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Disc 1
| | Song Title | Sample | | 1. Heart Go Faster - Davey Brothers ~ Original Soundtrack |  | | 2. Only Way, The (Is The Wrong Way) - Filter ~ Original Soundtrack | | | 3. Bad Girl - Alexandra Slate ~ Original Soundtrack | | | 4. Satellite - P.O.D. (Oakenfold remix) ~ Original Soundtrack | | | 5. Last High, The - The Dandy Warhols ~ Original Soundtrack | | | 6. Time - Saliva ~ Original Soundtrack | | | 7. Leave You Far Behind - Lunatic Calm ~ Original Soundtrack | | | 8. Jam For The Ladies - Moby (Jason Nevins remix) ~ Original Soundtrack | | | 9. Starting Over - The Crystal Method ~ Original Soundtrack | | | 10. You Can't Look Away - Sloth ~ Original Soundtrack | | | 11. I Hate This - Nadirah "Nadz" Seid ~ Original Soundtrack | | | 12. Reason Is Treason - Kasabian ~ Original Soundtrack | | | 13. Into Hell Again - 3rd Strike ~ Original Soundtrack | | | 14. Tears From The Moon - Conjure Conjure One/Sinead O'Connor (Carmen Rizzo Stateside West Chillout mix) ~ Original Soundtrack | | | 15. Flight To Freedom - David A. Stewart ~ Original Soundtrack | | | 16. Pandora's Box - Alan Silvestri ~ Original Soundtrack | |
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Notes & Personnel Info |  | Original score composed by Alan Silvestri. | | Personnel: Ned Douglas (programming). | | Audio Mixers: James Brown ; Garret Lee. | | Angelina Jolie might have been genetically engineered to portray action video game heroine Lara Croft onscreen, and the Tomb Raider film series arrives with a guaranteed audience, outgrowths of the wildly popular game that it is. These facts ensure that Paramount will be able to cover the films' catering costs. Unfortunately (or fortunately, depending on your point of view), this also means that Tomb Raider and its sequel, Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life, can succeed simply by stringing together a Tyrolean traverse of explosions, fantastical locations, and boob shots. Hollywood Records' soundtrack to Cradle follows a similar formula, wrapping a cheesecake cover shot of Jolie around two classic clich?s of its own -- the summer blockbuster soundtrack and the video game soundtrack. Thus, the album is a hodgepodge of alternative metal also-rans and up-and-comers on the Hollywood roster, locked in a spiked coffin with that blustery big beat electronica that now only seems to exist as the backbeat to sci-fi actioners, body count video games, and outsized advertisements for shaving cream or sports cars. Sloth and 3rd Strike turn in faceless P.O.D. impersonations, while P.O.D. itself gets the remix treatment with a Paul Oakenfolded version of "Satellite." Elsewhere, Alexandra Slate's "Bad Girl" is an ambitious yet unsatisfying slice of Aimee Mann-inspired adult alternative; its catty yet cerebral lyricisms have all been done before. The Baroque synth pop of the Dandy Warhols' "The Last High" just seems out of place, as do the film's two main themes, which are tacked onto the end of this vacuous soundtrack. Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life might appeal to the franchise's core audience, which has an appreciation for bombast. But its ballast is hard to ignore. ~ Johnny Loftus | | Not quite as eclectic as its predecessor, LARA CROFT TOMBRAIDER: THE CRADLE OF LIFE is nonetheless as hard hitting as this film series' namesake. Christian aggro-rockers P.O.D. offer an ethereal Paul Oakenfold remix of the churning "Satellite," Saliva keeps the intensity level up with the grinding "Time," and Filter rocks out with the soaring "The Only Way (Is the Wrong Way)." Keeping the mix interesting is the inclusion of electronica stalwarts like the Crystal Method (a thumping "Starting Over") and Moby, whose already funky "Jam For the Ladies" gets taken to another level by way of a killer Jason Nevins remix. | | Other standouts include "Tears From the Moon" (Sinead O'Connor's collaboration with Front Line Assembly offshoot Conjure One) and the Dandy Warhols' "The Last High," which comes off sounding like an outtake from a mid-'70s David Bowie album. THE CRADLE OF LIFE is packed with the kind of hard-hitting fare that makes it easy to visualize Angelina Jolie swinging through temples and other assorted daring feats. |
Producer: Mitchell Leib; Garret Lee; Alan Silvestri; The Davey Brothers; Ned Douglas |
| | Technical Info | | Release Date : 07/22/2003 | | Original Release Date : 2003 | | Catalog ID : 162417 | | Label : Hollywood Records | | Number of Discs : 1 | | Studio/Live : Studio | | Mono/Stereo : Stereo | | SPAR Code : n/a | | UPC : 00720616241726 |
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