300 Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Special Edition)

Label: Warner Bros / Wea
Category: Music

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Format: Soundtrack
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 093624999300
EAN: 0093624999300
ASIN: B000MTDRDQ

Release Date: 2007-03-06

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Tracks:

To Victory
The Agoge
The Wolf
Returns A King
Submission
The Ephors
Cursed By Beauty
What Must A King Do?
Goodbye My Love
No Sleep Tonight
Tree Of The Dead
The Hot Gates
Fight In The Shade
Come And Get Them
No Mercy
Immortals Battle
Fever Dream
Xerxes' Tent
Tonight We Dine In Hell
The Council Chamber
Xerxes' Final Offer
A God King Bleeds
Glory
Message For The Queen
Remember Us

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Customer Reviews:

Re-live the film.......2007-03-20

Having watched the film a couple of times already, I was glad when I got the soundtrack in the mail yesterday. I was able to re-experience the film mentally while listening to the album. A lot has already been said about this sountrack. But I will say that this is one of the few that are complex, well-orchestrated, and able to express the feel of each and every image/frame from the film even when listening to it at home while playing Final Fantasy XII at home...as I have been doing! I know...I'm a nerd!

Hauntingly Beautiful.......2007-03-20

I picked this up 2 days ago and cannot stop listening to it. All controversy of the movie aside, this is an amazing musical score. Using sweeping orchestral movements, trancelike drums, deliberate pacing, and the rich voice of Middle Eastern diva, Azam Ali, Bates weaves a spell of dark fantasy. Although calling to mind such scores as "Gladiator", "Lord of the Rings", "Kingdom of Heaven", and even "Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves", "300" holds it's own, evoking a atmosphere of majesty, mysticism, and larger than life heroes and villains.

The flow of this album is very well-paced, beginning with a crescendo of sound and motion and then seamlessly moving through sorrowful strings, tension-filled drum rhythms, epic choral chants, climaxing guitar riffs, and then back again without hesitation. Azam Ali's voice is the thread that weaves this tapestry of sound together. Her vocals effortlessly slip in and out of the score like a phantom, sometimes unheard, but always on the edge of awareness.

My advice? Listen to the music samples here. If you like what you hear, pick up the score and prepare to be swept away, because these samples are just a taste of the entirely of the work. It's brilliant.

Amazing Score.......2007-03-16

First off, to the above comments, while I thoroughly enjoyed your well articulated history lessons, and would be interested to read other history lessons from you, you have to realize that this story is not directly based off of the 300 Spartans at Thermopolye, but of the Graphic Novel. Now this is not to say that it is historily accurate in some sense, but the movie is tuned more to the direction of the graphic novell itself.

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Besides that the Soundtrack is amazing and it is always a Joy to listen to a soundtrack that really captivates the real emotion of that particular scene, I especially enjoyed the music when they fight the "beasts" and it is really hard rock, and I especially LOVED the ending music when the entire Spartan Army is gathered and the one spartan is telling them to remember Leonidas (It is called Remember Us on the Soundtrack).

May we all find our own "Glorius Death"

Excellent FILM with Excellent Music.......2007-03-14

Very atmospheric Soundtrack, beautiful voices, It is a combination of Rock/Epic and Oriental music with a touch of ambient. It fits so much with the movie. Congratulation to the composer and huge congratulation to all cast and crew for this awesome film. I can not wait for the DVD to be released.

well, well written.......2007-03-12

First, let's keep things in perspective, this is a review of the soundtrack, not film. As music and a soundtrack, it serves the purpose the composer/producers intended. It feels the emotions of what is happening on the screen, it sets the tone for the film, and, in my opinion, is brilliantly written. As far as the film itself, it cannot be propoganda, because there really isn't anything for it to be propoganda for, it is a money maker, period. Second, let's take a look at the history and see how it compares: 1)Fact, there were three hundred Spartans led by King Leonidas who fought at Thermopylae or, "Hot Gates". 2)they fought for about three days, 3)They fought Xerxes army (so far, pretty good) 4)A traitor greek led the Persians on a goat path behind the Greeks 5)All of the Spartans ended up dying as a result. So, the basis for history is indeed accurate. What was made up in the film was the amount of Greeks who came to fight with the Spartans and the number of Persians in the army. The Greek historian Herodotus does indeed number the Persians at over a million, modern scholarships asserts closer to 120,000. Also, there were closer to a total of 7,000 Greeks, however, about 1,000 of them were left to guard to goat path, and the Spartans did indeed see most of the action, killing an average of about 30 Persians for each fallen Spartan. Also, I am not sure there was so much intrigue within the Spartan senate. However, I have not studied this aspect of the battle as much, so I may be mistaken, however, I was always under the impression that Sparta was for battle, and only took 300 to preserve the rest of the army. The other part I am not sure about is the Persian emmissaries in the beginning, although it does not sound like anything that was beyond Spartan ferocity as to kill foriegn invading emmissaries. As a whole, even though it was "Hollywood", the film itself is gripping and emotional, and even the liberties they took did not, in my opinion, take away from the over-arching nobility for what the Spartans stood and fought for, Freedom and Liberty for men who would not submitt to Tyrrany. A lesson many people in the Free world would do good to remember again. Congrats on a fine musical score to an emotionally gripping and relevant story.

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