Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Girl - Jim Sturgess
2. Hold Me Tight - Evan Rachel Wood
3. All My Loving - Jim Sturgess
4. I Want To Hold Your Hand - T.V. Carpio
5. With A Little Help From My Friends - Jim Sturgess
6. It Won't Be Long - Evan Rachel Wood
7. I've Just Seen A Face - Jim Sturgess
8. Let It Be - Carol Woods
9. Come Together - Joe Cocker
10. If I Fell - Evan Rachel Wood
11. Dear Prudence - Evan Rachel Wood
12. Flying - Secret Machines
13. Blue Jay Way - Secret Machines

Disc 2:

1. I Am The Walrus - Bono
2. Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite - Eddie Izzard
3. Because - Evan Rachel Wood
4. Something - Jim Sturgess
5. Oh! Darling - Dana Fuchs
6. Strawberry Fields Forever - Jim Sturgess
7. Revolution - Jim Sturgess
8. While My Guitar Gently Weeps - Martin Luther McCoy
9. Across The Universe - Jim Sturgess
10. Helter Skelter - Dana Fuchs
11. Happiness Is A Warm Gun - Salma Hayek
12. Black Bird - Evan Rachel Wood
13. Hey Jude - Dana Fuchs
14. Don't Let Me Down - Dana Fuchs
15. All You Need Is Love - Jim Sturgess
16. Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds - Bono

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #223 in Music
• Released on: 2007-10-23
• Number of discs: 2
• Formats: Extra tracks, Soundtrack

Album Description
ACROSS THE UNIVERSE - MUSIC FROM THE MOTION PICTURE DELUXE - 2 DISC VERSION

A love story set in the 1960's amid the turbulent years of anti-war protest, mind exploration and rock `n roll. Jude (Jim Sturgess) and Lucy (Evan Rachel Wood), along with a small group of friends and musicians, are swept up into the emerging anti-war and counterculture movements with "Dr. Robert" (Bono) and "Mr. Kite" (Eddie Izzard) as their guides.

FEATURING SONGS FROM THE GREATEST SONGWRITERS OF ALL TIME, PERFORMED BY THE CAST INCLUDING EVAN RACHEL WOOD, JIM STURGESS, DANA FUCHS, MARTIN LUTHER McCOY, BONO, JOE COCKER AND EDDIE IZZARD

Package art will incorporate stills from pivotal scenes from the movie and a 16-page folder foldout poster with a strawberry image.

Amazon.com
Given a track record littered by misfired oddities like the Bee Gees starring in the 1978 movie version of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, successfully transforming The Beatles' epochal oeuvre into film musicals has been an elusive alchemy. Yet director Julie Taymor's 1968-centered, socio-political romance is more than just a stunning visual achievement. Its soundtrack brings a crucially intimate, emotionally engaging sensibility to its rich catalog of Beatles source material. Using an approach she rightly dubbed "organic," Taymor never gets too ambitious with the original arrangements, balancing the plaintive, often stark performances of central young stars Jim Sturgess and Evan Rachel Wood with equally compelling turns by supporting players Carol Woods and Joe Anderson. The stars successfully evoke early Beatlemania via the energetic charms of Sturgess' "All My Loving" and Wood's "It Won't Be Long," then get straight to the canon's often melancholy heart on his take of "In My Life," and her gentle cover of "Blackbird." Taymor's use of star turns--the entire point of too many Beatles-rooted projects--is as sparing as it is deft. Eddie Izzard's effusive "Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite" is the product of several edited improvisations, while U2's Bono and Edge re-imagine "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds" by way of Pink Floyd. Joe Cocker's swamp-dirge "Come Together" shows why he's long been one of the best interpreters of the Lennon-McCartney catalog, and Dana Fuchs alternately evokes the heavenly and hellish via her tender "Dear Prudence," as well as her manic, Joplin-channeling burn through "Helter Skelter." Elsewhere on the CD, Bono teams with Secret Machine for the straightforward "I Am the Walrus," while the Dallas indie rockers also take dream-pop turns on the instrumental "Flying" and George Harrison's haunting "Blue Jay Way." Remarkably, Taymor claims the bulk of the performances here were not lip-synced, but recorded live as the cameras rolled.--Jerry McCulley

Customer Reviews

Awesome!
We thoroughly enjoyed the movie and the soundtrack puts you right back there. My only quibble is that it is missing one or two tracks from the movie.

reminds me of my youth
I am enjoying this CD although, I do wish they had used the complete songs, and not just the parts used in the movie.

Great album but....
I adored the movie and the soundtrack, but if you loved this, also try to get the soundtrack to I Am Sam, another effective re-thinking of how to use the Beatles canon.