Shrek

1	Stay Home / Self 3:27
2	I'm a Believer / Smash Mouth 3:12
3	Like Wow! / Leslie Carter 3:34
4	It Is You (I Have Loved) / Dana Glover 3:58
5	Best Years of Our Lives / Baha Men 2:58
6	Bad Reputation / Halfcocked 2:21
7	My Beloved Monster / Eels 2:11
8	You Belong to Me / Jason Wade 2:41
9	All Star / Smash Mouth 3:20
10	Hallelujah / Rufus Wainwright 4:08
11	I'm on My Way / The Proclaimers 3:39
12	I'm a Believer (Reprise) / Eddie Murphy 1:12
13	True Love's First Kiss 3:09

Barnes & Noble

The soundtrack to the irreverent, computer-animated fairytale Shrek offers something for pop music lovers of all ages. Teeny-boppers will undoubtedly enjoy the chugging beats and scratches of the frothy "Like Wow!" from Leslie Carter (sister of Backstreeter Nick and baby bro Aaron), while Gen-Xers with a penchant for punk can mosh their way through Halfcocked's cover of Joan Jett's "Bad Reputation." Meanwhile, Mom and Dad will swoon to Rufus Wainwright's delicate, piano-laden cover of Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah" and Lifehouse singer Jason Wade's equally moving rendering of the standard "You Belong to Me." Other tracks sure to please the kid in all of us include the Baha Men's snappy, reggae-tinged party anthem "Best Years of Our Lives" and Smash Mouth's punk-lite cover of the Monkees' hit "I'm a Believer." For the lover in you, Dana Glover's sweeping romantic number, "It Is You (I Have Loved)," suggests Celine Dion's monster ballad "My Heart Will Go On." And comic relief comes from Eddie Murphy, who provides the voice for the character Donkey in the film and contributes a punchy reprise of "I'm a Believer" to the soundtrack. Like the film it accompanies, Shrek is sure to be a crowd-pleaser. Dave Gil de Rubio

All Music Guide

If you scanned the back cover of the soundtrack to Shrek, without seeing the film first, it's hard not to think that this is an album that's designed to be a crossover success, containing very few songs that are in the film. You'd be wrong. Almost all of the 12 songs on this soundtrack (there's a 13th track, an excerpt of Harry Gregson-Williams and John Powell's original score) are not only in the movie, but they feature prominently in the film -- which just goes to show that Shrek doesn't play by the rules of animated features, just like DreamWorks told us in the publicity drive. What that means, though, is that it plays by the soundtrack rules of most mainstream comedies, down to the use of the omnipresent Smash Mouth not once, but twice. The record does take a couple of detours from the conventional though, no doubt thanks to DreamWorks' desire to keep their hip NPR audience and to promote their own artists as well. So, when it does deviate from the norm, it's for the eels' "My Beloved Monster" (from the 1996 DreamWorks release Beautiful Freak) and for Rufus Wainwright's cover of Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah" (not heard in the film, where it was sung by John Cale, but Wainwright is part of the DreamWorks family and he has an album coming out a few weeks after the release of Shrek), along with a cover of Joan Jett's "Bad Reputation" by Halfcocked (again, not in the film, where the original was used) and the Proclaimers' 1988 chestnut "I'm on My Way." Though these detours are a little questionable, they are enjoyable, but they still don't alter the character of a record that's essentially just a soundtrack, without much of the personality of the film it's attached to. It's not bad, but it's not great, either. Stephen Thomas Erlewine