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![William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet: Music From The Motion Picture (1996 Version) [Enhanced CD]](http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000002U4X.01._SCMZZZZZZZ_.jpg)
 This has the forgotten songs from the first cd on it( The Pitch (Spectacular Spectacular), Like a virgin, meet me in the red room, the show must go on, and closing credits) as well as the original film versions of sparkling diamonds, come what may and remixes of nature boy, your song (instrumental), one day i'll fly away. It's a great cd for the obsessed fan, maybe not quite as good as the first. My only disappointment is that at the beginning of Sparkling Diamonds, the cd doesnt have her singing while shes on the trapeze (the french are glad to die for love, they delight in fighting duels...)
I was glad to see that they put some of the songs that they had I intended to buy this CD just for "Spectacular, Spectacular!" However, this album is missing a few songs that I enjoyed from If you loved the movie, as I hope you do, get this album! ~bgmdragon
Overall, this CD does merit 5 stars and I am quite happy to have it in my collection (thanks to the powers that be). Hmmm - now if Ewan McGregor would just get in the recording studio and...a gal can dream!
By holding back key songs such as "Like A Virgin", "The Pitch", and "Bolero" from the first album, the producers knew that they would hook Moulin Rouge fans into buying a second album. And for those few songs, the second album is probably worth buying. But its simply not worth the full price of the CD because the rest of the soundtrack is extremely unfulfilling. If they wanted to release a second album, they should have left the pop songs off of the first album, and released those songs on a second album. Of course, they knew that nobody would have bought it, and that's why I'm sure they didn't do it. And that's exactly what gets me mad. My solution: I bought both discs and made up my own soundtrack CD. I only wish that the producers of these soundtracks showed as much insight, and dare I say consideration for we Moulin Rouge fans. Before the release of this second album, I really loved the first. But now I love it less because I see how much better it could have been.
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This CD is a must for fans of Baz Luhrmann's film Moulin Rouge (of which I am obvoiusly one). Even though, I hesitated to give it 5 stars because of three (albeit minor) points. The first is the Tony Phillips remix of One Day I'll Fly Away. While the (previously released single) remix version of Come What May grew on me, I can't imagine this one doing the same. I like the version on the first soundtrack much better. The second point is track # 10 - Ascension/Nature Boy. The music is beautiful and I am very happy that it was included but all of the track lists I had seen prior to the release of the CD listed Ewan McGregor as the artist and I was so looking forward to it being a full version of the song Nature Boy performed by him. Oh well. My third and final negative would be that some of the tracks (mostly the ones noted as original film version) didn't sound quite a crisp and clean as all of the songs on the original (first) soundtrack.
It pains me to put 3 stars on anything from Moulin Rouge, but, as a consumer, I just can't help but feel somewhat "ripped-off" by the release of this album. Why? Well in my probably controversial opinion, this album gives us a handful of songs that should have been on the first album to begin with. But how would they have fit? Easy. Remove "Lady Marmalade", "Children of The Revolution", "Diamond Dogs", "Because We Can", "Rhythm of The Night", and "Compliante De La Butte" from the first album and insert most everything from this second album (except for the repetitive instrumentals and remixes which are clearly included as filler anyway). Then, and only then, will you have a true Moulin Rouge soundtrack - the one, by the way, which should have been released in the first place.
All in all, the first soundtrack was more worth the money. Most of this album is instrumental tracks or remixes of Your Song or I'll Fly Away. While the presentation of Like A Virgin, The Show Must Go On and Spectacular Spectacular is well done, they leave key elements out of other songs or just leave them out period. The aca pella intro to Diamonds Are A Girl's Best Friend is missing (how can you take that out!?), Gorechi (where Satine sings as she coughs), and other peices that made the songs so together are just gone. All in all, very disappointing. Surely Lurhman could have done a REAL soundtrack for a movie that has become a possible reemergence of musicals in cinema. Obviously not...either that or the money lenders are smelling money a bit further down the road...like at a 25th anniversary.
