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Various Artists
Summer Of Sam: Original Soundtrack
Genres: Dance & Electronic, Pop, Soundtracks

Track Listings (12) - Disc #1
1. Got to Give It Up - Gaye, Marvin
2. Dancing Queen - Anderson, Stig
3. Baba O'Riley - Townshend, Pete
4. Running Away - Ayers, Roy
5. Everybody Dance - Edwards, Bernard [1
6. La Vie en Rose - David, Mack
7. Let No Man Put Asunder - Gray, Bruce
8. Fooled Around and Fell in Love - Bishop, Elvin
9. There But for the Grace of God Go I - Darnell, August
10. Best of My Love - McKay, Albert
11. Dance With Me - Brown, Peter [2]
12. Don't Leave Me This Way - Gamble, Kenneth

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All Artists: Various Artists
Title: Summer Of Sam: Original Soundtrack
Members Wishing: 0
Total Copies: 1
Label: Hollywood Records
Original Release Date: 6/29/1999
Release Date: 6/29/1999
Album Type: Soundtrack
Genres: Dance & Electronic, Pop, Soundtracks
Styles: Disco, By Decade, 1970s
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPCs: 720616219022, 4029758219027

Synopsis

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Modern Hollywood has developed a tradition of releasing similarly themed pictures in near pairs, but who'd have thought it would release two films with a central theme of societal scapegoating within weeks of each other in '99--and that one of them would be South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut? Spike Lee's Summer of Sam is a little more straightforward in its telling of a New York neighborhood's descent into paranoia and finger-pointing as a serial killer stalks its streets in the summer of '77, and while its soundtrack doesn't plumb the scabrous, madcap satiric depths of Messrs. Parker and Stone, it's a serviceable--if occasionally threadbare--collection of period rock (The Who chestnut "Baba O'Riley"), pop (ABBA's "Dancing Queen," "Fooled Around and Fell in Love" by Elvin Bishop), funk (Roy Ayers's "Running Away," "Got to Give It Up" by Marvin Gaye), and a whole lot o' 1970s disco/club music (Chic's "Everybody Dance," "Best of My Love" by the Emotions, "La Vie en Rose" by the incomparable Grace Jones among them). Oddly missing for a film in which one of the main characters sports a nascent Mohawk is any hint of the era's--and region's--blossoming punk and new wave music. Still, it's a thematically sound, smartly sequenced collection that evokes both era and atmosphere well. --Jerry McCulley

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CD Reviews

If you love Disco, get this album

R. Kearns-White | BROOKLYN, NY United States | 10/07/1999

(4 out of 5 stars)

"Buy the time I was old enough to buy my own albums, Disco was more than dead. It was buried. Although I HATE this 70s revival thing, but it has given me a chance to brush up and buy all my favorite disco songs. S.O.S. sdtk is filled with a bunch of favs and long heard songs !What's wonderful is that you getting 12"-single length songs. For all of you who own the Marvin Gaye Cd with "Got to Give It Up" on it, knows that a typical Marvin Gaye song never exceeded 3 minutes. Here, it goes on wonderfully for nearly 5 and half minutes. Some people have insulted this album stating that it was similar to a lot disco sound tracks that have come out in the past 2 years (54, Last Days of Disco, Betc...). However, some of the songs on here I've never heard on any other soundtrack. Songs I used to like but never knew the names too. It makes me want to go dancing and DO the hustle! Unfortunately, I have the soul of a dancer, but the soles of lead foot.Give this soundtrack a chance."

Good but where's the punk?

Eric N. Gross | Eugene, Oregon United States | 05/19/2003

(4 out of 5 stars)

"I got this in the local store thinking there was going to be the song "Hello From The Gutters" which was actually recorded and performed by the actors (!). Unfortunately it wasn't on there and I don't know where to find that song or if it even exists at all on CD. With the exception of the two Who songs (especially "Baba O' Riley") there is not a shred of punk in this album. But, the disco and pop and such work well here. "There But For The Grace of God" was probably the best song with the best message, and ABBA always works wonders. Chic's "Everybody Dance" is another classic, though I'm convinced they used it in the wrong movie scene. Also of interest are the various soul and diva anthems. Of course you can't go wrong with the Who."