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Requiem for a Dream (2000 Film) [Soundtrack]

Clint Mansell, Kronos QuartetAudio CD
4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (110 customer reviews)

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listen  1. Summer OvertureClint Mansell 2:35$0.99  Buy MP3 
listen  2. PartyClint Mansell0:28$0.99  Buy MP3 
listen  3. Coney Island DreamingClint Mansell 1:04$0.99  Buy MP3 
listen  4. PartyClint Mansell0:36$0.99  Buy MP3 
listen  5. Chocolate CharmsClint Mansell0:25$0.99  Buy MP3 
listen  6. Ghosts of Things to ComeClint Mansell 1:33$0.99  Buy MP3 
listen  7. DreamsClint Mansell0:44$0.99  Buy MP3 
listen  8. TenseClint Mansell0:37$0.99  Buy MP3 
listen  9. Dr. PillClint Mansell0:42$0.99  Buy MP3 
listen10. High on LifeClint Mansell0:11$0.99  Buy MP3 
listen11. GhostsClint Mansell 1:21$0.99  Buy MP3 
listen12. Crimin' & Dealin'Clint Mansell 1:44$0.99  Buy MP3 
listen13. Hope OvertureClint Mansell 2:31$0.99  Buy MP3 
listen14. TenseClint Mansell0:28$0.99  Buy MP3 
listen15. Bialy & Lox CongaClint Mansell0:45$0.99  Buy MP3 
listen16. Cleaning ApartmentClint Mansell 1:26$0.99  Buy MP3 
listen17. Ghosts-FallingClint Mansell 1:11$0.99  Buy MP3 
listen18. DreamsClint Mansell 1:02$0.99  Buy MP3 
listen19. ArnoldClint Mansell 2:35$0.99  Buy MP3 
listen20. Marion BarfsClint Mansell 2:22$0.99  Buy MP3 
listen21. Supermarket SweepClint Mansell 2:14$0.99  Buy MP3 
listen22. DreamsClint Mansell0:32$0.99  Buy MP3 
listen23. Sara Goldfarb Has Left the BuildingClint Mansell 1:17$0.99  Buy MP3 
listen24. Bugs Got a Devilish Grin CongaClint Mansell0:57$0.99  Buy MP3 
listen25. Winter OvertureClint Mansell0:19$0.99  Buy MP3 
listen26. Southern HospitalityClint Mansell 1:23$0.99  Buy MP3 
listen27. FearClint Mansell 2:26$0.99  Buy MP3 
listen28. Full TenseClint Mansell 1:04$0.99  Buy MP3 
listen29. The Beginning of the EndClint Mansell 4:28$0.99  Buy MP3 
listen30. Ghosts of a Future LostClint Mansell 1:51$0.99  Buy MP3 
listen31. MeltdownClint Mansell 3:56$0.99  Buy MP3 
listen32. Lux AeternaClint Mansell 3:54$1.29  Buy MP3 
listen33. Coney Island LowClint Mansell 2:13$0.99  Buy MP3 


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Product Details

  • Audio CD (October 10, 2000)
  • Original Release Date: October 10, 2000
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Format: Soundtrack
  • Label: Nonesuch
  • ASIN: B00004Y6Q5
  • In-Print Editions: MP3 Music
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (110 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #32,302 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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Composer Clint Mansell made his impact as a soundtrack composer known with his production of the Pi soundtrack. On that disc, the former vocalist for UK group Pop Will Eat Itself melded an abstract 20th-century classical sensibility to electronica with great (and eerie) results. On Requiem for a Dream--the follow-up film from Pi director Darren Aronofsky--Mansell repeats his magic. Here, teamed with the Kronos Quartet--one of the world's foremost (and most progressive) string quartets--Mansell fuses big-beat, ambient, and driving chamber music. The result is a mesmerizing aural complement to an already mesmerizing film. Dark, unpredictable, and thoroughly engrossing. --Jason Verlinde

Product Description

33 track score from the Aronosky film. Missing slip cover. Light scuffs on disc will not affect play. Booklet has light 'pinch' marks.

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The music was that powerful. Mr D.  |  32 reviewers made a similar statement
It makes me feel like I've experienced things that I've never experienced. Candace Trunzo  |  15 reviewers made a similar statement
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52 of 55 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful, Haunting, and You Can Nod Your Head to It August 31, 2002
By John
Format:Audio CD
Probably the biggest compliment I can give this Soundtrack is that it is one of two movie soundtracks that I have ever bought. The other was The Godfather. I NEVER get excited enough over a movie's score to go out and buy it. Even if I really like the way it works in the movie, I don't buy it. In fact, under almost NO circumstances do I buy movie soundtracks, they don't usually do anything for me. But I'm being redundant...
When I saw Requiem for a Dream, the very first thing that struck me about it was the music. When I heard "Summer Overture" in the first few minutes of the movie, I loved it. LOVED it. I knew at that moment that I had to buy this soundtrack, and only hoped that they had released one. And that was before I had heard the best parts of the soundtrack, like Lux Aerterna, Meltdown, and Winter Overture. But really all the songs on here are outstanding. Yeah like many people said, they are all pretty short, but really that only makes you like it more. Have you ever seen a movie that you felt ended way too soon, and you wanted to see more of it? Well, that makes you just want to go watch it even more, right? Same with this soundtrack. The fact that the tracks are so excrutiatingly short makes you listen to them over and over. The sound of that violin (you know what I mean if you've heard it) is so haunting, yet so beautiful, and yet again it is so damn catchy! You'll have it stuck in your head for days. You'll be whistling it as you go about your daily routine. I personally often find it stuck in my head while at work, and when I get home I pop this CD in and can't help buy smile as I hear those first sounds of the bass of Summer Overture.... Trust me, buy this and you will NEVER regret it.
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34 of 36 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars The Perfect Memento of the Film July 1, 2001
Format:Audio CD
It roughly goes: if you like the film, you'll love the soundtrack. Many soundtracks sound great when mixed with the film but feel emotionally empty when simply played on a CD. Other soundtracks, great soundtracks, are able to stand alone from the film and help you to remember those moments from said flick that grabbed you. Listening to Clint Mansell's score for Darren Aronofsky's drug-addled nightmare "Requiem For A Dream", I still get shivers in my remembering the tragic events of the film via Mansell and the Kronos Quartet's wonderful work.

