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Across The Universe [Deluxe Edition] | ![Across The Universe [Deluxe Edition]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/515rKA7hYWL._SL160_.jpg)
 enlarge | Artist: Original Soundtrack
Label: Interscope Records
Category: Music
New (31) Used (8) Collectible (1) from $14.25
Rating:  203 reviews
Sales Rank: 283
Format: Extra Tracks, Soundtrack
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 5.5 x 4.8 x 0.4
MPN: 001027102
UPC: 602517507739
EAN: 0602517507739
ASIN: B000WCBPOG
Release Date: October 23, 2007
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| Tracks:
Disc 1
| • | Girl - Jim Sturgess | | • | Hold Me Tight - Evan Rachel Wood | | • | All My Loving - Jim Sturgess | | • | I Want To Hold Your Hand - T.V. Carpio | | • | With A Little Help From My Friends - Jim Sturgess | | • | It Won't Be Long - Evan Rachel Wood | | • | I've Just Seen A Face - Jim Sturgess | | • | Let It Be - Carol Woods | | • | Come Together - Joe Cocker | | • | If I Fell - Evan Rachel Wood | | • | Dear Prudence - Evan Rachel Wood | | • | Flying - Secret Machines | | • | Blue Jay Way - Secret Machines |
Disc 2
| • | I Am The Walrus - Bono | | • | Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite - Eddie Izzard | | • | Because - Evan Rachel Wood | | • | Something - Jim Sturgess | | • | Oh! Darling - Dana Fuchs | | • | Strawberry Fields Forever - Jim Sturgess | | • | Revolution - Jim Sturgess | | • | While My Guitar Gently Weeps - Martin Luther McCoy | | • | Across The Universe - Jim Sturgess | | • | Helter Skelter - Dana Fuchs | | • | Happiness Is A Warm Gun - Salma Hayek | | • | Black Bird - Evan Rachel Wood | | • | Hey Jude - Dana Fuchs | | • | Don't Let Me Down - Dana Fuchs | | • | All You Need Is Love - Jim Sturgess | | • | Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds - Bono |
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Amazon.com
Given a track record littered by misfired oddities like the Bee Gees starring in the 1978 movie version of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, successfully transforming The Beatles' epochal oeuvre into film musicals has been an elusive alchemy. Yet director Julie Taymor's 1968-centered, socio-political romance is more than just a stunning visual achievement. Its soundtrack brings a crucially intimate, emotionally engaging sensibility to its rich catalog of Beatles source material. Using an approach she rightly dubbed "organic," Taymor never gets too ambitious with the original arrangements, balancing the plaintive, often stark performances of central young stars Jim Sturgess and Evan Rachel Wood with equally compelling turns by supporting players Carol Woods and Joe Anderson. The stars successfully evoke early Beatlemania via the energetic charms of Sturgess' "All My Loving" and Wood's "It Won't Be Long," then get straight to the canon's often melancholy heart on his take of "In My Life," and her gentle cover of "Blackbird." Taymor's use of star turns--the entire point of too many Beatles-rooted projects--is as sparing as it is deft. Eddie Izzard's effusive "Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite" is the product of several edited improvisations, while U2's Bono and Edge re-imagine "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds" by way of Pink Floyd. Joe Cocker's swamp-dirge "Come Together" shows why he's long been one of the best interpreters of the Lennon-McCartney catalog, and Dana Fuchs alternately evokes the heavenly and hellish via her tender "Dear Prudence," as well as her manic, Joplin-channeling burn through "Helter Skelter." Elsewhere on the CD, Bono teams with Secret Machine for the straightforward "I Am the Walrus," while the Dallas indie rockers also take dream-pop turns on the instrumental "Flying" and George Harrison's haunting "Blue Jay Way." Remarkably, Taymor claims the bulk of the performances here were not lip-synced, but recorded live as the cameras rolled.--Jerry McCulley
Album Description
ACROSS THE UNIVERSE - MUSIC FROM THE MOTION PICTURE DELUXE - 2 DISC VERSION A love story set in the 1960's amid the turbulent years of anti-war protest, mind exploration and rock `n roll. Jude (Jim Sturgess) and Lucy (Evan Rachel Wood), along with a small group of friends and musicians, are swept up into the emerging anti-war and counterculture movements with "Dr. Robert" (Bono) and "Mr. Kite" (Eddie Izzard) as their guides. FEATURING SONGS FROM THE GREATEST SONGWRITERS OF ALL TIME, PERFORMED BY THE CAST INCLUDING EVAN RACHEL WOOD, JIM STURGESS, DANA FUCHS, MARTIN LUTHER McCOY, BONO, JOE COCKER AND EDDIE IZZARD Package art will incorporate stills from pivotal scenes from the movie and a 16-page folder foldout poster with a strawberry image.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 198 more reviews...
