'Fifty Shades of Grey' Soundtrack Tracklist Released: Features the Rolling Stones,

Fifty Shades of Grey is a love story. According to star Jamie Dornan, at least. So when the official soundtrack tracklist for the forthcoming movie — in theaters Feb. 13 — was released Friday, there was a clear theme of love across the song titles. Albeit, with a little freakiness thrown in.

"The love story is more important than the BDSM aspect," Dornan recently said. "I mean, we are going to tell a love story, you know, it can't just be what happens in the Red Room, that's not a film. There's so much more going on than that."


The much-talked about 2011 book by E.L. James is notably erotic, with the plot centering on a BDSM (sexual dominance and submission, roleplaying, etc.) relationship between main characters Christian Grey and Anastasia Steele.


The most recent single from the soundtrack is Ellie Goulding's "Love Me Like You Do," which Music Times noted was "romantic" more than anything else.


"Shying away from some of the freakier elements of Fifty Shades of Grey, it's all about the uncontrollable feeling of falling in love and being with the right person," Carolyn Menyes wrote.


As you can see below (via NME), there are similar cuts to Goulding's that focus on the magic of love, but also a selection of tunes with a twist to them, so to speak


01. I Put A Spell On You - Annie Lennox
02. Undiscovered - Laura Welsh
03. Earned It - The Weeknd
04. Meet Me In The Middle - Jessie Ware
05. Love Me Like You Do - Ellie Goulding
06. Haunted (Michael Diamond Remix) - Beyoncé
07. Salted Wound - Beyoncé
08. Beast of Burden - The Rolling Stones
09. I'm On Fire - AWOLNATION
10. Crazy In Love (2014 Remix) - Beyoncé
11. Witchcraft - Frank Sinatra
12. One Last Night - Vaults
13. Where You Belong - The Weeknd
14. I Know You - Skylar Grey
15. Anna And Christian - Danny Elfman
16. Did That Hurt? - Danny Elfman

It seems Tie You Up (Pain of Love) or Keith's Struggle would have made sense to include.

Some Guy wrote on Jan 11^th, 2015 at 9:12am:


SG..I will take your word as I don't have the time to review your 10,000 posts for the evidence!

Hmm, this still will not have me running to the cinema...

As Sgt. Schultz used to say: "I know nothing, I see nothing..."

Alda's great. Bob Crane was...peculiar?
'MASH' was great, 'Hogan's Heroes' was a fave as a wee chap, now I see it and cringe: oh those hilarious, bumbling Nazis!
The 91 year old guy sleeping upstairs I help take care of had to fight those motherfuckers in close infantry fighting in WWII. Grenade shrapnel to the head, later blown up by a mortar round that killed his First Sergeant and brand new radio-man who's name he didn't even know, stomach and hand wounds (2nd Lieutenant rifle platoon leader, ya know).

Sorry, I digress...

Howe interesting is THIS:

The actors who played the four major German roles—Werner Klemperer (Klink),[60] John Banner (Schultz), Leon Askin (Burkhalter), and Howard Caine (Hochstetter)—were Jewish. Furthermore, Klemperer, Banner, Askin, and Robert Clary (LeBeau) were Jews who had fled the Nazis during World War II. Clary says in the recorded commentary on the DVD version of episode "Art for Hogan's Sake" that he spent three years in a concentration camp, that his parents and other family members were killed there, and that he has an identity tattoo from the camp on his arm ("A-5714"). Likewise John Banner had been held in a (pre-war) concentration camp and his family was killed during the war. Leon Askin was also in a pre-war French internment camp and his parents were killed at Treblinka. Howard Caine (Hochstetter), who was also Jewish (his birth name was Cohen), was American, and Jewish actors Harold Gould and Harold J. Stone played German generals; Jon Cedar played a camp guard.

As a teenager, Werner Klemperer (Klink) (son of the conductor Otto Klemperer) fled Hitler's Germany with his family in 1933. During the show's production, he insisted that Hogan always win over his Nazi captors or else he would not take the part of Klink. He defended his playing a Luftwaffe Officer by claiming, "I am an actor. If I can play Richard III, I can play a Nazi." Banner attempted to sum up the paradox of his role by saying, "Who can play Nazis better than us Jews?" Ironically, although Klemperer, Banner, Caine, Gould, and Askin play stereotypical World War II Germans, all had actually served in the U.S. Armed Forces during World War II — Banner[61] and Askin in the U.S. Army Air Corps, Caine in the U.S. Navy, Gould with the U.S. Army, and Klemperer in a U.S. Army Entertainment Unit.

SheRat wrote on Jan 24^th, 2015 at 3:37am:

Not surprising, really. The horrors of the Holocaust were still pretty fresh in the mid-'60s, more so in Europe than the US obviously, but for Jews who'd escaped or experienced it, the only thing to be done, I imagine, was to mock and ridicule the Nazi regime. See how enraged groups like ISIS/ISIL become when any sign of humor or mockery is pointed at them or their death-absorbed, nihilistic ideology. (btw - call them Daesh. They really hate it.)

Oh I know, and I agree re: what the fuck the producers thinking? Big-upping the Allies and our ingenuity and cleverness, I'd guess. The beginings of "American Exceptionalism", courtesy of Hollywood.

Fact is, most American units were notoriously reluctant to 'close with the enemy' ( Von Clauswitz's famous "hallmark of good infantry" dictum). We relied on massive logistics and material, air power, and a nearly inexaustable supply of warm bodies, something the other Allied armies, and certainly the Axis powers, could not afford. Sorry dad.

Definitely true re: country vs. city kids, and nutrition was a big factor.

For example, by the end of the first World War, the British Army was scraping the bottom of the barrel, allowing guys from the slums of Glasgow, Manchester, south London, Birmingham, etc. who would have been rejected four years earlier.

As regards post-WII: ever wonder why so many Brit rock n' roll cats of a certain era are so tiny? Rationing. Straight up
malnutrition.

Didn't know there were any other MN dudes here besides Starbuck. Is he obsessed with military history? Didn't think I was. Just fairly catholic interests I reckon.
I have been accused of being obsessed with music though. Some truth in that.

Spanks but no thanks..50 Shades of Boredom.