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Alice in Wonderland |  | Artist: Danny Elfman
Label: Walt Disney Records
Category: Music
List Price: $18.98
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Seller: -importcds
Rating:  23 reviews
Sales Rank: 3992
Format: Soundtrack
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.9 x 0.3
MPN: 000490002
UPC: 050087152451
EAN: 0050087152451
ASIN: B002ZTQVCA
Release Date: March 2, 2010
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Tracks:
| • | Alice's Theme | | • | Little Alice | | • | Proposal/Down The Hole | | • | Doors | | • | Drink Me | | • | Into The Garden | | • | Alice Reprise #1 | | • | Bandersnatched | | • | Finding Absolem | | • | Alice Reprise #2 | | • | The Cheshire Cat | | • | Alice And Bayard's Journey | | • | Alice Reprise #3 | | • | Alice Escapes | | • | The White Queen | | • | Only A Dream | | • | The Dungeon | | • | Alice Decides | | • | Alice Reprise #4 | | • | Going To Battle | | • | The Final Confrontation | | • | Blood Of The Jabberwocky | | • | Alice Returns | | • | Alice Reprise #5 |
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Album Description
From Walt Disney Pictures and the vividly creative mind of award-winning director Tim Burton comes the original soundtrack to the highly anticipated feature film. The score from Alice in Wonderland created by Burton's long time collaborator, nominated for 4 Academy Awards® and 10 GRAMMY® Awards, Danny Elfman, will musically lend a magical, whimsical and imaginative twist on one of the most beloved stories of all time. Danny Elfman has written close to 50 film scores featuring his unique sound including The Nightmare Before Christmas, Beetlejuice, Batman, Spider-Man, Edward Scissorhands, Men in Black and more. CD package includes 3-panel triptych showcasing the vivid world of Wonderland and key character images
Album Description
From Walt Disney Pictures and the vividly creative mind of award-winning director Tim Burton comes the original score to the highly anticipated feature film. The score from Alice In Wonderland, created by Burton's long time collaborator, Danny Elfman, musically lends a magical, whimsical and imaginative twist on one of the most beloved stories of all time
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 Alice's Theme September 1, 2010
Jacquelyn
Alice's Theme is beautifully woven throughout various tracks. Just what I had hoped for and more.
 Pleasing, but Disappointing August 27, 2010
Dreyfus
Danny Elfman never ceases to amaze me.
His soundtrack to the 1989 movie "Batman" was unbelievable--a true work of art, film noir music as it should be. His work for "Batman Returns" was equally phenomenal. The songs in "The Nightmare Before Christmas" are unbelievably magical, and I recall "The Corpse Bride" as having a wonderfully gothic score as well.
So how he can be on such a great roll and then spit something as tragically disappointing as this is, to me, unthinkable. And yet it happened.
The first time you hear this soundtrack you'll love it--trust me. The scene in the movie while Alice falls down the rabbit hole, coupled with the pounding score Danny Elfman wrote here, enchanted me. But as soon as you listen to the soundtrack without the movie to give it effect, you realize one giant problem with the score--a whole bunch of tracks, but they are all more or less the exact same thing. The same notes, the same themes, the same motifs, the same everything. Only a few songs are unique, and these are generally written for the transition scenes (you can't deny the feeling of sheer power after hearing the booming organ in the flyby of the Red Queen's palace).
If you like synthesized young women's choir, this soundtrack is chock full of it. It you like a thunderous organ, this has that too, but (despite what it may seem when watching the movie) the organ is only present for fractions of a minute at a time.
Anybody who has played American McGee's Alice, an M-rated PC game from the early 2000's, will notice the many obvious concepts and plotlines Tim Burton "stole" (I don't know if he really did) from the game to make his movie. But of all the things that made the game so hauntingly dark, the soundtrack was downright wicked--menacing, surreal, gothic, and demented. You'd expect the same from Danny Elfman, especially after hearing what he did for the first two Batman movies. But this soundtrack is nothing like either, and is constantly spouting delightful, major-key, hopeful music that is in no ways dark in any meaning of the word. Hans Zimmerman would have been a far better choice for this movie.
But the soundtrack is probably at its worse when it is without the movie counterpart. This is in no ways listening music, and actually you can't do very much at all with this CD except plug it in and listen to it when you want to experience synthesized chorus girls without a movie to give them meaning.
Now, all that said, it isn't a terrible score, and it has its moments. The tracks where, in the movie, Alice falls down the rabbit hole, the flyby of the Red Queen's castle occurs, and the Red and White armies march onto the battlefield, are all fantastic to hear and experience. If you can purchase individual mp3's of this score, I'd recommend just picking out your favorite moments. Don't buy the entire disc, because you'll find yourself listening to it once and then leaving it on the shelf for the rest of your existence.
(as a side note, to American McGee's Alice fans, there is a curious resemblance to a common musical theme in the PC game during the march of the Red Queen's army in Tim Burton's movie)
Gorgeous Music, Mr. Elfman does it again! July 24, 2010
AmazonUser
Wonderful soundtrack from a great movie. Each track has something special to it, with the beautiful "Alice's Theme" running throughout the cd. The only things I wish were included on the track that weren't there were the "futterwacken" music and the opening music for the movie (it goes right from "Alice's Theme" to "Little Alice"). Also, it doesn't have the Avril Levine song from the credits, but personally I was glad it wasn't there. I'd highly recommend this music to any Alice in Wonderland or Danny Elfman fan.
Same song over and over again June 9, 2010
Carole L. Eggum (Billings, MT United States)
Danny Elfman is a master when it comes to creating music and once again he does an awesome job, but having said that I wish I would have heard the soundtrack before I bought it. Every track is basically the same song with a few variations to the music. I'm disappointed in what I thought would be some very creative and whimsical songs only to hear the same song over and over again for 24 tracks. I haven't even found the song that was sung when the credits were rolling and that's one of the reasons I bought the soundtrack. Save your money and download the songs you enjoy.
The Dream Team does it again April 22, 2010
Pyanfar Chanur (USA)
When you're scoring a movie these days, it seems you can't go wrong with Danny Elfman. If you're Tim Burton, it's a match made in heaven. Just as he's done for most of Burton's other movies, reaching all the way back to "Pee-Wee's Big Adventure", Elfman does it again. He not only matches his spooky-charming musical touches to the Alice in Wonderland world that Burton visualizes, he borrows from some of his best material to do so. Fans of Danny Elfman's earlier orchestrations will hear some of their favorites in here: the airy vocals of "Edward Scissorhands", the whimsical-spooky flourishes of "Corpse Bride" and bits and pieces of the indescribable 'Elfman Sound' that sets him apart from his peers. I downloaded this MP3 Album after being unable to locate a physical copy anywhere in my area, and I've no regrets: the sound quality is great, and ripping high-quality MP3s to add to my library is what I would have done with the physical media anyway.
If you enjoyed the movie and/or are a fan of Danny Elfman, the Alice in Wonderland soundtrack is worth the price.
(NOTE: This review is for the MP3 Download Album of the Alice in Wonderland score. If you are seeing it under any other listings, be aware that this is Amazon's doing, and reviewers have no control over this cross-listing tendency)
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