The Greatest Showman Original

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I recently went to see The Greatest Showman with a bunch of people and was eyeballing this soundtrack before I saw the movie. I almost bought it but decided to hold off until I saw the movie. Well... I saw the movie and ended up buying the soundtrack shortly after returning home from the movie because I loved the music that much! Many of my friends have also bought it since seeing the movie and we all can't stop listening to it! The Greatest Showman is a musical based on Phineas Taylor (P.T.) Barnum's life as a showman who later became famous for the Barnum and Bailey Circus, the Greatest Show on Earth. I'm typically not a big fan of musicals even though I love music. While I loved the movie, I REALLY LOVED the music! It's so catchy, beautiful, and has more of a modern feel even though the movie takes place during the middle of the nineteenth century. This soundtrack contains 11 songs and spans about 40 minutes in length. Some familiar voices you'll hear are Hugh Jackman (who plays P.T. Barnum), Michelle Williams (Charity Barnum), Zac Efron (Phillip Carlyle), and Zendaya (Anne Wheeler). I purchased this soundtrack a couple days ago and have listened to it at least a dozen times all the way through! The songs are beautiful, upbeat, and fun to sing and dance to. I've been dancing all over the house while listening to this soundtrack and even my five-year-old twins join me! The music is fun for my kids to listen to also and they've said they like the songs. I love all of the songs but my favorites are The Greatest Show, A Million Dreams, Never Enough and Rewrite the Stars. I've listened to this soundtrack many times already and there are no signs of slowing down anytime soon! I've recommended both the movie and soundtrack to everyone I've talked with because they are that good. If you enjoy the movie, do yourself a favor and just purchase the soundtrack because you are going to want to listen to it every chance you get!

Love the music

Great soundtrack!

This show was as surprise hit for me, and it's thanks to a fabulous soundtrack and incredible choreography. The songs will get stuck in your head, so be forewarned! The Greatest Show - a strong opener, really knocks the audience for a loop as they appreciate this is not a typical musical, but something action packed, exciting, contemporary. Lots of fun. A Million Dreams - really a great theme piece for the show, the star of this is the beautiful rooftop dance between Williams and Jackman. Come Alive - I enjoy the pacing and percussion of this, but the vocal quality gets muddled a bit by the crowd singing The Other Side - super fun number with the incredible Efron and Jackman doing the most manliest musical choreography I've ever seen. A must watch, and great to listen to as well. Never enough - really needed more lyrics instead of just repeating "never enough" and "for me" over and over, but it is a great chance fo Allred to show off her musical talent, which is top flight This is Me - I may get hate for this but after listening to the soundtrack 20+ times we agreed that the singer for "This is Me" is a bit screechy for our tastes. I know there's a great story about the lady who sung it, etc., but her style is what I would call a bit "yelley". Rewrite the Stars - I love this one. It actually has a story as Efron tries to convince Zendaya they can be together. Wonderfully coreographed with the trapeze. Both of these singers knock it out of the park, with Efron easily handling the high notes and Zendaya bringing forth great emotion in her vocalization. Tightrope - a little hard to listen to because of its emotional content, I also find this to be my least favorite song. It's a bit bland and more of a rest between the power ballads in the film. From Now On - I love the intro to this. The transformation that Jackman's character undergoes is inspiring and feels applicable to other parts of life. You can sing the words to this song about other changes in life,with reforming and redemptive elements. My only criticism is I could have done without the repeated "and we will come back home, and we will come back home, home again" over and over. But I have a low tolerance for repeated lyrics. Anyways, go watch the movie and then come back for the soundtrack so you can sing along.

Great cd, love the music!

This is an absolutely wonderful vinyl pressing of a GREAT movie's music! I honestly MUST disagree with other reviews, that I indeed read myself right here, before ordering the vinyl release of "The Greatest Showman." The quality of (at least in my case) the vinyl pressing is all but perfect! I carefully gave it a "new record gentle cleaning" with my preferred vinyl cleaning items, and put in on my turntable... wonderful!!! Perhaps others that have complained either just got a defective pressing, or they have inferior phono equipment, or don't know how to care for a good vinyl record... hard to say. But the music is wonderful! As for complaints about the sound engineering... I don't understand complaints by others in this regard. This music has a really wide dynamic range, and yes, if you are listening to it with not-so-good equipment, then it might seem like you don't hear things or at other times it seems loud. If you watched the movie, then you would know that the music and sound dynamics ranged from very quiet to very thundering! That is the beauty of a great vinyl record played on good equipment... vinyl records can handle wide dynamics! So... please just enjoy this vinyl release! It is a great pressing and the engineering is great. I love it, and I have no issues with its sound or its quality! (But I would have liked a bit more low-end in the sound... the bass-end of things is a bit thin, but that is how the movie sounded originally.)

People complain about this musical, how it doesn't tell the real story of P.T. Barnum, etc. I really don't care. I'm not here for historical accuracy. I'm here for Hugh Jackman and the rest of this stellar cast, and for the outstanding music. It's everything a musical should be. There's not a bad performance, and not a bad song...it's just that some are better than others.

Absolutely love it

Magique.

Excelente disco, llego en buenas condiciones y a tiempo.

