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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
At last one of the most sought after vinyl soundtracks on CD, 4 Jan 2002
With good condition vinyl original copies of this changing hands for big money this CD must've been eagerly awaited. The artwork on the sleeve bears no resemblence to the original but the tracks are the same. The anthemic "Self Preservation Society" recently re-awakened by adverts and english footie fans is the real gem. If you love the film, this is a must, and if you own a Mini Cooper like me, fit a CD player and you'll be in seventh heaven. Turn it up and "blow the bloody doors off"
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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Drop your plates of meat / right upon the seat, 22 Feb 2004
Down in the antipodes, decent OSTs like this are about as rare as Cockneys themselves. I had to travel to London on a regular jaunt to find this gem and do not regret it one moment (especially after paying under £10); later I bumped into a friend of the CD producer, who apparently went to work for MCA and asked for the soundtrack on CD, to be told that it didn't exist (in the days when decent vinyls were going for £75). His mission from that point: to re-create one of his favourites on CD-God bless his decision and persistence!Quincy Jones's original compositions are marvellous, recalling the moments in the film-and despite the relative brevity of the entire CD, it all seems more substantial. His jazz background serves the score well, including his rearrangements of traditional tunes, which work well independently of the movie. No other Matt Munro-performed song touches 'On Days Like These', while the instrumental (present here, thankfully) is as elegant. As an earlier reviewer said, the quality of the remastering is excellent, while the liner notes are a useful complement (while presenting little new information for fans, souvenirs such as an image of the original poster are worthwhile). I can't wait for my next drive around Italy with this soundtrack in the CD player. While remembering that in that country, 'They drive on the wrong side of the road!'
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19 of 22 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Unfortunately only for the Fan, 18 Jun 2004
By A Customer
1st things 1st, I am a HUGE fan of the film, I own it on most available formats and even though I own it, I still watch it when it comes on the TV. Also I am grateful for the fact that this album is now available to the masses on CD, something I thought would never happen, but this soundtrack falls short for mainly two reasons.
1. Only if you have watched the film and studied it very closely will all of the music on this soundtrack album make sense, other wise most of the material will sound like average 60's bar jazz. It is only the fantastic 'get a blommin move on' and it's variants, and the versions of 'on days like these' which save this album.
2. Like a previous reviewer, instead of just a straight re-issue, I think putting some of the classic dialogue in between the tracks i.e. 'shorten the sleeves would you love I'm not a gorilla' would have not been too much to ask as other re-issue soundtracks i own have done this. This would have taken advantage of the CD format with the extra time available compared to an LP.
It would be too easy to get carried away and simply say this soundtrack is great by it's association with the film, but to my mind a soundtrack is supposed to capture the essence of the film, and without any of the fantastic and utterly classic dialogue included, it fails to that.
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