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Director Jason Reitman's warm, compassionate comedy about an unanticipated teen pregnancy was not only a dark horse Oscar® nominee for Best Picture, but saw this soundtrack CD top the charts just two weeks after its release. It's a collection wherein quirky, generation-spanning folk and rock choices are rooted in something more rewarding than mere eclecticism for its own sake--namely the sense of unlikely, hopeful humanity that Kimya Dawson's core songs bring to its slightly askew axis. Dawson's spotlight performances here range from a handful of decidedly twee solo cuts, to the album's key "Anyone Else But You," (her 2001 duet with Adam Green released under the Moldy Peaches moniker,) and a couple more upbeat oddballs by the singer's more recent Antsy Pants project. That effusively innocent musical core is augmented with a pair of eminently sympathetic tracks from Scottish twee-pop magnates Belle and Sebastian, then seasoned with a mix of catalog tracks that spans eras from Buddy Holly to Sonic Youth--utilizing styles as diverse as the Kinks, Mott the Hoople, and Velvet Underground--that nonetheless manage to bolster the film's tender emotions with a graceful, (if skewed,) charm that's hard to resist. --Jerry McCulley
Director Jason Reitman made a whole slew of great decisions with his justly lauded film Juno. One of them was the choice of music he used, which gave potent voice to this soundtrack companion. While all of the songs added energy and emotional atmosphere to the scenes, it was the inclusion of numerous numbers by Kimya Dawson that subtly enhanced the wonderfully drawn title character. Dawson's homemade immediacy and faux stream-of-consciousness lyrics felt like songs that the character Juno would listen to, or create. Dawson's seven (one recorded with Adam Green, her partner in the Moldy Peaches) are interspersed among a dozen other selections which straddle generations--Buddy Holly, The Velvet Underground, Mott the Hoople, Sonic Youth, and Cat Power--and moods, sequenced to flow like one delightful radio program. --David Greenberger
Director Jason Reitman made a whole slew of great decisions with his justly lauded film Juno. One of them was the choice of music he used, which gave potent voice to this soundtrack companion. While all of the songs added energy and emotional atmosphere to the scenes, it was the inclusion of numerous numbers by Kimya Dawson that subtly enhanced the wonderfully drawn title character. Dawson's homemade immediacy and faux stream-of-consciousness lyrics felt like songs that the character Juno would listen to, or create. Dawson's seven (one recorded with Adam Green, her partner in the Moldy Peaches) are interspersed among a dozen other selections which straddle generations--Buddy Holly, The Velvet Underground, Mott the Hoople, Sonic Youth, and Cat Power--and moods, sequenced to flow like one delightful radio program. --David Greenberger
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Original soundtrack to the 2008 coming-of-age comedy directed by Jason Reitman (Thank You For Smoking). The narrative centers on whip-smart Juno (Ellen Page, in a breakthrough role), a teenage girl faced with an unplanned pregnancy from an afternoon with the charmingly unassuming Bleeker. Juno finds her unborn baby the perfect set of parents in Mark and Vanessa Loring (Jason Bateman and Jennifer Garner), an affluent suburban couple who are eager to adopt. Along with the total support of her parents, Juno conquers her problems head-on, displaying a youthful exuberance that is both smart and unexpected. Features tracks from Kimya Dawson, The Kinks, Buddy Holly, Sonic Youth, Belle & Sebastian, Mott The Hoople, Cat Power and others. Rhino.
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50 of 57 people found the following review helpful
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Juno is a gentle, sweet, smart and moving comedy. It's a teen flick that works for adults, and an adult flick that works for teens. The soundtrack is the perfect background (and sometimes foreground) to what goes on in the film, but it also stands alone quite nicely. Most of the songs on the album are quiet, indie, folkie, and acoustic, like the Kimya Dawson songs (three of 'em) which are idiosnycractic and wonderful. Kimya Dawson (formerly of the Moldy Peaches who are also represented here) reminds me ALOT of the Be Good Tanyas (which is intended as a compliment), especially on Tire Swing. There are, however, also some great classic oldie songs from the Kinks and Buddy Holly and Mott the Hoople which are not acoustic-y folkie, but more raucous and energetic. Go out and enjoy the movie and I'm betting you will come back for the music.