... in everyone's life when one has to acknowledge talent, class and style in others' work - and this is undoubtedly one of those occasions. I nearly did not go to see the film on the basis of a couple of deeply insulting and scathing 'reviews'. I am astounded that the critics could have got it so phenomenally wrong ! One need only look on IMDB to see how they spectacularly failed to understand what the majority of the British public desire in a feel-good movie ! (For anyone unfamiliar with IMDB, it is my considered opinion - formed over many years - that any film that has received more than 1000 ratings and been given an overall score in excess of 6/10 is worth watching. Of course this is a very general guide and depends in no small measure upon one's individual preferences.) The original music in this film is, without the lightest shadow of a doubt, the finest I have EVER heard in a cinematic work. They possess a power and a beauty that invariably have me weeping copious tears - and that, I assure you, is a rarity as I've been around a bit and am quite a hardened beast in many ways. Of course, as with all music, there is 'nothing new under the sun' and certain elements of ALL melodies will have been heard before (in some sort of similar combination) but it is often that familiarity which appeals to us ! And it is not as if it is merely one or two of the songs - EVERY SINGLE ONE of them is a chef-d'œuvre. I exaggerate not. You don't have to be a musician to appreciate the brilliance of the musical scores but if you happen to be then I am sure you will agree with me that all the parts - and the beautiful vocal harmonies - have a sensitivity, intelligence, magnificence and splendour about them; listen carefully to what is going on in the background (if that's your thing) and you will most certainly want to 'doff your cap' to the masterful composers ! Also, if you take the time to read the words for the songs (that are included with the CD) you will, I hope, realise how much work has gone into them and also how relevant they are to (almost) every person alive. There are some very subtle and telling changes made as certain songs progress and that increases their impact: the more you listen (and read), the more you will appreciate them ! Pure poetry. In fact, the only problem I have is that the songs go round and round in my head all day long ! It doesn't matter what I'm doing - washing up or making love or anything - I simply cannot shake them. In particular, from the moment I open my eyes, I have the refrain from "Never Enough" filling my 'blank thought space' and it's driving me crazy ! (Although I find that the tunes rotate through my brain on a regular basis - "Tightrope" is my current favourite !) If the music in this film does not receive some kind of award - and preferably more than one - then it will be a disgraceful travesty ... FV P.S. Although this is a CD, I must make mention of the superb performances of the actors and actresses in the film: their combined efforts truly make these glorious songs "Come Alive" ... x

Bislang habe ich mich immer schwer getan, hier auf Amazon Rezensionen zu verfassen. Selten aber habe ich so sehr den Drang verspürt, dem breiten Publikum mitzuteilen, wie einmalig ein Produkt - und in diesem Fall der Soundtrack von The Greatest Showman - ist. Kurzum: Die Songs sind fantastisch! Sie berühren, unterhalten und inspirieren. Ich finde mich in letzter Zeit so oft in meinem Alltag wieder, wie ich einzelne Lieder vor mir hersumme oder -singe. Schon lange hat mich ein Soundtrack nicht mehr so sehr in seinen Bann gezogen. Gerade auch die stimmlichen Talente - allen voran ein grandioser Hugh Jackman - die für dieses Musical gecastet wurden, sind atemberaubend. Die Kraft und Emotionen, die sie in diese Songs stecken, sorgen für unzählige Gänsehaut-Momente. Leider ist der Film - ebenso wie seine Musik - bislang eher in der Presse und beim breiten Publikum untergegangen. Auch offizielle Kritiken der Presse sind eher durchschnittlich. Mit der primären Begründung, dass die Figur des Hauptcharakters und "Vater des Circus" P.T. Barnum sowie einige andere historische Fakten in dem Film verfälscht wurden und es der Geschichte an Tiefe fehle. Schaut man sich hingegen die Rezensionen der breiten konsumierenden Masse - sprich, dem privaten einzelnen Konsumenten an - so spiegelt sich ein völlig anderes Bild wieder: PURES LOB. Und dies trifft sowohl auf den musikalischen Aspekt, als auch auf den Film selbst zu. Denn offenbar scheint die Presse nicht verstanden zu haben, dass es sich hierbei niemals um ein zu 100% akurates Historiendrama handeln sollte, sondern um ein auf den Begebenheiten von P.T. Barnum inspiriertes Musical, dessen primäre Intention daraus besteht, dem Zuschauer ein großes Lächeln ins Gesicht zu zaubern, ihn in eine zauberhafte Welt zu entführen, die ihn träumen und schwärmen lässt, um letztendlich den Kinosaal mit einem wohligen Gefühl zu verlassen. Glücklicherweise konnte ich mir bereits gestern The Greatest Showman im Kino ansehen und kann daher bestätigen, dass all diese Umstände bei mir eingetroffen sind. Ich habe gelacht, geweint, mitgefiebert und gestaunt. Ich bin derart begeistert, dass ich ihn mir in ein paar Tagen direkt ein weiteres Mal ansehen werde - und das ist normalerweise bei mir absolut nicht der Fall. Wer diesen Film - und somit auch die Musik als Hauptbestandteil dieses Musicals - verpasst, dem entgeht ein signifikantes Kapitel großer Filmgeschichte. Für mich ist The Greatest Showman das, was ich von dem eher sehr enttäuschenden La La Land ursprünglich erwartet hatte.