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The Island | 
| Creator: Steve Jablonsky
Label: Milan Records
Category: Music
List Price: $18.98
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Rating:  25 reviews
Sales Rank: 3561
Format: Soundtrack
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 36132
UPC: 731383613227
EAN: 0731383613227
ASIN: B0009X766E
Release Date: July 26, 2005
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| Tracks:
| • | Island Awaits You | | • | Where Do These Tubes Go? | | • | Sector 6 | | • | Starkweather | | • | Agnate Ukuleles | | • | You Have a Special Purpose in Life | | • | Mass Vehicular Carnage | | • | Renovatio | | • | I'm Not Ready to Die | | • | This Tongue Thing's Amazing | | • | Mass Winnings | | • | Craziest Mess I've Ever Seen | | • | Send in the Clones | | • | My Name Is Lincoln | | • | Blow (As Used in the Film the Island) - The Prom Kings |
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After supplying something known as "additional music" to many films since the late 1990s, Steve Jablonsky seems to have become the go-to composer for director-producer Michael Bay. Jablonsky's score for Bay's sci-fi thriller The Island shows the influence of its producer, Hans Zimmer. "The Island Awaits You" sets up the mood, which is oddly muted for a movie directed by explosion-master Bay. Even a track titled "Mass Vehicular Carnage" is merely ominously low-key, oddly sounding like something by dank trip-hopper Tricky. Elsewhere, the electronic number "Starkweather" successfully creates a feeling of oppressive tension before integrating elements of the main theme. Unfortunately, in his effort to avoid big ka-booms, Jablonsky can be overly subdued; while nothing is jarring, nothing makes much of an impression either. Actually, there is one jarring thing on this CD, and it's the Prom Kings' nu metal/funk hybrid "Blow," tacked on at the end like an afterthought. --Elisabeth Vincentelli
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| Customer Reviews: Read 20 more reviews...
Jablonsky variations on a theme by Jablonsky July 27, 2005
Andres Segovia
11 out of 12 found this review helpful
Steve Jablonsky worked on quite a few works with Hans Zimmer but only with the "additional music." Now Jablonsky is flying solo. He's worked on The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Steamboy and The Amittyville Horror. With The Island, we get to hear Jablonsky's abilities on action scoring.
The Island score starts off with some good guitar music accompanied by some brass roars with a male chorus every now and then intensifying every time it appears. After a minute or so the music becomes uneasy as Ewan McGregor's character has a nightmare about drowning. The theme is carried over across the album used tastefully never overwrought like, say, James Horner.
Two tracks that I did not enjoy were "Mass Vehicular Carnage" and "Blow." "Mass Vehicular Carnage" didn't sound like score material, its more of a hip-hop song because it contained lyrics. "Blow" is not found anywhere in the movie and its not even part of the score. Its probably one of those "inspired by" rock songs.
The score is good action percussion. There are some romantic moments in the album where Steve uses his guitar motif softly (e.g. This Tongue Thing is Amazing). "My Name Is Lincoln" brings all the themes of the album together very nicely with a lyricless chorus.
Michael Bay usually hires someone from the Media Ventures' gang to score his films. Steve Jablonsky met the challenge and, in my opinion, succeeded. I recommend this score if you're into the electronic Media Venture works.
 Stunningly good Score! November 10, 2006
Scott Hill (Redondo Beach, Ca USA)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
This is a hauntingly good score to a pretty darned good film, which for whatever whim of the masses was less than well received. I you like taiko drums, fast paced and wonderfully executed "world beat" music, this is definitely the score for you, I've played it again and again and it only gets better with each listening.
Excellent. Great Music, Mixed and Compiled into Great Tracks August 4, 2005
Louis Kosn (Ohio, USA)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
This is a great score. I loved the music during the movie and bought the CD immediately afterward. There are a lot of small pieces throughout the movie, not enough to make whole tracks by themselves. I thought the score was well-compiled and mixed to make unique individual pieces that can stand alone. As one person wrote, the track titled "The Craziest Mess I've Ever Seen" doesn't match the music used in the film during the main chase scene, but I think it was expanded and edited to include short action sequence cues from other parts of the movie. Again, I think this is nice work compiling and mixing to get all the music from the movie into workable tracks.
This music is slightly more electronic than any of Hans Zimmer's recent works. For those familiar with Hans Zimmer's scores to Crimson Tide, The Lion King, Mission Impossible 2, Gladiator, Black Hawk Down, Pearl Harbor, and The Last Samurai, none of these are more electronic than the music in The Island.
The two tracks titled "Mass Vehicular Carnage" and "Blow" should have been left out. They aren't score music; they are songs probably played in the background (almost inaudibly) at some point in the movie.
The music is varied throughout the score, the themes aren't overused -- and again, I think this is due to careful mixing and editing. The soundtrack to Requiem for a Dream fails because it is a collection of every short snippet of music in the film, made into individual tracks. I also recently bought Trevor Rabin's score to Armageddon. There are a couple great pieces and a couple great themes, but The Island score is far better. This is great music!
w00t this cd owns August 5, 2005
Neu Mage
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
i saw the movie and absolutely loved it, a plot that is interesting and action sequences that just dont stop. what i also enjoyed was the soundtrack, i fell in love with it almost immediately. my friend purchased the soundtrack like right after we left the theater and ive borrowed it like 100,000,000 times. it isnt as great as the music in the movie, they must have edited it in the movie. but its one of those cds that u can put in ur playlist and listen to forever...
Amazing September 7, 2005
MadHatter
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I absolutely LOVE the Soundtrack. The first time i watched the Movie, i was so drawn into it because of the music. Yes, there are some songs that wern't on my "A" list, but then with some others, it just takes my breath away.
The orchestra is strong and intense. At times you can say that its my "meditation" music, because I relax the most when I listen to it.
To me, it was an absolute enjoyment, to others it might not be, because they only like the music cause it "went well" with the movie and that was how they came to get the soundtrack.
Because I am a devoted fan to the movie "The Island" I loved it :)
My most favorite song out of the whole sound track is "My Name Is Lincoln" as well as "This Tongue Thing's Amazing" are my most absolute favorite!
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