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[CRAZY-HORSE]

LADY GAGA & BRADLEY COOPER "a star is born" (OST)

release date: 5th October

chart high: #1 everywhere

first up, I rarely buy OST albums because they usually mean nothing outside the context
of the movie/stage show theyre associated with,
the exceptions being "grease", "Saturday night fever" and now this one, that said, I still have
NY's "paradox" to post...
so, the movie is a remake of a remake of a remake of an old movie from the mid 1930s...
haven't seen any of them personally so I cant compare...
the music on this one are all originals, no covers from the other movies...
good eclectic mix here from jazz/blues, pop, Americana, country, folk, ballads, dance, alt country...
Cooper sings some, Gaga sings some and they duet on a few also...
only problem with the album is that theres a lot of banter between the songs, obviously snippets
from themovie, but thankfully, with programming, I can edit them out when I play the album...
a pretty classy album, but isn't everything Gaga does classy since Tony taught her to act like a lady!

I LOVE THIS ALBUM

worst track: the annoying talking/banter between the songs
favourite track: look what I found





tracks:

1....black eyes **
2....La Vie En Rose ***
3....maybe its time **
4....out of time **
5....alibi **
6....shallow **
7....music to my eyes ***
8....diggin' my grave ***
9....always remember us this way ***
10..look what I found ***
11..heal me ***
12..i don't know what love is ***
13..is that alright? **
14..why did you do that? **
15..hair, bdy, face **
16..before I cry ***
17..too far gone **
18..i'll never love again (duet version) **
19..i'll never love again (Gaga solo version) **

3s - 8
2s - 11
1s - 0

rating: 2.4

[CRAZY-HORSE]

NEIL YOUNG & PROMISE OF THE REAL "paradox" (OST)

release date: 23rd March

chart highs: Hungary #19

so...
his wife Darryl Hannah picked up the portable camera, went out onto his expansive
property and started to shoot a movie....
Neil and the gang joined in, and the movie is supposedly about a vagabond group of musicians
wandering the earth to do something extremely boring (well, im not sure about the boring bit, in
being sarcastic...), but it sounds boring....
lots of instrumental snippets on here, some re-recordings of tunes also...
love the album cover, it emits such feeling IMO, shame the music doesn't live up to it...
best track for me is Promise Of The Real's Lukas Nelson's cover of his dad's "angel flying too
close t the ground" song...

I DO NOT LIKE THIS ALBUM

worst track:  "take your pick"!
best track: Angel Flying Too Close To The Ground





tracks:

…....many moons ago (spoken intro)
1....show me (verse) *
2....paradox passage I (inst) *
3....hey (inst) **
4....paradox passage II (inst) *
5....diggin' in the dirt (chorus) *
6....paradox passage III (inst) *
7....peace trail **
8....Pocahontas **
9....cowgirl jam (inst) *
10..angel flying too close to the ground **
…….paradox passage IV (inst) (link) 
11..diggin' in the dirt **
…….paradox passage V (inst) (link)
12..running to the silver eagle (inst) **
13..baby what you want me to do? (inst) *
…….paradox passage VI (inst) (link)
14..offerings (inst) *
15..how long? *
16..happy together *
17..tumbleweed **

3s - 0
2s - 7
1s - 10

rating: 1.4

[Jerome]

Nina Rota's music from 'The Godfather'. Great stuff to chill to this morning.

[Jerome]

A compilation CD of famous movie soundtracks - marvellous morning music.

[Dissily Mordentroge]

Nina Rota's music from 'The Godfather'. Great stuff to chill to this morning.

Rota’s soundtracks to Fellini’s movies bring back fond memories of my teenage bohemian years and a Melbourne institution, The Supper Club held at midnight on Saturdays . Nasty cheap red wine and horrible cheese provided. The crowd was a mix of screaming queens, bikies, academics, artists, architects etc. All the people worth knowing at a time when the rest of Australian society was conventional to the point of total boredom.

[Disco]

90-s

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[CRAZY-HORSE]

VARIOUS ARTISTS - OST "notting hill" cd, 1999

I don't buy many soundtrack albums
they generally don't do much for me as a rule.
love most of this one, good mix of artists as shown:
not posting any links by choice because im lazy and about to get me some lunch!

1. "No Matter What" – Boyzone
   
   
2. "You've Got a Way" (Notting Hill remix) – Shania Twain
   
   
3. "I Do (Cherish You)" – 98 Degrees
   
   
4. "She" – Elvis Costello
   
   
5. "Ain't No Sunshine" – Bill Withers
   
   
6. "How Can You Mend a Broken Heart?" – Al Green
   
   
7. "Gimme Some Lovin'" – Spencer Davis Group
   
   
8. "When You Say Nothing at All" - Ronan Keating
   
   
9. "Ain't No Sunshine" – Lighthouse Family
   
   
10. "From the Heart" - Another Level
    
    
11. "Everything About You" - Steve Poltz
    
    
12. "Will and Anna" – Trevor Jones (Score)
    
    
13. "Notting Hill" – Trevor Jones (Score)
    

[Ruby]

Andy Mackay & Phil Manzanera ‎– Roxymphony



No idea where this one belongs - it's here because at least some of it was recorded from a live performance. Can't make up my mind whether or not the concept worked. A re-imagining of some of Roxy Music's stuff - orchestral and with occasional choir, so reminds me rather of that Classic Rock album by the London Symphony Orchestra which kind of sanitised rock for the masses. Ok - this is not quite as clinical, but I really do think some things are probably best left alone if they aren't to be improved upon, at the very least. I sat through the whole album (which would have been infinitely better listening had I not been familiar with Roxy Music at all) waiting in anticipation for "Tara", one of two interludes on Avalon - it always seemed a shame that neither were longer than their 1.40 odd minutes. It was a satisfactory expansion and is perhaps the most intrinsically true track on the album and even so, I'm not sure that it's any more enhanced. Funny that - seems to work better when it leaves you wanting more. 

[CRAZY-HORSE]

ELVIS PRESLEY "it happened at the world's fair" (OST) vinyl,cd 1963.

his twelfth movie.
set in Seattle around the time of the "world fair".
movie is most memorable for the first on screen performance of a young Kurt Russell in which in his first scene kicks Elvis in his shin!
back to the songs.
not sure why his movie soundtracks get such a bad rap, theyre no worse than half the music in the charts at that time, theyre just not in the same league as those from the British bands of the time.
sure some of the songs would have no life outside the movie but theyre still enjoyable for the most part.
album made the top10 everywhere, and contained a decent sized hit for him in "one broken heart for sale".
I LIKE THIS ALBUM

the single:

[CRAZY-HORSE]

ELVIS PRESLEY  "speedway" (OST)  cd,  1968.

soundtrack to his twenty-eighth movie.
co-stars in this one are Bill Bixby and Nancy Sinatra.
Nancy gets a duet with Elvis and a solo effort on the album.
movie failed on so many levels but should have been so much more with Bill and Nancy on board.
a couple of dud tracks on here but overall, not bad.
best track by far is the lead-off single.
I LIKE THIS ALBUM: