Movie Magic
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[SOUNDTRACK] Various Artists - Soundtracks - 1999 |
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| Ahh, the sounds of love. Hearing the soundtrack to the romantic comedy Runaway Bride, you'll get plenty of them. The Dixie Chicks, Eric Clapton, Martina McBride, and Shawn Colvin all lend new tracks to this sometimes-rootsy, sometimes-pop compilation. U2's classic anthem "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For" starts things off, but Cupid quickly strikes with McBride's "I Love You," Clapton's intimate charmer "Blue Eyes Blue," and Marc Anthony's "You Sang to Me." Miles Davis's gorgeous "It Never Entered My Mind" is the one surprise cut, but the new tracks are the real highlight here. --Jason Verlinde |
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I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For - U2  |
[SOUNDTRACK] - Various Artists - Soundtracks - 1998
| Audio CD (October 6, 1998); Number of Discs: 1
How do you put together a soundtrack for a comedy about witches--'90s style? Well, if she's young and her name is Sabrina, you compile an album of relentless teen pop and R&B hits. But if your witches are a little more mature (and, perhaps, suburban), as in Practical Magic, you use a different formula. And the brew found here is actually a good mix: Faith Hill gets as much play (one track) as Nick Drake and Joni Mitchell. Mitchell's "A Case of You" is simply great, and Bran Van 3000's "Everywhere" fits the folk-pop mold nicely, as does upstart Michelle Lewis's "Nowhere and Everywhere." The guys are the oddities here: Elvis Presley's "Always on My Mind" and Harry Nilsson's "Coconut" give this disc some fun quirks. Michael Nyman's two scoring tracks are light fare, but at least they're kept at the end of the disc. --Jim Young |
[SOUNDTRACK] Various Artists - Soundtracks - Song Collections
| Audio CD (April 15, 1997)
16 tracks from great comedy! Features: Can We(SWV), Don't Wanna Be A Player (Joe), Baby, Baby, Baby, Baby, Baby...(R. Kelly), Fire & Desire (Johnny Gill and Coco), If You Stay (Backstreet Boys) and much more. |
[SOUNDTRACK] Various Artists - Soundtracks - 1997, Anne Dudley
| Audio CD (August 12, 1997); Number of Discs: 1
The soundtrack to the best movie ever made about strippers nods to the second-best, with a new version of Irene Cara's theme song from Flashdance, and to another famous cinematic striptease, with Tom Jones's cover of "You Can Leave Your Hat On." The bulk of the score, though, consists of songs that are more or less real-world stripper classics. It's hard to hear Hot Chocolate full blast and not bump and grind at least a little. Trivia note: Anne Dudley, who wrote the movie's incidental music (two pieces are included here), used to be in the Art of Noise. --Douglas Wolk |
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Blues Brothers, Dan Aykroyd, John Belushi
| Audio CD (August 29, 1995); Number of Discs: 1
Inspired by the lovable Saturday Night Live white-boy blues schtick of Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi, director John Landis seemingly threw every harebrained stunt he could imagine--and millions of dollars in production costs and wrecked autos--onto the screen. The resulting film could have been mistaken for a bad case of Hunter S. Thompson's D.T.'s, but Landis never shortchanged the music: Cab Calloway, James Brown, Aretha Franklin, and Ray Charles all get their moment in the spotlight. Miraculously, the chic-shabby Blues Brothers, anchored by the Stax rhythm section of Cropper and Dunn, hold their own against the legends, perhaps by the sheer joy and love they have for the music. --Jerry McCulley |
Georges Delerue, Bette Midler
| Audio CD (November 22, 1988)
Number of Discs: 1 Great Overall Collection Of Songs With Bette Midler. Includes Under The Boardwalk, Wind Beneath My Wings and The Glory Of Love. |
Tom Snow, Dean Pitchford, Various Artists - Soundtracks -
| Audio CD (January 1, 1987); Number of Discs: 1
There's a popular movie trivia game called Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon whose rough hypothesis is that the actor is somehow the center of the cinematic universe. One doesn't get very far into the game without encountering Footloose. The film that seems destined to become an 80's camp classic (repressed Midwestern youth bravely fighting for their right to dance) was also a notable trailblazer in the pop song soundtrack marketing scam, i.e. line up a bunch of contemporary hit makers and have them cut a batch of songs that might not be germaine to the film's plot but will sell oodles of units. But damned if Footloose isn't a classic slice--for better or worse--of mid-'80s, album-oriented rock. This kind of instant era-compilation must make the folks at K-Tel very nervous. --Jerry McCulley |
[SOUNDTRACK] Various Artists - Soundtracks - 1986
| Audio CD (July 7, 1987); Number of Discs: 1
That tune is used to such great effect in this terrific flick that you may just want to watch the video again. You can't go wrong with 10 feel-good classics. Stand By Me (the album, and indeed the film) is honourably above par. King aside, there's some Buddy Holly (the delicate Everyday), Jerry Lee Lewis (the brawling Great Balls Of Fire) and several likeable specimens of vintage urban pop, juvenile delinquent department: Get A Job, Yakety Yak, Come Go With Me and more. |
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