Join Amazon Prime and get unlimited Free One-Day Delivery. Already a member? Sign in.
Frequently Bought Together
Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought
![Alfie [2004]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51R2NF00ZSL._SL500_SS90_.jpg)
Alfie [2004] DVD ~ Jude Law  (23)
£4.98
|
Very Best Of + DVD ~ Mick Jagger (4)
£11.99
|
Goddess in the Doorway ~ Mick Jagger  (11)
£10.98
|
Wandering Spirit ~ Mick Jagger (3)
£9.98
|
Alfie ~ Sonny Rollins  (2)
£6.97
|
Product details
Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
|
| Customers Viewing This Page May Be Interested in These Sponsored Links (What is this?) |
Mick Jagger Book
www.rhino.co.uk
Exclusive Rolling Stones Collectors Book, Available At Rhino for £370.
Track Listings
| 1. Old Habits Die Hard - Mick Jagger & Dave Stewart |
| 2. Blind Leading The Blind - Mick Jagger & Dave Stewart |
| 3. New York Hustle - Mick Jagger & Dave Stewart |
| 4. Let's Make It Up - Mick Jagger & Dave Stewart |
| 5. Wicked Time - Joss Stone & Nadirah "Nadz" (Featuring Mick Jagger) |
| 6. Lonely Without You - Mick Jagger |
| 7. Darkness Of Your Love - Gary "Mudbone" Cooper & Dave Stewart |
| 8. Jack The Lad - Mick Jagger & Dave Stewart |
| 9. Nikki - Mick Jagger & Dave Stewart |
| 10. Blind Leading The Blind - Mick Jagger & Dave Stewart |
| 11. Standing In The Rain - Mick Jagger & Dave Stewart |
| 12. Counting The Days - Mick Jagger & Dave Stewart |
| 13. Old Habits Reprise - Mick Jagger & Dave Stewart |
| 14. Alfie - Joss Stone |
Product Description
Album Review
Writer/director Charles Shyer's reinvention of the beloved 60's morality tale about a serial-womanizer's quest for meaning in life is musically rooted in a voice that's lived the experience: Mick Jagger. And if the Stones' oft-clichéd frontman seems a decidedly left-field choice as film scorer, his chemistry with collaborator/former Eurythmics musical spark Dave Stewart yields a surprisingly warm, often introspective slate of songs and atmospheric underscore. Jagger's solo work has often been muddied by chasing the pop production zeitgeist of the moment, but his efforts with Stewart here largely turn on a stripped-down, organic folk-blues sensibility that can't escape mostly positive parallels with the Stones' own acoustic oeuvre. Soul singer Joss Stone turns in a masterfully bluesy cover of the original film's hit Bacharach-David theme song that belies her teenage years (also interpolating it into Stewart/Jagger's "Wicked Time," which also features noted Jamaican rapper "Nadz" Seid), while Sheryl Crow duets with Jagger on the single version of the song-score's thematic anchor, "Old Habits Die Hard." --Jerry McCulley
Album Review
Wisely, the soundtrack for the 2004 remake of Alfie doesn't try to ape the original film's impeccably cool Sonny Rollins score and sheer pop perfection of Dionne Warwick's classic version of the theme song. Instead, this version of the film looks for its own musical identity with a collection of songs and a few instrumental tracks performed mostly by former Eurythmic Dave Stewart and Mick Jagger, along with a few tracks by Joss Stone for good measure. Even if the new Alfie's music isn't quite as distinctive as the first one's was, it does at least have a little more creativity and cohesion than most romantic comedy soundtracks. Obviously, Jagger is the perfect choice to reflect the misadventures of a world-weary British Lothario, and he sounds appropriately worn on "Old Habits Die Hard," where his ragged high notes are particularly bittersweet. This track and the equally poignant "Let's Make It Up" rival the best of his latter-day work with the Stones and on his own. However, if the bulk of the soundtrack is anything to go by, 2004's Alfie trades the original's dryly poignant tone for something more obviously sentimental: both versions of "Blind Leading the Blind," "Standing in the Rain," and the Jagger/Joss Stone duet "Lonely Without You (This Christmas)" tend towards gloss and schmaltz. While the soundtrack does a more than adequate job of chronicling the emptiness and letdowns of living a love-'em and leave-'em life, it doesn't reflect enough of the devil-may-care spirit of that lifestyle that would make it attractive in the first place. The instrumentals "New York Hustle," "Jack