Various The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou (Original Soundtrack) (2xLP)

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• The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou (Original Soundtrack) is a richly eclectic collection that mirrors Wes Andersons singular cinematic world. Featuring score excerpts by Mark Mothersbaugh and Sven Libaek alongside classic rock and surprise covers, the soundtrack moves effortlessly between whimsical, mournful, and rousing. Highlights include Seu Jorges intimate Portuguese covers of David Bowie songs, which bring a new emotional depth to familiar material, and instrumentals like Shark Attack Theme and Open Sea Theme, which conjure underwater horizons and narrative tension.What makes this soundtrack stand out is its ability to transcend just being music from a movie. The juxtaposition of playful score, folk-inflected covers, and bold rock cuts gives it a narrative arc of its own. Its not simply background its a companion to the films mood and imagery, one that rewards repeated listening beyond the screen.

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  The Life Aquatic splits its time between excerpts from the score that are almost too cute, and old rock songs that sound even better than you remembered. Pitchfork

  The soundtrack is more exotic and divisive than even The Royal Tenenbaums the prince of Bowie songs here is the Portuguese singer-actor Seu Jorge, whose versions strike like gentle fragments of cinematic poetry. Electronicsound

  Seu Jorges contributions are the only reason this soundtrack truly deserves attention his stripped Bowie covers are intimate and quietly astonishing. Stylus Magazine

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  AllMusic rating: AllMusic users: (30 votes) Read the AllMusic.com review

• Artist: Various Label: Hollywood Records Format: LP Units: 2 Country: USA & Canada Genre: Soundtracks Style: Experimental, Glam, Rock & Roll, Soundtrack

• A1 Shark Attack Theme
  A2 Loquasto International Film Festival
  A3 Life On Mars?
  A4 Starman
  A5 Let Me Tell You About My Boat
  A6 Rebel Rebel
  B1 Zissou Society Blue Star Cadets/Ned’S Theme Take 1
  B2 Gut Feeling
  B3 Open Sea Theme
  B4 Rock N’ Roll Suicide
  B5 Here’S To You
  C1 We Call Them Pirates Out Here
  C2 Search And Destroy
  C3 La Nina De Puerta Oscura
  C4 Life On Mars?
  D1 Ping Island/Lightning Strike Rescue Op
  D2 Five Years
  D3 30 Century Man
  D4 The Way I Feel Inside
  D5 Queen Bitch