Editorial Product Review:Album Details:Vinyl styled digipak :Don't have the time (or the props) to watch the whole movie? Just put on the soundtrack--it's got all the best parts without the dialog in-between! Well, isn't that what an Original Soundtrack Recording like this is supposed to be? Back in the mid-70s when The Rocky Horror Picture Show was a midnight staple at countless movie theaters, Tim Curry wasn't yet 'Tim Curry' and Susan Sarandon wasn't yet 'Susan Sarandon' (hell, Barry Bostwick wasn't even 'Barry Bostwick'!). Listening to these science-fiction double-feature showtunes will take you back ...
Editorial Product Review: :While director Jeannot Szwarc's 1980 time-travel romance nearly drowned in a sea of its own bathos, the score of the Christopher Reeve/Jane Seymour vehicle has become something of a word-of-mouth classic. Chalk that status up to the great English composer John Barry, whose lushly romantic score has largely overshadowed the film it was written for. Note to Titanic fans: if you liked the score for that film, you may fall in love with (or to) this one as well. Ironically, much of the action of Somewhere in Time takes place in 1912, ...
Editorial Product Review: :The latest Tom Hanks-Meg Ryan movie directed by Nora Ephron (Sleepless in Seattle) about two coworkers who hate each other at work and unknowingly fall in love on the Internet features an extremely eclectic soundtrack that's less technologically advanced than its movie's premise. There's no gratuitous raving or computer-buzzing techno, just pensive singer/songwriters and oldies that tug at the heartstrings. Louie Armstrong weighs in with 'Dummy Song.' Jimmy Durante pops up for 'You Made Me Love You.' Randy Newman's song for Frank Sinatra, 'Lonely at the Top' (which Sinatra turned down), fits ...
Editorial Product Review: :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 ...
Editorial Product Review:Album Description:Out of print in the U.S.! Soundtrack to the 1992 Disney film, an homage to the classic movie musicals of the '40s and '50s. This film marked the directorial debut of choreographer Kenny Ortega who also directed Dirty Dancing and High School Musical and featured the music of composer Alan Menken (Beauty and the Beast, The Little Mermaid, Aladdin, Enchanted). 16 tracks. EMI Gold. :Arguably one of the oddest films to emerge from the modern Disney Entertainment empire, this scrappy 1992 live-action musical tells the tale of a turn-of-the-last-century labor uprising ...
Editorial Product Review: :Howard Shore's music for the massively successful first film chapter of Tolkien's Ring saga won him the Oscar® for Best Original Score, something of a surprise given the music's ambitious scale and determinedly dark overtones, factors that handily blurred the line between typical film fantasy music and accomplished concert work. Its sequel takes the same, often Wagnerian-scaled dramatic tack, following the film's story line into even more brooding and ominous dark corners. The previous film's Hobbit-inspired pastoralism is supplanted here by rich ethnic textures that expand the musical scope of Middle-earth and ...
Editorial Product Review: :At the time of its release, this was the watershed for soundtracks, selling a kazillion copies. It documents Whitney Houston's character in the Kevin Costner movie, which required Houston to play only herself (although one hopes she wouldn't end up with someone as smarmy as Costner). The album is as much a testament to the production of Babyface who, through the mid-1990s, actually was the mainstream of contemporary hit music. Houston's singing is much better than her acting, and almost every song enjoyed a long tenure at the top of all the ...
Editorial Product Review: :Following the success of the first volume, which debuted at #2 on the Billboard Top 200 and which held the #1 soundtrack chart position for several weeks, volume two contains even more music from the hit movie from artists such as Ciara, Mutya Buena, Craig David, Goldfrapp, Estelle with Cee-Lo, Ryan Shaw, Janet Jackson, Allison Moorer, Katie Herzig, Elijah Kelley, Bitter:Sweet, Champagne Flutes, and Owen Brady.
Editorial Product Review:Album Description:2008 soundtrack to the motion picture written and directed by: Guy Ritchie (Mr. Madonna). The highly-stylized gangster action flick stars Gerard Butler, Jeremy Piven, Thandie Newton, Gemma Arterton, Jamie Campbell Bower, Idris Elba, Mark Strong, Ludacris and Tom Wilkinson. The soundtrack features cuts from The Clash, War, The Subways, The Sonics, Flash & The Pan, Lou Reed, The Hives, Wanda Jackson and many others. Universal.
Editorial Product Review:Album Description:2008 soundtrack to the motion picture written and directed by: Guy Ritchie (Mr. Madonna). The highly-stylized gangster action flick stars Gerard Butler, Jeremy Piven, Thandie Newton, Gemma Arterton, Jamie Campbell Bower, Idris Elba, Mark Strong, Ludacris and Tom Wilkinson. The soundtrack features cuts from The Clash, War, The Subways, The Sonics, Flash & The Pan, Lou Reed, The Hives, Wanda Jackson and many others. Universal.
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