City Of Angels: Music From The Motion Picture
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Composer: Gabriel YaredEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Format: Soundtrack
CD Release Date: 1998-03-31
Music Label: Reprise / Wea
Product features:
- O.s.t. - City Of Angels Movie Soundtrack Brazil Import
- If God Will Send His Angels - U2
- Uninvited - Alanis Morissette
- Red House - Jimi Hendrix
- Feelin' Love - Paula Cole
- Mama, You Got a Daughter - John Lee Hooker
- Angel - Sarah McLaughlan
- Iris - Goo Goo Dolls
- I Grieve - Peter Gabriel
- I Know - Jude
- Further on up the Road - Eric Clapton
- Angel Falls
- Unfeeling Kiss
- Spreading Wings
- City of Angels
Music reviews of City Of Angels: Music From The Motion Picture
Music Review: Captures Essence of Movie - Falls Short in Other Areas
Rating: 3 Stars
A good soundtrack to a movie will do an excellent job at translating the essence of the movie into the music on the soundtrack. It will also be a body of work that is worth listening to even if the movie did not exist. The soundtrack for "City of Angels" does an outstanding job for capturing the essence of the motion picture, but is weaker on standing on its own. "City of Angels" is the story of an Angel who develops a relationship with a Heart Surgeon, and as the relationship develops the Angel faces a decision to forgo his immortality and spend time on Earth as a mortal. Most of this soundtrack does an excellent job with the whole theme of life, death, and the here after. The soundtrack brings an All Star lineup of artists that contribute tracks to the collection. With names like U2, Alanis Morrisette, Jimi Hendrix, Paula Cole, John Lee Hooker, Sarah McLachlan, Goo Goo Dolls, Peter Gabriel, and Eric Claption - it is almost like a who's who of the rock industry. The problem (with a couple of exceptions) that many of the songs just aren't the best songs brought to the table by these artists.
There really are three categories of music on this album - 1) Alternative Music; 2) Classic Rock/Blues; 3) Instrumental. The Alternative Music definitely does a great job at hitting the theme of the music. Two of the most popular songs on this album are also two of the best and do this justice to the theme of the movie. The Goo Goo Dolls were on the brink of really making a creative mark on the music industry. The song "Iris" might just be their best. Yes it was overplayed on the radio, but when Randy Newman for "Babe - Pig in the City" gets an Oscar nomination over this song - something is nomination system. The Goo Goo Dolls have pure raw emotion and energy in the performance they make on "Iris". The other solid song is Alanis Morrisette's "Uninvited". This song also does a great job at the essence of the movie. When Morrisette bursted on the scene in the mid 1990s, I was unimpressed - but this song really blew my doors off. Again, how does "Babe" get a nomination over this song? A combination of near a cappella and then a full blown string arrangement and guitar - this is some real good stuff. Paula Cole and Sarah McLachlan are two women who were making a big name in the late 1990s, but the songs they contribute - while doing a good job at the theme of the movie, they don't inspire you much. In other words, I don't do handstands over the songs "Feelin Love" (Cole) and Angel (McLachlan). Jude's song "I Know" has some nice acoustic guitar work, but I also wouldn't do a handstand for this song. As for U2, the song "If God Would Send His Angels" is just average - it's not bad and I've heard a lot better from the band.
The other really good song is contributed by the unorthodox Peter Gabriel. This is a very Peter Gabriel like song called "I Grieve". It is a 8+ minute song and it once again shows why Peter Gabriel is an innovator. The first 5 minutes of the song is pretty slow - Gabriel paints almost a haunting picture of grieving. Then the last 3 minutes change into a more uptempo version of in which the theme switches to "carrying on" after grieving. The last 3 minutes almost have a theme of "Big Time". Gabriel does a tremendous job with the songwriting on this particular track. This track along with "Iris" and "Uninvited" are the best tracks of the album - however radio completely ignored the Peter Gabriel track.
The Blues/Classic Rock tracks are existing tracks from established artists. Jimi Hendrix contributes "Red House", John Lee Hooker contributes "Mama You Got a Daughter", and Eric Clapton contributes "Further Up the Road". I think Clapton's song is the best of the three. Somehow these tracks (not in the same category as the alternative rock tracks) do fit in with the theme of the movie. To me - its almost an intangible on how these songs do fit in with the movie. My big knock is that these aren't necessarily the best tracks from these artists. You can make the argument than the Hendrix track is, but it isn't my favorite one. These tracks like the Paula Cole and McLachlan track - not nearly as strong.
Gabriel Yared contributes 4 instrumentals to the soundtrack. No doubt these songs are perfect in capturing the spirit of the movie. I am pleased to see these instrumentals on the soundtrack. Soundtracks have gotten very commercialized in recent years and this type of stuff is often omitted. The best of the 4 tracks is "The Unfeeling Kiss" - an instrumental that is a combination of new age and latin jazz. I find this very enjoyable. The other 3 are much more "cinema" classic and probably aren't going to be the main reason why you pop the CD into your player.
The liner notes are thin. No lyrics are included for any of the included songs. The production and musician credits are included, so that is a plus. With the exception of the Morrisette, Goo Goo Dolls, Peter Gabriel, and Gabriel Yared's "The Unfeeling Kiss" track - this album while doing a nice job at capturing the essence of the movie does fall short as a standalone album. You may be interested in it for the big name artists, but may want to wait and get it at a discount price.
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