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| The Island | 
 enlarge | Creator: Steve Jablonsky
Label: Milan Records
Category: Music
List Price: $18.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  25 reviews
Sales Rank: 14849
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:
| • | The 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 | | • | The Craziest Mess I've Ever Seen | | • | Send In The Clones | | • | My Name Is Lincoln | | • | Blow (As Used in the Film the Island) - Steve Jablonsky, 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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 Mass Aural Carnage August 8, 2005
19 out of 43 found this review helpful
I'm no fan of what has come to be known as the "Media Ventures" style of scoring: generally insubstantial music, made up of basic rhythms complemented by all kinds of (usually electronic) percussion, strings, wordless choirs, and annoying noises. Occasionally (usually when Hans Zimmer's actually involved) it works, and quite well: Crimson Tide and The Rock are prime examples. But generally I feel no need to subject my ears to that noise. I decided to give this one a chance because of the composer. Steve Jablonsky, after years of supplying "additional music" for just these sorts of scores, contributed some outstanding music to Zimmer's score for Tears of the Sun -- indeed, his track was the best music on the album. Then, last year, he wrote the score for the anime Steamboy, and what a glorious surprise that score was! Unfortunately, neither the skill nor the fun that were on display in that score are here. For the most part, The Island just drones along. It opens inoffensively with "The Island Awaits You," then proceeds through about 50 minutes of mostly pointless musical rubbish of the sort I described at the beginning of the review. There are a few relative high points: There're a few interesting moments in "You Have A Special Purpose In Life" and "This Tongue Thing's Amazing" and there's some catchy action in "I'm Not Ready To Die," followed by a segment that sounds torn from Gladiator. Finally, in the very last score track, "My Name Is Lincoln," an actual theme develops. Not a great theme, but after suffering through the preceding 50 minutes, it certainly seems great by comparison. There are also two songs, "Blow" by The Prom Kings, and "Mass Vehicular Carnage," which I assume is by Jablonsky as it's placed as offensively as possible right in the middle of the score, reminding you that, yes, things could be worse. With about four minutes worth of anything enjoyable, this is a thoroughly unrecommended score.
 Quite Disappointing... July 27, 2005
13 out of 20 found this review helpful
I would just like to say that I am a huge fan of the Remote Control empire (Formly Media Ventures), so I was really looking forward to Steve Jablonsky's score for The Island. I had watched the simi-car chase on The Island website and I thought the music was great... I go to see the movie (not great) but the music was good... not Steamboy quality but good. I get the CD and nowhere on the CD is the awesome simi-car chase music!!!!! However, there is a "Massive Vehicular Carnage" track which is a hip-hop song with horrible lyrics that have nothing to do with MASSIVE VEHICULAR CARNAGE! The CD comes close to the music featured in the chase with the track "Crazist Mess I've Ever Seen" however it is edited heavily and doesn't match the music featured during the chase sequence. This CD is a great disappointment, however tracks like "Renovatio" and "Starkweather" helped things out. If your a fan of Jablonsky buy it, if not, save your money for something better.
Jablonsky variations on a theme by Jablonsky July 27, 2005
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.
 Excellent. Great Music, Mixed and Compiled into Great Tracks August 4, 2005
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!
best OST of 2005 summer August 26, 2005
6 out of 8 found this review helpful
This is my favorite soundtrack of the summer of 2005 (If you consider Batman Begins and Star Wars Episode III to be spring since they opened in May.)
Steve Jablonsky did alot of good things with the score to The Island. It sounds very similar to work of Hans Zimmer. If you like Hans Zimmer, you'll probably enjoy this score, if not, you probably will not like it.
The only thing detracting from this CD is a pop song at the end of the album and a rap song "mass vehicular carnage". A shame too because I would have really liked to hear the music from that scene in the movie with the vehicle carnage, a shame it wasn't included and was replaced with a lame rap song.
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