Good Bye Lenin! [SOUNDTRACK]

Yann Tiersen

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 6, 2004)
• Original Release Date: April 6, 2004
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Soundtrack
• Label: Virgin Records Us
• ASIN: B0000A1WGH
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #53,893 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Product Description
Following the huge success of the 'Amelie' soundtrack, Yann Tiersen strikes back by composing the soundtrack of 'Goodbye Lenin', for the German director Wolfgang Becker. EMI/Labels. 2003. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

47 of 47 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Do not buy this version, it's incomplete, July 3, 2004

By	James Luckard (Los Angeles, CA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Brilliant music, but DO NOT WASTE YOUR MONEY on this shortened American version. It is the same as the original German version and is missing five tracks from the vastly superior second European release, which has the complete score. (Except for one track that was taken from Tiersen's Amelie)

Why they stupidly chose the incomplete album for the American CD is beyond me, but you can find the 23 track complete European version for only a few dollars more in most stores, or find it here at Amazon.

On the cover, instead of the photo of the mother and son, the good version that you want will have just the title, in white and black text, on a red background.

On that page here at Amazon you'll find my review of the album, which includes the correct film order of the music, if you want to reedit it, as I did.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great filmscore, May 24, 2004

By	J. Carpenter (Montgomery, AL United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

If you've not seen Good Bye Lenin! the score is still beautiful. The piano is very light and very touching, but then the score gets more complex with a woodwind quartet(?) and continues gaining complexity with the addition of strings to the quartet. It helps to know why the music is so sad in places, of course, you get a clue as to what's going on in the movie with track titles like "Mother will die."

All in all, it's an amazing movie with an equally amazing filmscore.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Der DDR Nostalgia!, February 27, 2006

By	Uncle Borges (Via Lungomare 6) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Good Bye Lenin! (Audio CD)

Great film, brilliant soundtrack, Deceptively simple in its complexity and highly, highly addictive. I listen to it as I punch the keys. Together with the Argentine's genius Santaollala's score for The Motorcycle Diaries, this is one of the strongest soundtracks in recent years.
Yann Tiersen, composer's name. Bravo!