Notes: European release with spanish and italian versions of "My Funny Friend an me" by Sting.
Spanish lyrics by Rosana Arbelo. Italian lyrics by Ermavilo.
Tracks: 1. Perfect World - Tom Jones
2. My Funny Friend and Me - Sting
3. Snuff Out the Light (Yzma's Song) - Eartha Kitt
4. Walk the Llama Llama - Rascal Flatts
5. Perfect World (Reprise) - Tom Jones
6. Run Llama Run (Score)
7. One Day She'll Love Me - Sting & Shawn Colvin
8. A New Hope (Score)
9. Beware the Groove (Score)
10. The Jungle Rescue (Score)
11. Pacha's Homecoming/The Blue Plate Special (Score)
12. The Great Battle/Friends Forever (Score)
13. Un amigo como tú (Spanish Version) - Sting
14. Un amico come te (Italian Version) - Sting
Posted 2007-12-06 10:42:17: Amazon.com: Disney's score-heavy soundtrack to the animated Emperor's New Groove blends a scoop of splashy and sentimental contemporary tunes with a shovelful of evocative, masterfully crafted compositions. Big-name artists such as Shawn Colvin, Eartha Kitt and Tom Jones each signed on to sing one of five Sting-penned songs, and Sting himself lends vocals to two tracks (one a duet with Colvin), so the stars are flying high. But fans of these folks may feel they are forever flipping through the wordless orchestral numbers in search of the record's radio-friendly fare. But buyers with more eclectic listening habits are in for a fully engaging if sometimes jumpy sonic ride: Composer John Debney sends pulses racing then mellows them out on tracks teeming with tension ("Beware the Groove"), trepidation ("The Jungle Rescue"), or tenderness ("A New Hope"), and Sting as songwriter doses up splashes of spice by way of the salsified "Perfect World", for which Jones's considerable vocal energies couldn't be better suited, and the prickly "Snuff Out the Lights", which is put across with practised insouciance by a pucker-faced, still-out-of-this-world-after-all-these-years Kitt, who also plays the movie's devious diva Yzma. "My Funny Friend and Me", Emperor's end-title song and the record's first single, presents a more familiar Sting, and not only because he is its singer. Soundwise, it hardly strays from the artist's huge-selling adult-skewed ballads--his bread and butter in recent years--and as such, it, along with the tender duet "One Day She'll Love Me", grips the potential to send this record racing up the charts. --Tammy La Gorce