78 of 94 people found the following review helpful
By Jay Young
Format:Audio CD
The songs in the soundtrack to Juno fit perfectly with the movie. They are soft, folksy, slightly eccentric, and capture the emotional aura of the film's story, characters, and message. I will comment on each of the songs.
* All I Want is You: A delightfully zany song about love; uses analogies ("if you were the wood, I'd be the fire") to get the point across. It's folksy, using the harmonica and guitar.
*My Rollercoaster: A lyric-less song, with the artist just singing "doo-doo-doo." Still, with its whimsical feel, it definitely is in keeping with the spirit of the rest of the album.
* A Well-Respected Man: A nice "soft-rock" song about a well to-do man. It reminds me of Simon & Garfunkel's "Richard Corey," but without the tragic ending.
* Dearest: Buddy Holly. Need I say more?
* Up the Sprout: A short guitar piece that is soft, yet has some "edgy" measures.
* Tire Swing: Kimya Dawson is really a revelation. Her soft-spoken eloquence really shines through. This is another soft-rock song that discusses the writer's experiences with her boyfriend. It includes a canon, which adds spice to the song.
* Piazza, New Catcher: A song about a baseball catcher, who struggles with love and life. This one's fast-moving and has several minor chords.
* Loose Lips: An apt title for the song; Dawson speaks freely. This one's pretty fast-moving, so pay attention.
* Superstar: Definitely the edgiest song on this album, from Sonic Youth, no less. It has a bittersweet feel.
* Sleep: An instrumental song, with humming by Kimya Dawson. Another soft, folksy, sweet song.
* Expectations: A fast, fairly sad song. It's a nice contrast with the rest of the album.
* All the Young Dudes: A great classic rock song, with hints of soul and jazz. Mott the Hopple belts the lyrics out emotionally.
* So Nice So Smart: Kimya Dawson again. Don't let the sunny tune of this song fool you- it's actually quite dark! The chorus is:
"you're so nice and you're so smart
you're such a good friend i hafta break your heart
tell you that i love you then i'll tear your world apart
just pretend i didn't tear your world apart"
* Sea of Love: A slow, melancholy love song.
* Tree Hugger: Think of this as a folk poem song. To give you an idea:
"The flower said, `I wish I was a tree,'
The tree said, `I wish I could be
A different kind of tree,'
The cat wished that it was a bee,
The turtle wished that it could fly
Really high into the sky,
Over rooftops and then dive
Deep into the sea."
*I'm Sticking with You: A self-consciously corny song, but an enjoyable one. It has the "oom-pah" chords and starts out with piano, though it switches to a regular guitar sound eventually. The song begins with "I'm sticking with you, `cause I'm made out of glue." This is definitely not for all tastes- it depends on what your threshold for cheese is.
*Anyone Else But You: A guy and a girl singing to each other about how they couldn't be with "anyone else but you." The Moldy Peaches aren't the best singers, but they're good enough to keep the listener interested, and the music and lyrics are sweet and folksy. This is Kimya Dawson's old band.
*Vampire: A kind of strange song; the singer compares himself (the singer's a 12 year-old boy) to a vampire and sees herself as a social outcast.
*Anyone Else But You: Michael Cera and Ellen Page sing the Moldy Peaches song. This is sweet, and I think their performance is better than the original.
* All I Want is You: A delightfully zany song about love; uses analogies ("if you were the wood, I'd be the fire") to get the point across. It's folksy, using the harmonica and guitar.
*My Rollercoaster: A lyric-less song, with the artist just singing "doo-doo-doo." Still, with its whimsical feel, it definitely is in keeping with the spirit of the rest of the album.
