Track Listing

1. Opening Title
2. No Place Like London
3. The Worst Pies in London
4. Poor Thing
5. My Friends
6. Green Finch & Linnett Bird
7. Alms Alms
8. Johanna
9. Pirelli's Miracle Elixir
10. The Contest
11. Wait
12. Ladies and Their Sensitivities
13. Pretty Women
14. Epiphany
15. A Little Priest
16. Johanna
17. God, That's Good!
18. By the Sea
19. Not While I'm Around
20. Final Scene

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2123 in Music
• Released on: 2007-12-17
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Soundtrack
• Running time: 72 minutes

Amazon.co.uk Review
It was surely only a matter of time until Tim Burton turned his dark attentions to the 19th century tale of Sweeney Todd, the cutthroat barber whose tales of murder and most grisly commerce on the streets of London became the stuff of an award winning 1979 musical. Here, a cast including longtime Burton collaborators Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter--plus Alan Rickman, Timothy Spall and Sasha Baron-Cohen--breathe new life into Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler's musical tale with a special gothic relish for the simmering horror within. Depp's accomplished, haunted "No Place Like London" sets the scene for what's to come, the nation's capital introduced as a moral abyss ("There's a hole in the world like a great black pit/And the vermin of the world inhabit it"), while Bonham-Carter brings Cockney energy and a squirt of sauce to the "The Worst Pies in London". A neat comic turn, meanwhile, comes courtesy of Baron-Cohen, who plays the role of Italian barber Adolfo Pierelli--inventor of a fraudulent anti-balding lotion--with humorous gusto ("The Contest"). --Louis Pattison

Album Description
Sweeney Todd Soundtrack [SOUNDTRACK] a Tim Burton Film
Directed by TIM BURTON Music & Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
Screenplay by John Logan.
Based on the Musical by Stephen Sondheim & Hugh Wheeler
Book by Hugh Wheeler
Originally Staged by Harold Prince From an Adaptation by Christopher Bond.

Deluxe Edition complete soundtrack featuring 80 Page booklet and bound slip case.

Customer Reviews

The only horror movie i like! Amazing film
I hate horror films, its all blood gore and violence for no reason. But after seeing johnny depp licking rocks in pirates of the Caribbean. i think that he isnt as scarey as he could have been. But he still has a slight chill factor. Depp is an amazing actor and singer, i loved this film and could get the music from it out of my head after watching the film. They are the most catchiest songs on earth! I bought this soundtrack the second after seeing the film in an advanced screening. I was really shocked that people had rated this 1 out of 5! they obviously were too busy looking in the mirror or thinking about what they would look like in short shorts! I love musicals and i have just seen mama mia and i am going out to buy the soundtrack to that too tomorrow! Believe me, i know a good musical when i see one and this is my top fave film of all time!

10/10 for atmosphere
The soundtrack stands alone. I haven't seen the film. Especially good is "A Little Priest". Helena Bonham Carter is excellent. I agree with the reviewer who wrote "Tonight, Matthew, I'm going to be...." to describe Johnny Depp's voice especially on "No Place Like London". Some of it definitely has an Oliver Twist feel: Toby's "Pirelli's Miracle Elixir".

The booklet that accompanies the cd has many photos and hopefully I'll get to see the film this week as I don't want to wait for the DVD. Reading reviews by those who've already seen it, I think it will be much better first time round on the big screen.

addendum: Go and see the film, you wont be dissapointed. It's very London, very Dickensian with superb performances from Timothy Spall, Alan Rickman etc. 10/10 for atmosphere.

Wonderful film, brilliant soundtrack
I fell in love with the music the first time I saw the film so knew straight away that I just had to buy the soundtrack. It's just too good for words and an absolute bonus that the "deluxe" version of the CD comes with a beautifully illustrated book that includes all the lyrics to the songs. Wholeheartedly recommended to anyone who enjoyed the film.