Only The Best Of Apollo Records - Various Artists

Advantages: Quality tracks with good variety.
Disadvantages: May not capture the essence of the movie for some people.

...On the Apollo 13 soundtrack, with the original score composed by James Horner, there are a total of fifteen track titles. The CD itself begins with the main, opening title theme track, followed by a dialogue spoken by Walter Cronkite and Neil Armstrong. This introduction is followed by five well-selected individual tracks, all performed by various artists. Then we reenter into the atmosphere of the movie, full of dialogue and even a ten-minute long compositional piece. After approximately fifty percent of the soundtrack has been used on selected segments from the movie, some more songs by Hank Williams and The Mavericks come into play. The CD compilation finishes off with more dialogue by Ed Harris, Gary Sinise, and Tom Hanks, and then two original compositions approximately eight and a half, and six and a half, minutes each... Read review

Ciao members have rated this review on average somewhat helpful

Advantages: everything !
Disadvantages: not enough tracks

...GREAT! all the best songs one one album i hate it when you buy a comelation cd and you only listen to a few tracks on the first c.d well not this one ! this have many many of the best 60's grooving tracks and i would reccomend this to anyone that it interested in that era, i have it pklaying in my car with the window down and the sun shining through ! however it could have more of the likes of the who and the kinks but apart form a few missing artists i cannot fault the quality also i havent seen this c.d in the generall high street shops and i must say its abrgain at the price and its allways good to have these classic songs on c.d and not have to dig out the record collection everytime you want to remember the old days.... Read review

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Advantages: It's an Apollo 440 album. There are bound to be some good tracks on it
Disadvantages: Two many unoriginal unimaginative songs

...After putting off buying this album since its release in 2003 due to disappointed remarks from friends, I finally plucked up the courage to buy it. I was disappointed from the off. The first song starts off uptempo and uplifting enough, but lacks originality and sounds old. Carrying on through the album we come to the song 'Disco Sucks', which indeed sucks and sounds like a Scissor Sisters reject of a song. The song 'N'existe Pas' is going down the right line, although I could only think to myself that I had heard it all before, even on earlier Apollo 440 albums. Some songs are even so poor that I can't bring myself to listen to them again. An example is '1, 2, 3, 4', which is trying to be 'Stop the Rock' all over again. The best song on the 1st cd is 'Children of the Future', which sounds like Apollo 440 of old. Then we get to cd 2... Read review

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