* A Well-Respected Man: A nice "soft-rock" song about a well to-do man. It reminds me of Simon & Garfunkel's "Richard Corey," but without the tragic ending.
* Dearest: Buddy Holly. Need I say more?
* Up the Sprout: A short guitar piece that is soft, yet has some "edgy" measures.
* Tire Swing: Kimya Dawson is really a revelation. Her soft-spoken eloquence really shines through. This is another soft-rock song that discusses the writer's experiences with her boyfriend. It includes a canon, which adds spice to the song.
* Piazza, New Catcher: A song about a baseball catcher, who struggles with love and life. This one's fast-moving and has several minor chords.
* Loose Lips: An apt title for the song; Dawson speaks freely. This one's pretty fast-moving, so pay attention.
* Superstar: Definitely the edgiest song on this album, from Sonic Youth, no less. It has a bittersweet feel.
* Sleep: An instrumental song, with humming by Kimya Dawson. Another soft, folksy, sweet song.
* Expectations: A fast, fairly sad song. It's a nice contrast with the rest of the album.
* All the Young Dudes: A great classic rock song, with hints of soul and jazz. Mott the Hopple belts the lyrics out emotionally.
* So Nice So Smart: Kimya Dawson again. Don't let the sunny tune of this song fool you- it's actually quite dark! The chorus is:
"you're so nice and you're so smart
you're such a good friend i hafta break your heart
tell you that i love you then i'll tear your world apart
just pretend i didn't tear your world apart"
* Sea of Love: A slow, melancholy love song.
* Tree Hugger: Think of this as a folk poem song. To give you an idea:
"The flower said, `I wish I was a tree,'
The tree said, `I wish I could be
A different kind of tree,'
The cat wished that it was a bee,
The turtle wished that it could fly
Really high into the sky,
Over rooftops and then dive
Deep into the sea."
*I'm Sticking with You: A self-consciously corny song, but an enjoyable one. It has the "oom-pah" chords and starts out with piano, though it switches to a regular guitar sound eventually. The song begins with "I'm sticking with you, `cause I'm made out of glue." This is definitely not for all tastes- it depends on what your threshold for cheese is.
*Anyone Else But You: A guy and a girl singing to each other about how they couldn't be with "anyone else but you." The Moldy Peaches aren't the best singers, but they're good enough to keep the listener interested, and the music and lyrics are sweet and folksy. This is Kimya Dawson's old band.
*Vampire: A kind of strange song; the singer compares himself (the singer's a 12 year-old boy) to a vampire and sees herself as a social outcast.
*Anyone Else But You: Michael Cera and Ellen Page sing the Moldy Peaches song. This is sweet, and I think their performance is better than the original.
13 of 13 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
DON'T BE MISLED BY THE "NO LONGER AVAILABLE" TAG. THIS VERY IMPORTANT ORIGINAL BROADWAY CAST RECORDING IS AVAILABLE ON-LINE FROM FYNSWORTH ALLEY. (JTW)
Growing up on a farm in the middle of Nebraska, four hours on two-lane highway from Omaha, I got my Musical Theatre fixes from the movies (this was during the Golden Age of the Hollywood Musical), "The Railroad Hour" on the radio, and the Columbia Record Club. Many were the treasures that came through the mail for [...] plus shipping & handling, and among them was a dark, tragic, yet beautiful musical called JUNO, based on Sean O'Casey's "Juno and the Paycock." The music was unlike any other show I had heard up to this point, more in the "classical" vein than Broadway. The composer was Marc Blitzstein, of whom I knew little except that he had written the English lyrics for "Mack the Knife" and the other songs from "Threepenny Opera."
Perhaps because it was the first "serious" piece of American Musical Theatre that I had heard, it remained deeply rooted in my subconscious, and I looked forward to it's being issued as a Sony Broadway CD. Of course, that never happened. So when Fynsworth Alley announced their release in 2002, I immediately went on line and got my copy.