 Inspired! June 23, 2008
Truly amazing accomplishment. This one movie seems to do what no other has accomplished, providing a glimpse into what the sixties were like for typical Americans. Not Quadrophenia, nor Help, nor Harold & Maude, nor the Magic Christian, Woodstock the film, or any other film from the era has accomplished. (please correct me if I'm wrong.)
I fell in love with this film immediately for its wild, inspired feel but I never knew the details of sixties events and yet I found the film intrigued me so much that it made me start looking into what the truth might be. I thank the film for bringing alive a history that I'd always passed over. Bono's character with the bus got me started. I knew it wasn't just Magical Mystery Tour but thanks to Wikipedia it led me to the real magic bus belonging to Ken Kesey, the author of the Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, and his cross-country trip in a bus named 'further,' allegedly to see the 1964 World's Fair in New York. Along the way he made sure to turn on as many people as he possibly could, as acid was legal at the time. His attempt to meet with Timothy Leary at his farm in Albany was unsuccessful, as Leary had just come off a 3-day trip and was in no condition to meet with him. So Bono's character was somewhat accurate, as is Izzard's portrayal of Leary.
A second event was the explosion in the apartment of the war-protesting radicals, a true life event for the Weather Underground. I'd never known about these events and likely never would have learned about them without this film. So for me I can wholeheartedly recommend the film on many levels. Not only for the direction, camerawork, script, artwork, acting, and music, but also for its ability to create a sense of curiousity where none ever existed before.
The music deserves special mention as these versions are able to make a person hear and feel the Beatle's music in entirely new ways, giving glimpses into perhaps what the songs may really have meant to the original authors. I have a suspicion that if I were to look into what they intended their songs to mean I would find that someone has already researched this beforehand and used their inspiration for how the songs are staged in the movie. So the film may even be educational in the sense that a person can learn more about the music and the artists without having to read volumes of boring books that consist of interviews with their tailors.
For me the best scene is not even in the film. The special edition has deleted scenes and out-takes, one of which is Izzard doing his entire take on For the Benefit of Mr. Kite outside the circus tent. I highly recommend the special edition due to this gem.
Beatles' music June 22, 2008
The soundtrack is great if you love the Beatles. The songs are by different artists who appeared in the movie. I love these new interpretations. The movie is great also.
Does justice to the Beatles June 19, 2008
What a great movie, and a wonderful interpretation of classic Beatles songs. I'm not one for musicals, but I enjoyed the movie so much I bought the soundtrack the next day. My wife and i both listen to this while we are doing things around the house, etc., and its energy keeps you moving. Bono from U2 sings on one of the tracks (I am the Walrus), and the rest of the cast does a great job. If you like the Beatles, you'll like this album.
 Not bad, but... June 15, 2008
...the music in the film was superior. The actors aren't great singers, but the music worked very well because they were singing live and in character. Believing in a song goes a long way towards selling it, even if the voice work isn't perfect.
However, this soundtrack album uses studio vocals instead of the vocals used in the film. While the performances are technically "better", it just doesn't come across as well.
Also, some of the arrangements are different. For example, "Hold Me Tight" is a nice little song that was punched up in the film by alternating between a pop-ish arrangement set in the US and a harder rock arrangement in the UK. But the track on here uses the (weaker, imo) pop version all the way through.
One more example: "With a Little Help from my Friends" is sung in the film by Max and his college friends, with Jude one of the group. It was rough sounding, but perfect for the setting and the song. On here, however, it's done as a duet with Max and Jude, and it doesn't work nearly as well.
So while I'd probably still recommend this soundtrack to those that enjoyed the movie, potential buyers need to be aware that they're not getting exactly what they heard in the film.
 Fresh versions of Beatles' classics June 11, 2008
I read through several reviews before deciding to order this CD. While I agree that the bass lines on many of the tracks are distorted almost to the point of a burst speaker-I think that was deliberate decision of the producers. The producers deliberately played with tempo, instrumentation and stripping away some of the expected elements that you automatically associate with these songs. If you want to hear the classic Beatles tunes exactly as the Beatles would have done them, then buy the originals. I do wish that they would have included "Why Don't We Do It in the Road" but you can't have everything. If you are an active listener then you will probably like it. If you just want to sing along with songs you know like a karaoke star--buy the originals.
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