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| The Darjeeling Limited | 
 enlarge | Creators: Satyajit Ray, Shankar Jaikishan, Ustad Vilayat Khan, Ali Akbar Khan, Fritz Reiner, The Kinks, The Rolling Stones, Peter Sarstedt, Joe Dassin, Alexis Weissenberg
Label: Abkco
Category: Music
List Price: $18.98
Buy New: $11.61
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Avg. Customer Rating:  17 reviews
Sales Rank: 2777
Format: Soundtrack
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.9 x 0.4
MPN: 92402
UPC: 187719240290
EAN: 0018771924029
ASIN: B000VAT032
Release Date: September 25, 2007
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Condition: BRAND NEW Factory Sealed - Ready to be shipped within 24 hrs from California - Average 5 workdays delivery time - Excellent customer service - Buy with confidence!
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| Tracks:
| • | Where Do You Go To (My Lovely) - Sarstedt, Peter | | • | Jalshagar | | • | This Time Tomorrow - Davies, Ray | | • | Teen Kanya | | • | The Householder | | • | Ruku Room | | • | Charu's Theme | | • | Bombay Talkie | | • | Montage | | • | Prayer - Traditional | | • | Farewell to Earnest | | • | The Deserted Ballroom | | • | Suite Bergamasque: 3. "Clair de Lune" - Debussy, Claude | | • | Typewriter Tip, Tip Tip | | • | Memorial - Tradidional | | • | Strangers - Davies, Dave [1] | | • | Praise Him - Tradidional | | • | Symphony No. 7 in A (Op 92): Allegro con Brio - Beethoven, Ludwig v | | • | Play with Fire - Phelge, Nanker | | • | Arrival in Benaras | | • | Powerman - Davies, Ray | | • | Les Champs-Elysees - Wilsh, Mike |
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Amazon.com
Music plays a huge part in director Wes Anderson's meticulously crafted world. For this movie set in India, he's come up with a typically wide-ranging, mind-boggling soundtrack largely culled from the mid-'60s and early '70s, despite the fact that the film is set in the present. Though Indian cinema has come to mean Bollywood for most Americans, Anderson pays tribute to art filmmaker Satyajit Ray by including music from some of his movies, mines the early (1963-1970), lesser-known oeuvre of James Ivory, and features traditional Indian tunes. This may throw fans of Bollywood's more frantic style at first (even if the upbeat go-go "Typewriter Tip, Tip, Tip," co-sung by superstar Asha Bhosle, gets close), but the music's eerie charm works in insidious ways. British Invasion pop, an enduring love of Anderson's, is represented by obscure songs from well-known combos (three cuts from the Kinks' 1970 album Lola versus Powerman and the Moneygoround, Part One), as well as obscure songs from obscure performers, like Peter Sarstedt's 1969 nugget "Where Do You Go To (My Lovely)." Add a fantastic Rolling Stones pop tune from 1965, a couple of Western classical tracks, a popular French hit by Joe Dassin, and you have a CD that's all over the map yet oddly consistent in its eccentricity. --Elisabeth Vincentelli
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| Customer Reviews: Read 12 more reviews...
 Great Music! September 29, 2007
12 out of 25 found this review helpful
This soundtrack is amazing. The traditional Indian music goes along well with American music tracks. All of the music in this album is worth listening to.
Where do you go to my lovely? February 13, 2008
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
I have to admit that I haven't seen THE DARJEELING LIMITED. The reason I have picked up the soundtrack is for the music, especially by Sathajit Ray. I am fascinated by Indian music and that fascination is what led me to pick up THE DARJEELING LIMITED. I love how the soundtrack is mixed between Satyajit Ray's film scores, classical music, and classic rock songs by The Rolling Stones and The Kinks. Surprisingly enough, the combinations of these diverse sounds really worked for me. I love how the soundtrack starts off with the lovely folk song "Where Do You Go to (My Lovely)" by Peter Sarstedt. There isn't a single song on the entire soundtrack that made me want to hit the skip button on my stereo.
 Less original than it would seem March 16, 2008
9 out of 13 found this review helpful
Granted, granted, This Time Tomorrow and Strangers are fantastic songs desperately thirsting for greater attention, probably two of the best you've never heard. However, all of the Kinks songs on this soundtrack are from Lola vs. the Powerman, The Kinks most famous (not saying much) album. That album is a moving experience in itself and a better purchase than this album. In fact, go buy the old Kinks catalogue (at least Arthur, Village Green, and Face) if you're turned on by this stuff. Wes has great taste, but this is somehow lazy in selection (for the love of Pete, Tea plays an enormous role in the the movie and the Kinks classic, 'Have a cuppa tea' is not used because it's on a different album). At least take this as an opportunity to be guided to one of the great albums of all time. Great music, but you can get it in a better form.
The Kinks! October 20, 2007
6 out of 11 found this review helpful
It's an amazing thing to see 3! Kinks songs on a soundtrack. Now you may say whats so amazing about that, as they have quite a few "really" big songs but the ones on this cd are all rare tracks.
Great Soundtrack October 31, 2007
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
I was immeadiately attracted to the movie and the soundtrack when I heard the background music in the TV movie trailer.
The 2 Kinks songs featured in the trailer are a couple of my favorites. Strangers is a Dave Davies song and one of his best, it makes me very happy to see it get some exposure.
I have read that Wes Anderson was a big Kinks fan and had considered using nothing but Kinks songs on the Rushmore soundtrack. (I always thought the plotline paralleled the theme of Schoolboys in Disgrace)
He has always done a phenomenal job of selecting quirky songs that set the mood for his films, thats probably why I own more Wes Anderson movie sountracks than from any other director. Great Stuff!
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