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#1

SWEENEY TODD Soundtrack Tracklisting..

Posted: 11/1/07 at 5:19pm

According to Amazon for the highlights version ...

1. No Place Like London
2. The Worst Pies in London
3. Poor Thing
4. My Friends
5. Green Finch & Linnett Bird
6. Johanna
7. Pirelli's Miracle Elixir
8. The Contest
9. Wait
10. Pretty Women
11. Epiphany
12. A Little Priest
13. Johanna
14. God, That's Good!
15. By the Sea
16. Not While I m Around

I hope the release the tracklisting for the 2 disc set soon. Which will hopefully include the instrumental ballad(s), The Barber and His Wife, the bit of LADIES, and the Final Sequence.

http://www.amazon.com/Sweeney-Soundtrack-Highlights-Various-Artists/dp/B000WEDAEM/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/105-4857514-2415615?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1193951772&sr=1-1



Updated On: 11/1/07 at 05:19 PM

#5

re: SWEENEY TODD Soundtrack Tracklisting..

Posted: 11/2/07 at 12:07am

WHAT? No "The Ballad of Sweeney Todd?"

They better have it in the movie, not just an instrumental version.
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#6

re: SWEENEY TODD Soundtrack Tracklisting..

Posted: 11/2/07 at 12:22am

This is one of my favorite scores, but I have no problem with changes including no "Ballad of Sweeney Todd" for the movie. That song is a prologue and, while a prologue can work great on stage, it doesn't necessarily work in film.

We'll always have the stage DVD and I'm looking forward to another take on things. The recent scaled down Broadway revival isn't my benchmark version of the show, but I really liked it.

What I'm hoping for are moments that far surpass the stage version the way "Cell Block Tango" did in Marshall's film version of Chicago.
If the audience could do better, they'd be up here on stage and I'd be out there watching them. - Ethel Merman
#7

re: SWEENEY TODD Soundtrack Tracklisting..

Posted: 11/2/07 at 12:23am

They better have it in the movie, not just an instrumental version.
Or else???

The Ballad is not in the film.
"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"
#8

re: SWEENEY TODD Soundtrack Tracklisting..

Posted: 11/2/07 at 12:24am

If The Ballad of Sweeney Todd isn't present, what exactly does Anthony Head DO in this movie?

Collects dust on the cutting room floor. Metaphorically speaking.
#9

re: SWEENEY TODD Soundtrack Tracklisting..

Posted: 11/2/07 at 12:26am

this IS only the highlights version...that means that there is more.
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#10

re: SWEENEY TODD Soundtrack Tracklisting..

Posted: 11/2/07 at 1:33am

Well, Anthony Head's part was cut before shooting started. He probably still got paid something, so "collecting a paycheck for no work" is probably more accurate than winding up on the cutting room floor.

There is no BALLAD in the film, and KISS ME wasn't filmed so I don't think it will be on the disc set.
#11

re: SWEENEY TODD Soundtrack Tracklisting..

Posted: 11/2/07 at 1:45am

Still kinda shocked that "Wait" is in but "Kiss Me" was cut. Actually, moreso surprised that "Wait" is there at all. It's a very... static number. I look forward to seeing how it will work.
"Your lyrics lack subtlety! You can't just have your characters announce how they feel! That makes me feel angry!"
#12

re: SWEENEY TODD Soundtrack Tracklisting..

Posted: 11/2/07 at 2:28am

I thought that was Christopher Lee whose role was cut... Anthony Head's as well?

If that's true, I'm much less excited about this film now....
#13

re: SWEENEY TODD Soundtrack Tracklisting..

Posted: 11/2/07 at 2:47am

MichaelBennett can correct me on this, but I thought all the "ballad ghosts" parts were cut from the script before shooting started. Hence why Head and Lee's parts weren't even shot.
"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"
#14

re: SWEENEY TODD Soundtrack Tracklisting..

