Artist	Song
David Howey	"The Multiplying Villainies of Nature" (Macbeth, Act I Scene II)
Dario Marianelli	Remember Remember (score)
Martha & The Vandellas	Dancing In The Streets
Dario Marianelli	Evey's Story (score)
Dario Marianelli	England Prevails (score)
Peregrine Gray	"Jerusalem" by William Blake
Dario Marianelli	Lust At The Abbey (score)
Jane's Addiction	Sympathy For The Devil
Ludwig van Beethoven	Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, Op. 67
Peregrine Gray	"The Land Of Do-As-You-Please" by Enid Blyton
Dario Marianelli	The Red Diary (score)
David J	"The Vicious Cabaret" by Alan Moore
Julie London	Cry Me A River
Dario Marianelli	Governments Should Be Afraid Of Their People (score)
David J	"Songs From The Kitty Kat Keller" by Alan Moore
Dario Marianelli	Valerie (score)
Dario Marianelli	Evey Reborn (score)
David J	"The Vicious Cabaret" (reprise)
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky	Festival Overture: "1812", op. 49
Peregrine Gray	"The Second Coming" by William Butler Yeats
Dario Marianelli	The Dominoes Fall (score)
Ella FitzGerald	Every Time We Say Goodbye
The Magnetic Fields	World Love
Bird Guhrl	Antony & The Johnsons
David Bowie	Waiting For The Man
Dario Marianelli	Knives & Bullets (score)
Faith And The Muse	"Frater Ave Atque Vale" by Tennyson
Cat Power	I Found A Reason
Sound Effects	Big Ben Strikes Twelve

Comment:

I'm a huge fan of the book. So naturally, given the potent literary and musical elements imbedded there, I longed for a compilation that suits it.

This one has been brewing in my mind for years, but I felt it needed some more substance; this is the manifestation of it where I experiment with allowing Marianelli's score to provide that substance, though in reorganized form.

I'm not entirely happy with the pieces by David J; points for devotion and taste, but it's a little campier and cheaper than I'd like, I've been considering finding some people to help produce these myself. Same with the Peregrine Gray stuff -- good effort, but the readings could be better, and they're near impossible to find too. If anyone knows of any really good performances of "Jerusalem", "Land of Do-As-You-Please", "The Vicious Cabaret", "Songs From The Kitty Kat Keller", or "The Second Coming", please let me know.

I debated whether to add songs like Cry Me A River, Bird Guhrl, and I Found A Reason into the mix (as it were). I hesitated mainly because they weren't referential to the book, they were just tossed into the movie for a certain mood or somesuch. But after reading the book yet again with those songs in mind, I was able to find instances where they would fit in nicely -- the dance scene, the inheritance-leaving, Evey's decision before midnight.

My favorite tracks on this list are the Jane's Addiction cover, and the final three tracks -- particularly Faith And The Muse's rendition of "Frater Ave Atque Vale" which is gorgeous. And I love ending on the tolling of twelve.

This is and should be a very different set of songs from the movie soundtrack. (Thus the reason I'm still not fully pleased with using score bits, though it does work all right.)

I'd love to hear your comments...

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