Thief [Soundtrack]

1. Beach Theme

2. Dr. Destructo

3. Diamond Diary

4. Burning Bar

5. Scrap Yard

6. Trap Feeling

7. Igneous

8. Confrontation

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Review 1000!
what happened?!
some radiohead soulsearching
Yesterday's headlines blown by the wind
Mixed Feelings.

Hail To The Thief
Radiohead
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2 + 2 = 5
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Where I End and You Begin.
We suck Young Blood.
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Filling the gulf between OK Computer's epic progressive rock and Kid A's skittering electronic theatrics, Hail to the Thief borrows equally from each. Its title implies that this will be a collection filled with songs of anger and dissent, but Radiohead no longer howl at the moon like they did on 1995's The Bends. Instead, they use eloquent metaphors and complicated arrangements to express the uncertainty, fear and anger arising from the 2000 U.S. presidential election and a post-9/11 world. There's no doubt about where Thom Yorke and company stand; the prog-rock break on "2 + 2 = 5" and Yorke's terror at the thought of being "put in a dock" make that immediately clear. But there's a prevailing sense of powerlessness here. The tinkling piano behind the cold sonic surface of "Backdrifts" and the brief, swooping melody in the middle of "Sail to the Moon" are islands in a sea of confusion. Like the band's best work, Thief requires more than a few listens to fully appreciate, but those who stick around will be richly rewarded. --Matthew Cooke

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Review 1000!.......2007-07-17

I dont know what else to say that will add to the other 999 reviews submitted for this disc. Its great, just not as great as OK computer or Kid A or even Amnesiac. I like this one better than The Bends though. Start with those three. If you like them then get this one.

what happened?!.......2007-06-04

pablo honey was ok. the bends was revolutionary. ok computer was so beautiful. kid a was a great album but not at my first listen. amnesiac was kinda experimental and i dont like it as much.

ok time to go back to the good stuff right? wrong. driving even further away at what they were best at. ive tried like 3 or 4 times to listen to this album and like it. everytime i stop it. its boring and the songs are dumb.

hell, that thom yorke solo cd is better than HTTT.

some radiohead soulsearching.......2007-04-13

After 6 years of radiohead album experiencing , and one year since radiohead at bonnaroo with my best friends i think i have come to the best conclusion possible.

Every album is great expect pablo honey (2 great songs, nothing else to speak of)

Amnesiac is great, i like the mysterious to all but two or three of the songs (track 03 is one of them), pyramid song is my favorite. spinning plates is amazing live.

Kid A is one of my favorites and is such a beautiful album to listen too. But not for anytime or day though. It kind of like " healing inner pain" kind of music, amazing, but sometimes. at the right time.

The bends has a similair issue as kid a. its awesome, but so emotionally charged you have to listen to it on a very special feeling day. Drive around on a beautiful day for no reason and listen to it. Feel great about life album.

Hail to the Thief is so heavy, powerful, and dark, The songs are ordered flawlessly and is like a similation of experiencing someone's inner psychology"

Ok computer is just, well.....you know. just beautiful.

Here's how i rank them at this point

1) Ok Computer

2) Hail to the Theif

3) Kid A

4) The Bends

5) Amnesiac

6) Pablo Honey

Yesterday's headlines blown by the wind.......2007-02-23

After completely changing their sound with 2000's KID A and 2001's AMNESIAC, the fate of Radiohead seemed uncertain. Where would they go next? They'd already passed on their chance to become the world's biggest band, and they'd lost a lot of fans who loved the band for its strong, dreamy 90's alt-rock sound on the group's first three albums. It all came together in 2003, when the band suddenly reappeared with HAIL TO THE THIEF, a 14-track masterpiece spawned from the recent (negative) changes in the political landscape.

A big part of why HAIL TO THE THIEF is such a success is that the band combines the strength, aggression, and subliminal protests of their early albums with the oddity and surreal techno sound of KID A and AMNESIAC. The result is Radiohead's finest album since OK COMPUTER, and also their darkest and most unsettling. On HAIL TO THE THIEF, the band is no longer trying to take a stand. To them it seems that time is up, and they're just going to rub it in our faces, with lyrics like "We can wipe you out anytime," "You have not been paying attention," and "We tried but there was nothing we could do." Listening to this album, I can't help thinking that Radiohead is the best band since The Beatles, and that HAIL TO THE THIEF is the Radiohead equivalent to THE WHITE ALBUM, a diverse collection of songs (though these are, of course, considerably more morose than anything The Beatles ever composed). Though there's not a bad or even lackluster song in the bunch, there are a number of songs that stand out above the rest, such as the firey opener, "2+2=5" (a reference to George Orwell's masterpiece of dehumanization and paranoia, 1984), the rolling "A Punchup at a Wedding", the brilliant "Myxomatosis" (the very sound of rage), the dreamy, drifting "Sail to the Moon", the surprisingly down-to-earth "Go to Sleep" (the most "normal" Radiohead song since OK COMPUTER), and the hopeful yet bizarrely morose "A Wolf at the Door".

The band is at its finest, both performance- and composition-wise. These are some of Thom Yorke's most intricate and meaningful lyrics, to which Thom lends some of his finest vocals. Strongly supporting him are razor-edged guitar from Jonny Greenwood and Ed O'Brien, prominent bass by Colin Greenwood, and impressively varied drumming styles from Phil Selway. The album's themes deal primarily with the feeling of paranoia, distrust, suspicion, and disillusionment from the 9/11 attacks as well as the Iraq War and the U.S. government's handling of the situation (guess who the titular "Thief" is?). It was clear that Radiohead was back in a big way - they experimented on KID A and especially on AMNESIAC, and HAIL TO THE THIEF was where they combined that with their pre-Y2K sound to make one hell of an interesting recording.

Mixed Feelings........2007-02-05

I will say the same thing about Hail to the Thief that I said about Kid A. When some of the individual songs are left to stand alone, they easily earn five stars. When considered as an album, however, Hail to the Thief is a little choppy in places.

2+2=5, There There, and Go to Sleep stand out as benchmarks; songs like the Gloaming and Punchup at a Wedding, though daring and original, do not quite flow with the album as a whole. This being said, the better songs on Hail to The Thief make it a great success musically and experimentally-- but, all things considered, I don't feel it quite reached the five-star mark.

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The Thieves of Kailua
Jason Holstrom
Manufacturer: Millpond Records
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ASIN: B000PH07TW
Release Date: 2007-07-24

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Crystal Green
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The Purist Tourist
Age Is In Ya Head!
Do What Just You Do Me
Waikiki Serenade - Crystal Blue
Hawaii She Calls
The Earth She Rejoices
Bit Of Sunshine
Hula-Bye

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14-track CD on Mill Pond Records, 2007.

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Perfect Movie, perfect soundtrack
Moody, Smooth, and Sexy.
Luscious, utterly unique

The Good Thief
Elliot Goldenthal
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Soundtrack of the 2002 Motion Picture by Neil Jordan with Soundtrack Music Written by Elliot Goldenthal and featuring Tracks from Among Others, U2's Bono Doing Quite a Jazzy Cover of the Frank Sinatra Classic "That's Life", Leonard Cohen's "a Thousand Kisses", Serge Gainsbourg and Jane Birkin's "je T'aime...moi Non Plus" as Well as Songs from Rachid Taha, Cheb Khaled, Cheb Mami and More.

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Perfect Movie, perfect soundtrack.......2005-09-15

I think this is a perfect movie, and I love the soundtrack as well. I especially like Cheb Mami. The only thing I don't like is Jane Birkin's panting - ewww[...].

Moody, Smooth, and Sexy........2005-04-09

The memorable soundtrack to Neil Jordan's 2003 film "The Good Thief" is finally available in the United States, and it doesn't disappoint after 2 years of anticipation. There are 9 instrumental tracks and 7 songs with vocals. The score was composed by Elliot Goldenthal, who won an Academy Award for his score of the 2002 film "Frida". The music is a mixture of North African rhythms and urban jazz, with lyrics in French, Arabic, and English. The CD alternates between vocal and instrumental tracks, which I don't find the most effective presentation. When I put imported the CD to my computer, it arranged the tracks by artist, and it turns out that it is more flattering to Elliot Goldenthal's score to listen to his tracks in succession.

The soundtrack starts off with the rousing Arabic "Minuit" by Cheb Khaled. The next vocal track is the sexy meditation on a gambler's life "A Thousand Kisses", which is thankfully long. Those who have seen the film will remember Leonard Cohen's gravelly voice well. "Verite" by Rachid Taha owes a little to disco, and Cheb Mami & K-Mel's "Parisian du Nord" is a French/Arabic rap. Johnny Hallyday sings "Black is Black" in French: "Noir Est Noir". U2's Bono delivers a nice rendition of "That's Life", popularized by Frank Sinatra.

Elliot Goldenthal's jazz score makes use of homemade instruments -plastic utensils- to create the sound that enhances the film's reserved tone and Nice's underground energy. It's alternately haunting, industrial, lyrical, synthetic, and frenzied. But it is, perhaps ironically, better when not alternated with the vocal tracks. The last track on the CD, "Redemption Rehearsal", is a long sensual piece that touches upon every style in the score along the way. This soundtrack nicely evokes the brooding, grittiness, and glamour of "The Good Thief" and contains some fine examples of world music as well.

Luscious, utterly unique.......2005-01-26

"The Good Thief" is the director Neil Jordan's French Riviera caper done to a whole new riff, and its beautiful, eclectic soundtrack echoes its idiosyncratic sensibilities: exotic, elegant, jazzy, and cynically romantic. It is music that transports you to the smoke-filled nightclubs, sleazy alleyways (dutched and glowingly-lit) and midnight highways of Nice and Monte Carlo. Both distinctly French and unapologetically multilingual (English, Arabic, French), like the cultural melting pot that is the film's setting.

Tracks of Elliot Goldenthal's atmospheric and percussion-intense score interlace with ballads (Leonard Cohen's "A Thousand Kisses...", Bono's gorgeously languid "That's Life"), French rock (Johnny Hallyday's "Noir C'est Noir"), and a number of songs from French-North African artists (including Cheb Mami, who collaborated with pop singer Sting in his "Desert Rose"). "Minuit" and "Parisien du Nord" - combining traditional Algerian desert music with Western influences: blues, hip-hip, rock and roll - are probably unlike anything you've ever heard. There's also the cinematic and dreamlike instrumental piece "Flashback", and legend Serge Gainsbourg and Jane Birkin pairing up in the delicious "Je T'aime...Moi Non Plus".

The soundtrack journeys through a dizzying array of musical styles, that all somehow come together in a melting and stylish whole. There are no weak moments. This CD is highly recommended, especially to anyone who enjoyed the movie, or is interested in world music.

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The Beauty of the Male Voice

The Male Choir of St. Petersburg

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The Beauty of the Male Voice.......2006-05-04

I was fortunate to hear The Male Choir of St. Petersburg perform at the Peter and Paul Cathedral in Saint Petersburg, and was stunned by the power and beauty of their song. The director, aware that the deep, resonate voices struck a chord within each member of the audience, held the final note of each song until it echoed from the rafters. The songs are usually traditional Russian songs, but are not religious chants, as many people seem to expect - one song, called "O My Field" is an ode to a farmer's plot of ground. I recommend this album, a great opportunity to revel in the beauty of the male voice.

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Excellent Material for Ms. Upshaw.
Keeps Getting Better
The Barber alone is worth five stars
Buy this disc...twice!
Dawn Upshaw, vocal actress extraordinaire

Knoxville Summer of 1915

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Barber's Knoxville, Summer of 1915 is a setting of a lovely chunk of prose text by James Agee describing an evening from his childhood. An accomplished singer himself, Barber's vocal writing is expert, and this work must rank as one of the finest examples of the art of word-setting in any language. Barber perfectly captures the conversational quality of the text, while at the same time clothing the words in an atmosphere of gentle nostalgia. It's a masterpiece that Dawn Upshaw sings with keen insight and lovely tone. The remainder of the program is creatively chosen as well, making this one of the finest vocal recitals available by an American singer. --David Hurwitz

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Excellent Material for Ms. Upshaw........2006-04-26

'Knoxville: Summer of 1915' is a performance of a selection of operatic pieces by Americans such as Samuel Barber or Europeans transplanted to the United States, such as Igor Stravinsky. Ms. Upshaw shines with material, which is good for her, since she is just slightly out of her league with the material covered by the likes of Renee Flemming on the operatic front and Ute Lemper and Lotte Lenya on the Euro/American popular musical stage.

Like any good sampler, this recording's strongest draw is the fact that it makes one interested in tracking down the complete works by Barber, Menotti, Harbison, and Stravinsky. And, while the package includes all lyrics, everything is in perfectly clear English. A perfect addition to other American classics such as 'Porgy and Bess'.

Keeps Getting Better.......2005-03-02

I have had this disc for years, and I'm more impressed with it as the years roll by. I bought it for Barber's "Knoxville, Summer of 1915" which is a glorious piece of music caught here in a luminous performance. I didn't initially warm up to the Harbison songs, but they have grown on me over the years to the point that I listen to them far more often than the Barber now. I think it just took me a while to absorb Harbison's style and understand how deftly and ingeniously he uses it to take the listener into Mirabai's world. Not to be missed!

The Barber alone is worth five stars.......2004-01-16

People are always saying that they find a particular piece of music is "haunting." For me Barber's "Knoxville: Summer of 1915" is such a work. Dawn Upshaw's reading of this great American masterwork is the best I have yet heard. She won her first Grammy Award for this recording - and deservedly so. If you're a fan of either Upshaw or Barber you'll want to add this beautiful CD to your collection.

Buy this disc...twice!.......2002-07-20

Extraordinary!! This has got to be the definitive Knoxville--rich, touching, elegant and as close to perfect as it can probably ever be. Upshaw has the perfect voice for this work, and she gives it all the loving attention that it requires. This is a performance of Knoxville that will make you weak in the knees. For the Knoxville alone, buy this disc....twice! There is, however, just a little bit of downside here. The other works on this disc just aren't very captivating.

Dawn Upshaw, vocal actress extraordinaire.......2002-01-01

This is the CD that made me fall in love with Dawn Upshaw's singing. I had heard her before and admired her work, but this disc made me a real fan. As it's one of her early recordings, her voice is somewhat "fuller" than on later work; she later started moving the voice "forward," simplifying the sound. Either way, her immense talent for communicating the essence of the text is the outstanding aspect of all her work. It's amazing how she can sound angry, desperate, hopeful, melancholic, all while producing a beautiful sound and tackling all the vocal challenges of the music she's singing. She inhabits the characters, the narrators, of each of the pieces on this disc, and makes it more than just a collection of songs or arias.

I want to make special mention of the Harbison _Mirabai Songs_, as it seems to have been maligned somewhat in other reviews here. This was the work that most kept me coming back to this disc when I first bought it. I think it is a masterpiece, and one of Harbison's best and most important works. (Apparently I'm not alone in my admiration of the piece, because I've heard it on a number of live concerts in recent years, so it seems to be having a successful performance life.) Harbison's song cycle is by turns exciting, sensual, driving, longing, beautiful. The orchestration for the small ensemble is masterful (as Harbison's efforts at scoring always are), and Upshaw expresses all of Mirabai's complex emotions enchantingly.

The _Rake's Progress_ aria also deserves individual comment. In this engrossing example of Stravinsky's neoclassical style, Upshaw assumes Anne's air of fierce determination, and brings the disc to an absolutely thrilling climax on a concluding high C.

All of the music on this terrific CD is very accessible, and the performances are stellar. The recorded sound is very clear and immediate, as one would expect from Nonesuch. It's one of my favorite discs in my entire collection, and would probably be so for the Harbison and Stravinsky alone.

Like a Thief in the Night
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a unique moving hip hop album

The roots of Hip-Hop

Hip-Hop Lives

Like a Thief in the Night
Amir Sulaiman
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a unique moving hip hop album.......2007-06-14

if you're looking for a switch up from mainstream hiphop, then you probably tried out underground music or something more substantive; picking up the roots, kanye west, mos def, wyclef jean and etc.
Like a Thief in the Night is an entertaining and insightful album from start to finish. The title track is convincing enough to listen the whole cd throughout.
Amir's album succeeds where these artists occasionally fall back into regular rap routines with cursing, gun talk and women.
Because of Amir's open religious tone he is able to produce a full album with "struggle" related issues sans vulgarity both in language and subject. For this I feel he is superior to other rappers.
In addition the album is an enjoyable hearing for any listener of hip hop, the beats and raps flow, and on multiple hearings you begin to appreciate Amir's unique talent of making the subtleties of living life something worth listening to.
I would compare Amir's lyrical content to the College Dropout by Kanye West, because both artists focus on relationships between many types of people from a view other than at the end of a gun.

Great listen and convinces you to want to see him perform live. (hint hint youtube)

The roots of Hip-Hop.......2007-06-08

SubhanAllah, it takes me back to my roots. Hard hitting, east coast beats under fresh, pleasantly poetic lyrics. He transcends boundaries of race and religion and delivers exactly what the dying hip-hop community needs. It is rich with a tapestry of self-reflection, calls to action, lamenting the suffering of the down-trodden, and foretelling of a victory for the righteous. Absent is the typical lyrical bravado and self-aggrandizement of most rappers (even many Muslim rappers).

Make no mistake about it, he is Muslim and apparently a lover of Ahlul-bayt (peace be upon them), and it is not unusual for him to fall into the ecstasy of his own lyrics and start chanting la ilaha il-Allah (there is no god but Allah). In that way it has the symbolic texture of classical Islamic poetry as though it were the modern-day qasida or ghazal.

Still, his lyrics are also very political, very pro-black, and very anti-oppression. He is part of the new wave of hip-hop artists trying to reclaim the culture that was abducted and molested by the mainstream music industry. And with guest appearances by cultural pioneers such as the Last Poets and hip-hop reformist and fellow Muslim Mos Def, the message certainly hits home.

The only complaint I could really have about the CD is that it's not enough. I would like to sit and pick this brother's brain for hours, and unfortunately, I only get a little over 50 minutes. May Allah reward his efforts and purify the bounties that he receives through his jihad.

Hip-Hop Lives.......2007-05-19

When asked what became of the seeds of the revolution? You will think about Amir Sulaiman. His dedication to the truth and righteousness of life speaks to you loud and clear in this CD project "Like A Thief In The Night" So refreshing to know that the messengers' have not been completely drowned out by the noise of the paper chasers who sold hip-hop out. Every track on this CD says something to the conscious mind to the blind and the bewildered while maintaining its raw credibility that is really hip-hop. From the track "Spit - Let it be known" is your warning and the journey through the collab with Mos Def "When I Die" well set you back on course. And what a treat to hear Goapele singing the backdrop of "They Don't Know". Ya'll need to cop this joint and keep it in your collection next to KRS-One, Last Poets, Gil Scott Heron and the likes

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Driving Synthesizers
To Add and to Drop - WHY?
Beach Scene+Beach Theme = a lack of Confrontation?
dun da da dun dun dun dun da da dun dun dun da DA DAA!
Nice to finally have, but.......

Thief
Original Soundtrack
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Driving Synthesizers.......2007-04-09

Tangerine Dream is a German group that specializes in electronic music. This sound track is structurally conventional as an extended tone poem with a very much modernized "orchestration" of synthesizers and percussion. Insofar as the source movie was a "caper", the tone is dark and the rhythms drive forward.

To Add and to Drop - WHY?.......2006-06-25

For those who were fortunate enough to aquire one of the first two releases of the THIEF soundtrack (like myself) congratulations - you have the version of the CD that contains the best song on the soundtrack, Beach SCENE. It has been dropped for this US release.

For those who were interested in obtaining the Thief soundtrack being mainly interested in the one song, Beach SCENE (most of the other songs can be found on other Tangerine Dream albums), please realise the following differences between Beach THEME and the now dropped, Beach SCENE.

The song, Beach THEME is a much shorter track (almost by half) and there is a very cheesy, acoustic, "rock n' roll", drum beat that was mixed/dubbed over the original Beach SCENE song which has the much more mellow and less invasive electronic, sequenced drum beat in it. It's Beach SCENE that was both heard in the movie and over the airwaves back in 1981. If that is the song you remember (fell in love with) and are looking for, do NOT buy this latest release. Keep looking for those Out Of Print CDs - they are out there.

On a lighter "note", it's very nice to see they added the ending/end-credits song, CONFRONTATION.

This is a lose/win scenario for THIEF soundtrack fans - it all depends on which song is more important to you. If you already have the earlier releases with Beach SCENE on it then buying this latest version will now complete a defninitve soundtrack for them as that last song in the movie has now finally been added to the official soundtrack.

