Twilight of Bookmonkey: Day Twenty-Six

I spent today listening to the soundtrack to New Moon, and divorcing it from the film – I’ve got to say that it is pretty good. It starts with the tune Meet Me On The Equinox by Death Cab for Cutie, which is a fun, moody start to the album. Although many of the songs on this disc are slower or darker than those in the soundtrack to the first album it is a lot of fun.

Also – the final song, a theme from the film’s score is simply called New Moon (The Meadow) and really blew me away, as much as I hated the score to Twilight, I’ve got to say the stuff done by French composer Alexandre Desplat is complicated and in Bella’s words “Kinda beautiful.”

With one more post dedicated to my month of Twilight, I’ve got to say that hands down the soundtrack have been the best part of this experience, as they both seriously impressed me, and I’ll definitely be checking out the soundtracks for the remaining films.

Twilight of Bookmonkey: Day Thirteen

Today I can honestly say that at least one day of my month of Twilight has not been for naught (originally I was going to say it had not been in vain, but I have a pretty low tolerance for puns in my blog). While spending my day at work yesterday, I had the soundtrack for the first Twilight movie playing in the background and I’ve got to say it is pretty great.

As I said in my last post, I’m a pretty big MUSE fan (I first came across them when my wife played their tune Take a Bow for me about half a year before it came out in the Watchmen trailer) and saw them in concert earlier this year, so the fact that the album starts with one of their songs is great. The rest of the album moves between poppy tunes, slow tunes and even a song I started humming along with that turned out to have been sung by Twilight star Robert Pattinson – yup, that dude can sing.

If you take nothing else from my blogs this month, at the very least take the time to check out the soundtracks, which I’ve heard only get better and better.

Book-wise, I’m nearing the end of the first part of Breaking Dawn, so the end is in sight. The end of Eclipse let me know who the heck Bree Tanner is, and as her appearance happens to be one of the scariest/saddest parts of the series so far I can honestly say I’m kind of looking forward to the final novella in the series as well.