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Avg. Customer Rating:   (based on 249 reviews)
Sales Rank: 211
Category: Music
Artist: Various
Publisher: Interscope Records
Studio: Interscope Records
Manufacturer: Interscope Records
Label: Interscope Records
Format: Extra Tracks, Soundtrack
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.9 x 0.5
MPN: 001027102
UPC: 602517507739
EAN: 0602517507739
ASIN: B000WCBPOG
Release Date: October 23, 2007
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Disc 1
| • | Girl - Jim Sturgess | | • | Hold Me Tight - Evan Rachel Wood | | • | All My Loving - Jim Sturgess | | • | I Want to Hold Your Hand - T.V. Carpio | | • | With a Little Help from My Friends - Joe Anderson, Jim Sturgess | | • | It Won't Be Long - Evan Rachel Wood | | • | I've Just Seen a Face - Jim Sturgess | | • | Let It Be - Timothy T. Mitchum, Carol Woods | | • | Come Together - Joe Cocker | | • | If I Fell - Evan Rachel Wood | | • | Dear Prudence - T.V. Carpio, Dana Fuchs Band, Jim Sturgess, Evan Rachel Wood | | • | Flying [Instrumental] - Secret Machines | | • | Blue Jay Way - Secret Machines |
Disc 2
| • | I Am the Walrus - Bono, Secret Machines | | • | Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite - Eddie Izzard | | • | Because - Joe Anderson, T.V. Carpio, Dana Fuchs Band, Martin Luther "M.L." McCoy, Jim Sturgess, Evan Rachel Wood | | • | Something - Jim Sturgess | | • | Oh! Darling - Dana Fuchs Band, Martin Luther "M.L." McCoy | | • | Strawberry Fields Forever - Joe Anderson, Jim Sturgess | | • | Revolution - Jim Sturgess | | • | While My Guitar Gently Weeps - Martin Luther "M.L." McCoy | | • | Across the Universe - Jim Sturgess | | • | Helter Skelter - Dana Fuchs Band | | • | Happiness Is a Warm Gun - Joe Anderson, , Selma Hayek | | • | Blackbird - Evan Rachel Wood | | • | Hey Jude - Joe Anderson | | • | Don't Let Me Down - Dana Fuchs Band | | • | All You Need Is Love - Dana Fuchs Band, Jim Sturgess | | • | Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds - Bono |
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Album Description
ACROSS THE UNIVERSE - MUSIC FROM THE MOTION PICTURE DELUXE - 2 DISC VERSION A love story set in the 1960's amid the turbulent years of anti-war protest, mind exploration and rock `n roll. Jude (Jim Sturgess) and Lucy (Evan Rachel Wood), along with a small group of friends and musicians, are swept up into the emerging anti-war and counterculture movements with "Dr. Robert" (Bono) and "Mr. Kite" (Eddie Izzard) as their guides. FEATURING SONGS FROM THE GREATEST SONGWRITERS OF ALL TIME, PERFORMED BY THE CAST INCLUDING EVAN RACHEL WOOD, JIM STURGESS, DANA FUCHS, MARTIN LUTHER McCOY, BONO, JOE COCKER AND EDDIE IZZARD Package art will incorporate stills from pivotal scenes from the movie and a 16-page folder foldout poster with a strawberry image.
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Given a track record littered by misfired oddities like the Bee Gees starring in the 1978 movie version of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, successfully transforming The Beatles' epochal oeuvre into film musicals has been an elusive alchemy. Yet director Julie Taymor's 1968-centered, socio-political romance is more than just a stunning visual achievement. Its soundtrack brings a crucially intimate, emotionally engaging sensibility to its rich catalog of Beatles source material. Using an approach she rightly dubbed "organic," Taymor never gets too ambitious with the original arrangements, balancing the plaintive, often stark performances of central young stars Jim Sturgess and Evan Rachel Wood with equally compelling turns by supporting players Carol Woods and Joe Anderson. The stars successfully evoke early Beatlemania via the energetic charms of Sturgess' "All My Loving" and Wood's "It Won't Be Long," then get straight to the canon's often melancholy heart on his take of "In My Life," and her gentle cover of "Blackbird." Taymor's use of star turns--the entire point of too many Beatles-rooted projects--is as sparing as it is deft. Eddie Izzard's effusive "Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite" is the product of several edited improvisations, while U2's Bono and Edge re-imagine "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds" by way of Pink Floyd. Joe Cocker's swamp-dirge "Come Together" shows why he's long been one of the best interpreters of the Lennon-McCartney catalog, and Dana Fuchs alternately evokes the heavenly and hellish via her tender "Dear Prudence," as well as her manic, Joplin-channeling burn through "Helter Skelter." Elsewhere on the CD, Bono teams with Secret Machine for the straightforward "I Am the Walrus," while the Dallas indie rockers also take dream-pop turns on the instrumental "Flying" and George Harrison's haunting "Blue Jay Way." Remarkably, Taymor claims the bulk of the performances here were not lip-synced, but recorded live as the cameras rolled.--Jerry McCulley
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 Excelent album June 26, 2009
The Beatles are my favorite band of all times. The movie was wonderful and one of rear musicals that is not just singing and dancing. Some of the singers are even better than John, Paul, George or Ringo and the remakes of some songs better than originals.
But not Bono though - Lennon's version of "I'm the Walrus" is still the best.
 Across the Universe June 14, 2009
Not sure if all the songs were there that were on the movie or if they were the same exact artist that sung them. The first song I did not hear on the movie.
Great Soundtrack! June 11, 2009
Across The Universe is a great movie and the soundtrack is terrific!! Especially if you like The Beatles and their music!!
well done May 29, 2009
This soundtrack is the best I have ever heard. The production is first rate. I almost feel I can see the scenes from the movie while it is playing.
 Movie not so great, but the music is amazing! May 22, 2009
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I purchased Across the Universe after hearing the soundtrack only, had no idea of the story line, and had only seen the lead actor (Jim Sturgess) in another film (The Other Bolyn Girl.) The actors in Across the Universe are all really talented and no doubt bound for bigger and better things. Of course, it was a treat to see Eddie Izzard and Bono, not to mention cameos by Joe Cocker as well! I set aside my expectations as I watched this film (how on earth can you make a film driven by Beatles' music without opening yourself up for comparisons?) It was fun to see how the director and the screenwritesr wove the characters for the film from the lyrics of the songs themselves. Take this for what it is: a fun, rollercoaster of a movie that employs the best of the music that became the soundtrack to our own lives while not shying away from the pain and tragedies of the times in which it was all written.
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