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Toys: Music From The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack | 
| Artists: Hans Zimmer, Thomas Dolby, Enya, Tori Amos, Pat Metheny, Robin Williams, Frankie Goes To Hollywood, Grace Jones
Label: Geffen Records
Category: Music
List Price: $11.98
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Rating:  16 reviews
Sales Rank: 6229
Format: Soundtrack
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 720642450529
EAN: 0720642450529
ASIN: B000000OT8
Release Date: December 15, 1992
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| Tracks:
| • | Winter Reveries [Excerpt from Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 1] - Shirley Walker | | • | Closing of the Year | | • | Ebudae - Enya | | • | Happy Worker - Tori Amos | | • | Alsatia's Lullaby - Julia Migenes-Johnson, Hans Zimmer | | • | Workers | | • | Let Joy and Innocence Prevail - Pat Metheny | | • | General - Michael Gambon, Hans Zimmer | | • | Mirror Song - Joan Cusak, Thomas Dolby, Robin Williams | | • | Battle Introduction - Robin Williams | | • | Welcome to the Pleasuredome - Frankie Goes to Hollywood | | • | Let Joy & Innocence Prevail - Grace Jones | | • | Closing of the Year/Happy Workers |
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| Customer Reviews: Read 11 more reviews...
 This CD is all over the place May 23, 2001
theuninvitedguest (Chicago, IL)
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
First off, the movie is fantastic. It is funny, creative, and simply a guilty pleasure. It is one of the few movies I can watch over and over, but I suppose you have to have an off-beat sense of humor to think it's good. Now, for the CD, the songs on it are all over the place, and that's what makes it so good. I like every single song on it, although some more then others. The very first two songs are so beautifult they should be Christmas classics if more people knew about them. Ebudae and Alasatias lullaby are both interesting and beautiful. I don't like opera, but Alsatia's lullaby is amazing. The soaring orchestral performances (try track 11) are marvelous and great to listen to with the speakers on high. And of course, Happy Worker is simply a fantastic song and I enjoy every version of it on the soundtrack (listen for the last version after the last song, the lyrics are sung in a particularly interesting and fantastic way). Go buy this immediately, especially if you have an eclectic taste in music.
Green Hills and Blue Skies and Red Jackets and Yellow Toys February 28, 2005
Christopher S. Loucks (Colorado Front Range)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
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This is by far one of my most treasured CDs. The movie is fantastic (in my opinion), but the soundtrack is brilliant. Hans Zimmer's larger-than-life militaristic score gets the "Fisher-Price" make-over with delightful results! His tracks interject classic songs like "Closing of the Year" and even an opera-themed piece.
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"Toys" is one of these special albums that literally became a soundtrack to my life. Many listeners will know what I am talking about. The keyword here is "association," where, when we hear a song, we can recall memories which can literally flood your mind, and you'll remember things you'd forgotten years prior. I became "one" with tracks 8, 9, 10, and 11...the power tracks that literally lead into one another perfectly, building up slowly throughout:
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The General - the slow build-up of clouds and darkness... I used to visit the mountains of Colorado in the dark, vast fields and hills shadowed by a starry sky ripped apart in the West. And Michael Gambon's dictating his use of power gives me chills to this day!
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The Mirror Song - the title is perfect. I know nothing of Thomas Dolby, but he performs Trever Horn's song perfectly. I prefer this version to the Robin Williams/Joan Cusack version in the film. What is Dolby singing? "So real...surreal..." This song is perfect in every way.
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Battle Introduction - one of the greatest (short) pieces Zimmer wrote. His music here chills me, and he's only done it since then with "The Thin Red Line" score. This piece is sad...
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Welcome to the Pleasuredome (Intro Battle Mix) - and we end with a remix of Frankie Goes to Hollywood's piece...I know nothing about them. I listen to this track with headphones to hear the subtleties, and only when I'm in the mood for powerful themes.
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Unfortunately, I have associated and re-associated these four tracks so often (along with the rest of the album) that my brain freezes up upon hearing this music. Which is why I now listen to it on rare occasions. It's too precious.
A work of Art that cannot be expressed on paper December 30, 2003
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
The soundtrack from the movie "Toys" is Beautiful. It is mezmorizing, as is the movie. Both are amazing. Each track compliments the CD. Tori Amos and Enya are just some of the artists that contribute. "The Happy Woker" (Amos' song) is entrancing...I have fallen in love with it. Hans Zimmer has done tremendous work this time. One of my favorite tracks on the CD is "The mirror song" sung by Robin Williams and Joan Cusack in the movie...but on the soundtrack any sign of William's singing is distorted and the volume is lowered so we can barely understand him. That was disapointing. Other than that the Soundtrack is great. Just like the movie, it's filled with whimsey and wonder.
 Magical March 20, 2003
J Osorio (New Mexico)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I bought this album primarily for the theme/Christmas song "The Closing of the Year," which is a classic. The rest of the soundtrack is enjoyable as well; it doesn't rely totally on having watched the movie, although that is helpful. If you liked The Fifth Element soundtrack, this one is similar in a couple of areas, including a moving soprano solo and stirring instrumentals.
Fun album! December 31, 2006
K. B. Anderson (Utah)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I bought this CD for the song, "The Closing of the Year" - as I couldn't find that song anywhere else, and it's one that I've loved. But the rest of the album is great too. There's a song called "Happy Worker" by Tori Amos - if you're a fan of hers, you won't be disappointed. Once again, the instrumental songs (by Hans Zimmer) are outstanding! This is a fun album - so glad I bought it! :-)
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