StreamingSoundtracks.com - Titus

#	Track Listing	Length	Played
01	Victorius Titus Elliot Goldenthal	2:58	95
02	Procession & Obsequis Elliot Goldenthal	3:01	11
03	Revenge Wheel Elliot Goldenthal	0:54	6
04	Tribute & Suffrage Elliot Goldenthal	4:18	8
05	Arrows Of The Gods Elliot Goldenthal	1:34	8
06	An Offering Elliot Goldenthal	2:05	7
07	Crossroads Elliot Goldenthal	3:24	16
08	Vortex Elliot Goldenthal	1:35	9
09	Swing Rave Elliot Goldenthal	1:54	9
10	Ill-Fated Plot Elliot Goldenthal	2:20	6
11	Pickled Heads Elliot Goldenthal	5:05	10
12	Tamora's Pastorale Elliot Goldenthal	1:13	6
13	Titus' Vow Elliot Goldenthal	3:44	8
14	Mad Ole Titus Elliot Goldenthal	2:28	8
15	Philimelagram Elliot Goldenthal	1:46	5
16	Pressing Judgement Elliot Goldenthal	3:33	6
17	Aarons Plea Elliot Goldenthal	2:01	5
18	Coronation Elliot Goldenthal	1:54	8
19	Apian Stomp Elliot Goldenthal	1:32	15
20	Adagio Elliot Goldenthal	2:26	10
21	Finale Elliot Goldenthal	8:35	41
22	Vivere Elliot Goldenthal	3:33	22

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Reviewers Rating

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The only Eliot Goldenthal score you’ll ever need!

By:	LadyInque
Date:	8 Jan 2009
Rating:

Okay, wow. The movie, Titus, was one of the weirdest pictures I’d ever seen. It was an adaptation of a somewhat obscure Shakespeare play by Julie Taymor (Goldenthal’s wife). It’s a bloody, anachronistic, fascinating mess. The score is everything you’ve come to expect from Goldenthal: it’s loud, brash, crazy, quiet, jazzy… it’s as weird as the picture, and there is certainly no attempt to match the music to the period of the story (though the direction doesn’t do that, either). This score has received some more attention recently, because some of the tracks were ripped off by Tyler Bates for 300. Accept no imitations.

Let’s begin with the bombast. The opening track, “Victorious Titus” starts with a booming choir and adds some clanging. “Crossroads” features the blaring horns you might remember from Goldenthal scores like Interview with the Vampire and Alien 3. “Finale” is another good track for this sort of thing, though it’s more majestic than, well, bellicose.

It’s not all like that. There is some quiet, ethereal woodwind work on “Tamora’s Pastorale.” Jazzy tracks like “Swing Rave” and “Apian Stomp” may make you want to dance.

And then there’s the crazy. “Mad Ole Titus” begins with the kind of psycho circus music we love from early Danny Elfman scores, and then turns into a harder, driving song complete with electric guitars. “Pickled Heads” is probably the most divisive track on the album. It starts with crazy sound beds, moves to hard rock, and ends with psycho circus. Even with my warning, the beginning of the track, after whatever precedes it in the queue, will probably scare you.

The album ends with “Vivere,” by Italian songwriter C. Bixio. It’s become something of a standard, but I don’t know which recording is used here. I like it.

Request: “Pickled Heads” “Tribute and Suffrage” “Tamora’s Pastorale”
Avoid: “Pickled Heads”

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