Battle for Everything [Extra tracks] [Import]

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Asian Version featuring a Bonus Track: "Something About You (Studio Version)".

Tracks:

NYC Weather Report
The Devil in the Wishing Well
If God Made You
100 Years
Angels & Girlfriends
Dying
Infidel
Disneyland
Maybe I
The Taste
One More For Love
Nobody

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Math wiz and multi-instrumentalist John Ondrasik's third album under his rather misleading Five For Fighting rubric shows that he's lost little of the cranky ire that he unleashed on American Town, but this time his targets are a little closer to home. He skews faithless friends and bad habits on the tetchy opening track "NYC Weather report," oddly borrowing from both Guns N' Rose's "Paradise City," and Barbara Streisand's "People" to hammer his ornery point home, before training his sights on the human life span, fleeting relationships, and even Disneyland. But it isn't until "Girlfriends and Angels," that he shows his real brilliance, imagination and grit; Ondrasik finds the exact place where the Beach Boys intersects with the Velvet Underground and plants himself in that spot, spewing out his own hard won romantic philosophies, proving once again that the hunter does indeed get captured by the game. More ribald, sonically inventive, and lyrically edgy, The Battle For Everything, shows that Ondrasik's combative days may be behind him. --Jaan Uhelszki

Customer Reviews:

The Battle for Everything Five for Fighting.......2007-03-18

Excellent. Sounds are good. The best cd he made. Worth the money.

Very good! John is amazing!.......2007-03-09

Enjoyable to watch John grow in his work and passions...........

trying to believe.......2007-03-05

Five for Fighting's John Ondrasik seems finally to have got over himself and down to the business of singing about life. The result is a splended CD called, enigmatically, 'The Battle for Everything.' It promises to endure as a mile marker in his career, to say nothing of the annals of good listening.

The album's opener, 'NYC Weather Report', fairly lilts. Ondrasik's irony seems less bent on anger venting than on description of life as a stranger, one passing through with wistful memories of places and relationships that failed but somehow cast their expectation forward into destinations that await the end of this moment in the journey. Back, yet somehow forward, to New York City.

The man can also sing a mean love song. Shades of Sting's lyricism haunt 'If God Made You':

'Hey Kid .. Your time has come to change
Though I need you more than I've needed anyone in any way tonight
Hey Kid ... I know it won't be long
The Captain's calling .. come to see you back where we belong
Something inside me is breaking
Something inside says there's somewhere better than this ...
Sunset sailing on April skies
Bloodshot fire coulds in her eyes
I can't say what I might believe
But if God made you he's in love with me'

Ondrasik places the chord transition exactly where it releases the listener's attentive energy. The man can score a song.

Then comes the high-air-play '100 Years', a wistful survey of live's brevity that conjures up Cat Stevens, John Mellencamp, and Billy Joel. Ondrasik stands up just fine in such company. It's a tune made for hearing over and over again, then once more.

'Dying' underscores Ondrasik's thickening credentials as a baladeer of lost love, though hardly with the campiness that such a description might suggest. It sounds real, not postured. Ondrasik has been criticized, of course, for the latter. This album should in part quiet that angle of criticism.

In my judgment, the balance of anger with deeper and more varied sentiments, together with Ondrasik's growth as a writer, make THE BATTLE FOR EVERYTHING his first five-star offering. One feels confident it will not be his last.

Five for Fighting-The Battle for Everything.......2007-02-25

I love this CD! I am 55 yrs old and have heard a lot of music; but I can safety say this music is in my top 5.

A Winner!.......2006-12-08

I've listened to this CD for over 2 years now and it still never fails to move me with the thought-provoking lyrics, passionate music and wonderful production. Also, the DVD version is awesome! This is a timeless CD and well worth the money.

Average customer rating:

Highly recommended

Ultimate Movie Album

Manufacturer: Polygram Int'l
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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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
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Dances With Wolves: John Dunbar Theme - John Mauceri
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Gladiator: The Battle (Excerpt) - Gavin Greenaway
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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.

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Beautiful!
Yuck!!
The BEST!

The Battle For Everything
Five for Fighting
Manufacturer: Sony
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Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00076ZZ8Y
Release Date: 2005-02-08

Tracks:

NYC Weather Report
The Devil in the Wishing Well
If God Made You
100 Years
Angels & Girlfriends
Dying
Infidel
Disneyland
Maybe I
The Taste
One More For Love
Nobody

Album Description

CD AUDIO SIDE: Entire Album

DVD SIDE: * Entire album in 5.1 Surround Sound and enhanced LPCM Stereo * Exclusive documentary with never-before-seen "in the studio" footage * "100 Years" video and making-of video * Acoustic performances * Discography This disc is intended to play on standard DVD and CD players. May not play on a limited number of models.

Customer Reviews:

Beautiful!.......2006-05-27

This is one of the most relaxing and uplifting albums I own. If you are a piano player, I also suggest getting the book with sheet music. I might play "100 Years" for high school graduation.

Yuck!!.......2006-04-27