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| List Price | $15.99 (You save $1.54) | | Category | Rock Albums, Rock/Pop CDs | | Label | Virgin | | All Time Sales Rank |  184153  | | CD Universe Part number | 1267802 | | Catalog number | 647975 | | Discs | 1 | | Release Date | Dec 12, 2006 | | Mono/Stereo | Stereo | | Additional Info | United Kingdom |
Dave Greenslade From The Discworld Songs | 1. | A-Tuin the Turtle |
| 2. | Octarine the Colour Of |
| 3. | Luggage |
| 4. | Shades of Ankh-Morpor |
| 5. | Wyrd Sisters |
| 6. | Unseen University/The |
| 7. | Death |
| 8. | Wizard's Staff Has a Kn |
| 9. | Dryads |
| 10. | Pyramids |
| 11. | Small Gods |
| 12. | Stick and Bucket Dance |
| 13. | One Horseman and Thre |
| 14. | Hollywood Dreams |
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From The Discworld Music Review Average Rating: (1 out of 5 stars)   Unlistenable
As a huge Terry Pratchett fan I bought this album expecting the music to be on par with the brilliant music for the Discworld games. How wrong I was.
This is an unlistenable mishmash of cheesy synth-pop...and cheesy is the word. Take "The Shades Of Ankh-Morpork". If you know the books you will probably have an image of the Shades in your head and will probably have an idea of the kind of music that would fit the bill. Let me tell you , this is not it. It is an unbearable bubblegum pop song, sung by the singer who did the "Teletubbies" theme song. In fact, this song would be more appropriate on an infants' TV show then on a Discworld album.
That is the problem suffered by much of the album-the songs simply do not match up with their titles. "Unseen University", for example, should be dramatic and swirly, for example, to reflect the feel of that building from the books. Instead...more cheesy pop.
Apart from music that in no way realtes to the ethos of Discworld, the other unifying theme of the album is one of total self indulgence. In the sleeve notes it is noted that one of the tracks had five whole (synthesised) organs on it-just because Greenslade could. Nauseating.
Note that this review gives it one star. That one star goes to Terry Pratchett's amusing sleeve notes, not at all to the music.
Submitted by a reviewer (Surrey, England)
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