The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo [Box set, Soundtrack]

Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (December 27, 2011)
• Original Release Date: 2011
• Number of Discs: 3
• Format: Box set, Soundtrack
• Note on Boxed Sets: During shipping, discs in boxed sets occasionally become dislodged without damage. Please examine and play these discs. If you are not completely satisfied, we'll refund or replace your purchase.
• Label: THE NULL CORPORATION
• ASIN: B006G2NVCA
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Music
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (50 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,006 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. Immigrant Song - Trent Reznor

2. She Reminds Me Of You - Trent Reznor

3. People Lie All The Time - Trent Reznor

4. Pinned And Mounted - Trent Reznor

5. Perihelion - Trent Reznor

6. What If We Could? - Trent Reznor

See all 13 tracks on this disc

Disc: 2

1. Cut Into Pieces

2. The Splinter

3. An Itch

4. Hypomania

5. Under The Midnight Sun

6. Aphelion

See all 13 tracks on this disc

Disc: 3

1. Another Way Of Caring

2. A Viable Construct

3. Revealed In The Thaw

4. Millennia

5. We Could Wait Forever

6. Oraculum

See all 13 tracks on this disc

Editorial Reviews

2011 three CD set. The soundtrack for the 2011 US adaptation of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, by David Fincher, composed by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross. This is the second soundtrack that Reznor and Ross have worked on together, the previous being The Social Network Soundtrack, also for David Fincher. Soundtrack includes Reznor and Karen O of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs' take on Led Zeppelin's 'Immigrant Song'.

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

52 of 56 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars REZNOR & ROSS CREATE HAUNTINGLY ATMOSPHERIC SCORE December 23, 2011

By nin/ja77

Format:MP3 Music

Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross follow up last years Oscar and Golden globe winning score for the "The Social Network" with the score for David Fincher's version of Stieg Larsson's Novel "The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo". Just like with "The Social Network" Fincher asked Reznor and Ross to provide the score for his latest Film and it proves a wise choice as Reznor and Ross have crafted nearly 3 hours of dark, melodic and haunting music. This score bares no resemblance to their previous work with Fincher. This is after all "The Feel Bad Movie of Christmas" and it's fair to say that Reznor and Ross have crafted a perfect feel for the Film that itself is bleak and cold(It features a lot of snow) in presentation.

Just listening to "She Reminds Me Of You" with it's cold atmospheric feel including the eerie sound of chimes as you can hear a the sound of a guitar droning in the distance, it sets up the rest of the score well. Trent Reznor's wife Mariqueen Maandig Reznor provides Vocal effects on a number of the tracks and is probably best used on "While Waiting" which is as much sinister sounding as it is soothing sounding. "The Seconds Drag" even includes a ticking clock used to good effect. A lot of the time the music creeps up on you such as in "People Lie All The Time" which seems to use a synthesizer sound left over from the eighties before adding a beautiful sounding piano. Even "Pinned and Mounted" starts off tame before changing to add some big sounding beats".

Anybody thinking that Reznor was not going to include some big industrial guitars played over heavy beats can rest assured as on tracks like "A Thousand Details", "Great Bird Of Prey" and "The Heretics" which features a screaming guitar midway through. Then there's "Oraculum" with it's 8 minute running time featuring big synthesized tribal beats. You can even add in the the 7 minute long "Infiltrator" which is an epic piece of music wich features all different types of noise, the kind of thing Reznor does best.

Of course anybody who saw the trailer from earlier this year knows that it includes a cover version of Led Zeppelin's "Immigrant Song" sung by Karen O from the Yeah Yeah Yeah's. They really do the song justice giving it a rocking synth feel full of blazing Guitars and beats. The choice of Karen O to sing the lead was David fincher's idea, she has confessed to not even knowing the song title but she delivers a powerful performance and is quite at home with this sound as anybody who heard the Yeah Yeah yeah's third album "It's Blitz" would testify. "Immigrant Song" starts off the album and another cover version closes it. How To Destroy Angels a band which features Mariqueen Maandig Reznor on vocals as well as Trent reznor and Atticus Ross, they cover Bryan Ferry's "Is Your Love Strong Enough" and take it from it's original sounding eighties style to a fresh up to date reworking.

"The Girl With The dragon tattoo" is a wonderfully crafted dark and atmospheric score, it's great for a dark room and a decent pair of headphones as the music sweeps over you. It's hard to really pick pieces of music out and at nearly 3 hours and 39 tracks long it is quite an undertaking to sit and listen to individual pieces but it is well worth it. It's definitely the best score I have heard this year, and after working with Reznor and Ross on his last 2 films it's hard to imagine Fincher getting anybody else to score his movies from here in, as Reznor and Ross have perfectly captured the feel of "The Girl With The Dragon tattoo."

