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Passengers: Original Soundtracks 1 [Soundtrack]

PassengersAudio CD
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  • Audio CD (November 7, 1995)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Format: Soundtrack
  • Label: Island
  • ASIN: B000001E8S
  • Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Music
  • Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (54 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #15,425 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

1. United Colours
2. Slug
3. Your Blue Room
4. Always Forever Now
5. A Different Kind Of Blue
6. Beach Sequence
7. Miss Sarajevo
8. Ito Okashi
9. One Minute Warning
10. Corpse (These Chains Are Way Too Long)
11. Elvis Ate America
12. Plot 180
13. Theme From The Swan
14. Theme From Let's Go Native

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U2 should be celebrated for doing what so few major rock bands have managed: They broke the chains of their own stardom. For a while it looked like they'd carry the "monsters of rock" banner into institutionalized and calcified dotage like the Who and Pink Floyd before them. But with 1991's Achtung Baby--and even more so on '93's Zooropa--U2 made clear they'd not become so alienated from artistic motivation that they believed more in their own importance than in their continued ability to create. Thus they stopped waving flags and learned to laugh at their fame. The change, in effect, released U2 from its own image and allowed the band more creative elbowroom than ever before. Only in this context could U2 now allow their producer Brian Eno to assume virtual membership in the band, adopt the pseudonym Passengers, and immerse themselves in the anonymity of film music.

With Original Soundtracks 1, a collection of 14 compositions for imagined movies (and one performance piece), U2 accentuate the visual sense. Eno, who's done this sort of thing for decades, plays a defining role. Tracks like "United Colours" and "One Minute Warning," with their electronic pulsations and organic atmospherics, clearly fall onto his ambient/techno terrain. Even tracks more recognizably the band's are enriched by collaboration: The hilarious "Elvis Ate America" is even more absurd with Howie B's scratching and vocal calls, and the touching "Miss Sarajevo" is made infinitely more profound by Luciano Pavarotti's tenor. Passengers is more likely an inspired tangent than an indication of U2's direction, but it adds to the band's impressive--and constantly progressive--body of work. --Roni Sarig

Product Description

14 tracks with Brian Eno + Pavarotti etc.

Customer Reviews

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21 of 22 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing is what it is July 29, 2005
Format:Audio CD
I've owned this album for over 8 years and I continually come back to it as my favorite U2 album. I find the individual songs and the album as a complete experience grow on me with each listening. When I first listened to it I enjoyed a few songs but now I can appreciate the entire album.

I enjoy all of U2's other albums but this one really moves me more than any of the others. Its music is more cerebral and experimental than the rest. Want to hear Brian Eno singing, Bono playing the piano, Edge singing and playing the organ, and Adam Clayton narrating? Then you want this album. I can understand not issuing this album as a "U2" album. If they had released it just like an ordinary album then many U2 fans would have been angry/confused by what they heard.

I like to think of U2 as an artistic band, especially as a counter balance to their popular face. I'm sure Eno had a strong influence over this album but I'm also confident that U2's members contributed a great deal of material. This album combined with the DVD "Classic Albums - U2: The Joshua Tree" gives you a very different picture of U2 than might come across while listening to their pop corpus. More than any of their B-Sides, this album is major departure from what one would expect from U2.

All that said, many people that like U2 would probably dislike this album, however if you own all their other albums you should really add this one to your collection.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars Great ambient music...for films that don't exist September 3, 2004
Format:Audio CD
In the mid 1990s, U2 took time out of A) saving the world and B) revamping their image by creating "Original Soundtracks 1" with longtime producer Brian Eno. This is NOT a U2 album and should not be considered a starting point for anyone new to the U2 library. That said, the Passengers sideline project was an interesting diversion from the ZooTV tour, and is an interesting extension of what the band had accomplished with "Achtung, Baby" and "Zooropa."

Here is an album that's almost like electronic jazz, perfect for a quiet Friday night with a glass of wine and no lights on. The tracks were fashioned around scenes for movies that do not exist, truly one of the more original album concepts of the last ten years.

You can hear Edge's guitar throughout "OS1," as well as Bono's voice, Larry's drums and Adam's guitar. But these elements are in the service of something distinctly different, the sounds of a futuristic city coming to life in a gently erotic sort of way. If that sounds esoteric and a little weird, well, that's "OS1."

