1 |
Alice
- Avril Lavigne |
2 |
The Poison - The All-American Rejects |
3 |
The Technicolor Phase - Owl City |
4 |
Her
Name Is Alice - Shinedown
|
5 |
Painting
Flowers - All Time Low
|
6 |
Where's My Angel - Metro Station |
| 7 |
Strange
- Tokio Hotel and Kerli
|
8 |
Follow
Me Down - 3OH!3 featuring Neon Hitch
|
9 |
Very
Good Advice - Robert Smith |
10 |
In
Transit - Mark Hoppus with Pete Wentz
|
11 |
Welcome
to Mystery - Plain White T's |
12 |
Tea
Party - Kerli |
13 |
The
Lobster Quadrille - Franz Ferdinand |
14 |
Always
Running Out of Time - Motion City Soundtrack |
15 |
Fell
Down a Hole - Wolfmother |
16 |
White
Rabbit - Grace Potter and the Nocturnals |
SOUNDTRACK REVIEW:
The garish album cover of this compilation
of songs is good enough a reason to earn a place on your shelves.
To have Johnny Depp’s Mad Hatter smiling at you with
his burnt orange hair? You’ve got yourself the best
tea party partner anyone can ask for, and the 16 songs inspired
by visionary director Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland
are all ready to blast your afternoon away.
Kicking off the 58 minute disc is Avril Lavigne’s
“Alice”, which adds a touch of ruggedness to the
girly fairytale version we are familiar with. You can almost
imagine a teenage girl running through the woods with a tattered
and torn dress, all the while being independent about protecting
herself from the forces of evil – you go, girl! “The
Poison” performed by American rock band The All American
Rejects adds a bit of edginess to the initially nice and friendly
song. “The Technicolour Phase” featuring American
synthpop project Owl City is a trippy and psychedelic tune
which will hypnotise your senses.
The angst comes in American band Shinedown’s
“Her Name is Alice” – this is also where
you realise that this is no family friendly album, with wild
and colourful musical styles brought to you by other artistes
like Metro Station, Robert Smith and Plain White T’s.
These headbanging songs are exactly what you need on a frustrating
day when you wish you can just run away, fall into a rabbit
hole and visit a mythical place called Wonderland where anything
is possible.
Interestingly, Kerli’s whimsically
energetic techno tune “Tea Party” is placed alongside
Franz Ferdinand’s “The Lobster Quadrille”,
which soothes things down with a dark and creepy melody. These
two songs strangley complement each other, and is reminiscent
of Burton’s arrestingly unique visuals.
Kudos
goes the soundtrack producers who have managed to gather these
artistes to come up with such inspired titles to echo the
film’s main themes. Where else are you going to get
songs with titles like “Always Running Out of Time”,
“Fell Down a Hole” and “White Rabbit”
in one compilation? Even if it’s a marketing ploy, we
are buying it. Imagining sipping tea with The Mad Hatter,
while listening to this varied collection of songs is definitely
worth it.
ALBUM
RATING:
 
Recommended Track: : (1)
Alice – Avril Lavigne
Review
by John Li
Posted on 9 March 2010
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