21 of 23 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars One of the Best Non-Traditional OST's in Years January 3, 2012

By Birdman

Format:Audio CD

I will lead with four facts. I love to discover outstanding soundtracks by composers with whom I'm unfamiliar. I have not yet seen the movie. I have not read Larsson's book on which the film is based, although I will. I'm 59 and love virtually all forms of thoughtful, well-performed music.

Here, then, are some reasons to purchase and revel in this wonderful recording.

Except for the lead cut, a powerful cover of Zeppelin's IMMIGRANT SONG, this is a quiet, ambient, three disc collection at a price so low I find it practically amazing. So,you can actually LISTEN TO these 35+ cuts, half of which do not occur in the film, but still reflect its dark-hues and omens. You can also WORK with it humming away. The score is, with a handful of exceptions, low-key, synthesized, imaginative, atmospheric genius.

The engineering is splendid, too, although there are no notes whatsoever. I can live with that.

The same team composed last year's Oscar®-winning score, but I never heard those compositions nor saw THE SOCIAL NETWORK.

BUT, if you love really competent minimalism. If you enjoy composers who develop scores based on stories or characters that are exhaustive and expansive, there's a lot to love here.

I will also pay the composers and producers two more compliments: (1)Because of the score, I'm reading all of Larsson's books and plan to see THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATOO next week. (2) I've listened to the album four times in its entirety, and will do it again. It doesn't wear out.

Superb creativity and production in a tasteful, high-value package. These days, with so much predictable, derivative junk on the market, it's pure pleasure to strike gold.

At this price, I'd seriously doubt you could go wrong.

13 of 14 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Heads up, Reznor fans. This is more than a movie score. December 31, 2011

By Hudson

Format:Audio CD

Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross have returned to film scoring after winning the Oscar for their work on David Fincher's "The Social Network". Now they have taken on David Fincher's new film, "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo". Now, I've been into Reznor's instrumental style for quite a while now, so naturally I listened to the score before I saw the film itself. Upon listening to this 3-disc, 3-hour long musical odyssey, I absolutely had to get to the theater immediately to see this music in action in the film. I have to say, I was a bit disappointed in the amount of the score that's actually used in the film. I thought there were quite a few very memorable moments from this score that didn't seem to make their way into the movie. It seems like Fincher didn't want the audience to be too distracted by the music... seemingly. If I'm right, that might've been a smart move on his part, due to the amount of detail you must pay attention to in the film (which was very good, IMO).

If you have only seen the film, you have not heard the entire soundtrack. The way the music was used in the film was to attain as much minimalism as possible. While the minimalist approach IS rampant on this score, there really is a lot more than that on this release. If you have followed Reznor's career through the years, you know that one of his songwriting trademarks is his uncanny ability to create tracks that constantly build in intensity by using layers upon layers of music, creating a crescendo type of effect in many of his songs. That's what the film doesn't feature, musically. This score is a group of songs that, when allowed to build fully, really paint a portrait of their own. This release reminds me of the dedication Reznor put into Nine Inch Nails' releases of the past, such as "Ghosts I-IV" and the instrumental work on the "Still" EP. I honestly believe that this is a more solid listen than "The Social Network" score (which I found to be fantastic). Reznor and Ross go deep on this one. Fans of the ambient and hauntingly atmospheric instrumentals of "Ghosts I-IV" will undoubtedly enjoy this score. If you are looking for the industrial sound of the opening credits track "Immigrant Song" (a Led Zeppelin cover; featuring Karen O), you won't really find much of that at all beyond that track. You will find a new track from Reznor's current band, How To Destroy Angels (featuring his own wife as lead vocalist). The track is a cover version of Bryan Ferry's "Is Your Love Strong Enough?" (which you may remember from the "Legend" soundtrack, originally...), and is the closing track on the album. The only other vocals you hear on this score are sporadic female ethereal vocals spaced throughout several tracks. This soundtrack is a quiet listen, and I would say that only about 50% of the music actually appears in the film, if that.

In my opinion, this is a worthy and essential piece of music that belongs in your Trent Reznor collection. The music is engrossing, and even if the film didn't exist, this would still be worthy of your dollars, especially if you have been a Nine Inch Nails / Trent Reznor fan throughout the years. I highly recommend this underrated score. 5 stars.