Track Listing

1. Where Do You Go To (My Lovely) - Peter Sarstedt
2. Title Music From Satyajit Ray's Film Jalshagar - Ustad Vilayat Khan
3. This Time Tomorrow - The Kinks
4. Title Music From Satyajit Ray's Film Teen Kanya - Satyajit Ray
5. Title Music From Merchant-Ivory's Film The Householder - Ali Akbar Khan
6. 'Ruku's Room' From Satyajit Ray's Film Joi Baba Felunath - Satyajit Ray
7. 'Charu's Theme' From Satyajit Ray's Film Joi Baba Felunath - Satyajit Ray
8. Title Music From Merchant Ivory's Film Bombay Talkie - Shankar/Jaikishan
9. 'Montage' From Nityananda Datta's Film Baksa Badal - Satyajit Ray
10. Prayer - Jodphur Sikh Temple Congregation
11. 'Farewell To Earnest' From Merchant-Ivory's Film The Householder - Ustad Ali Akbar Khan
12. 'The Deserted Ballroom' From Merchant-Ivory's Film Shakespeare Wallah - Satyajit Ray
13. Suite Bergamasque: 3. 'Clair De Lune' - Alexis Weissenberg
14. 'Typewriter Tip, Tip, Tip' From Merchant-Ivory's Film Bombay Talkie - Shankar/Jaikishan
15. Memorial - Narlai Village Troubador
16. Strangers - The Kinks
17. Praise Him - Udaipur Convent School Nuns and Students
18. Symphony No.7 In A (Op.92) Allegro Con Brio - Fritz Reiner
19. Play With Fire - The Rolling Stones
20. 'Arrival In Benaras' From Merchant-Ivory's Film The Guru - Ustad Vilayat Khan
21. Powerman - The Kinks
22. Les Champs-Elysees - Joe Dassin

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3817 in Music
• Released on: 2007-09-25
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Soundtrack
• Original language: English, German, Hindi, Sanskrit

Amazon.com
Music plays a huge part in director Wes Anderson's meticulously crafted world. For this movie set in India, he's come up with a typically wide-ranging, mind-boggling soundtrack largely culled from the mid-'60s and early '70s, despite the fact that the film is set in the present. Though Indian cinema has come to mean Bollywood for most Americans, Anderson pays tribute to art filmmaker Satyajit Ray by including music from some of his movies, mines the early (1963-1970), lesser-known oeuvre of James Ivory, and features traditional Indian tunes. This may throw fans of Bollywood's more frantic style at first (even if the upbeat go-go "Typewriter Tip, Tip, Tip," co-sung by superstar Asha Bhosle, gets close), but the music's eerie charm works in insidious ways. British Invasion pop, an enduring love of Anderson's, is represented by obscure songs from well-known combos (three cuts from the Kinks' 1970 album Lola versus Powerman and the Moneygoround, Part One), as well as obscure songs from obscure performers, like Peter Sarstedt's 1969 nugget "Where Do You Go To (My Lovely)." Add a fantastic Rolling Stones pop tune from 1965, a couple of Western classical tracks, a popular French hit by Joe Dassin, and you have a CD that's all over the map yet oddly consistent in its eccentricity. --Elisabeth Vincentelli

Customer Reviews

interesting mix and dive into old movie music
You will become addicted to this soundtrack. It actually surpasses the movie in that respect (although the movie is great too). I'm ready to start searching the cable channels or Netflix looking for these old Satyajit Ray movies.

Stop the train
Loved the movie, the soundtrack is not that great. The quirkiness of the movie does not translate well to the CD. The indian music selections on the disc leave much to be desired.

Less original than it would seem
Granted, granted, This Time Tomorrow and Strangers are fantastic songs desperately thirsting for greater attention, probably two of the best you've never heard. However, all of the Kinks songs on this soundtrack are from Lola vs. the Powerman, The Kinks most famous (not saying much) album. That album is a moving experience in itself and a better purchase than this album. In fact, go buy the old Kinks catalogue (at least Arthur, Village Green, and Face) if you're turned on by this stuff. Wes has great taste, but this is somehow lazy in selection (for the love of Pete, Tea plays an enormous role in the the movie and the Kinks classic, 'Have a cuppa tea' is not used because it's on a different album). At least take this as an opportunity to be guided to one of the great albums of all time. Great music, but you can get it in a better form.