Like the film, soundtrack is divided into three parts: Summer, Fall and Winter. Summer contains 15 songs, none of them over three minutes long (Track 10, "High On Life", lasts a full eleven seconds) and all of them bearing ominous warnings for what's to come, key standouts being the tentative "Ghosts Of Things To Come" and the forboding "Hope Overture", the latter being a mixture of strings and beats that wouldn't sound out of place on Bjork's "Homogenic" album. Fall has 9 songs, and it is here where Mansell lays heavier programming onto the Quartet's stuff, as heard on the first track "Cleaning Apartment", and hints at the film's near-insanity at this point with the menacing mounting of "Arnold" and, particularly, "Sara Goldfarb Has Left The Building" (advice: listen to the latter extremely loudly). The Winter section starts with a jolt with the 19 seconds of "Winter Overture", and never lets up. Amongst the insane screams of "The Beginning Of The End" and "Meltdown" (subtle titles if I do say so myself), however, some slower, sadder stuff seeps through, particularly on "Ghosts Of A Future Lost", a theme built throughout the three sections that ends here on an emotional high, and "Lux Aeterna".

Mansell and the Quartet are content with using many musical themes throughout the soundtrack, as the distinct string arrangements that begin as early as "Summer Overture" continually reappear throughout the CD. This is also rather more obviously identified in the repetition in titles, examples being "Dreams", "Ghosts" and "Tense". But each track is given a tweak via Mansell's subtle mixing that contrasts with what is essentially the same song that has gone before. As for the congas: well, unless you've seen the film, you won't appreciate them as much as you would by simply listening to them cold (they sound like something Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer would do!) Fan of the film: buy the soundtrack. Fan of diverse new composers: buy the soundtrack.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Accompaniment to Your Own Dark Dreams June 29, 2004
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In the spirit of Laurie Anderson and John Cage, Clint Mansell makes his own minimalist statement here. He provides the perfect mentalscape for a movie which twitches and writhes, boogies at times, rolls and gently rocks. Dark night of the soul stuff, but also choppily foreward bound. The main theme is entirely memorable and will be repeating itself in your head for days, weeks, years to come!

Kudos of course to the always on the mark Kronos Quartet. What can't these musicians play? If this is your initiation into their music, you must check out their huge output of CDs, everything ranging from traditional African music, baroque, to the most progressive modern composers. They are one of our national treasures!

If you're prone to nightmares, however, you might want to play this CD in the light of day, not the really early AM hours. Like the movie, it has a certain fatalistic quality about it. Suicide Hotline soundtrack, perhaps? For that matter, if you're feeling down in the dumps, don't go near the movie, either. It will just convince you that there is no point. Hang it up!

But if the life force is with you and you actually enjoy a little melancholy edge now and again, this may very well be your background music!

BEK

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5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent listening, powerful music
I loved the movie "Requiem For a Dream" I've heard the music used in different movie trailers and just had to have the sound track. Read more
Published 18 hours ago by Joe king
1.0 out of 5 stars Half the songs are exactly the same!
I don't know why I payed ten dollars for this album. Maybe five dollars would have been justifiable? Read more
Published 9 months ago by Kyle
4.0 out of 5 stars Just one track
You will be paying for just one track: Lux Aeterna. The rest isn't good, but just this one track makes worth buying the album.
Published 10 months ago by Tiso
5.0 out of 5 stars review of "Requiem For A Dream".
Not a bad CD but not my preference in music. I was trying to buy "Lux Aeterna", the same one that was used in the movie "2001", but I got instead a piece of the same name but by a... Read more
Published 14 months ago by Rich
5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome
i just don't know how i missed this movie on 2000 and it's scary but i liked it. This film will make you think.Whatch it to know what I mean!
Published 19 months ago by XM
1.0 out of 5 stars Reqium for a Dream.
Only a couple of tracks that are actually music. Most of the Album is snippets of backround sound. The short samples provided seem to hide this. Do not recommend.
Published on April 24, 2011 by Richard R. Carravetta
5.0 out of 5 stars Haunting
The music is very haunting. With 32 tracks I've found that I end up skipping some very intense songs but overall I still end up with a decent amount of playing time. Read more
Published on October 2, 2009 by Karen
5.0 out of 5 stars Perfectly crafted disintigration
This music is absolutely enchanting, and masterfully portrays the slow and steady collapse from the movie. Read more
Published on August 29, 2009 by Bradley Potter
1.0 out of 5 stars Not what you think it is...
For anyone who has heard the "primary" piece (Lux Aetera) by Masell via Youtube or some other source on the internet, be aware that the full song is *NOT* on this DVD - and most of... Read more
Published on January 24, 2009 by Jeffrey Massung
5.0 out of 5 stars Unforgettable! A Masterpiece!!
The soundtrack, acting, directing, story, and screenplay all work in synch; to create a film that triggers emotions at every level and leaves you breathless. Read more
Published on January 11, 2009 by Bill Watts
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