- Audio CD (21 Aug 2000)
- Number of Discs: 1
- Format: Soundtrack
- Label: Decca
- ASIN: B00004U0Q3
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 124,043 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
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Track Listings
| 1. Death Camp |
| 2. Ambush |
| 3. Mutant School |
| 4. Magneto's Lair |
| 5. Cerebro |
| 6. Train |
| 7. Magneto Stand Off |
| 8. The X-Jet |
| 9. Museum Fight |
| 10. The Statue Of Liberty |
| 11. Final Showdown |
| 12. Logan And Rogue |
Product Description
Amazon.co.uk Review
From Brazil (1985) and Highlander (1986) to Frequency (2000), composer Michael Kamen has proved no stranger to the darker side of fantasy. His X-Men score is, like the film itself, stylistically far removed from previous superhero adventures, the closest precedent being perhaps Danny Elfman's Batman Returns (1992). This is night-shadowed music, "Death Camp" opening with a clear pianistic echo of John Ottman's score for director Bryan Singer's debut feature, The Usual Suspects (1995), rising to a peak of coruscating fury and setting the scene for an implacable fusion of post-Wagnerian drama, hard-edged atonality and unsettling electronics. Early cues mix sombre suspense writing with romantic glitter, later titles such as "Museum Fight" add a tormented violin voice to the restless string orchestra rhythms and biting brass. All hell breaks loose in "The Statue of Liberty" before the more emotionally centred "Final Showdown" leads to the uncertain romance of "Logan and Rogue". Kamen has crafted an exceptionally bleak score for a film designed as a mainstream summer blockbuster and his music certainly won't appeal to every taste. However, those who appreciate either imaginatively constructed, melodic horror-film music or the scores for particularly dark thrillers will find much to accompany happy nightmares. --Gary S Dalkin
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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
I bought the soundtrack as soon as i had seen the film- i couldn't wait! The music is so powerful, that with every sound you see a scene from the movie. I cannot emphasise enough how great this CD is.
Whether you are an X-men fan or not it is a MUST HAVE!!!
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Each instrumental on this CD it very very well composed and put together. If you've seen the movie, then while you are listening to this CD you can picture the scenes, from which each song is from if you close your eyes. I personally love the last song on the album 'Rogue and Logan' its a very powerful song that compliments the relationship between those two. Overall i would say it is definitly worth getting this album and seeing the movie as much as you can.
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20 of 23 people found the following review helpful
Not quite what you expect...
12 July 2000
Format:Audio CD
I have been eagerly awaiting the MUSIC for the X-Men movie for almost as long as I have been awaiting the film itself. I was expecting large, epic orchestra performing heroic themes and fanfare. I bought the soundtrack and was surprised to say the least. I do not know the work of Michael Kamen very well, save his work in Die Hard, so when I popped the CD into my player I didn't know WHAT to expect. What I got was a bit awkward at first. Sort of a hyper-active David Arnold (On his James Bond scores) mixed with a somewhat less restrained Mark Snow (X-Files). After the first listen I was put into an awkward mood. I listened to it again and only then did I see it's brilliance. It is a breath of fresh air. An awesome style, unpredictable and utterly new. I had not heard anything like it. Of this style I can only say this, if the movie is this different and good, it'll be absolutley amazing. You have never heard anything like this before. It is a very cool blend of at least half a dozen styles, Electronica, Leit Motiff, Full Orchestra. To sum up my ravings, it is wild. Something of a mutated heroic action score, which is fitting given the films subject matter. All in all, a satisfying listen.
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Most appropriate to the X-Men
30 Nov 2003
Format:Audio CD
Of all chances, with Ottman not being able to compose and conduct the first film and Kamen stepping in, how did it become the perfect way for X-Men to come out in an ironic way?
Kamen came in when Ottman was to busy, yet Kamen came out with the best score to X-Men I could imagine. I just wish he was still alive.
You'll always hear about the title "Logan and Rogue", as you should because it is so pleasing to the ears and the most appropriate to the scenes in the movie.
Soundtracks always work the best in the movies, so you should really listen to the music in X-Men. You will then understand why Kamen took care of X-Men so well. Look at the scenes when Logan is fighting to save Rogue and his fights with Sabretooth, and Magneto confronting the X-Men and the police. And be sure to stick around for the end credits. I've heard from some of my peers that they liked the credits while they were conversing with each other. And every time I watch that movie or whenever I feel like it I listen to the end credits.
I swear you won't be disappointed with it especially if you respect Michael Kamen as much as I do. I find that he has his music true to the feelings of the movie, and that's what makes him so great.
Kamen died recently in November of 2003 due to multiple sclerosis at age 55.
Kamen came in when Ottman was to busy, yet Kamen came out with the best score to X-Men I could imagine. I just wish he was still alive.
You'll always hear about the title "Logan and Rogue", as you should because it is so pleasing to the ears and the most appropriate to the scenes in the movie.
Soundtracks always work the best in the movies, so you should really listen to the music in X-Men. You will then understand why Kamen took care of X-Men so well. Look at the scenes when Logan is fighting to save Rogue and his fights with Sabretooth, and Magneto confronting the X-Men and the police. And be sure to stick around for the end credits. I've heard from some of my peers that they liked the credits while they were conversing with each other. And every time I watch that movie or whenever I feel like it I listen to the end credits.
I swear you won't be disappointed with it especially if you respect Michael Kamen as much as I do. I find that he has his music true to the feelings of the movie, and that's what makes him so great.
Kamen died recently in November of 2003 due to multiple sclerosis at age 55.
10 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Give it a try.
23 July 2000
Format:Audio CD
Everyone wanted John Ottoman to score this film, including the filmmakers. I believe that is reason numero uno why not many people like this soundtrack. But what can I say, I like it. I enjoy Michael Kamen's (excuse me, K-Men sheesh) addition to the film. Tracks like Death Camp, Ambush, X-Jet, Logan and Rouge, and my favorite, Cerebro are very nice. But I like the other tracks as well. I think another reason many people don't like this score is because there are no "hummable" themes like with Batman. If you listen enough, you'll hear what I believe Kamen means to be the X-Men's theme. Most notably when Cyke and Storm arrive during Ambush, the majority of Cerbro (though re-mixed), during the battle songs, the first part of X-Jet, and other places in different tracks. And, without trying, after only hearing this CD twice (and the movie twice), I found myself humming the variations of the X-Men theme and Logan and Rouge. Very enjoyable. Also, this may just be me, but if you are able to identify the X-Men theme in these tracks, it sounds a bit like Kamen *ahem* lifted the theme to the cartoon series. Not that that's necessairily a bad thing. But once again, that could just be me.
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