Great edition, great soundtrack!

Guardians of the Galaxy "came up with a great soundtrack, and is for me one of the reasons why the film rocked so. Even better is that you can buy three versions of the music. Once the soundtrack (Awesome Mix Vol. 1 "), the score of Tyler Bates and halt once both. And this is the Deluxe Edition, which I highly recommend to any fan, mainly because of the score on Amazon.com "Unfortunately separately is not available here!

The soundtrack (Awesome Mix Vol 1 ".)

Unfortunately, the order is not chronologically the movie ... But that is the only thing I could criticize, otherwise the selection is just fantastic! Great classics like Spirit In The Sky "(the only song that unfortunately does not appear in the film), Hooked On A Feeling" I Want You Back, "Pina Colada" or Is not No Mountain High "make the CD really amazing but also the other tracks dig in, my personal favorite is Come And Get Your Love "by Redbone, this song has made the opening sequence with Peter, the dance travels over an unknown planet for me already unforgettable!
At 44 minutes, you get a decent length and even if not all songs in the film are represented here (and Is not No Mountain High "actually Awesome Mix Vol. 2" is one), so here it has just about the best thing there are heard.

The Score:

Tyler Bates is an untalented composer for many film music lovers. I liked his scores until now always, 300 "and especially Watchmen" have I really liked. For James Gunn's film Super "steered Bates then also again a decent score back and now he set Gunn's Guardians of the Galaxy", the Marvel hit of the year! How the score now proposes to CD after it has me really very confident in the film?

Quantitatively, you get a decent first term of almost 65 minutes.
As the soundtrack (. Awesome Mix Vol 1 ") is also the score unfortunately not quite chronologically the film, but that's normal at Bates In The Final Battle Begins." Heard for the first time the main theme of the Guardians: A strong hero piece that immediately stopped as earworm in your head at me, even after the movie! Speaks for itself, but it is really great, one of the best superhero themes long time. Even if it is played again and again, unfortunately, we hear it only ever briefly, I would have liked something desired a longer Suite or ... But the issue is as I said well varied, for example in To The Stars ", in which it very is melancholic played in a piano version. Also great is the triumphant version in The Kyln Escape "!
Then we have the beautiful Groot-motive, this very well come off in Groot Spores "and Groot Cocoon" course.

Otherwise, I regret to say that the rest comes somewhat weaker. Remote Control Composing as one would expect, many dark pieces, which are dominated by synthesizers. In the film, it worked quite well, only on CD then missing the whole a bit of bite ... Nevertheless, we have some great pieces, so that is not: The Collector "has a beautiful, mysterious sound, The Final Battle" and The Kyln Escape "have nice action moments, as well as The Pod Chase" and Sacrifice "will's it surprising tragic. One of the highlights of the score is for me Black Tears", in which the main theme fully flourish!
But it would have been possible, such as a similarly strong topic for Ronan. Ronan's Theme "as such is not really visible, the more mysterious it is that he just gets its own track.
Why no one actually composed more big, strong themes for villains? Why was Darth Vader probably as popular, which was not just the mask or the legendary breathing, for me John Williams' Imperial March "is largely responsible for it!

Conclusion: A term of a total of 109 minutes for a fair price. Guardians of the Galaxy "rocks both as a film, as well as on CD, more you do not say!