Recording information: Chalice Recording Studios, Hollywood, CA; RFT Studios, Calabases, CA. Arrangers: Peer Astrom; Adam Anders. For the most part, Glee: The Music: The Christmas Album, Vol. 3 manages to avoid being too slick and saccharine, traps that can befall many holiday ...

Nick Cave and Warren Ellis' latest soundtrack offering finds the ex-Grinderman/current Bad Seeds provocateurs providing a typically atmospheric score, while handing over vocal duties to some big names. Cave, who also wrote the screenplay, provides Lawless with a pair of ...

Recording information: Chalice Recording Studios, Hollywood, CA; RFT Studios, Calabasas, CA. Arrangers: Peer Astrom; Adam Anders. Glee: The Music Presents Glease features the cast from the popular Fox television show performing songs from the iconic '50s-themed musical Grease. As with previous Broadway ...

The soundtrack for the 2012 remake of 1976's Sparkle is an enjoyable if muddled affair. The 1976 soundtrack doubled as a fine Aretha Franklin album -- one written, arranged, and produced by Curtis Mayfield. Led by Jordin Sparks (who succeeds ...

Brave drew attention for being Pixar's first film to feature a female protagonist, the headstrong, flame-haired Scottish princess Merida. However, as Brave's soundtrack reveals, the movie is also noteworthy for being one of the studio's most musical films, especially for ...

One of the signature aspects of a James Bond movie is its theme song, and, as demonstrated on this collection of those songs, there is a remarkable consistency to them. The first Bond film, 1962's Dr. No, featured Monty Norman's ...

The whistling trill that opens the main theme to THE GOOD, THE BAD & THE UGLY is so familiar as to be a cultural touchstone. Even an abbreviated sound byte of the theme is enough to conjure images of desolate ...

Digitally remastered from the original master tapes by Bill Inglot and Dan Hersch at Digiprep, Hollywood, California. The soundtrack to the George Lucas film about teenage life in a small California town in the early '60s was probably the best thing ...

The definitive 1960s soundtrack to a definitive 1960s film, this album can be seen as the soundtrack not only to the film, but to the era itself. Ranging in style from proto-metal (Steppenwolf) and dope rock (Fraternity of Man) to ...

Composed by Dario Marianelli and performed by pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet, the score for director Joe Wright's 2005 film version of Jane Austen's PRIDE & PREJUDICE is filled with appropriately lush arrangements. The nuanced playing of Thibaudet is augmented by the ...

Quite simply, Rocky IV was a movie for the ages. The story of a man who had it all, only to lose so much overnight. Revolving around tension and alienation on the personal, political, spiritual and athletic levels, Sylvester Stallone's ...

The soundtrack to Toby Keith's movie debut, which stars the singer as a faded country star trying to reconnect with his roots, blends the sentimentality of Keith's performance on the title track with the passion of Fred Eaglesmith's "I'm Thinking ...

Trevor Jones' music for this elaborate and ambitious Jim Henson/George Lucas production was filled with synthesizers blended cautiously into orchestral ensembles to provide a suitably ethereal tone -- one echoed very well by David Bowie's Goblin King singing the haunting ...

THE DETHALBUM is an outgrowth of the hit cartoon series METALOCALYPSE, about over-the-top, fictional black metal act Dethklok. Despite the comedic origins of the project, series creator and Berklee School of Music grad Brendon Small puts a surprising amount of ...

The ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK for CONAN THE BARBARIAN collects 12 tracks composed by Basil Pouledouris for the film. The soundtrack to the Arnold Schwarzenegger epic Conan the Barbarian consists of the dramatic, exciting score from Basil Poledouris. His grand, sweeping arrangements capture ...

This 1997 reissue of BLUE HAWAII is remixed and remastered from the original three-track master tapes and includes 8 extra tracks. Elvis' theatrical ouevre found him portraying singing busboys, singing prizefighters, even a singing doctor in love with a nun, all ...

The soundtrack to Robert Zemeckis' groundbreaking film adaptation of Chris Van Allsburg's popular children's book The Polar Express celebrates the season with both classic and contemporary holiday flair. Composers Glen Ballard and Alan Silvestri provide the latter, relying on swelling ...

While only serious film buffs are likely to recall Hugh Hudson's role as the director of the Oscar-winning CHARIOTS OF FIRE, the Greek composer Vangelis became, and remained, a household name with his soundtrack for the 1981 film. At the ...

For the soundtrack to the sequel of his hit film DIARY OF A MAD BLACK WOMAN, director/screenwriter/star Tyler Perry once again opts for a well-selected set of gospel and R&B. While the DIARY soundtrack focused primarily on contemporary artists, MADEA'S ...

Over the years, there have been plenty of compilations of television theme songs, but for scope, selection, and value, none beat Rhino's 2002 collection, TV Land Presents Favorite TV Theme Songs. Containing a generous 40 tracks, the disc runs the ...

Track Listing: DISC 1: Stardust; Soon One Mornin' (Death Come A-Creepin' in My Room); Memphis Blues; Livery Stable Blues; Charleston (South Carolina); Chimes Blues; Backwater Blues; Pearls, The; Dead Man Blues; Wild Cat Blues; Cake Walking Babies from Home; Sugar ...

Giorgio Moroder did a lot of soundtrack work during the early '80s, and one of his most well-known soundtracks is that of Scarface, the iconic Al Pacino film from 1983. Of all the films Moroder scored, from American Gigolo (1980) ...

Music composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber. Lyrics by Charles Hart. All tracks have been digitally remastered. Recorded at EMI Studios & Audio International, London, England. Includes liner notes by Andrew Lloyd Webber. Principal cast: Michael Crawford (The Phantom Of The Opera); Sarah Brightman ...

Digitally remastered using 24-bit technology by Kevin Reeves (Polygram Studios). This digitally remastered reissue gives another generation a chance to experience one of the first major examples of baby boomer nostalgia. When THE BIG CHILL was first released, ex-hippies were just ...

For the 2007 Broadway adaptation of the popular Hollywood comedy LEGALLY BLONDE, actress Laura Bell Bundy ably fills the pink high heels of screen star Reese Witherspoon as the pampered, yet assertive, Valley girl Elle Woods. Highlights of the cast ...