I got the Boys And Girls soundtrack. First let me take a minute to say
that's it's appalling that people have to pay almost $20 to get a cd when
they only want maybe one or two tracks on it. Luckily, one of my gigs is
writing for an alternative newsweekly and what I don't make in pay I make in
swag. I was able to fish the cd out of the freebie bin at the paper but
it's a promo copy so there's no liner notes. They probably would have just
had dorky pics of the twenty-somethings-playing-teens cast anyway. Besides,
I'm the last person to look a $20 savings in the mouth. So on to the song:
Overall I like it. The drum machine is kinda cheezy but if you block it out
and concentrate on the bass, guitar, and piano you can easily get over it.
I like that's it's a little pop nugget--something I could enjoy while
driving. I'm really digging the bass and piano and I like the fluttery
guitar in the chorus--which I am sure is lifted directly from Fleetwood
Mack's "Gypsy." I think it was a good track to give up for a soundtrack
because overall I think it's a throwaway and would not fit well on an album.
But for what it is--a standout on a cd otherwise filled with punk/pop from
one hit wonders that their respective record companies are trying to push to
a teen audience with scads of disposable income, I'll take it. Notable
exceptions to this bit of vitriol: David Mead's "World Of A King" and an
honorable mention to Stewart Copeland's "The Freddie File"--I can hear the
old Police drum n' bass in there. Just a question: does anyone know if Ark
21 Records (the label who put out the cd) is an imprint of Atlantic Records
or what? Are the bands on here all Atlantic artists like Duncan (I can't
tell because I don't have the liner notes)? If they are, Atlantic might have
just done better to put out a sampler.

my humble opinion,
rosemary





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