The Tragic Treasury: Songs from a Series of Unfortunate Events
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Edition: Music CDCD Release Date: 2006-10-10
Music Label: Nonesuch
Soundtracks:
- Scream and Run Away [From the Bad Beginning]
- In the Reptile Room [From the Reptile Room]
- World Is a Very Scary Place [From the Wide Window]
- Dreary, Dreary, Dreary
- When You Play the Violin [From the Austere Academy]
- This Abyss [From the Ersatz Elevator]
- Crows [From the Vile Village]
- Smile! No One Cares How You Feel [From the Hostile Hospital]
- Freakshow [From the Carnivorous Carnival]
- How Do You Slow This Thing Down? [From the Slippery Slope]
- Million Mushrooms [From the Grim Grotto]
- Things Are Not What They Appear [From the Penultimate Peril]
- Shipwrecked [From the End of the Ring Wars]
- Walking My Gargoyle [Original Song from the Carnivorous Carnival]
- We Are the Gothic Archies
Music reviews of The Tragic Treasury: Songs from a Series of Unfortunate Events
Music Review: So strange yet compelling to listen to...
Rating: 4 Stars
I bought this CD for my pre-teen daughter because she loved the Series of Unfortunate Events books. It is a collection of some of the strangest music I have come across. The songs relate to the SOUE books with titles such as "The Reptile Room," and her favorite- "Scream and Run Away." Though I found the music a little bizarre and kind of punk-gothish, there is a strange haunting quality to the music that draws you in and makes you want to hear more. It is a fun, silly, enchanting album. My daughter adores it and knows almost all the words to most of the songs. Even I find myself singing along when "Scream and Run Away" is playing......The Tragic Treasury: Songs from a Series of Unfortunate Events
Description of The Tragic Treasury: Songs from a Series of Unfortunate Events
This musical companion to bestselling novelist Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events is comically creepy fun for children of all ages. The Gothic Archies is a musical project of Stephin Merritt, the songwriter best known for his band the Magnetic Fields. The album, entitled The Tragic Treasury, features music originally recorded for the audiobooks of A Series of Unfortunate Events. The Tragic Treasury contains 13 songs corresponding to the 13 books in the series, with two additional bonus tracks also inspired by the series. All music is performed by the Gothic Archies, with Lemony Snicket accompanying on accordion. The Tragic Treasury is being released October 10, 2006, in conjunction with the final Lemony Snicket book, The End.Children's discs, like cartoons, sometimes work on a couple of different levels, but those levels are usually predictable--the pop-culture reference that flies over a slack-jawed fourth grader's head while garnering a chuckle from her parent, for example, or the double-entendre that's decidedly singular in the eyes of a 6-year-old child. The Tragic Treasury, the companion disc to Daniel Handler's creepily addictive Lemony Snicket series of books, is in a whole different league: 11-year-olds and the adults who hover over them, waiting for their own chance to devour each title, will love its verisimilitude--songs like "Scream and Run Away" and "Smile! No One Cares How You Feel" couldn't have been concocted for anything else--and indie-rock types, be they 19 or 62, will love its drearily exceptional hipness. Whether you know your grim grottos from your vile villages and hostile hospitals (all Snicket titles) couldn't matter less: if artful gloom-leaning pop grabs you, this disc gives up the goods, and of a quality you won't find anywhere else besides a handful of less-inspired Gothic Archies releases. As most non-Snicketeers inclined to pick up The Tragic Treasury know, Stephen Merritt--he of the equally excellent Magnetic Fields--is responsible; a few accordion contributions from Handler himself aside, he alone is the merry Goth man. He also writes a mean lyric, and luckily for Snicket loyalists, they're included in liner notes here. --Tammy La Gorce
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