Album Description
WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE MOTION PICTURE SOUNDTRACK: ORIGINAL SONGS BY KAREN O AND THE KIDS
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Inside Karen O is a Wild Thing – as singer for the Grammy-nominated Yeah Yeah Yeahs, her wild thing is in your face, vulnerable, obnoxious, tender, exciting… a self-proclaimed “spazoid.” To Oscar-nominated Where the Wild Things Are director Spike Jonze, however, Karen O and her music possess something of a child-like innocence, a guileless charm that put her exactly on the right emotional wavelength to sonically capture the film, be it a tender moment or a wild rumpus.
To compose the music, O enlisted friends and fellow musicians she believed had a musical intuition that would bolster her intent to marry sound to vision. Dubbed Karen O and the Kids, these include Tristan Bechet (Services), Tom Biller (co-producer with Karen O and member of Afternoons), Bradford Cox (Deerhunter), Brian Chase (Yeah Yeah Yeahs), Dean Fertita (Queens of the Stone Age, The Dead Weather, The Raconteurs), Aaron Hemphill (Liars), Greg Kurstin (The Bird and the Bee), Jack Lawrence (The Dead Weather, The Raconteurs, The Greenhornes), Oscar Michel (Gris Gris), Imaad Wasif (New Folk Implosion, Alaska), Nick Zinner, (Yeah Yeah Yeahs) and an untrained children’s choir.
Where The Wild Things Are Original Motion Picture Soundtrack: Original Songs By Karen O And The Kids
#1 by Necole on December 7, 2009 - 12:12 am
I almost do not want to see the film after this sound track. I was expecting something that was pleasant and fun to listen to. My 5 year old did not even want to hear it any more, it is like listening to nails on a chalk board. If you like screeching and yelling with loud instrumental then this is the Sound Track for you, but if you are looking for actual music with singing don’t get this.
Rating: 1 / 5
#2 by Lorraine W. on December 7, 2009 - 3:06 am
I confused this CD for the band that is playing the main tune in the movie trailer. If you want that song…look for Arcade Fire and their ‘Funeral’ album. ‘Wake Up’ is song #7. If you go to youtube, you can see Arcade Fire and David Bowie playing that song on stage–It really rocks.
I found the WTWTA soundtrack CD too abstract for me to enjoy, and nothing really grabbed my attention. It was not something I wanted to listen to over and over again in my car while stuck in traffic. Though the music is cute and artistic, and I like kids participating in the making of the songs, I just had to go back to my Sammy Hagar CDs which leave me more satisfied.
I have not seen the movie yet because it’s not really the kids movie I was hoping it would be. Better to enjoy Disney’s Little Mermaid and buy that soundtrack.
Rating: 1 / 5
#3 by S. Jankiewicz on December 7, 2009 - 5:03 am
Do to the fact I have gone as far as name my son after this book, I’m both excited and scared about this movie. This soundtrack has gone to great measure to calm and sooth my wild thing. The tracks are like being hugged by your mother, or running off to play with your friends when you were 8!
I was just wondering who does the song from the trailer? I didn’t find it on the sound track. It’s a male singing, “Our bodies are getting bigger, but our hearts get torn up.” I would love to find that song as well.
Rating: 5 / 5
#4 by W. Wilkerson on December 7, 2009 - 7:17 am
Yay! First Review !?!
Spike Jonez, Karen O. and company have really nailed just the right combination of sounds from the film and music on this single disc release preceding the theatrical release of the long awaited, long gestated, highly anticipated live action version of the Caldicott Medal for Most Distinguished Picture Book in 1963.
Although “Capsize” and “Cliffs” are not included in the film [in the form of its released next month] these tracks sound quite organic when paired with the other twelve – three of which include precious fragments of the films audio track. No protracted Pulp Fiction style dialogue out takes here, thank you.
This entire recording is happy and quite upbeat without resorting to the distasteful syrupy sweetness found on many of the children’s film offerings at the MegaPlexx in the continuing efforts by the MouseHouse to milk the old franchises for another round of tickets, purses, posters, popcorn…
May you have less difficulty than this reviewer in locating your copy – after BestBuyBoneHeads swore they had five copies in the store & couldn’t find it & Target & WallyMart struck out + Cheapo Discs was a Zero = Waterloo Records was able to come through Ya! Waterloo on 6Th & Lamar in Austin, Texas
Purchase, Enjoy & prep your wolf suits for The Really Big Shoe
Peaxe,
Billy in Austin
>>> While is can be generally said that “Children’s Film” has certainly gone uphill during our lifetimes with efforts from Pixar and Miyazaki Hayoa [to name only two] raising the bar for narrative content, character design and soundtrack production, it is also possible that the requirement of these works to remain “PG” at the worst serves as an inherent limitation to fully developing their potential. That being said, there is not a thing in the world wrong with releasing an outstanding soundtrack that requires not a single obscenity…
Rating: 5 / 5
#5 by Keep it real Real on December 7, 2009 - 7:44 am
Lets keep this short and to the point.
1. after hearing this album, Karen O should have been in school of rock instead of Jack Black. Would have been way sweeter movie.
2. This is the best album of 2009 and the movie will be awesome.
3. The cover of “Worried Shoes” is the best cover song i have ever heard.
Buy This Album.
Rating: 5 / 5