Shrek [Limited Edition] [Black Vinyl]

Overview

If you scanned the back cover of the soundtrack to Shrek, without seeing the film first, it's hard not to think that this is an album that's designed to be a crossover success, containing very few songs that are in the film. You'd be wrong. Almost all of the 12 songs on this soundtrack (there's a 13th track, an excerpt of Harry Gregson-Williams and John Powell's original score) are not only in the movie, but they feature prominently in the film -- which just goes to show that Shrek doesn't play by the rules of animated features, just like DreamWorks told us in the publicity drive. What that means, though, is that it plays by the soundtrack rules of most mainstream comedies, down to the use of the omnipresent Smash Mouth not once, but twice. The record does take a couple of detours from the conventional though, no doubt thanks to DreamWorks' desire to keep their hip NPR audience and to promote their own artists as well. So, when it does deviate from the norm, it's for the eels' "My Beloved Monster" (from the 1996 DreamWorks release Beautiful Freak) and for Rufus Wainwright's cover of Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah" (not heard in the film, where it was sung by John Cale, but Wainwright is part of the DreamWorks family and he has an album coming out a few weeks after the release of Shrek), along with a cover of Joan Jett's "Bad Reputation" by Halfcocked (again, not in the film, where the original was used) and the Proclaimers' 1988 chestnut "I'm on My Way." Though these detours are a little questionable, they are enjoyable, but they still don't alter the character of a record that's essentially just a soundtrack, without much of the personality of the film it's attached to. It's not bad, but it's not great, either. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Product Details

Release Date:	08/02/2019
Label:	Geffen
UPC:	0602577842962
Rank:	22629

Tracks

1. Stay Home
2. I'm a Believer
3. Like Wow
4. It Is You (I Have Loved)
5. Best Years of Our Lives
6. Bad Reputation
7. My Beloved Monster
8. You Belong to Me
9. All Star
10. Hallelujah
11. I'm on My Way
12. I'm a Believer (Reprise)
13. True Love's First Kiss

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Self   Primary Artist
Smash Mouth   Primary Artist
Eddie Murphy   Primary Artist
Eels   Primary Artist
Jason Wade   Primary Artist
Half Cocked   Primary Artist
Rufus Wainwright   Primary Artist
Leslie Carter   Primary Artist
John Power   Primary Artist
Dana Glover   Primary Artist
Baha Men   Primary Artist
The Proclaimers   Primary Artist
Harry Gregson-Williams   Primary Artist
Pete Wingfield   Keyboards

Technical Credits

Marylata E. Jacob   Producer
Marty Joe Kupersmith   Composer
Matt Mahaffey   Composer
Neil Diamond   Composer
Nick Wollage   Engineer
Alan Meyerson   Mixing
Michael Ostin   Executive Producer
David Jaymes   Composer
Craig Reid   Composer
Brian Richards   Music Editor
Marvin Prosper   Composer
Lyn Fey   Editorial Director
Charlie Reid   Composer
Wendy Sherman   Package Design
Geoffrey Deane   Composer
Mark Everett   Composer
Marty Kupersmith   Composer
Deane Geoffrey   Composer
Patrick Leonard   Producer
Smash Mouth   Performer
The Blackhearts   Composer
Leonard Cohen   Composer
Chris Gehringer   Mastering
Joan Jett   Composer
Eddie Murphy   Performer
Joe Chiccarelli   Mixing
Eric Valentine   Mixing,Producer
Gavin Greenaway   Composer,Producer
Eels   Performer
Jason Wade   Performer
Ritchie Cordell   Composer
Leslie Carter   Performer
John Powell   Composer,Producer
Lenny Waronker   Executive Producer
Pee Wee King   Composer
Jon Brion   Producer
Robbie Robertson   Executive Producer
Ron Aniello   Producer
Sandra St. Victor   Composer
Pete Wingfield   Producer
Jimmy Harry   Composer,Producer
Rick Carey   Composer
Redd Stewart   Composer
Michael Mangini   Producer
Oliver Leiber   Producer
Mick Guzauski   Mixing
John Power   Composer
The Proclaimers   Performer
Slamm Andrews   Mixing,Engineer
Steve Greenberg   Producer
Baha Men   Performer
Kenny Laguna   Composer
Danny Jacob   Arranger
Harry Gregson-Williams   Composer,Producer
Dana Glover   Composer,Performer
Chilton Price   Composer
Joe Barresi   Mixing,Engineer,Producer
Greg Camp   Composer
Rufus Wainwright   Performer