harry Gregson-Williams and John Powell. | | SHREK was nominated for the 2002 Grammy Award for Best Compilation Soundtrack Album For A Motion Picture, Television Or Other Visual Media. | | Personnel: Pete Wingfield (keyboards). | | Audio Mixers: Eric Valentine ; Joe Barresi; Joe Chiccarelli; Alan Meyerson; Mick Guzauski; Slamm Andrews. | | Recording information: EMI Abbey Road Studios, London, England. | | Arranger: Danny Jacob. | | If you scanned the back cover of the soundtrack to Shrek, without seeing the film first, it's hard not to think that this is an album that's designed to be a crossover success, containing very few songs that are in the film. You'd be wrong. Almost all of the 12 songs on this soundtrack (there's a 13th track, an excerpt of Harry Gregson-Williams and John Powell's original score) are not only in the movie, but they feature prominently in the film -- which just goes to show that Shrek doesn't play by the rules of animated features, just like DreamWorks told us in the publicity drive. What that means, though, is that it plays by the soundtrack rules of most mainstream comedies, down to the use of the omnipresent Smash Mouth not once, but twice. The record does take a couple of detours from the conventional though, no doubt thanks to DreamWorks' desire to keep their hip NPR audience and to promote their own artists as well. So, when it does deviate from the norm, it's for the eels' "My Beloved Monster" (from the 1996 DreamWorks release Beautiful Freak) and for Rufus Wainwright's cover of Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah" (not heard in the film, where it was sung by John Cale, but Wainwright is part of the DreamWorks family and he has an album coming out a few weeks after the release of Shrek), along with a cover of Joan Jett's "Bad Reputation" by Halfcocked (again, not in the film, where the original was used) and the Proclaimers' 1988 chestnut "I'm on My Way." Though these detours are a little questionable, they are enjoyable, but they still don't alter the character of a record that's essentially just a soundtrack, without much of the personality of the film it's attached to. It's not bad, but it's not great, either. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine | | Much like music, cartoons are a universal medium that appeals to kids of all ages. With that concept in mind, Dreamworks has cobbled together a broad range of pop for the soundtrack to the computer-animated fairytale SHREK. Smashmouth checks in twice with the 1999 hit "All Star" and a dub-flavored cover of The Monkees' "I'm A Believer." Guilty pleasures abound, whether it's Leslie Carter (sister of Aaron and Backstreeter Nick) and her use of percolating beats and scratches on the cotton-candy "Like Wow!" or the Baha Men blowing away their potential one-hit wonder status with the infectious party chant "Best Years Of Our Lives." The scale also slides to the sophisticated side of the spectrum as evidenced by Rufus Wainwright's gorgeous rendition of Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah" and E's quirky "My Beloved Monster." Other highlights include Halfcocked's pogo-worthy version of Joan Jett's "Bad Reputation" and The Proclaimers' jaunty late-'80s nugget "I'm On My Way." SHREK proves cartoons and music are two pleasures you never get too old to enjoy. |
Producer: Marylata E. Jacob; Eric Valentine; Gavin Greenaway; Harry Gregson-Williams; Jimmy Harry; Joe Barresi; John Powell; Jon Brion; Mike Mangini; Oliver Leiber; Patrick Leonard; Pete Wingfield; Ron Aniello; Steve Greenberg |
Engineer: Joe Barresi; Nick Wollage; Slamm Andrews |
| | Technical Info | | Release Date : 05/15/2001 | | Original Release Date : 2001 | | Catalog ID : 450305 | | Label : Dreamworks SKG | | Number of Discs : 1 | | Studio/Live : Studio | | Mono/Stereo : Stereo | | SPAR Code : n/a | | UPC : 00600445030527 |
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