the Lad," and "Oh Nikki" capture some of that mischievous, flirtatious joy, however fleetingly. Stone's tracks also tend toward the overdone, especially the ill-conceived rap duet "Wicked Time" featuring Nadirah "Nadz" Seld. And though her version of "Alfie" is no match for Warwick's, it should at least please fans of Stone's bluesy pop more than her second, teen poppy album did. At nearly an hour long and featuring several reprises and different versions of the Jagger/Stewart tracks (including a pleasant but not especially vital duet of "Old Habits Die Hard" with Sheryl Crow), Alfie piles on too much; it could've been better if it followed the sparer direction that pops up on it from time to time. --Heather Phares, All Music Guide
See all Product Description
Writer/director Charles Shyer's reinvention of the beloved 60's morality tale about a serial-womanizer's quest for meaning in life is musically rooted in a voice that's lived the experience: Mick Jagger. And if the Stones' oft-clichéd frontman seems a decidedly left-field choice as film scorer, his chemistry with collaborator/former Eurythmics musical spark Dave Stewart yields a surprisingly warm, often introspective slate of songs and atmospheric underscore. Jagger's solo work has often been muddied by chasing the pop production zeitgeist of the moment, but his efforts with Stewart here largely turn on a stripped-down, organic folk-blues sensibility that can't escape mostly positive parallels with the Stones' own acoustic oeuvre. Soul singer Joss Stone turns in a masterfully bluesy cover of the original film's hit Bacharach-David theme song that belies her teenage years (also interpolating it into Stewart/Jagger's "Wicked Time," which also features noted Jamaican rapper "Nadz" Seid), while Sheryl Crow duets with Jagger on the single version of the song-score's thematic anchor, "Old Habits Die Hard." --Jerry McCulley
Album Review
Wisely, the soundtrack for the 2004 remake of Alfie doesn't try to ape the original film's impeccably cool Sonny Rollins score and sheer pop perfection of Dionne Warwick's classic version of the theme song. Instead, this version of the film looks for its own musical identity with a collection of songs and a few instrumental tracks performed mostly by former Eurythmic Dave Stewart and Mick Jagger, along with a few tracks by Joss Stone for good measure. Even if the new Alfie's music isn't quite as distinctive as the first one's was, it does at least have a little more creativity and cohesion than most romantic comedy soundtracks. Obviously, Jagger is the perfect choice to reflect the misadventures of a world-weary British Lothario, and he sounds appropriately worn on "Old Habits Die Hard," where his ragged high notes are particularly bittersweet. This track and the equally poignant "Let's Make It Up" rival the best of his latter-day work with the Stones and on his own. However, if the bulk of the soundtrack is anything to go by, 2004's Alfie trades the original's dryly poignant tone for something more obviously sentimental: both versions of "Blind Leading the Blind," "Standing in the Rain," and the Jagger/Joss Stone duet "Lonely Without You (This Christmas)" tend towards gloss and schmaltz. While the soundtrack does a more than adequate job of chronicling the emptiness and letdowns of living a love-'em and leave-'em life, it doesn't reflect enough of the devil-may-care spirit of that lifestyle that would make it attractive in the first place. The instrumentals "New York Hustle," "Jack the Lad," and "Oh Nikki" capture some of that mischievous, flirtatious joy, however fleetingly. Stone's tracks also tend toward the overdone, especially the ill-conceived rap duet "Wicked Time" featuring Nadirah "Nadz" Seld. And though her version of "Alfie" is no match for Warwick's, it should at least please fans of Stone's bluesy pop more than her second, teen poppy album did. At nearly an hour long and featuring several reprises and different versions of the Jagger/Stewart tracks (including a pleasant but not especially vital duet of "Old Habits Die Hard" with Sheryl Crow), Alfie piles on too much; it could've been better if it followed the sparer direction that pops up on it from time to time. --Heather Phares, All Music Guide
See all Product Description