The music to this movie is excellent, but I own the anniversary edition cd with all of the songs/music on one cd. More convenient than having all of the issues and reissues. And the anniv. ed. has all of the tracks in order so they play as it does in the movie. Wonderful.
September 30, 2008 |  | Dirty is an Understatement! |  |
I've been watching this film for 20 years, and one thing is for sure- it has the right title. There is nothing more tense and disturbing than the way everyone in the film tap-dances (sadly, not literally) around the issue of statutory rape. Patrick Swayze moves in or baby like a jungle cat in his tight dance belt, and she is hopeless to withstand his advances. Her father, Jerry Orbach (you know him as Lenny Briscoe from the Law and Order) can do nothing- he barely tries! For an entire summer, Patrick mounts baby through dance and underage sex, and no one does anything! To this day, I am still shocked that this film was ignored by the Academy. Still, it is important to remember that the real star of this tragic morality tale is the music. This isn't the soundtrack that most of you have in your collections, featuring the much lauded, but overrated Patrick Swayze stinkfest "She's like the wind". This version of the soundtrack features the ever sought after "I've had the time of my life" Instrumental by the John Morris Orchestra. Use it to reenact your own favorite scenes from the movie and make Jerry Orbach cry!
July 22, 2008| | | This completes the collection of this OST! | |
Now I finally have the second CD of this soundtrack! Even if I wasn't able to have the 2 cd album, this is more than enough. Anyway, the separate cds still contain the same number of songs. Nice to listen to it.
January 26, 2007 | | What I was waiting for . . . | |
I bought the first album expecting to hear all the great music and was very disappointed. When I then saw this one in the store, I was very excited because it had all the music that I was expecting to be on the first cd. I'm so glad they made this one too. I highly recommend buying this cd if you want to hear all of the great music from the movie.
February 18, 2005Unless you're from Brain(less)tree, Mass.you'll probably like most of the tunes on this package, the ones with real feeling. For one who was there when these songs were originally popular, I can tell you they evoke real memories of the time. They catch the early 60s' mindset. Forty years after "Cry to Me", Solomon Burke was still recording and making appearances. Why they left this song out on the initial album is beyond me. It played as Johnny and Baby first made love, a significant turn in the movie. "Some Kind of Wonderful" (not to be confused with a song by Grank Funk Railroad of the same name) was popular a couple of years before the movie's timeframe. "Wipeout" was a new song that summer, liked by all the teens. "Do you Love Me?" was a recent hit and upon its use in the movie inspired the aging Contours to go on tour again. If they had included "Hey, Baby" from 1962 (with Texas bluesman Delbert McClinton on the background blues harp)and the song apparently written for the movie and done by Bill Medley of the Righteous Brothers and Jennifer Warnes, the other songs could have been done away with. Don't let any negative review from an unhip, inhibited reviewer with a banned-in-Boston hangup influence you. This is one you'll want to have. Shortly after Baby and Johnny's summer, JFK was killed in Dallas, then came the Beatles and the end of an era.
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