Beach Scene+Beach Theme = a lack of Confrontation?.......2006-05-07

Other reviewers have mentioned the lack of the longer Beach Scene on this release, being replaced by the shorter, more of a "single edit" Beach Theme. I found my copy of this CD has Beach Theme at Track 1 (3:44 run time), Beach Scene at Track 5 (where the insert says Scrap Yard should be)(6:50 run time), but no Confrontation anywhere. The last track on my CD is listed as Confrontation, but knowing the film as well as I do, this music starts in the night scene where Frank (Caan), along with his associate Joseph send Chicago's not-so-finest on a wild goose chase to Des Moines, then the scene immediately cuts to the vault heist in LA, also at night. The aftermath of the vault heist has at least another 10-12 minutes of film to go before the final credits roll.

I don't know what has caused this reissue to have what appears to be multiple versions, or for the music to differ from the track listing. As another reviewer pointed out, there's plenty of space on the CD for both the longer Beach Scene and Confrontation. Maybe somebody didn't listen to the tracks that carefully. I give it three stars for what's actually on the CD, and penalize two stars for what's supposed to be there but isn't.

dun da da dun dun dun dun da da dun dun dun da DA DAA!.......2005-04-05

Those relentless sequence patterns, like only TD could handle them, make a full-on appearance here.

This is the newer, US release of the soundtrack to the 1981 Michael Mann film. This time, we actually do get the Craig Safan-composed 'Confrontation', the long, Floyd-esque track that played over the end sequence of the film, you know, where Michael Mann uses excessive slow motion, blood splattering, and bodies flying to bring the story home.

I think the star track here is Diamond Diary, a 10-minute piece that plays in the opening sequence of the film as Frank pulls a diamond heist. It builds and builds with that sequencer working overtime, and the drilling synths and whiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiizzz sounds and whiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiirrr sounds all over, with some big, fat guitar chords thrown in. Then it comes down, settles with some keyboard overtures, and then it cranks up relentlessly again, with some thumping thrown in to match the on-screen suspense. It's a masterful track, perfectly edited into the film, as is most of the score.

For some reason, the track Beach Scene is not included here, but it is included on the original UK release. Since it's a Tangerine Dream track, it's not like they had licensing issues like with Confrontation, which wasn't available on the UK release but is here. Beach Scene is the longer version of Beach Theme, a more fully-realized track. Perhaps they thought it was just 'bonus' so they chucked it? Perfect example of 'soundtrack madness' and the endless quest for the music you like from a particular film.

Some of the music here isn't heard in the film, or is heard briefly, but Diamond Diary, Beach Theme, Dr Destructo, and some of Burning Bar are all memorable from certain scenes. No weak tracks really, though note that some of Igeneous appeared on Force Majeure, two years before.

Some of this is reminiscent of Sorcerer, the excellent album to the William Friedkin film. Fans of that will enjoy Thief. The disc is indeed short, and it's not presented as a real soundtrack album, actually. The order of tracks appear random, or in a more album-listening sequence, rather than presenting a score from beginning to ending as most soundtracks do. Note other frustrated Amazon reviews, but music-wise it's a good disc.

Nice to finally have, but..............2005-01-07

It's great that someone finally released this version on CD but it's a day late...I already compiled music from this disc, the import disc, and from the Tangerine Dream disc "Force Majuere" into my own version of the "complete" soundtrack of Thief. It turned out great. I'd love to just give copies of it away to anyone willing to pay for the shipping but I don't know if that's a good idea. I'm fed up with tracking down out of print albums and CD's on Ebay for $40 - $80 per bootleg disc. I think someone should put a stop to all the bootlegging and start giving this stuff away! I've got a killer "Manhunter" compilation that I'd love to just give to people for free (all shipping fees would have to be paid for) just so I can try to put a stop to all this overpriced bootlegging going on. Just yesterday a bootleg of "The Keep" sold on Ebay for over $90.00--if I ever get my hands on a copy of this disc I would be more than happy to give it away to any interested parties!

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John Brune
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Review 1000!
what happened?!
some radiohead soulsearching
Yesterday's headlines blown by the wind
Mixed Feelings.

