Shaun of the Dead [Import, Soundtrack]

Various Artists (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 19, 2004)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import, Soundtrack
• Label: Island UK
• ASIN: B0001XLW1C
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #192,187 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Figment

2. The Blue Wraith

3. Mister Mental

4. Meltdown

5. Don't Stop Me Now

6. White Lines (Don't Do It)

7. Hip Hop, Be Bop (Don't Stop)

8. Zombie Creeping Flesh

9. Zombi/Kernkraft 400 [Osymyso Remix]

10. Fizzy Legs

11. Soft

12. Death Bivouac

13. The Gonk

14. Envy the Dead

15. Ghost Town

16. Blood in Three Flavours

17. Panic

18. Everybody's Happy Nowadays

19. You're My Best Friend

20. You've Got Red on You/Shaun of the Dead Suite

See all 22 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

66 of 76 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Kind of a drag, really, March 14, 2005

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Daddy Zero (Northern California, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Shaun of the Dead (Audio CD)

Note to soundtrack producers: When we buy a soundtrack with a bunch of good songs, we want to hear the songs. Sure, a bunch of dialog scattered throughout is fine and fun, but not when it's cut into the music! (See the soundtrack to "Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back" for how to do it right.)

Basically, what they've done here, is try to create some new experience that isn't quite the movie and isn't quite the soundtrack. You don't get to hear the full versions of the songs as the artists recorded them. The beginnings and the ends are crossfaded together with snippets of dialog. It's like a soundtrack/radio drama hybrid with no plot. The dialog runs into the song, which runs into the dialog, which runs into the song, which runs into the dialog, etc., throughout the entire CD. On the first listen, you think, "Oh, yeah, Ed complaining that the zombie blew the call-and-response in 'White Lines.' That was funny...," but then you're kind of screwed for the rest of your life because the editors have mixed in the boys doing their, "...diggeda, diggeda, diggeda..." bit right into the middle of the song. If you truly want to hear 'White Lines' or any of the other tunes, you'll have to get them elsewhere. Sorry.

I'm not sure what the objective was with this disc, but if I wanted to relive the movie, I'd pop in the DVD. If I wanted to hear the songs, I would have liked to have played the CD, but that won't work here. The songs and the movie dialog on this CD are like Siamese twins sharing a single stomach. You get one, you get the other and there's no separating them. This is a bummer since they're good songs.

What I've got now is a CD novelty that I really can't use. I may trot it out once a year, but I'll be disappointed every time. Maybe I'll sell it on eBay...

12 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Outstanding, and totally representative of the movie, March 9, 2005

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Elizabeth (Atlanta, GA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Shaun of the Dead (Audio CD)

This soundtrack perfectly captures the zany and irreverent feeling of the movie, with a great mix of songs, score, and lines of dialogue. Often, a movie soundtrack will be difficult to listen to, because of the inherent unevenness of mood or pace. However, because both the movie and its soundtrack are equally frenetic, this is a boisterous, energizing album. The snippets of dialogue are hilarious, but don't distract from the most important element - the music. (Note that the dialogue clips are definitely R-rated.) If you loved the movie, you'll love this import - totally worth the money.

19 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars "Dire Straits?" "Throw it.", August 30, 2004

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Tony Rocky Horror - See all my reviews

This review is from: Shaun of the Dead (Audio CD)

Upon arrival in the States, I'm sure you'll see the soundtrack take off as well. A brilliant masterpiece of film calls for a equally as brilliant soundtrack and score. Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright have followed up on their smash UK BBC series Spaced with the most sucessful comedy in Britain's history with Shaun of the Dead. Although some songs on the album are only in the film for moments (like Panic by the Smiths), it allows you to breathe in the filmmakers knowledge for great pop culture references. The soundtrack also includes excepts from the movie itself lending it a very Kevin Smith, Mallrats soundtrack feel. If you liked the movie, I guarantee you'll like the soundtrack. And if you like the soundtrack, I give the full fledged Tony Rocky Horror recommendation that you'll go crazy for the film. If I had a third thumb, I'd use it. Two thumbs for the movie, and the third for the soundtrack. Buy it!