Best Soundtrack ever...

[horrie hastings]

Irene Cara had quite the run there.

I have owned both Grease and Saturday Night Fever soundtracks forever....lol. I still have cocktail a little in front due to the diversity of songs. Saturday Night fever was basically a Bee Gees album.

I remember when the Grease soundtrack came out, being a double album it was so expensive at the time but i still bought it.
I bought Xanadu sight unseen, the soundtrack album was released before the movie, i walked into a record shop, the Odeon at Maroubra Junction and it was on display and i saw Olivia and ELO as the main artists so i bought it straight away without hearing any of the songs, the guy behind the counter said it was a cracker.

 

[Wizardman]

I remember when the Grease soundtrack came out, being a double album it was so expensive at the time but i still bought it.
I bought Xanadu sight unseen, the soundtrack album was released before the movie, i walked into a record shop, the Odeon at Maroubra Junction and it was on display and i saw Olivia and ELO as the main artists so i bought it straight away without hearing any of the songs, the guy behind the counter said it was a cracker.

Fun fact, I have never seen the movie (Xanadu) to this day....yet love the music that is on it. I bought the 4k disc off Amazon in the Black Friday sales a few days ago. That is like me seeing Cocktail 2-3 years ago while I heard the soundtrack all the way back to 1987.

 

[Det.Wojciehowicz]

I do remember when Xanadu came out it was absolutely savaged by the film critics. I went and saw it and really enjoyed it.

 

[horrie hastings]

Fun fact, I have never seen the movie (Xanadu) to this day....yet love the music that is on it. I bought the 4k disc off Amazon in the Black Friday sales a few days ago. That is like me seeing Cocktail 2-3 years ago while I heard the soundtrack all the way back to 1987.

Don't expect a masterpiece but you will enjoy it for the music alone, the merging of the 40 s and 80 s sequence in Dancin is very well done and i love Michael Beck roller skating down Venice Beach with The Fall playing.
It's an hour and half of fun, nonsense lots of colour, some cringe worthy moments and some great musical sequences, grab the popcorn and sit back and enjoy.

 

[horrie hastings]

I do remember when Xanadu came out it was absolutely savaged by the film critics. I went and saw it and really enjoyed it.

It did really get savaged but i loved it when i saw it at the theatre, took my younger sister to a screening of it and she started singing along to the songs , luckily there weren't many in the theatre at the time. I saw it three times at the cinema.

Loved the story about with the success of Grease Allan Carr wanted Olivia to star in Can't stop The Music and Olivia said no as she had signed onto Xanadu, Allan Carr got the shi*ts with Olivia and didn't talk to her for years. Olivia looked at the script for Can't Stop The Music and thought WTF ? so stayed loyal to Xanadu even though she said the script for Xanadu kept on getting changed and re written on the run.

Can't Stop The Music and Xanadu are the reason the Golden Raspberries came into being, both were bagged and crucified by the critics so they invented the Razzies for the worst movies , luckily Can't Stop The Music won the gong for it the first year.

 

[The Mad Hatter]

Top Gun
Cocktail
The Crow
The Wedding Singer
Go
Magnolia
Pretty Woman

 

[horrie hastings]

Two of my favourite songs from movies soundtracks.

 

[Ride the Lion to Zion]

Most soundtracks with actual songs by bands are mediocre. Get the soundtracks for 2001:A Space Odyssey or Suspiria for good examples

The unexotically-named Goblin are practitioners in the art of Rock Progressivo Italiano. Got a few of their film soundtracks on CD - Suspiria, Zombi (Dawn of the Dead), and Buio Omega. Part of Suspiria has more than a hint of Tubular Bells.

My favourite soundtrack album is Superfly by Curtis Mayfield.

 

[Det.Wojciehowicz]

Yeah, I've got some of the Goblin soundtracks too. Really love Zombi. Oh, and good call on Superfly.

 

[horrie hastings]

Irene Cara had quite the run there.

Fame and Flashdance were her two biggies.

 

[Det.Wojciehowicz]

My favourite Irene Cara song from a film is definitely The Dream from DC Cab (I freakin love that movie)

 

[horrie hastings]

A guilty pleasure is the soundtrack from Electric Dreams, besides the fabulous Together in Electric Dreams by Phil Oakey there are great tracks from Culture Club and Jeff Lynne.

 

[Det.Wojciehowicz]

Yep, Electric Dreams is a great song

 

[horrie hastings]

My favourite Irene Cara song from a film is definitely The Dream from DC Cab (I freakin love that movie)

I was going to post DC Cab also as one of her biggies.

My favourite Irene Cara song isn't off a movie. Why Me ?

 

[horrie hastings]

They tried to repeat the dream teaming of Olivia Newton John and John Travolta after the runaway success of Grease but it ended in a bomb of a movie called Two Of A Kind. Luckily it had a really decent sound track.





Two ripper songs off it

 

[Det.Wojciehowicz]

Twist Of Fate would have to be my fave. ONJ song.

 

[horrie hastings]

Twist Of Fate would have to be my fave. ONJ song.

Defiantly my second favourite after A Little More Love.

 

[horrie hastings]

One of John Williams lesser known themes but his opening theme to The Poseidon Adventure captures the darkness, gloom and doom which sets the mood for what is about to happen.

 

[horrie hastings]

Irene Cara had quite the run there.

I have owned both Grease and Saturday Night Fever soundtracks forever....lol. I still have cocktail a little in front due to the diversity of songs. Saturday Night fever was basically a Bee Gees album.

Still with The Saturday Night Fever soundtrack besides being a brilliant vehicle for The Bee Gees, you had the beautiful Yvonne Elliman song If I Can't Have You, The Trammps Disco Inferno, A Fifth Of Beethoven by Walter Murphy, KC and the Sunshine Band with Boogie Shoes and The Tavares also covering the Bee Gees More Than A Woman. I also still enjoy the now retro 70 s feeling of David Shire's Manhattan Skyline.
True though, the Bee Gees scored six big hits off the album alone.

 

[Ride the Lion to Zion]

Still with The Saturday Night Fever soundtrack besides being a brilliant vehicle for The Bee Gees, you had the beautiful Yvonne Elliman song If I Can't Have You, The Trammps Disco Inferno, A Fifth Of Beethoven by Walter Murphy, KC and the Sunshine Band with Boogie Shoes and The Tavares also covering the Bee Gees More Than A Woman. I also still enjoy the now retro 70 s feeling of David Shire's Manhattan Skyline.
True though, the Bee Gees scored six big hits off the album alone.

And Open Sesame by Kool & the Gang.

Rating of the Bee Gees tracks -

6) More Than a Woman
5) Jive Talkin
4) How Deep Is Your Love
3) Night Fever
2) Stayin Alive
1) You Should Be Dancing

All six are marvellous in many and varied ways but You Should Be Dancing is the transcendent dancefloor killer. I reckon Children of the World is their best album. Yvonne Elliman had her first big UK hit with a version of Love Me.

Couple of loosely-related nuggets -

The synth soundscape Summer Madness by Kool & the Gang plays as background music in Rocky.

Fatback Band are my favourite 70s Funk artists. Their 1976 album was called Night Fever. An infectious groove like "The Joint" would have been sensational in SNF.