Hail to the Thief
Radiohead
Manufacturer: Capitol
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Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000092ZYY
Release Date: 2003-06-10

Tracks:

2 + 2 = 5
Sit down. Stand up.
Sail to the Moon.
Backdrifts.
Go to Sleep.
Where I End and You Begin.
We suck Young Blood.
The Gloaming.
There there.
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Filling the gulf between OK Computer's epic progressive rock and Kid A's skittering electronic theatrics, Hail to the Thief borrows equally from each. Its title implies that this will be a collection filled with songs of anger and dissent, but Radiohead no longer howl at the moon like they did on 1995's The Bends. Instead, they use eloquent metaphors and complicated arrangements to express the uncertainty, fear and anger arising from the 2000 U.S. presidential election and a post-9/11 world. There's no doubt about where Thom Yorke and company stand; the prog-rock break on "2 + 2 = 5" and Yorke's terror at the thought of being "put in a box" make that immediately clear. But there's a prevailing sense of powerlessness here. The tinkling piano behind the cold sonic surface of "Backdrifts" and the brief, swooping melody in the middle of "Sail to the Moon" are islands in a sea of confusion. Like all of the band's best work, Thief requires more than a few listens to fully appreciate, but those who stick around will be richly rewarded. --Matthew Cooke

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Review 1000!.......2007-07-17

what happened?!.......2007-06-04

some radiohead soulsearching.......2007-04-13

Yesterday's headlines blown by the wind.......2007-02-23

Mixed Feelings........2007-02-05

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Coolio is in da house
Fantastic Voyage, enough said!
Another superstar ganked by the industry
Not bad.
This is a HOT album

It Takes a Thief
Coolio
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ASIN: B000000HJO
Release Date: 1994-07-19

Tracks:

Fantastic Voyage
County Line
Mama, I'm In Love Wit A Gangsta
Hand On My Nutsac
Ghetto Cartoon
Smokin' Stix
Can-O-Corn
U Know Hoo!
It Takes A Thief
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Ugly Bitches
I Remember

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The rapper's 1994 debut album features 16 tracks including the hit 'Fantastic Voyage' & the classic 'County Line'. Tommy Boy.

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Coolio is in da house .......2006-01-23

It's the Hip hop's hair doo master Coolio on a debut album, my locc Coolio went from B.G. to Locc'sta from Compton, CA aka the CPT. Like I said on my review from Gangsta's Paradice, Coolio be blowin' on some Indo or some other type of funky gangee, because Coolio was the locc who released the ultimate house party groove Fantastic Voyage by far Coolio's dopest hit, County Line is a far out Dope song by my locc, Ghetto Cartoon is a funny cartoonished song with funny lyrics, and my locc has another good one called Ugly Bitches, what!? It's a true song by my locc Coolio.

Fantastic Voyage, enough said!.......2005-12-14

Another superstar ganked by the industry.......2005-12-03

This album absolutely kicks the snot out of 95%+ of the music to come since. Picking highlights for this album is difficult but here's a couple:

Ghetto Cartoon: Coolio gives you a rather twisted urban fairy tale featuring all the WB and Disney characters, hilarious and deft.

Gangsta's Paradise: The title track to a major movie, and one of they very few rap songs that goes for 'haunting' and achieves it.

Mama, I'm In Love Wit A Gangsta: Told half in telephone conversation and all in style.

Just buy the album already.

Not bad........2004-08-06

This album is truly a classic, with SOME good tracks like Fantastic Voyage, Smokin Stix. However, I found a lot of "filler" tracks on the album and probably would not buy it for any more than 4 dollars. When it's in my CD player, I find myself skipping several tracks in the album.

This is a HOT album.......2002-10-08

"It Takes A Thief" is Coolio's classic! It's been a while since I last listened to it but I remember thinking it was a masterpiece when I first heard it. The best songs on the album are Ghetto Cartoon, Mama I'm In Love Wit A Gangsta, I Remember and the radio-friendly Fantastic Voyage. This is hardcore Coolio, before he sold out with Gangsta's Paradise, this is how I best like him. His rhymes are always good and on-point. The beats are funky and take you back to the day... Anyway, this is a HOT album I recommend you buy this instead of any other Coolio album, this is definitely his best