1. Igloo
2. All Is Love
3. Capsize
4. Worried Shoes
5. Rumpus
6. Rumpus Reprise
7. Hideaway
8. Cliffs
9. Animal
10. Lost Fur
11. Heads Up
12. Building All Is Love
13. Food Is Still Hot
14. Sailing Home
Album Description
WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE MOTION PICTURE SOUNDTRACK: ORIGINAL SONGS BY KAREN O AND THE KIDS Inside Karen O is a Wild Thing - as singer for the Grammy-nominated Yeah Yeah Yeahs, her wild thing is in your face, vulnerable, obnoxious, tender, exciting... a self-proclaimed "spazoid." To Oscar-nominated Where the Wild Things Are director Spike Jonze, however, Karen O and her music possess something of a child-like innocence, a guileless charm that put her exactly on the right emotional wavelength to sonically capture the film, be it a tender moment or a wild rumpus. To compose the music, O enlisted friends and fellow musicians she believed had a musical intuition that would bolster her intent to marry sound to vision. Dubbed Karen O and the Kids, these include Tristan Bechet (Services), Tom Biller (co-producer with Karen O and member of Afternoons), Bradford Cox (Deerhunter), Brian Chase (Yeah Yeah Yeahs), Dean Fertita (Queens of the Stone Age, The Dead Weather, The Raconteurs), Aaron Hemphill (Liars), Greg Kurstin (The Bird and the Bee), Jack Lawrence (The Dead Weather, The Raconteurs, The Greenhornes), Oscar Michel (Gris Gris), Imaad Wasif (New Folk Implosion, Alaska), Nick Zinner, (Yeah Yeah Yeahs) and an untrained children's choir.
Album Description
Soundtrack to the long-awaited 2009 motion picture. The score was written and performed by Karen O of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs and her friends, including members of Services, Afternoons, Deerhunter, Queens Of The Stoneage, The Dead Weather, Raconteurs, Liars and others. Where The Wild Things Are is the film version of one the most beloved books of all time, written by Maurice Sendak. Universal. 2009.
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Where The Wild Things Are Original Motion Picture Soundtrack: Original Songs By Karen O And The Kids
- Audio CD: 0 pages (2009-09-29)
- Publisher: Interscope Records
- Label: Interscope Records
- Format: Soundtrack
- Studio: Interscope Records
- Average Customer Review:
 based on 17 reviews
- Sales Rank in Music: #649
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Summary: Even Better Than the Flick 2010-01-21
Comment: Well, my 10 yr old and I saw this movie over the 2009 Xmas vacation, and emerged from the theatre quite bedazzled, the musical themes still sounding in our ears. Soon after, we visited friends at cape Schanck, on the southern tip of mainland Australia and they indicated where the location for the movie was on adjacent Bushrangers Bay. And, what a spot! The perfect scene for the Wild Things worried world. Inspite of childhood years in similar T-tree underbrush I'd never transposed Sendak's tale to these environs. The film clearly thrilled my daughter, as it would have me at her age. But its the soundtrack that remains playing between my ears. It's brilliantly enmeshed with the moods of the film and yet bouyant enough to stand alone. Well done Karen O and the Kids!
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Summary: A wonderful soundtrack 2010-01-21
Comment: The music is as eloquent as it is touching. It is equal parts sentimental and fun, and it certainly strengthened the film. A great purchase on vinyl.
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Summary: 4.5 stars... outstanding soundtrack 2010-01-09
Comment: 2009 turned out to be quite the year for Karen O (singer for the Yeah Yeah Yeahs): earlier in the year the YYYs released their most successful album to date (the outstanding "It's Blitz!"), and in late September the soundtrack to "Where the Wild Things Are" was released as "original songs by Karen O and the Kids". I didn't want to pick this up until I had had an opportunity to see the movie, which I finally did over the year-end holidays.
"Where The Wild Things Are" (14 tracks; 40 min.) brings a collage of songs and sounds featured in the movie, some instrumentals, some with vocals, some short, some longer, it's all over the place (and this is not a complaint, mind you). This is not "music inspired by", no, it's the actual songs used in the movie (well, all-but-one: "Capsize" was not in the movie). As to who "the Kids" are, Karen O. calls on her YYYs bandmates Brian Chase and Nick Zinner, as well as Deerhunter's Bradford Cox, among others, and then there are of course a bunch of singing kids of many of the songs. If you've seen the movie, you know the songs are free-flowing, mostly folksy but joyous, if not boisterous and it just all flows together so well. "All Is Love" was released as a radio single, and as such can be termed the "must-listen" track on here, but truth be told, this soundtrack is an "ensemble" listening experience in which no track is better or worse than the next one. The 40 min. zip by in no time, and you really won't remember if you're on track 7 or 10 or such thing.
This soundtrack isn't meant for the masses, to be honest. It's a slightly off-center soundtrack to a slightly off-center movie, albeit in the most delightful way. And a TRUE soundtrack, in tune with the mood of the movie (one might even argue it partly creates the mood of the movie). I absolutely love this soundtrack. Finally, if you wonder where you can actually hear this, check out WOXY (BAM! The Future of Rock and Roll), the internet-only station that brings the best indie-music in the country, bar none.
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Summary: Space-out, the final frontal lobe 2009-12-05
Comment: NARRATOR: Hi there, sir/ma'am, I have some bad news for you. You've arrived too late and we've already sold out. Arcade Fire did this five years ago. Danielson Family did it five years before that.
(A big guy bathed in light with a beard that extends halfway across the stage breaks out into a large yawn. Children are seen shuffling off the stage with heads bowed.)
CHORUS: Didn't you used to be in a band that everybody thought was cool because they thought you were on heroin, but it was just oxycontin like every other gas station yokel's been popping off any exit in Jersey since 2002? Kids like things that are outrageous, so your new jazzercise-cum-cafe-slumber fixation should go over nicely with the alt-(severely)lit crowd. So, too, the blatant-latent trepanation references in "Food is Still Hot." Memory's a funny thing when you're making a donut hole out of it.
(Gnomes straddling horseshoe crabs whizz by, playing patty-cake. Manute Bol gets up from a spot at the back of the stage, an elongated Nosferatu made out of Silly Putty.)
NARRATOR: Oh, Hi again, you're still here. I took a nap there for a little while and it's nice of you to be so patient. You look ... different in that ... is that a raccoon costume? Anyway, you should have given me a nudge. Really, it would have been OK. I don't sleepwalk or anything, so I wouldn't have gone psychotic until my second cup of coffee.
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Summary: two soundtracks is too unnecessary! 2009-12-03
Comment: I just saw the movie and thoroughly enjoyed it! The score by Carter Burwell and additional soundtrack by Karen O And The Kids made the movie even better. Really enjoyed both their musical contributions. But now I have to buy two separate soundtracks because they refused to put the entire soundtrack on one cd or two disc set. I don't know if it's a money thing, some logistics I'm unaware of or just something they wanted to do, but in the future... one movie, one soundtrack.
p.s. the Arcade Fire song that's in the trailer is not on the soundtrack or in the movie. Just buy the Arcade Fire album "Funeral"
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