The best track is without a doubt "Always Forever Now," which builds incessantly around a throbbing bassline, propelled forward into the night by Larry's amazing drumwork. This is a beautiful song, the lyrics consisting only of Bono's spoken word mantra.

"Miss Sarajevo" is also on the album, but it's eclipsed by the sci-fi erotica of "Your Blue Room," the strangely aquatic "Slug," Bono's piano figure on "Beach Sequence," Edge's ghostly vocals on "Corpse," and Eno's bizzare electronic vocals on "A Different Kind of Blue." The strangest song, without doubt, is "Elvis Ate America," a rap spoken by Bono that picks up where "Elvis Presley and America" left off on The Unforgettable Song (and surpasses it).

"OS1" isn't for everyone. It took me about 10 years to get used to it, because even though the gang from U2 are front and center, this ain't U2 music. Still, if you're willing to let go of your expectations and accept this as cinematic mood music, you'll have a good time. A very good time.
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9 of 11 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars Not U2, good techno, but not U2. June 26, 2002
By Brian
Format:Audio CD
My favorite band in the world is U2. That said, this album is not a U2 album. It is a Brian Eno album, with help from many other musicians including Luciano Pavoratti (though I do admit most of the assistance comes from Bono, Edge, Larry, and Adam). It's a good, strong techno album,easy to relax to. However, it is not the long lost step between ZOOROPA and POP. It is the opposite of the 3 U2 1990's albums. Instead of Eno assisting U2, they assist his vision. It's all techno here folks, no memorable pop songs that you'll be hummin to yourself on the way back from lunch. However, if you want to see what U2 are capable of when they relinquish control and serve another creative light, go ahead. Anyone looking for the next "One" "Lemon" or "Gone" or "Discotheque" or should stay far away from Passengers. We can only hope Larry Mullen comes around to this album in a couple years so we can see a Passengers 2.
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Most Recent Customer Reviews
5.0 out of 5 stars Very awesome album
When I got this album in the mail, I listened to it right away in my disc changer. The sound effects were pretty cool even most of the songs sounded like they would play mostly in... Read more
Published 4 months ago by Joseph DeVaughn
2.0 out of 5 stars Not a fan. Because I'm a fan...of U2.
Hmmn. I got this knowing it was an Eno/ U2 project. I didn't realize just how much Eno was going to dominate within this project. Read more
Published 11 months ago by THowerton
5.0 out of 5 stars This is a cd that has to be in a U2 collection
I had this cd at one time, but I think I lost it so after all this time I needed to have it again to my collection. Read more
Published 16 months ago by Ray Vicario
5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing Electronic Music, Couldn't Believe It Was U2
Wow...I couldn't believe how amazing this album sounded. I heard of this album after watching fan made music videos on YouTube with THX 1138 scenes for the clips, such as "United... Read more
Published 18 months ago by Idorania
5.0 out of 5 stars Passengers: Original Soundtracks 1
The product arrived on schedule and very well packed! The transaction went smoothly without any problem. Hugs to all! The site is easy to use and has very good products.
Published 22 months ago by PedroBismara
4.0 out of 5 stars Couldn't believe this was U2
Zune kept giving me this album when I asked for more like Vitalic and Dan Deacon. I was confused when I put it on Smart DJ and it gives me all this U2? Read more
Published on December 5, 2010 by James Bovay
3.0 out of 5 stars Hit or Miss
The album is very hit and miss, I would only recommend it to serious U2 fans.
Published on October 30, 2009 by Barry Rabinovich
5.0 out of 5 stars Great music. 4.5 stars
I do not see this work as a U2 record, I see it as what it is: A collaboration between Brian Eno, U2, and 'extra passengers' (Pavarotti, Howie B, Holi). Lets all remember that Mr. Read more
Published on July 27, 2007 by strangeitude
4.0 out of 5 stars unforgettable fire part II
the title says it all

after listening to the samples my first impressions are this is the angle u2 coulda gone afyer tuf and it could be tuf part II. Read more
Published on October 6, 2006 by Tom in Texas
5.0 out of 5 stars great ARTISTS take an experimental DIVERSION . . .
Presumably feeling no pressure to make the next great monumental rock album at the time, U2 join Brian Eno and more fully digress into his atmospheric territory than ever before or... Read more
Published on April 4, 2005 by Rich Latta
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