Music Discussion

enters the Billboard chart this week at #5

allmusic gives it a 2.1 of 3.0
Spotify online listen
nice lineup of artists
unfortunately the music didn't live up
a few were ok



Album Review - from allmusic

Like other young adult book series turned into blockbuster franchises, it's easy to tell that The Hunger Games: Catching Fire is a more lavish affair than its predecessor just by looking at its soundtrack, which features some of pop and rock's biggest names. Coldplay opens the album with the typically sweeping and earnest "Atlas," while Christina Aguilera's "We Remain" delivers the empowered balladry she's been known for since "Beautiful" (it also sounds a lot like Alicia Keys' "Girl on Fire," which seemed like a natural fit for this album). The album also includes several of the artists who defined 2013: Lorde turns the wry paranoia of Tears for Fears' "Everybody Wants to Rule the World" into something more obviously dark and creepy. Meanwhile, Imagine Dragons take the lumbering thrust of their hit "Radioactive" in a slightly more complex but still fist-pumping direction on "Who We Are," while the Lumineers' "Gale Song" evokes the first Hunger Games soundtrack. Aside from this track and the acoustic leanings of the National's "Lean" and Of Monsters and Men's "Silhouettes," Catching Fire downplays the bluegrass and folk elements of The Hunger Games. While this is somewhat disappointing, it also makes sense: the series' second installment focuses on the decadent Capitol, the hardships facing Panem as a whole, and the tournament's diabolical arena rather than the Appalachian-like District 12. Grimly anthemic songs like the Weeknd's "Devil May Cry" express the life-or-death struggles of The Hunger Games' characters in and outside of the tournament, but some of the best moments, such as Ellie Goulding's sparkly "Mirror" and Santigold's taut "Shooting Arrows at the Sky," allow some hope to peek through its brooding. However, if the album was a competition to the death, Patti Smith's "Capitol Letter," which turns The Hunger Games' themes and imagery into what sounds like a timeless lament, would be the survivor. Even if every track here isn't quite as inspired as this song, or the music from the first movie, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire is a solidly entertaining soundtrack.

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Track Listing

1. Atlas - Coldplay
2. Silhouettes - Of Monsters and Men
3. Elastic Heart - Diplo / Sia / The Weeknd
4. Lean - The National
5. We Remain - Christina Aguilera
6. Devil May Cry - The Weeknd
7. Who We Are - Imagine Dragons
8. Everybody Wants to Rule the World - Lorde / Ella Yelich O'Connor
9. Gale Song - The Lumineers
10. Mirror - Ellie Goulding
11. Capitol Letter - Patti Smith
12. Shooting Arrows at the Sky - Santigold

Does anyone actually on this forum watch this series? I thought it was the biggest load of crap I have ever seen. Must be getting old.

Dani's daughter hired out the first Hunger Games movie on dvd when it came out...we watched it under sufference, its not the sort of movie i would have hired/bought oreven watched, but it was okay...what i mean by that is that it wasnt so aweful i had to turn it off...

after watching the first movie, i cannot see where the franchise could really go from there...it finished, it had an ending, it should have been left at that...

i have no intention of watching the new one

same here
read the books, watched the first movie out of courtesy to the wife
will dread watching this one when it comes out on dvd
the things we do for love

this one, and the next one, will be as big as the first one
teen stuff

I finally watched the movie a few months ago to my chagrin! It was predictable and basically uneventful for me!

You use the word "hired", we use the word "rent" ...kind of neat how the English language changes a bit from one country to another...lol

CRAZY-HORSE Wrote:Dani's daughter hired out the first Hunger Games movie on dvd when it came out...we watched it under sufference, its not the sort of movie i would have hired/bought oreven watched, but it was okay...what i mean by that is that it wasnt so aweful i had to turn it off...

after watching the first movie, i cannot see where the franchise could really go from there...it finished, it had an ending, it should have been left at that...

i have no intention of watching the new one

Any of you lads have any movies you can recommend? I am clueless at this point! Unleashed with Morgan Freeman was great...thanks CH! Any others for reccos?

"the magic of belle isle"....Morgan Freeman,its a typical feelgood Freeman movie 8/10

"the boy in the striped pyjamas".....a bit slow to start but turns into one of the best movies i have ever seen,bit of a tearjerker at the end,movie makes you wonder how humanity can be so cruel to each other! 9/10

"journeys"....a Neil Young doco,of Neil and his brother travelling from Winnipeg to Toronto,Neil stops off at places along the way talking about his formative years, its pretty much Neil looking back on his early life in the actual locations, movie culminates with a gig in Toronto...7/10

i'll give you more reco's if you watch these and like them(dont want to urge you to watch a lot of movies you end up not liking mate...)

Excellent! Thanks Crazy mate!!!