Five pre-Beatle classics plus six postmodern horrors equals the soundtrack to the world's longest rock video, a brutally depressing top-forty apotheosis. The comparisons are torture--revolting as the contempo material is, it sounds even worse in among the Five Satins and Mickey & Sylvia, who are in turn rendered unlistenable by the commercial manipulations that bring them back to commercial life. Even accessory before the fact Phil Spector sounds not just innocent but simple up against the technocratic ardors of Medley & Warnes's Grammy/Oscar-validated "(I've Had) The Time of My Life" or Eric Carmen's merely radio-validated "Hungry Eyes." The new songs epitomize AOR as CHR, turning everything rock and roll taught us about rhythm and emotion into the melodrama that prerock schlock left behind when it abandoned operetta and the drawing-room ballad. They're almost as good a reason to hate mass culture as Ronald Reagan. D
why dont you kill yourself
>>128860168just shows you how out of touch reviewers are. everybody loved that movie and they loved the soundtrack. all the new songs from the soundtrack were played non stop on mtv and the radio and became huge hits
>>128860168He's right about TTOYL though. Fuck that song.
>>128860168Blame this for making Love Is Strange the best-known Mickey & Sylvia tune though it's not their best one (that's What Would I Do)
>>128860216^This.
>>128860234LIS was cut for an indie R&B label while the other song was cut for big label RCA so the latter sounds a lot more polished.
