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List Price: $18.98 | | Label: Abkco
Salesrank: 6682
Released: September 25, 2007 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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The Darjeeling Limited Track Listing:
1. Where Do You Go To (My Lovely) - Peter Sarstedt
2. Jalshagar [Title Music] - Vilayat Khan
3. This Time Tomorrow - The Kinks
4. Teen Kanya [Title Music] - Satyajit Ray
5. Householder [Title Music] - Ali Akbar Khan, Jyotitindra Moitra
6. Ruku Room [From Joi Baba Felunath] - Satyajit Ray
7. Charu's Theme [From Charulata] - Satyajit Ray
8. Bombay Talkie [Title Music] - Shankar Jaikishan, , Shankar, Shankar-Jaikishan
9. Montage [From Baksa Badal] - Satyajit Ray
10. Prayer - Jodphur Sikh Temple Congregation
11. Farewell to Earnest [From the Householder] - Ali Akbar Khan, Jyotitindra Moitra
12. Deserted Ballroom [From Shakespeare Wallah] - Satyajit Ray
13. Suite Bergamasque: 3. "Clair de Lune" - Alexis Weissenberg
14. Typewriter Tip, Tip Tip [From Bombay Talkie] - Shankar Jaikishan, , Shankar, Shankar-Jaikishan
15. Memorial - Narlai Village Troubador
16. Strangers - The Kinks
17. Praise Him - Udaipur Convent School Nuns And Students
18. Symphony No. 7 in A (Op 92): Allegro con Brio - Chicago Symphony Orchestra, , Fritz Reiner, Fritz Reiner
19. Play with Fire - The Rolling Stones
20. Arrival in Benaras [From the Guru] - Vilayat Khan
21. Powerman - The Kinks
22. Champs-Élysées - Joe Dassin
Editorial Review:
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
The Darjeeling Limited Reviews:
Beautiful work:) 
2009-11-17 - I've always been fascinated by Indian culture, so I thought I would give The Darjeeling Limited a try. It doesn't hurt that The Royal Tenenbaums, one of Wes Anderson's many films, is my favorite movie of all time. Watched on a rainy afternoon in January, I fell in love with the storyline, the quirky characters, the beautiful scenery...and most of all, the captivating soundtrack!
I've never been especially fond of the Kinks and the Rolling Stones, but the songs featured by them certainly changed my mind! The more traditional instruments not only add depth to the film, but are just amazing to listen to while reading or working on homework. I'm a big alternative/indie/folk music lover, and this soundtrack fit in nicely among my old favorites!
I've never been a big fan on movie soundtracks, but this one is definitely worth the purchase:)
This film is crazy good!
2009-08-02 - You watch it once and want to see it again immediately...did I get that right? Must see it again to make sure.
It's music 
2009-05-09 - It's a soundtrack to a charming film which you need to have seen. Dance around to the last track.
Owen Wilson!
2009-01-27 - This movie is great because it is a great dynamic between 3 brothers who are bad at keeping secrets. Also, Owen Wilson is great! Plus, its a great way to see India without actually going there. It has an optional opening movie (short) with Natalie Portman, which is cool! Also, have the soundtrack! Have a Good ONE!
Evocatively Wes Anderson (...That's a Good Thing!)
2008-12-26 - Please don't balk at the ringing cliché-o-meters when I call this soundtrack "evocative" since Wes Anderson's soundtracks are always appropriate to the settings and themes on display. Beautiful and emotional, the eclectic mix seems to intentionally involve music of a bygone era in settings that suggest no time has passed, when indeed much has. This sense is very real in India, and the tale of three neurotic, self-involved materialists gaining a vague sense of this along with a need to take corrective action through self-awareness makes this soundtrack appropriate to both story and setting.
For this reason, I think we can forgive the fact that this is less an original soundtrack than an original collection for a theme. Also for this reason, you may wish to see the film first to see if you gain any meaningful associations with individual tracks before committing to a download. I submit that you likely WILL find at least some connections (yes, a movie plug.)
It is, unsurprisingly, heavily weighted towards Indian music, particularly the poppy, Bollywood variety. This can drag on one's desire to replay the soundtrack in its entirety since not all of these tracks are easily connected in one's memory to a scene in the film. Notable exceptions are "Title...from...Jalshagar" as the soundtrack to Bill Murray's quirky "chase" cameo in the opening scene, and "Praise Him" which evokes mix of familiarity and now-foreign disconnects the characters experience upon finding their mother in a remote Indian orphanage.
