Free at Last - The Music and the Movie (Special Edition) [Enhanced]
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Amazon.com
Free at Last celebrates the first 10 years in the careers of three young men from Liberty University who turned artistic revolution into stylistic revelation, forever changing contemporary Christian music. With concert footage interspliced with band interviews and candid backstage dramas, the DVD documents a group on the brink of massive success as it tours America on the power of a Grammy Award-winning release. Some clips are starkly revealing, such as Kevin "Max" Smith's poignant discussion about being adopted or Toby McKeehan and Michael Tait soberly touring civil rights historical sites in Montgomery, Alabama. The concert footage itself aptly captures the trio's energy and vocal prowess. Of course, it all boils down to the music, and one listen to Free At Last's CD demonstrates how well this gem holds up. With Toby Mac's hip-hop sensibilities and the lush, harmonious voices of Tait and Smith, dc Talk combined seldom-mixed styles and unapologetic Christian lyrics into a voice for a new generation. With hits like "Luv Is a Verb" and "Socially Acceptable," the band showed a conservative industry that it could take chances and still win. Even remakes of classic tracks like Bill Withers's "Lean on Me" and the Doobie Brothers' "Jesus Is Just Alright" sounded fresh and urgent with the group's sonic diversity. In the 1970s it was Phil Keaggy and Larry Norman. In the 1980s it was Amy Grant. The decade of the '90s had dc Talk to thank for transforming the face of Christian music. --Michael Lyttle
Free at Last - The Music and the Movie (Special Edition), Music, dc Talk, CCM, Christian, Contemporary Christian Music, Pop, Religious / Contemp. Christian
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Ultimate Movie Album
Manufacturer: Polygram Int'l
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- The Incredible Film Music Box
- The Greatest Hits
ASIN: B00005QC28
Release Date: 2001-11-20 |
Tracks:
- Bridget Jones's Diary: Out Of Reach - Gabrielle
- Gladiator: Now We Are Free - Gavin Greenaway
- Moulin Rouge: One Day I'll Fly Away - Nicole Kidman
- Notting Hill: When You Say Nothing At All - Ronan Keating
- American Beauty: Dead Already - Thomas Newman
- Braveheart: Main Theme - For The Love Of A Princess - London Symphony Orchestra
- Four Weddings And A Funeral: You're The First, The Last, My Everything - Barry White
- O Brother Where Art Thou: Down To The River To Pray - Alison Krauss
- Hannibal: Vide Cor Meum - Gavin Greenaway
- The Shawshank Redemption: Courtyard Theme: Che Soave Zeffiretto (Marriage Of Figaro) - Chor und Orchester der Deutschen Oper Berlin
- The Thomas Crown Affair: Windmills Of Your Mind - Sting
- Platoon: Adagio - Neville Marriner
- Ghost: Unchained Melody - Hollywood Bowl Orchestra
- Fantasia: The Sorcerer's Apprentice - Montreal Symphony Orchestra
- The Big Lebowski: Just Dropped In (To See What My Condition Was In) - Kenny Rogers & The First Edition
- Philadelphia: La Mamma Morta - Monserrat Caballe
- Snatch: Hernando's Hideaway - The Johnstone Brothers
- Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels: Eighteen With A Bullet - Lewis Taylor And Carleen Anderson
- A Room With A View: O Mio Babbino Caro - Sylvia McNair
Tracks:
- Billy Elliot: Cosmic Dancer - Marc Bolan & T-Rex
- Captain Corelli's Mandolin: Pelagia's Song - Orchestra
- Four Weddings And A Funeral: Love Is All Around - Wet Wet Wet
- Robin Hood Prince Of Thieves: Maid Marian At The Waterfall/Everything I Do - Michael Kamen
- Dances With Wolves: John Dunbar Theme - John Mauceri
- American Beauty: Any Other Name - Thomas Newman
- Gladiator: The Battle (Excerpt) - Gavin Greenaway
- The Silence Of The Lambs: Goldberg Variations (Aria) - Andrei Gavrilov
- Notting Hill: She - Elvis Costello
- Pulp Fiction: Son Of A Preacher Man - Dusty Springfield
- Mission Impossible: Main Theme - Orchestra
- Waking Ned: Let The Draw Begin - Orchestra
- Out Of Africa: Love Theme - John Williams
- Shine: Piano Concerto No.3 In D Minor, Op.30 - Concertgebouw Orchestra
- The Godfather Part III: Intermezzo From Cavalleria Rusticana - Pavarotti
- The Mexican: End Credits Medley - The Hollywood Film Chorale
- Body Heat: Main Theme - John Williams
- Apocalypse Now: The Ride Of The Valkyries - Chicago Symphony Orchestra
- Star Trek: The Final Frontier - Main Theme & March Of The Klingons - John Williams
Album Description
UK compilation featuring a combination of hit songs & theme music from some great soundtracks. Tracks include, Gabrielle 'Out Of Reach' (Bridget Jones Diary), 'Now We Are Free' (Gladiator), 'Dead Already' (American Beauty), Alison Kraus 'Down To The River To Pray' (O Brother Where Art Thou), Ronan Keating 'When You Say Nothing At All' (Notting Hill) & many more. 35 tracks on 2 CDs. 2001.
Customer Reviews:
Highly recommended.......2002-08-20
This pricey UK import CD filled a lot of gaps in my music collection and is an excellent overview of notable music of (mostly) recent films. It's difficult to find consistently listenable soundtrack collections like this, by that I mean free from the obligitory Whitney Houston or Celine Dion embarrassments. Usually rights issues prevent comprehensive compilations like this in the US, too. While I enjoy a lot of soundtrack music, there aren't so many complete soundtracks that I would care to own, some examples of exceptions being Ennio Morricone scores and the About a Boy Soundtrack. While certainly most of these tracks are the actual recordings used in their respective films, I noticed that "La mamma morte" from Philadelphia is not the Maria Callas version. There might be other cases like this, I'm not sure. And "Unchained Melody" from Ghost is an orchestral version, not the pop song (but I consider this a plus). This collection seems to focus on the subtle and quirky, yet melodic music of indie films, with less emphasis on the loud sweeping orchestral scores of major Hollywood hits, but of course there are a few like Gladiator and Braveheart, which are welcome here because like I've said, I probably wouldn't listen to the whole score. I love the two Thomas Newman compositions from American Beauty, and it's good to have some music from films by the Cohen Brothers here. My only complaint would have to be the order of the songs. You would think they would avoid jumping back and forth between pop songs, orchestral scores, and quiet music, but it just seems thrown together by random. I would compare this collection to the excellent "Miramax Films Greatest Hits" but the makers of that album knew to group the two pop/rock songs at the end.
Average customer rating:
- ONLY GREAT
- I was there at the very beginning
- I was there at the very beginning
- Both rock!
- cd okay, movie is a gem
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Free at Last - The Music and the Movie (Special Edition)
dc Talk
Manufacturer: Forefront
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
General
| Christian & Gospel
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- Nu Thang
- Welcome to the Freak Show
- Jesus Freak
- Supernatural
- Solo
ASIN: B00007JGUX
Release Date: 2002-12-10 |
Tracks:
- Luv is a Verb
- That Kinda Girl
- Greer
- Jesus is Just Alright
- Say the Words
- WDCT
- Socially Acceptable
- Free at Last
- Time is...
- The Hardway
- Honks & A Negro
- Lean on Me
- Testimony
- I Don't Want It
- Will Power
- Word 2 the Father
- Jesus is Just Alright (Reprise)
- The Hardway (Revisited)
- A Look Back...At Last
Amazon.com
Free at Last celebrates the first 10 years in the careers of three young men from Liberty University who turned artistic revolution into stylistic revelation, forever changing contemporary Christian music. With concert footage interspliced with band interviews and candid backstage dramas, the DVD documents a group on the brink of massive success as it tours America on the power of a Grammy Award-winning release. Some clips are starkly revealing, such as Kevin "Max" Smith's poignant discussion about being adopted or Toby McKeehan and Michael Tait soberly touring civil rights historical sites in Montgomery, Alabama. The concert footage itself aptly captures the trio's energy and vocal prowess. Of course, it all boils down to the music, and one listen to Free At Last's CD demonstrates how well this gem holds up. With Toby Mac's hip-hop sensibilities and the lush, harmonious voices of Tait and Smith, dc Talk combined seldom-mixed styles and unapologetic Christian lyrics into a voice for a new generation. With hits like "Luv Is a Verb" and "Socially Acceptable," the band showed a conservative industry that it could take chances and still win. Even remakes of classic tracks like Bill Withers's "Lean on Me" and the Doobie Brothers' "Jesus Is Just Alright" sounded fresh and urgent with the group's sonic diversity. In the 1970s it was Phil Keaggy and Larry Norman. In the 1980s it was Amy Grant. The decade of the '90s had dc Talk to thank for transforming the face of Christian music. --Michael Lyttle
Customer Reviews:
ONLY GREAT.......2004-12-20
THIS IS A GREAT SPECIAL EDITION YOU GET THE 10 YEAR ANNIVERSERY EDITION OF THEIR THIRD STUDIO RECORD FREE AT LAST AND YOU GET THE NEVER BEFORE RELEASED MOVIE WHEN I WAS WATCHING IT I THOUGHT IT'S HARD TO BELIEVE IT WAS NEVER RELEASED.YOU ALSO GET THE VIDEOS TO THE HARDWAY AND JESUS IS JUST ALRIGHT. ON THE CD YOU GET SOME AUDIO COMMENTARY TRACKS AND A NEWLY RECORDED VERSION OF THE HARDWAY WHICH IS MORE UP BEAT I HIGHLY ADVISE YOU TO BUY THIS
I was there at the very beginning.......2003-08-18
I remember back in 1993 me and my younger brother would spend time after school at the Christian Family Center where my dad worked at. DC Talk came back to my town because there manager is from here and so the band always starts a new tour at the CFC. The band came and rehearsed here and met me and my brother hanging around. They were the best guys you could concive of. They hung out with us, ate lunch with us and even let us watch rehearsals and come back stage afterwards. I should mention that my brother has special needs and a learning disability. This contributed even more to how floored I was when Kevin Max Smith himself gave my whole family 4 of his personal tickets to the very first Free At Last concert ever,for free.I was only 9 and my brother 7. It was the best, most all time uplifting concert of my life and made me a fan forever.Before the show they played the music video for The Hardway which they shot at the prison in Jackson MI.(20 minutes from my house)I was in owe and bought my first CD that night at the concert. DC Talk Free At Last, the original and still best of them all truly.Boy i'd give anything to see The Hardway video again!