The conflicts of O'Casey's play appear to reflect Blitzstein's personal conflicts. "Born to wealth, he became deeply concerned about the corrupting effect of money. He sought love and fidelity in a world of violence and betrayal. He struggled to support himself until suddenly riches fell, as if from the sky, in his last decade. `Captain' Boyle's vision of a happy life upon the sea in a world with only men may have echoed the fact that Blitzstein lived as openly [...] a lifestyle as it was possible to do in his era. He was a tireless champion of the working man who, in the end, was murdered by working men." -- (from Robert Viagas' superlative liner notes.)
There are few "happy" songs in JUNO. Jean Stapleton, Nancy Andrews, Sada Thompson & Beulah Garrick commiserate with "You Poor Thing;" "On a Day Like This" is a rare upbeat, inspirational moment; Shirley Booth & Melvyn Douglas spar at one another with "Old Sayin's." The ballads are melancholy: "I Wish It So," which Dawn Upshaw recorded in 1994; the lyrical Irish ballad "One Kind Word;" the folk song-like duet "Bird Upon the Tree." But most of the music is grim, befitting the play: "We're Alive;" "Song of a Ma;" Shirley Booth's wrenching "Where?"; and the ballet music for "Johnny."
JUNO ran for only 16 performances, which is not surprising considering American audiences' aversion to experimental theatre and/or musicals with serious themes. ANYONE CAN WHISTLE lasted just 9 performances; CANDIDE ran for 73; only 136 for CAROLINE, OR CHANGE; MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG (16); the powerful anti-war JOHNNY JOHNSON (68); and the real Floyd Collins probably spent more time in that Kentucky sand cave than FLOYD COLLINS spent on the Playwrights Horizons stage in 1996.
I strongly suggest that you make JUNO a part of your musical theatre library. It's an important show by an important, if little known, composer. Hopefully, Fynsworth Alley or some other small, quality-conscious label will see fit to issue a CD version of REGINA , Blitzstein's Tony & Theatre World Award winning setting of Lillian Hellman's "The Little Foxes" (56 performances, 1959, Columbia LP release). Perhaps DECCA Broadway will do the same for the marvelous 1964 revival of THE CRADLE WILL ROCK with Jerry Orbach ( MGM double LP). Then Marc Blitzstein might become better known for his great theatre works and not just as the guy who wrote the lyrics for "Mack the Knife."
Growing up on a farm in the middle of Nebraska, four hours on two-lane highway from Omaha, I got my Musical Theatre fixes from the movies (this was during the Golden Age of the Hollywood Musical), "The Railroad Hour" on the radio, and the Columbia Record Club. Many were the treasures that came through the mail for [...] plus shipping & handling, and among them was a dark, tragic, yet beautiful musical called JUNO, based on Sean O'Casey's "Juno and the Paycock." The music was unlike any other show I had heard up to this point, more in the "classical" vein than Broadway. The composer was Marc Blitzstein, of whom I knew little except that he had written the English lyrics for "Mack the Knife" and the other songs from "Threepenny Opera."
Perhaps because it was the first "serious" piece of American Musical Theatre that I had heard, it remained deeply rooted in my subconscious, and I looked forward to it's being issued as a Sony Broadway CD. Of course, that never happened. So when Fynsworth Alley announced their release in 2002, I immediately went on line and got my copy.
The conflicts of O'Casey's play appear to reflect Blitzstein's personal conflicts. "Born to wealth, he became deeply concerned about the corrupting effect of money. He sought love and fidelity in a world of violence and betrayal. He struggled to support himself until suddenly riches fell, as if from the sky, in his last decade. `Captain' Boyle's vision of a happy life upon the sea in a world with only men may have echoed the fact that Blitzstein lived as openly [...] a lifestyle as it was possible to do in his era. He was a tireless champion of the working man who, in the end, was murdered by working men." -- (from Robert Viagas' superlative liner notes.)
