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| 2001: A Space Odyssey - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1996 Reissue) | 
 enlarge | Creators: Various Artists, Gary Lockwood, William Sylvester, Daniel Richter, Leonard Rossiter, Margaret Tyzack, Robert Beatty, Sean Sullivan, Douglas Rain, Frank Miller, Bill Weston, Ed Bishop, Glenn Beck, Alan Gifford, Ann Gillis, Edwina Carroll, Penny Brahms, Heather Downham, Mike Lovell, John Ashley (iii)
Label: Rhino / Wea
Category: Music
List Price: $11.98
Buy New: $4.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (35 reviews)
Sales Rank: 13130
Format: Original Recording Reissued, Original Recording Remastered, Soundtrack
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 72562
UPC: 081227256227
EAN: 0081227256227
ASIN: B0000033WB
Release Date: October 29, 1996
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
 whoa. September 4, 2006
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
"Atmospheres" was enough to make me buy this album. just try to imagine what eternity might sound like. okay, now you know exactly what Atmospheres is. wow. who else could having captured the feelings that are in this score? this is above talented. this is above genius. this is above avand garde. this is too good to be labeled as anything at all.
Great Music for Halloween, very creepy March 16, 2006
1 out of 10 found this review helpful
I bought this CD to use for a haunted house program, the music will creep you out.
Bleakest of Futures... October 7, 2005
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
The atonal, unsettling atmosphere of much of the music of Ligeti is fitting to the bleak vision of a human future reigned by nothing but cold technology and of humans drained of emotions except for the deepest animalist fear originating from our inner reptilian brainparts which have not changed for over millions of years. The incongruity of Johann Strauss' lovely 'An der schoenen blauen Donau' with the cold technicality of spacefaring as depicted here could not be more complete, but what a perfect find on Stanley Kubrick's part! It makes the uneasiness and confusion even greater. And then, to top it of, the complete and flabbergasting irony of using Richard Strauss' Fanfare for the 'rise of Man' in his 'Also Sprach Zarathustra': what a great destiny for 'Man' indeed, this bleakest of bleak visions of the future!
As a soundtrack for '2001: A Space Odyssey' this music together on one album is just great.
And besides, this soundtrack has indeed, like so many others I guess, made me aware of the genius of Ligeti, which otherwise might have gone unnoticed for me.
2001: The Future of Sci-Fi September 21, 2005
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
An excellent movie with Kubrick's absolute dedication to scientific realism (zero gravity toilet, astronaut's head does not explode in the vacuum of space, rotating space station to create false gravity, etc.), spectacular special effects with minimal computer help, no silly monsters, etc. make this the standard to which all sci-fi movies should be measured.
has to be one of the best soundtracks ever January 21, 2005
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
The soundtrack to 2001 A Space Odyssey (i have volume 2, which is a little different from the Amazon version) is probably one of the best soundtracks ever. It has a variety of pieces, from rousing (Also Sprach...), standard classical (Blue Danube), to chilling avant-garde (Atmospheres, Lux Aeterna).
1. (and 8) Also Sprach Zarathursta (5/5): I couldn't really take this seriously the first time I heard it in the movie because I had, before seeing the movie, played the shareware game Chicken Invaders which parodied it. But after seeing the movie two more times and listening to the cd all memories of it being parodical are gone, it's a short, rousing, and amazing piece of music that is always played at perfect times in the movie (especially during the scene where the ape learns to use tools).
2. Requiem (5/5): Undeniably creepy. The music of the monolith, nuff said.
3 (and 7): Blue Danube (4.5/5): Standard piece of upbeat and beautiful classical music that is perfect to underlie the scenes showing the space technology of the year 1999 in the film. You'll also notice that when this was playing there was nothing creepy going on in the film....
4. Lux Aeterna: (6/5): This is like something you'd hear when you're dying: played in the film as the space shuttle went to investigate the monolith discovery on the moon, it is the sound of fear, paranoia, uncertainty, and almost, death. Chilling and amazing, this is the stuff nightmares are made of.
5. Gayne Ballet Suite (5/5): Another more standard piece of classical to underlie the introduction of the Discovery mission, but is more ponderous and much darker than the upbeat Blue Danube. Great stuff.
6. Atmospheres: (6/5): Speaking of chilling and amazing. The first 2 minutes are played to a blank tv screen in the beginning of the movie, which really gets your psyche ready for the experience and, musically, tells the viewer basically what the feel of most of the movie is, creepy and mysterious. The rest is played during another blank-screen overture in the movie and the finale during the mindblowing wormhole sequence in the end. There are parts of this that send my whole back up in goosebumps and make my eyes tear with its viscerality. I'm serious, this is unbelievibly good.
Unbelieviby good soundtrack. But don't buy it just for the soundtrack, it's much more powerful to see the music coupled with the film's visuals and happenings. A kickass soundtrack and movie.
Best Tracks: Atmospheres, Lux Aeterna
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