Summer Of Wolves - Minor Times (The)

Advantages: It's a Classic
Disadvantages: Absolutely None

...Barry's score is a wonderful representation of understated yet epic, simple yet powerful, long-drawn but melodious music. Barry deliberately steered away from writing a Western score (after all Dances With Wolves is not your everyday Western), as well as deciding to leave the period Native American music to other hands. Instead Barry took John Dunbar as a starting point, preferring to focus on his story; his journey to the American frontier, his encounters and observations with the Sioux, and his assessment of these people. The main John Dunbar Theme is one of the most recognizable themes ever to rise from the movies and it is a popular addition on many compilation albums. The theme has two distict personifications: one is a small, haunting fanfare that opens and closes the film and the second (the more important one) an extended string... Read review

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Advantages: Nice music, good lyrics
Disadvantages: A bit samey

...is not always by company cured / The cats are in the windows, dogs are at the doors / the lamps are lit and all the curtains being drawn / but you’re wanting his heart when I’m wanting yours.” He also sings it quite differently than you’d expect, with his voice rising and falling. “Middle of the hill” is a good tune and great story, almost a stream of consciousness: “And the girl down the street said a dog couldn’t bark cause a man with an axe cut its voice box out. But my older sister told me that it probably wasn’t true and I believe what she said coz she took me by my hand one time, when a couple of men drove down the hill in a white van said there was a phone box filled with money round the corner and I would have gone along but she took me by my hand to the house on the middle of the hill”. Phew. “Feeding the wolves” is a quieter song (and... Read review

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Advantages: Good mix of tunes
Disadvantages: Not enough modern material

...Of Independence (Single Version) 17. She Works Hard For The Money (Edited Single Version) 18. Dinner With Gershwin 19. This Time I Know It's For Real There are also imports and collector's editions available featuring more re-mixes. The internet is the best place to look for that. This CD was £9.99 from Amazon when I checked it out for someone. I have to admit that for a "Very Best Of" collection, I wasn't altogether familiar with a lot of these songs. My personal favourites are "Love's Unkind", "Dinner With Gershwin" and "This Time I Know It's For Real". "No More Tears" with Barbara Streisand is a disco classic while "Hot Stuff" is STILL reaping the rewards of being on the soundtrack of "The Full Monty" from 1997. Michael Jackson, Stevie Wonder, Lionel Richie, Dionne Warwick and others, provide backing vocals on "State... Read review

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