Tim Rice - Jesus Christ Superstar: The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Album
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Artist: Tim RiceBrand: Unknown
Composer: Andrew Lloyd Webber
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Original recording remastered, Soundtrack
CD Release Date: 1998-03-24
Music Label: Decca U.S.
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- Overture
- Heaven on Their Minds
- What's the Buzz
- Strange Thing Mystifying
- Then We Are Decided
- Everything's Alright
- This Jesus Must Die
- Hosanna
- Simon Zealotes
- Poor Jerusalem
- Pilate's Dream
- Temple
- I Don't Know How to Love Him
- Damned for All Time/Blood Money
- Crucifixion
- Crucifixion
- Last Supper
- Gethsemane (I Only Want to Say)
- Arrest
- Peter's Denial
- Pilate and Christ
- King Herod's Song
- Could We Start Again, Please?
- Judas' Death
- Trial Before Pilate
- Superstar
- Curcifixion
- John Nineteen: Forty-One
Music reviews of Jesus Christ Superstar: The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Album
Music Review: It is what it is, and it won't ever get any better
Rating: 1 Stars
Overture
3:02-3:06 severe drop-off when "jam" part starts
3:45 - sounds like someone bumped a turntable - shakes
String section mixed too high throughout
4:26-4:30 horrible mix
Heaven On Their Minds
0:00-0:08 is a different source than the rest of the song
Vocals too high; drums and bass inaudible
0:50-1:10 horrible mix
1:10 > drums completely inaudible, unless you like a guy singing along to a piano
2:00 drums mysteriously raised in mix
2:05/2:06 BAD piano chord, missed the note completely
2:20 drums go back down again
2:54-3:07 horrible mix - percussion inaudible to end of song
3:47 mix varies up and down through the course of 20 seconds, bass up/down, drums in/out
What's The Buzz
0:00-0:06 is a different source than the rest of the song
Vocals too high; background vocals from different source than lead vocal
1:15 guitar too low
1:52-2:00 bass suddenly is increased
2:05 suddenly backing vocals are mixed way too high, peaks around 2:15-2:23, horrible
2:30 returns to source from beginning - also, abruptly cuts out prior to cymbal crash ending
Strange Thing Mystifying
Drums low, but relatively OK until 0:47
"Hey cool it" is a sample probably from the film dialog, sounds slapped on
1:46 ends VERY abruptly, Horrible ending
Then We Are Decided
Vocals different source than background music
0:32-0:34 drums recorded HORRIBLY, sounds like pencil on paper
The problem here is the quality of the music recording, sounds as if one mike was used to pick up all the instruments in the room
2:12-2:18 French horns are too loud
Everything's Alright
0:06 As soon as the vocals come in, music goes COMPLETELY OUT
Bells at 0:19, 0:21 mixed excruciatingly loud
Microphone feedback at 0:32
0:49 Music coming in higher
Bass nearly inaudible
1:46 Horrible vocal mix - Mary inconsistent w/Judas
2:26-2:32 Jesus vocal drowned out by strings
Remainder of song: piano suddenly up front, drums nonexistent
This Jesus Must Die
1:15-1:24 obviously from different source than body of song which starts at 1:55
Horrible playing - instruments completely out of time with each other
1:55 music too low
2:23 > horrible mix with horns
The final lyric "die" (at 3:37) is supposed to be climactic, yet it comes in LOWER than the rest of the vocals in the song and fades out IMMEDIATELY
Hosanna
Drums inaudible
1:13 > unlistenable - strings way too high, drowning out vocals - compare this to the same melody at 2:01 - why is the same THEME mixed differently in 2 different points in the song?
Simon Zealotes
Here's where it all completely falls apart.
0:39 guitar too low
1:03 when singing starts, mix changes, different source? Completely different mix and instrumentation, possibly a different recording altogether
1:27 lead vocal overdubbed badly
1:44 mix levels immediately change, notice sudden strength of piano and guitar
2:03-2:11 backing vocals muted, horribly recorded - when they come in, drum mix changes
2:11-2:13 changes source/mix AGAIN
2:19 surge in overall music level
2:40 short interruption in timing of music, BAD
2:40 changes source/music back to first part
3:23-3:25 MICROPHONE FEEDBACK
3:37 suddenly, source and mix change, backing music drops out completely compared to orchstra and vocal
FADES from 4:09?? Why is the music fading out 30 seconds before the end of the song?
Compare: 4:14 HIGH, 4:16 LOW. Abrupt level change
4:31 to 4:34 change in level and source, also time change noticeable.
The end vocals during the "ah-men" are poorly recorded and mixed lower than the rest of the song. This is the CLIMAX of the first half of the entire show, yet it is recorded and mixed lower than everything else.
I won't continue, but I could. This is a travesty considering the legacy, the social importance, the history, the P R I C E. And this is a remaster, the best it's going to get? Hmmm.
Ever wonder why there's no recording information on the insert of this album, like where/when/who? Because no one wants anything to do with it.
Description of Jesus Christ Superstar: The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Album
No Description Available.Genre: Soundtracks & Scores
Media Format: Compact Disk
Rating:
Release Date: 24-MAR-1998
This 1974 Norman Jewison film may have been a critical misstep, but some fans actually preferred it to Broadway's rock spectacle. The thing is, Jesus Christ Superstar was first introduced as a two-disc rock opera, not unlike the Who's Tommy, as it even scored several Top 40 hits. While no set matches the original, it's still hard to go wrong with the music, no matter what the source. This also includes the pretty "Could We Start Again, Please," composed for the stage version, and sung here by the original LP's Mary Magdalene, Yvonne Elliman. Ted Neely (Jesus) and Carl Anderson (Judas), meanwhile, have spent two decades on the road, recreating their roles night after night, although they have to now be at least two decades older than Jesus was at the Crucifixion. --Bill Holdship
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