There are few "happy" songs in JUNO. Jean Stapleton, Nancy Andrews, Sada Thompson & Beulah Garrick commiserate with "You Poor Thing;" "On a Day Like This" is a rare upbeat, inspirational moment; Shirley Booth & Melvyn Douglas spar at one another with "Old Sayin's." The ballads are melancholy: "I Wish It So," which Dawn Upshaw recorded in 1994; the lyrical Irish ballad "One Kind Word;" the folk song-like duet "Bird Upon the Tree." But most of the music is grim, befitting the play: "We're Alive;" "Song of a Ma;" Shirley Booth's wrenching "Where?"; and the ballet music for "Johnny."
JUNO ran for only 16 performances, which is not surprising considering American audiences' aversion to experimental theatre and/or musicals with serious themes. ANYONE CAN WHISTLE lasted just 9 performances; CANDIDE ran for 73; only 136 for CAROLINE, OR CHANGE; MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG (16); the powerful anti-war JOHNNY JOHNSON (68); and the real Floyd Collins probably spent more time in that Kentucky sand cave than FLOYD COLLINS spent on the Playwrights Horizons stage in 1996.
I strongly suggest that you make JUNO a part of your musical theatre library. It's an important show by an important, if little known, composer. Hopefully, Fynsworth Alley or some other small, quality-conscious label will see fit to issue a CD version of REGINA , Blitzstein's Tony & Theatre World Award winning setting of Lillian Hellman's "The Little Foxes" (56 performances, 1959, Columbia LP release). Perhaps DECCA Broadway will do the same for the marvelous 1964 revival of THE CRADLE WILL ROCK with Jerry Orbach ( MGM double LP). Then Marc Blitzstein might become better known for his great theatre works and not just as the guy who wrote the lyrics for "Mack the Knife."
Most Recent Customer Reviews
2.0 out of 5 stars
For the die-hard collector.
Juno is a heartbreaker. There are flashes of brilliance, but they peter out quickly. The cast is first rate, but not always well cast. Read more
Published 9 days ago by Elkhart
5.0 out of 5 stars
Fast Shipping. Product In Great Condition!
I loved how quickly I received the product.
I recommend it to anyone who likes alternative music with a classic but unique twist. Read more
I recommend it to anyone who likes alternative music with a classic but unique twist. Read more
Published 13 days ago by Elizabeth Whitehead
4.0 out of 5 stars
Good music
Good music and you get two CD's which is nice. Seems like the same artist is featured a lot, but there is still variety.
Published 17 days ago by JoJo485
5.0 out of 5 stars
a favorite
I never rarely buy soundtracks but after seeing this movie I fell in love with the movie and the music
Published 22 days ago by tpoland
5.0 out of 5 stars
Awesome deal
Great soundtrack! And I love that I got 2 CDs out of it! If you love the movie because of the music, this purchase is a no-brainer.
Published 1 month ago by Lorilei Espinola
5.0 out of 5 stars
love this
I love that the soundtrack actually has songs from the movie. Condition was good and i have been enjoying the CD since i got it!
Published 1 month ago by Pen Name
5.0 out of 5 stars
Good Music
I absolutely love the movie so I had to get the soundtrack and I could not be any happier with it!
Published 1 month ago by Nicole H Himebauch
5.0 out of 5 stars
Loooove this vinyl! A really good choice!
I bought this Vinyl because a really liked the movie and I remmembered that I liked the soundtrack. It was kind of a shot in the dark, but I am really glad I bought this album! Read more
Published 2 months ago by Bel
5.0 out of 5 stars
I love this so much, I bought it twice!
This is a great soundtrack. I cannot be clear enough about that-- the music is great for working, or driving, or running. It's quirky, folksy, happy day music. Read more
Published 2 months ago by Jaclyn Rivard
4.0 out of 5 stars
Complements the movie
Despite 1/2 of the album being 1 artist, this works. I don't care for the album as a stand-alone (hence 4 stars instead of 5) but if I let it take my mind back to the film, then I... Read more
Published 2 months ago by R. MCRACKAN
