300 (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

Film composers, often working on tight dealines, frequently resort to being "inspired" by the works of others. Many a film composer has written a piece which mimics Holst's "Mars" from "The Planets" without being an outright copy. When scoring "300" Tyler Bates wasn't "inspired", instead, he resorted to lifting entire passages from the work of others - most notably Elliot Goldenthal's score for the film "Titus". These selections were not, as one reviewer suggests, licensed at the time of production. Tyler Bates submitted his score for "300" as an original work. It was only after the release of "300" and its soundtrack that listeners recognized the Goldenthal compositions. It was only then that Goldenthal received the credit (and monetary compensation) he is due and Bates was exposed as a plagiarist. Instead of downloading the score to "300" I suggest you download the score to "Titus", Vangelis' score from "Troy", Hans Zimmer's score from "Black Hawk Down" or any of the other scores Bates plagiarized. Don't support plagiarism - don't download this album.

I only like one of them and that is fever dream yah I don't like the other ones

. . .that is, if worthless trash like the score for 300 continues to earn praise as a true original soundtrack. Catch the sarcasm? That's only becuase the music for 300 deserves nothing more than all-out ridicule and sarcasm. Where to begin? Maybe with the fact that approximately twenty to thirty minutes of this album is actually worthy of a listen by a film score fan. If you're a hard rock enthusiast, then you are encouraged to endorse Tyler Bates by purchasing anger-inducing tracks like "The Hot Gates" and "Fever Dream" which, when looked at from the level of a film score, is nothing more than hard rock garbage. If you're a hard rock/metal enthusiast, then you might actually enjoy these portions of the "score", but for film score fans, the approximately twenty to thirty minutes of calmer, instrumential material is what you'll want to concentrate on (at least, twenty to thirty minutes is what it seemed like when watching the movie itself, an all-out collection of rubbish). Throughout this score, Bates ressurects electric guitars and pounding rock drums to give the idea that the movie it accompanies is set in the common era, and these moments contain the type of music that should send your cat skittering out of the room with an offended air about it. Despite the fact that the hard rock portions of the score are easily the more unlistenable portions of the score, anyone who has heard the scores to a recent epic film (most notably Elliot Goldenthal's "Titus", Hans Zimmer and Lisa Gerrard's "Gladiator", and Gabriel Yared's gorgeous rejected score for Troy) will find plenty of material to be thoroughly outraged at. iTunes fortunately had the respect to observe the fact that in the second, fourth, fourteenth, fifteenth, twenty-first, and twenty-fifth tracks, Bates literally copies Elliot Goldenthal's Titus note for note. On top of that, there are numerous references to a shocking number of other epic-historical film scores. There are flashes of Hans Zimmer and Lisa Gerrard's dynamic score for Gladiator and the outstanding rejected score for Troy by Gabriel Yared. I could continue all day about the numerous similarities that occur between these scores, and the fact that this is a score that seems to thrive on plagiarism and hard rock rubbish, but I would only be repeating myself, just in different examples. So let me at least warn you: approach 300 with extreme caution. Listen to the samples, listen to Gladiator, Titus, and, if you ever can, Gabriel Yared rejected Troy score, then decide if this is something that you want to waste your money on. If I could give 300 zero stars, I would do so in an instant.

The movie is brutal and amzing but part of the brutality and epicness is due to the music. Message to the Queen always makes me teary eyed.

Extremely well fitted soundtrack for one of the greatest action movies EVAR!!! Who cares if Tyler derived a song from Titus, good taste prevailed.

I love this movie! One of the best action films around with a beautiful and gritty visual art style and flair. How can you not like Michael Fassbender and Gerard Butler?!

SPARTA!

This album has a wide range of music styles from fast paced battle numbers to slow yet haunting vocal peices which allows each song on its own to captivate you. The range from the erie vocals to intense guitar give lasting entertainment. Hope you enjoy the album as much i do!

To Victory(Philip Steir's Sacrifice for Sparta Remix) You need a Price Tag on this song from the soundtrack of 300 you canot sell one song that you halfto buy the hole album inorder to get one master peace the peopl shold not halfto Pay or get songs they dont whant from you.=)

The movie was cool and the music.