Soundtracks & Musicals > V Soundtracks & Musicals > Film > 15 GBP to 20 GBP

Advantages: Great choice of tracks to accompany the film
Disadvantages: No Beatles (revoution/helter skelter etc!!)

You have to admire Francis Coppola's nerve - using everything in his record collection from The Doors to Richard Wagner to accompany his breathtaking vision of the Vietnam war on acid. From the opening scene, with his brilliant use of Morrison's 'The End' you instantly get the feel of this movie, you aren't in for an easy ride. It does seem though that most of the time music is actually played on transistor radios by the marines or it is actually ... Read review

Advantages: Lots of well known and likeable tracks
Disadvantages: Some tracks will make you cringe

...I have chosen to review Back To The Movies, an album full of hit records that have been made famous by various movies over the last twenty years. **GENERAL INFORMATION ABOUT THE ALBUM** This double CD has a varied selection of hit records. Some tracks are very 'sugary' and will make you cringe and possibly wonder why you are listening to them. Other tracks are all time classics which take anyone over the ...
...have seen a particular movie back in time, and others will make you wish you had never seen the movie in the first place. **CD1** = 01: Joe Cocker & Jennifer Warnes - Up Where We belong Taken from the movie "An Officer and a Gentleman", this well matched duo belt out this classic ballad. Joe Cocker's gravel-like vocals lead us into the track quite gently, shortly followed by Jennifer Warnes' ... Read review

Advantages: Highly original realisation, still sounds fresh today
Disadvantages: None

...symphony (entitled "March From A Clockwork Orange") way back in the early 1970's, when a clip from the movie was shown on the BBC's "Film Night” (the part where the anti-hero Alex ambles through the music store, dressed in the “height of fashion”, and looking for willing young ladies to join him in the bedroom ). I was completely bowled over by Anthony Burgess' vision of a moribund future Britain, brought to the screen through Stanley ...
...2. March From A Clockwork Orange (7.00) For me, this has to be the highlight of the entire album. Here, Carlos has made use of the vocoder (or “Spectrum Follower”) to magnificent effect, recreating the choral parts of the Fourth Movement of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony in a totally new way (well, for 1972 anyhow). The music is performed as Beethoven wrote it (albeit in an abridged form), but the electronic performance adds a completely ... Read review