''The Avengers (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)'' is the

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for the Marvel Studios film '' The Avengers'' composed and conducted by

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. It was released by Hollywood Records on May 1, 2012. A separate soundtrack and concept album, titled ''Avengers Assemble (Music from and Inspired by the Motion Picture)'', by various artists was also released on the same date.

''The Avengers (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)''

In November 2011, Marvel announced that

, who scored ''Captain America: The First Avenger'', would write and compose the score for ''The Avengers'' (making him the first composer to score more than one movie in the

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). Silvestri stated, "This is actually a very unique experience

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I’ve worked on films where there have been a number of stars and certainly worked on films where there have been characters of equal weight in terms of their level of importance and profile in the film, but this one is somewhat extreme in that regard because each of these characters has their own world and it's a very different situation. It's very challenging to look for a way to give everyone the weight and consideration they need, but at the same time the film is really about the coming together of these characters, which implies that there is this entity called the Avengers, which really has to be representative of all of them together." Silvestri recorded the score with the

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at Abbey Road Studios in London, England. ''Avengers'' director Joss Whedon described the score as "old school", saying "the score is very old-fashioned, which is why ilvestriwas letter perfect for this movie because he can give you the heightened emotion, the /nowiki>Hans_Zimmer.html" ;"title="Hans_Zimmer.html" ;"title="/nowiki>Hans Zimmer">/nowiki>Hans Zimmer">Hans_Zimmer.html" ;"title="/nowiki>Hans Zimmer">/nowiki>Hans Zimmer/nowiki> school of 'I’m just feeling a lot right now!' but he can also be extraordinarily cue and character specific, which I love." Silvestri reprises his themes from ''Captain America: The First Avenger'', and introduced new ones - including the theme for Black Widow, which is "a lonely, plucked theme with an Eastern European flavor to define this character". The score album was released on May 1, 2012.

Track listing

Simultaneously with the digital release, the album was physically released by Hollywood Records, Marvel Music, and Intrada Records. Several tracks on this release are longer than on the digital album and there is one additional track, "Interrogation".

''Avengers Assemble (Music from and Inspired by the Motion Picture)''

In March 2012, American

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announced through their official

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page that they had written a song to be included on the film's soundtrack, entitled "Live to Rise". The song was released on April 17, 2012, as a free digital download during its first week of availability in the

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. Additionally, Indian rock band Agnee released a music video for their single "Hello Andheron", which served as the theme song for the Indian release of the film. The following day, Marvel released the album's full track listing, which was released by Hollywood Records on May 1, 2012. A cover of AC/DC's song "

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", performed by

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, was originally to be included on the album, but was removed for unknown reasons.

Track listing

None of these songs, with the exception of "Live to Rise," are heard in the film.

Charts

References

External links

Music video of "Live to Rise"Music video of "Comeback"
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