Posted: 11/2/07 at 12:18pm

I believe Lee mentioned in an interview that his parts were cut during production when Depp had to leave filming to be with his daughter, who had fallen ill.

Lee mentioned at that time that, to keep production on schedule without Depp there, Burton cut all the Ballads.

I will try to find that interview somewhere.
#15

re: SWEENEY TODD Soundtrack Tracklisting..

Posted: 11/2/07 at 5:25pm

I thought "wait" was cut...
I love how much of the score was kept...
What a night! I was in more laps than a napkin!
#16

re: SWEENEY TODD Soundtrack Tracklisting..

Posted: 11/2/07 at 10:25pm

Wait...THE BALLAD OF SWEENEY TODD IS NOT THE FILM??? You've got to be kidding me. If they found a way to make "Epiphany" work they could have done "Ballad." This makes me sad.
#17

re: SWEENEY TODD Soundtrack Tracklisting..

Posted: 11/2/07 at 10:29pm

Considering the Ballad also addresses the audience and the fact that it's a play, it makes some sense why they cut it.

Plus, Epiphany is far more important than the ballad.
I am a firm believer in serendipity- all the random pieces coming together in one wonderful moment, when suddenly you see what their purpose was all along.
#18

re: SWEENEY TODD Soundtrack Tracklisting..

Posted: 11/5/07 at 11:58am

Not an interview, but an item in a London newspaper. Not sure if it's fact, but it makes sense to me - see the link. Lee is now credited as "Gentleman With Hat" on Widipedia's page for the film.

Sorry to be so ignorant, but do actors in a musical film just lip synch to the soundtrack during film production? It must be hard to match exactly when the soundtrack's made months prior.
Article re Ballad Ghosts being cut
#19

re: SWEENEY TODD Soundtrack Tracklisting..

Posted: 11/6/07 at 11:00am

Yes - the tracks are laid down in a studio and the actors lip synch during filming of the scenes. The Ballad of Sweeney Todd was cut because of filming problems due to the illness of Depp's daughter. That is fact.
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#20

re: SWEENEY TODD Soundtrack Tracklisting..

Posted: 11/6/07 at 11:19am

(Mary Cherry! "Stop lyin', lil Lilly, you looooved it!")
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#21

re: SWEENEY TODD Soundtrack Tracklisting..

Posted: 11/6/07 at 12:45pm

I don't have a problem with the ballad being cut. By its nature, the song is very theatrical and most likely wouldn't work on film.
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#22

re: SWEENEY TODD Soundtrack Tracklisting..

Posted: 11/6/07 at 4:46pm

Mateo, did you like digitally airbrush underpants on your Zac Efron userpic?
"Your lyrics lack subtlety! You can't just have your characters announce how they feel! That makes me feel angry!"
#23

re: SWEENEY TODD Soundtrack Tracklisting..

Posted: 11/6/07 at 5:07pm

It's Anthony Head now, not Anthony Stewart Head? Either way, looks like the only thing musical-wise he has coming now is "Repo".
#24

re: SWEENEY TODD Soundtrack Tracklisting..

Posted: 11/6/07 at 5:11pm

BDrisch-

Nope; original to the pic. Sorry to disappoint.
"Zac is sweet as can be. He's very much just a sweet kid from California who happens to have a face that looks like it was drawn by Michelangelo, (if Michelangelo did anime)."
-Adam Shankman.

"I haven't left this building since Windows 3.1!"

"Celebrating a birthday this week: Rene Descartes is 412! Do you know who he is? Then why are you watching this show? You could probably get into college and even get one of those job things. As for the rest of us; Amanda Bynes is 22! Yay!"
-E!'s "The Soup"
#25

re: SWEENEY TODD Soundtrack Tracklisting..

Posted: 11/6/07 at 5:31pm

Fie. Where do you get all these pics? They're so very pretty.
"Your lyrics lack subtlety! You can't just have your characters announce how they feel! That makes me feel angry!"

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