City Of Angels: Music From The Motion Picture | Gabriel Yared, Meg Ryan, ...

City Of Angels: Music From The Motion Picture | Gabriel Yared, Meg Ryan, ... | Simply Beautiful

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	City Of Angels: Music From The Motion Picture Gabriel Yared, Meg Ryan, ... Reprise / Wea, 1998 average customer review:based on 266 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

This soundtrack to City of Angels has a mighty tall order to fill. The film is a remake of Wim Wenders' Wings of Desire, and the German director is known for his effective use of music. But where Wenders can call on his friends such as R.E.M. and Elvis Costello to contribute songs, City of Angels feels more like a marketing device. No less than half the selections are by Warner Bros. artists, including some new music by Alanis Morissette, her first since Jagged Little Pill. That song, "Uninvited," is the album's highlight, a restrained modal ballad in the mode of Zeppelin's "Kashmir." The rest alternates between other female stars such as Paula Cole and Sarah McLachlan and bluesy selections from Hendrix, John Lee Hooker, and Eric Clapton. --Steven Mirkin

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This album is for grieving... except the Paula Cole song...

Truly a wonderful CD. My favorite song on the album is "I grieve" by Peter Gabriel... wait... That is my second favorite. The first is "Feelin Love" by Paula Cole. It is the perfect love making song. With that said, the CD is amazing and is a great mix.

Simply Beautiful

One of the best soundtracks out there. "Angel" and "Iris" by the Goo Goo Dolls are both worth the soundtrack alone. "Iris" speaks to those who really don't want the world to see that part of that of us we keep hidden and safe from the rest of the world. Best buy for a rainy Sunday Morning.

A wonderful mix of genres

What really makes a film for me is how the music matches the subject matter and the protagonists in the film. City of Angels Soundtrack perhaps makes the film. The soundtrack gives it that badly needed "breath of emotion" to a low key story line. There are countless "love story" film soundtracks and this one is certainly sparse
on schmaltz. The Goo Goo Dolls song "Iris" is a subperb anthem of unrequited Love, which of course is what this film is all about. There's nothing campy or drippy in this piece. Other great soundtracks, "Fandango", "Cinema Paradiso","Falcon and the Snowman","Forres Gump", to name a few.
I highly recommend this for your own personal soundtrack.

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An average soundtrack resting on the shoulders of one masterpiece...

Now don't be so quick to hate based on my title here...I do love this soundtrack, but what I mean is that you have one BRILLIANT track and then an album of good tracks...I think the major problem was placing this BRILLIANT track in second place, for placing it on the outset of the album only sets you up for dissapointment. Yes, this track is 'Uninvited' by Alanis Morissette, which is haunting, bewitching and mezmerizing to say the least. Alanis, a wonderfully talented singer at that, puts together her finest piece of music ever and manages to real you in from the first word to the last, and that musical arangment, I mean come on...it's beautiful, eerie and enchanting all at the same time, and when it all breaks down towards the end after she utters the word "slide" and the violins get violent almost it's just one of my favorite pieces of music let alone the vocal masterclass that it is. So there you have it, the biggest reason to purchase this album...and it's a great reason, but the fact that it's the only reason stands to reitterate my opening comment. I mean, there are other good or even great songs like 'Iris' which was radio ready almost as soon as it was recorded, and the song itself is a beautiful and inspired song, one of the Goo Goo Dolls best efforts, and Sarah McLachlan, who possesses one of the most angelic voices ever, delivers a solid track 'Angel' and even Paula Cole delivers with 'Feelin Love' and The Jimi Hendrix instrumental 'Red House' but none of these tracks even come close to touching the power in 'Uninvited'. Some of the songs are good but nothing spectacular, much like the opener 'If God Will Send His Angels' by the glorious U2 and I guess maybe I expect too much but this song just left me saying "Is this for real?" It could have, no let me rephrase that, SHOULD have been much better. Eric Clapton, a genious that he is, delivers one of the most annoying tracks here, I think mainly because it drags on for over 7 minutes! And then there are tracks that hurt to listen to, like Peter Gabriel's 'I Grieve' which is ear-splitting terrible. At least Gabriel Yared's score is just beautiful. So, the album is not a complete let down, but it just had huge shoes to fill beings that one of the greatest songs of all time had graced the track listing...Now they could have followed in Titanics footsteps and released a score only with Alanis adding her masterpiece, and then maybe this would have been a 5 star rating, but the weight of the remaining tracks brought Alanis's beauty down just enough. (By the way, I'm still pretty P.O.'ed that 'Uninvited' did not take home the oscar for best original song...it deserved it hands down!)

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City of Angels Soundtrack