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...soundtrack to the movie The Commitments and that instantly took me back more than ten years. The movie with the same name (which in turn is based on a novel by the famous Irish writer Roddy Doyle) is about a group of young people in Ireland who decide to put a band together, and even though this is not a review about the film it is near impossible to write a review of the soundtrack without mentioning the film, especially in this case as the film ... ...the things that made The Commitments such a success is the voice of Andrew Strong, the lead singer in the group. It's a well known fact that he was only 16 years old when the movie, and subsequently the album, was made which to this day I find astonishing. Not only does he look a lot older, his voice is mature and it sounds as though he has lived on a diet of whisky and cigarettes for a decade. Even though he is not the only singer on the album I ...
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Advantages: A wide variety of tunes Disadvantages: Too short
I’m a big fan of the film, so when I saw the Soundtrack on offer, I decided to buy it.
When the film was released in 1992 it caused a storm with its extreme violence. The soundtrack on the other hand doesn't seem to mirror any of that. The cover shows the film cast with blood splashed in the background, yet the CD is made up of uplifting 70's songs. Some of them now famous and well known because of the film. It's become common to include little ... ...no different. Some are main lines from the film and others are the monotone DJ from the film playing ‘K-Billy’s Super Sounds Of The Seventies’. The tracks are as follows:
1. Little Green Bag – performed by George Baker Selection- Anyone who knows the film will know this song. It’s the one that’s played during the opening credits while the cast are walking down a street in slow motion. It starts with a guitar and the shaking of a tambourine in the ...
