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The Battleship Potemkin [Soundtrack]

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  • Audio CD (5 Sep 2005)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Format: Soundtrack
  • Label: Parlophone
  • ASIN: B000A2ESC4
  • Other Editions: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (19 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 28,548 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Although generally happy to hide their more highbrow concerns beneath a postmodernist pop sheen, on Battleship Potemkin, Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe let their artistic ambitions run free. Inspired by Soviet director Sergei Eisenstein’s desire that his revolutionary 1904 classic of the same name be furnished with a new score every decade to keep it fresh, here Tennant and Lowe have teamed up with the Dresden Sinfoniker orchestra in order to remake the original score with a contemporary flavour.

One clue to the sound is through the presence of composer Torsten Rasch, who has formerly reworked the music of German industrial provocateurs Rammstein: the likes of "Nyet" and "Night Falls" share something of that band’s deadpan hybrid of Wagnerian doom and pulsing electronics. More familiar to Pet Shop Boys fans will be three vocal originals--"Our Daily Bread", "No Time For Tears" and "After All (The Odessa Staircase)"--that boast lyrics inspired by the original subtitles (although the latter also contains pointed allusions to the Iraq war).

Reviews have been mixed, some critics accusing Tennant and Lowe of overpowering the film with a showy, inappropriate score. As a stand-along piece, however, it’s a modest success--thematically adventurous, and clever without allowing itself to get bogged down in an ironic morass.--Louis Pattison

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A few years after their foray into musicals, the Pet Shop Boys, who are quite possibly disco-pop's most intellectual act, have returned with another project: a live score to Sergei Eisenstein's Battleship Potemkin. Battleship Potemkin was a silent film made in Leninist Russia in 1925, and tells the (somewhat idealized) story of a revolt among sailors of the Czar's Black Sea fleet. Given the Pet Shop Boys' history of playing with Leninist imagery (take, for example, the lyrics to "West End Girls"), they were a suitably apt choice to do a live score to this film.

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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A lot better than the reviews might suggest!, 23 April 2006
By Mr. P. D. Humphreys "peedurr" (Swindon, UK) - See all my reviews
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It is almost impossible to write a successful soundtrack album - how can music designed to accompany a film work without the visual imagery? However, Tennant and Lowe have managed, because this album was designed from the start to make sense by itself (or so I would speculate). If you don't feel any sympathy for the Pet Shop Boys, then you will hate this. However, if you do like PSB, or you're prepared to keep an open mind, then I think you will like this combination of string orchestra and synthesiser music. There are lots of good tunes, and the sound is spectacular. This is, in its way, pretty unbeatable.
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars Another Pet Shop Boys project, another (qualified) success, 5 Sep 2005
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A year ago, twenty-thousand people crowded into Trafalgar Square in London in the rain to watch a black-and-white silent Soviet-era propaganda film. The majority, probably, went to see the Pet Shop Boys.
This is not the first time the duo have strayed out of traditional pop music. They've already written and staged a musical in the West End, done a three-week residency at the Savoy Theatre, and worked with a range of artists including Derek Jarman and Sam Taylor-Wood.
This time, they've brought in orchestrator Torsten Rasch and the Dresdner Sinfoniker, to create a new soundtrack for Sergei Eisenstein's Battleship Potemkin.
The music is easily recognisable as the Pet Shop Boys, a mixture of electronics and orchestral sounds, and it's highly accomplished.
But, without the movie, it's not necessarily the easiest listen - the music was written to the movie, and so there are long, fairly repetitive instrumental passages which work much better alongside Eisenstein's visuals. A DVD release of the movie with the new soundtrack would have been a better idea than the music alone.
This is not a follow up to the group's last studio album. There are only really two songs, as such, "No time for tears" and "After all". Both would easily sit on a regular Pet Shop Boys studio album, "After all" in particular works as a very angry response to the war in Iraq.
It's twenty years since West End Girls was released, and the Pet Shop Boys have evolved from a pop group to a kind of arts project.
Battleship Potemkin is not a classical album. Neither is it a pop album. To be prepared, twenty years into your career, to repeatedly head in a new direction shows exactly why the Pet Shop Boys are still around, and still relevant.
And, as usual, the sleeve is impeccably designed....
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Splendid, soaring, dark, atmospheric and very, very Russian., 22 Oct 2005
By R. Cole "Filterlab.co.uk" (Surrey, England) - See all my reviews
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What a soundtrack! This is PSB personified in their familiar but never tiresome electro/orchestral music.

This album is a treat for any PSB fan or anyone with a passion for the Russian sound, a sound of hardship and exhaustive conditions, so well portrayed in this masterpiece.

In Neil's own words; "Foreground music" and deservedly so. A courageous album for any artist except Tennant/Lowe, for they are now at a stage where they can undertake any project and produce a winner.

I urge you to buy and listen to this album. You will not regret it.

Best track (in my humble opinion): 'Night Falls'. Try listening to it without getting clear images in your mind, it cannot be done.

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5.0 out of 5 stars I was there
I have always been a fan of the movie, which is mercifully short.

I saw the "Boys" play this at a live screening of the movie at Trafalgar Square one damp Sunday... Read more
Published 23 months ago by Mr. Paul Millennas

4.0 out of 5 stars The worst Pet Shop Boys release in 11 years.
Nonetheless, it's all about the music. And what is "Battleship Potemkin"? Sadly, it's not very good. Read more
Published on 29 Jun 2007 by Mr. M. A. Reed

4.0 out of 5 stars Intellectual
I thot I would go with the PSB's use of single word sub-titling FX. Well, not being sufficiently clever enough (tried to spell eloquent there), I will not try to review PSB-ism... Read more
Published on 14 Mar 2007 by Craig Benton

5.0 out of 5 stars Intellectual genius
Writing as somebody who has not seen the silent movie, first time listening was a matter of trying to work out what is going on. Read more
Published on 5 Nov 2006 by Ms. Ea Harkin

5.0 out of 5 stars Battleship Potemkin
Recently attended the live show in Newcastle and rated it as one of the most atmospheric experiences ever. Read more
Published on 4 May 2006 by Stephen Leech

4.0 out of 5 stars Battleshop Boys
The masters of all things techno and disco have tried to diversify before by venturing, without much success into musical theatre with Closer to Heaven. Read more
Published on 11 Oct 2005 by Daz

5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful!!!
Chris Low and Neil Tennant are definitely continuing their musical journey. After Closer to Heaven (what a shame there is no DVD!!) now this piece of Art. Read more
Published on 7 Oct 2005 by Michael Rada

5.0 out of 5 stars pets in their element
I was fortunate to be able to "see" this record in sync with the film a year ago in Trafalgar Square. Read more
Published on 23 Sep 2005 by mr d j t bull

5.0 out of 5 stars Battleship Potemkin
Pet Shop Boys at their best. Lush orchestral classical sounds blended with their unique style. Have not seen the film but the soundtrack gives your imagination a good idea of... Read more
Published on 23 Sep 2005 by rebecca rogers

5.0 out of 5 stars absolutely fabulous
Its quite odd that an album that has minimal vocals from Neil would be so good - in fact its quickly becoming my favorite PSB associated release of all time. Read more
Published on 19 Sep 2005

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