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Don't waste your money

Chris Seeman | 10/30/2002

(1 out of 5 stars)

"Absolutely dreadful. Clearly inferior to the original soundtrack in every way. I listened to it when I first received the CD and could barely stand to listen to the whole thing. I set it aside for a few weeks and then went back to it, thinking it couldn't possibly be as bad I had first thought. It was still terrible. I can honestly say that this was my first purchase from Amazon that I felt was a complete waste of money. Get the original soundtrack."

Howard Shore synthesized

Chris Seeman | Novato, CA USA | 07/01/2002

(2 out of 5 stars)

""Music from The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring" contains renditions of several pieces from Howard Shore's Oscar-winning score to the recent Peter Jackson film performed by the Hollywood Studio Orchestra & Singers. The original soundtrack release is far superior to this, mainly because the score of the current recording sounds like it was realized with synthesizers. The result is a much shallower, artificial sound. However, the choral portions are real human voices, and their rendition is sufficiently different from the original soundtrack to warrant attention. In particular, many of the vocals are much clearer and easier heard than on the film version."