I was there at the very beginning.......2003-08-18
I remember back in 1993 me and my younger brother would spend time after school at the Christian Family Center where my dad worked at.DC Talk came back to my town because there manager is from here and so the band always starts a new tour at the CFC.The band came and rehearsed here and met me and my brother hanging around.They were the best guys you could concive of.They hung out with us, ate lunch with us and even let us watch rehearsals and come back stage afterwards.I should mention that my brother has special needs and a learning disability.This contributed even more to how floored I was when Kevin Max Smith himself gave my whole family 4 of his personal tickets to the very first Free At Last concert ever,for free.I was only 9 and my brother 7.It was the best, most all time uplifting concert of my life and made me a fan forever.Before the show they played the music video for The Hardway which they shot at the prison in Jackson MI.(20 minutes from my house)I was in owe and bought my first CD that night at the concert.DC Talk Free At Last, the original and still best of them all truly.Boy i'd give anything to see The Hardway video again!
Both rock!.......2003-01-02
I first heard dctalk's Consume Me on a friend's cd. I thought how different they sounded. But what got me into them was the song, Jesus Freak. I now have this, and Supernatural, & my brother has Intermission:Greatest Hits. So, naturally when I heard this came out, I HAD to get it. The music is terrific, w/ funny add ins. + the Movie is really good. I love seeing how Toby,Mike, and Kevin project their faith thru concerts and their every day lives. The only downside is that it occured to me that there is a whole other generation out thier who has been touched by dcTAlk. Since, I was a toddler during the FAL days, I'm glad this was released, so another generation could enjoy thier music.
-christianhorsegrl
P.S. The movie extras (deleted scenes etc.) are great too!
cd okay, movie is a gem.......2002-12-28
I remember when I first heard Free At Last back in 1993. Up till then, I had never really been into music, nothing really ever interested me. And then one day I heard "Jesus is still alright", and I was intrigued. Not only was Free At Last different musically from most everything I'd heard before (the combination of hip-hop and rock with pop sensibilities was, and is, to this day, rarely acheived as well as on F.A.L. And then I heard even better songs like Say The Words, Time Is, and The Hardway, and suddenly my love affair with music was in full bloom. The Free At Last Tour was even my first concert!
A decade later, I am myself a striving musician, and though my tastes in music are much different from the stylings of Free At Last today, I still find this record very listenable and relevant. When I first saw the dvd of Free At Last The Movie, I was taken back to that first concert...lost in the beauty of the sound of Say The Words played live...and memories of the emotion of that show came flooding back to me, reminding me why I love music so much.
This dvd also offers some revealing glimpses into the lives of the members of DC Talk. There were even a few of those "wow, I can't believe they didn't edit that out" glimpses into the guys flaws...But that was the point of this movie in the first place I believe. They wanted us to see past the stagelights, hear beyond the production, and see a side of a band that struggles to balance art, humility, and success. I won't go into any more detail. Just BUY THIS DVD.......it may be even more impressive than the original CD.
Music:
- Greatest Hits
- Hi and Mighty: The Story of Al Green (1969-1978) [Import]
- Hymns: A Portrait Of Christ
- I've Got a Testimony
- In His Presence
- In These Days
- James Cleveland and the Angelic Choir, Vol. 3: Peace Be Still [Live]
- Live: We Come Rejoicing
- Love Falls Down
- Meditations of the Heart Encore
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