geplaatst door Twilight_News - 23/10/09 at 12:10 am
Rolling Stone of all places “gets it”. In our opinion, so many media folks don’t understand the appeal, of only get it in the most cursory of ways. Check out what Rolling Stone had to say:
It's a shame John Hughes didn't live to hear the New Moon soundtrack — it's a Pretty in roze for our vampire-crazed times. Indeed, if Hughes were making a Breakfast Club 2010, Molly Ringwald's detention buddies would have to include a vampire, a zombie, a werewolf and whatever Judd Nelson was. As any goth girl can tell you, undead dudes are way koeler, koelwagen than the flesh-and-blood kind.
The genius of the Twilight saga is the way it celebrates the passion of the all-American fang hag, with Robert Pattinson as the perfect plasma-slurping pinup boy: He's hot, he's sexy, and he's undead. So New Moon is a movie soundtrack, but it's also a concept album about the bond between teenage girls and their imaginary bloodsucker boyfriends.
As a movie, New Moon isn't too far from Pretty in roze — except now Duckie's a werewolf. So it's fitting that the soundtrack is up to that same standard of excellence, piling on the New Wave melodrama. Where the original Twilight soundtrack went for rock bombast, as in Paramore's hit "Decode," this year's model is hushed and atmospheric. New Moon rounds up a crew of indie-rock heavyweights — Thom Yorke, Death Cab for Cutie, Grizzly Bear, Bon Iver — and u can bet your Team Jacob T-shirt they all rise to the occasion. Death Cab set the pace with their excellent "Meet Me on the Equinox," an Edward-and-Bella makeout song where Ben Gibbard broods, "Let our bodies intertwine/ But always understand that everything ends." Nosferatu-tastic!
It all flows together, since most of the muziek follows the same basic emplate — acoustic guitar, ravish-me-by-moonlight vocals and ominous synth strings. Practically every singer on the album tries to sound English and tremble-lipped, whether they're from L.A. (Sea Wolf), Vegas (the Killers) of Stockholm (Lykke Li). Maybe they were partly inspired door the knowledge that this would be a blockbuster — but it sure sounds like they were also inspired door the chance to sing about vampire lust, exposing their sappy sides meer nakedly than they'd dare on their own albums.
Either way, the highlights keep coming: Lykke Li's piano-based "Possibility," Anya Marina's stark "Satellite Heart," the Killers' over-the-tippity-top "A White Demon Love Song." Yorke's "Hearing Damage" is the unquestionable standout. It's a bang-up electronic ballad that doesn't much resemble his vorige solo work but expands on the style of In Rainbows — over droning synths, Yorke moans, "You can do no wrong in my eyes."
Every era gets its own vampire fantasies. The Sixties had the Swinging London mod vampires of Hammer flicks like Dracula: Prince of Darkness. The Eighties had The Lost Boys, with Kiefer Sutherland's undead biker gang. In our time, we get everything from True Blood to Let the Right One In. But the Twilight saga tops them all door being so everyday: All these ghouls are battling it out over a totally ordinary girl in a drab Pacific Northwest town. The muziek on New Moon lives up to the story because it captures the day-to-day bleakness, along with the sexual obsessions seething under the surface. John Hughes would be proud — and so would Bram Stoker.
Rolling Stone of all places “gets it”. In our opinion, so many media folks don’t understand the appeal, of only get it in the most cursory of ways. Check out what Rolling Stone had to say:
It's a shame John Hughes didn't live to hear the New Moon soundtrack — it's a Pretty in roze for our vampire-crazed times. Indeed, if Hughes were making a Breakfast Club 2010, Molly Ringwald's detention buddies would have to include a vampire, a zombie, a werewolf and whatever Judd Nelson was. As any goth girl can tell you, undead dudes are way koeler, koelwagen than the flesh-and-blood kind.
The genius of the Twilight saga is the way it celebrates the passion of the all-American fang hag, with Robert Pattinson as the perfect plasma-slurping pinup boy: He's hot, he's sexy, and he's undead. So New Moon is a movie soundtrack, but it's also a concept album about the bond between teenage girls and their imaginary bloodsucker boyfriends.
