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Was so very happy with the product, price and the speediness of shippment. Would buy from this seller again.
I loved the liberty taken there and it's the song that caused me to check out the CD. What's This is actually my favorite song on this CD by far. "Flyleaf turned the song depressing"-- well yeah that's the whole freakin point of remixes, to experience songs in a different light. Unfortunately, most of the tracks on this take no such liberties and so you're left with mostly uninspired takes on the soundtrack. It's really only worth buying if you're a big fan of most of the bands on the CD or just adore the Nightmare Before Christmas that much.
Only get if you're a little Goth kiddie who likes any sort of tasteless effort by bands you'd buy t-shirts of at Hot Topic. That said, there are a couple good songs, but combined, that's like 1/4 of the whole album. The best songs are the instrumentals (which aren't as good as songs in their respective genres they're bringing to the table), and Korn, Manson, and Rise Against's renditions of Kidnap the Sandy Claws, This is Halloween, and Making Christmas, respectively. Just download those from Amazon, and don't buy this uninspired, exploitative crap.
I've been a fan of "NBX" as it's sometimes known since the original trailers for the film came out all those years ago. Amy Lee is a perfect choice for "Sally's Song, definitely capturing the sadness the poor rag doll was filling up with. "What's This." by Flyleaf robs the song of all emotion in an emo-girl's monotone, and "Jack's Obsession" by Sparklehorse is even worse. After hearing the covers from the special edition soundtrack, I was excited to check out this album.While it includes the previous, excellent Marilyn Manson cover of "This Is Halloween", the rest of the album is a mixed (trick or treat) bag indeed. One of my other favorite pieces, "Oogie's Song", is robbed of lyrics and made into a dreadful (if playful) bit of Latin guitar work. As mentioned in other reviews, the tracks that remained instrumentals are solid for the most part. I've owned three versions/formats of the movie itself, and had spent a decade searching for the original soundtrack, which I'm surprised hasn't worn out yet do to over-playing. "Poor Jack" by Plain White T's is also decent, but not quite as good as Elfman's original.Then, as I mentioned, some groups just didn't get it, if not just outright butchering the music in the all-together.
The thing is, with the lyrical pieces, it's like some performers "got it" and some had no idea what they were doing.KoRn's version of "Kidnap The Sandy Claws" is manic fun, bringing a real love of the feel of the material. "Jack's Lament" by All-American Rejects is solid, and Rise Against's "Making Christmas" is as energetic as Jack's Obsession is made out to be. "Town Meeting" is one of the worst pieces of "music" I have ever had to hear, a bizarrely performed, Wagnerian piece of mis-cast spoken-word drivel. The "Christmas Eve Montage" is then made into a piece of woefully-dated electronica, mostly a glorified MIDI that some little kid who just discovered the synthesizer might have put together.All-in-all, it's not a horrid album, but such an eclectic mix makes it strictly middle-of.the-road.
really, it was just inexcusable. As such, some of the songs on this remake/tribute album puzzled me; all in all, not horrible (at least, not completely horrible.)., but nothing to get too excited about either. Okay, so Nightmare is among my favorite movies of all time, and the music is completely vital to the story. They completely missed the feeling and tone of the song; what was the most fun and upbeat song in the movie (except 'Kidnap the Sandy Claws', of course), was turned into a depressing, slow drag.Nothing else was totally offensive, but nothing was stellar either. The songs I did like quite a lot were Plain White T's 'Poor Jack', and Amy Lee's version of 'Sally's Song' (but, really, I doubt she could screw that song up if she tried). Unfortunately, nothing else really jumped out at me, and one track really rubbed me the wrong way: Flyleaf's unforgivable butchering of 'What's This.'. Bottom line: this album is just. meh.
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