Track Listing

1. Mamma Who Bore Me
2. Mamma Who Bore Me (Reprise)
3. All That's Known
4. The B*tch of Living
5. My Junk
6. Touch Me
7. The Word of Your Body
8. The Dark I Know Well
9. And Then There Were None
10. The Mirror-Blue Night
11. I Believe
12. Don't Do Sadness
13. Blue Wind
14. The Guilty Ones
15. Left Behind
16. Totally F*ucked
17. The Word of Your Body (Reprise)
18. Whispering
19. Those You've Known
20. The Song of Purple Summer

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #468 in Music
• Released on: 2006-12-12
• Number of discs: 1
• Formats: Explicit Lyrics, Cast Recording

Amazon.com
Who would have thought that Duncan Sheik would succeed where Paul Simon and Randy Newman failed, successfully transitioning from the pop-rock world to the Broadway stage? With Spring Awakening, Sheik and book writer/lyricist Steven Slater (who had already worked on Sheik's 2001 album Phantom Moon) have created a thoroughly exciting show that incorporates a contemporary art-indie idiom (including a small rock band instead of an orchestra) into a dramatic musical-theater context. The unlikely setting is that of a Frank Wedekind adaptation, but as it turns out, teenage angst is perennial, whether it's in contemporary America or in a 1891 German boarding school. Songs such as "The Bitch of Living" ("with nothing going on, asking just what went wrong"), "The Word of Your Body," "I Don't Do Sadness," and "Totally Fucked" ("You're fucked if you speak your mind and you know you will") resonate with the rage, frustration, confusion, excitement, joy, anger, and of course budding lust of those hormone-driven years. The show is greatly enhanced by its youthful cast members (they're all pretty close in age to their characters), who sing their hearts out. --Elisabeth Vincentelli

New York Observer
"Once in a generation a new musical comes along that changes everything."

The Daily News
"Best of all is Sheik's melodic and impressive pop/rock score. This music will continue to be heard years from now."

Customer Reviews

Eep!!!
So basically there are too many reviews for me to actually make a substantial comment about this CD that other people haven't.

I've seen the show around 10 times in the last 2 months. Enough said. As a 19 year old it is something wonderful and fresh for me to watch. The show and the score have a message to deliver - every single time you click play on this CD you can delve further into it uncovering themes and messages you may have missed the past 201392 times you listened to it. In an age where the stage is dominated by MTV's Legally Blonde, Hairspray, and happy [sometimes meaningless] scores - this is a diamond in the rough.

As the Original Broadway Cast is now... ::sniff:: gone, this little gem is something to hold onto forever.

However one comment must be made about this CD. While it is absolutely fantastic - it is in NO WAY a replacement for seeing the show. The Song of Purple Summer has been drastically re-written that delivers a harmony this CD cannot possibly provide. Many songs have been altered and, to be completely honest - though it is rare to find now-a-days - the singers are two thousand times more incredible live than they are on this recording. Some of the belting and harmonies just cannot do justice by listening to the CD. So make sure to see the show.

Just another... "Awakening"
Spring Awakening is a great show. Its catchy/rock tunes can keep me going for hours. BUT, if your thinking about sitting along with elders listening to your new musical you've just bought and this happens to be playing.... think again! This musical which sounds to be wrapped around the lives of teens should stay just with teens themselves. When i heard the music i wasn't only appauled at the constant dops of "f-bombs" and other swears but the horrible or should i really say non-existant rhymes used. But, nonetheless it was good for originality in score which did cause me to set my mind aside and see what a truly great musical and what a honest and true musical it is.

Monotonous Garbage
No one under the age of 25 is going to agree with me, but who cares. I think it's great they finally have a show about teens on Broadway, but to be this cliche', with so little if anything to say, uninteresting with a score poorly written is just a real pity. I suppose it's a start, but as far as speaking and expounding on youth, take me to HAIR any day over this.