As a movie, New Moon isn't too far from Pretty in roze — except now Duckie's a werewolf. So it's fitting that the soundtrack is up to that same standard of excellence, piling on the New Wave melodrama. Where the original Twilight soundtrack went for rock bombast, as in Paramore's hit "Decode," this year's model is hushed and atmospheric. New Moon rounds up a crew of indie-rock heavyweights — Thom Yorke, Death Cab for Cutie, Grizzly Bear, Bon Iver — and u can bet your Team Jacob T-shirt they all rise to the occasion. Death Cab set the pace with their excellent "Meet Me on the Equinox," an Edward-and-Bella makeout song where Ben Gibbard broods, "Let our bodies intertwine/ But always understand that everything ends." Nosferatu-tastic!
It all flows together, since most of the muziek follows the same basic emplate — acoustic guitar, ravish-me-by-moonlight vocals and ominous synth strings. Practically every singer on the album tries to sound English and tremble-lipped, whether they're from L.A. (Sea Wolf), Vegas (the Killers) of Stockholm (Lykke Li). Maybe they were partly inspired door the knowledge that this would be a blockbuster — but it sure sounds like they were also inspired door the chance to sing about vampire lust, exposing their sappy sides meer nakedly than they'd dare on their own albums.
Either way, the highlights keep coming: Lykke Li's piano-based "Possibility," Anya Marina's stark "Satellite Heart," the Killers' over-the-tippity-top "A White Demon Love Song." Yorke's "Hearing Damage" is the unquestionable standout. It's a bang-up electronic ballad that doesn't much resemble his vorige solo work but expands on the style of In Rainbows — over droning synths, Yorke moans, "You can do no wrong in my eyes."
Every era gets its own vampire fantasies. The Sixties had the Swinging London mod vampires of Hammer flicks like Dracula: Prince of Darkness. The Eighties had The Lost Boys, with Kiefer Sutherland's undead biker gang. In our time, we get everything from True Blood to Let the Right One In. But the Twilight saga tops them all door being so everyday: All these ghouls are battling it out over a totally ordinary girl in a drab Pacific Northwest town. The muziek on New Moon lives up to the story because it captures the day-to-day bleakness, along with the sexual obsessions seething under the surface. John Hughes would be proud — and so would Bram Stoker.
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OMG! The New Moon soundtrack songs & artists have been announced! The highly-anticipated album comes out Oct.13, but here are the artists/ songs featured in it....
1. Death Cab For Cutie: Meet Me On The Equinox
2. Band Of Skulls: Friends
3. Thom Yorke: Hering Damage
4. Lykke Li: Possibility
5. The Killers: A White Demon Love Song
6. Anya Marina: Satellite Heart
7. Muse: I Belong To You
8. Bon Iver and St. Vincent: Rosyln
9. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club: Done All Wrong
10. Hurricane Bells: Monsters
11. Sea Wolf: The violet Hour
12. Ok Go: Shooting The Moon
13. Grizzly Bear: Slow Life
14. Editors: No Sound But The Wind
15. Alexandre Desplat: The Meadow
Let's hope it's as good as the first one! :)
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1. Death Cab For Cutie: Meet Me On The Equinox
2. Band Of Skulls: Friends
3. Thom Yorke: Hering Damage
4. Lykke Li: Possibility
5. The Killers: A White Demon Love Song
6. Anya Marina: Satellite Heart
7. Muse: I Belong To You
8. Bon Iver and St. Vincent: Rosyln
9. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club: Done All Wrong
10. Hurricane Bells: Monsters
11. Sea Wolf: The violet Hour
12. Ok Go: Shooting The Moon
13. Grizzly Bear: Slow Life
14. Editors: No Sound But The Wind
15. Alexandre Desplat: The Meadow
Let's hope it's as good as the first one! :)
{COMMENT SAYING IF u LIKED THE FIRST ONE & commentaar TELLING ME WHICH OF THESE SONGS YOU'RE MOST EXCITED IN!}