This is a great music cd. I loved it the first time I heard this music, several years ago, and it still gets 5 stars! Thanks for the fast delivery, too.
August 23, 2008 |  | Cheesy film but great soundtrack |  |
Richard Gere's coming out party featured a nude scene in this 1980 movie that was pretty cheesy but featured a fabulous soundtrack. Producer-composer Giorgio Moroder put together great topical sounds -- like Blondie's "Call Me" -- with his ripoffs of Mozart's Clarinet Concerto slow movement and other composers to create an aura of eroticism and mystery suitable to the moments portrayed in this flick.
It seems inconprehensible to me there is only one review of this wonderful soundtrack on Amazon. People that like film music should at least listen to the sound bytes and, more likely, invest the tiny amount asked for Moroder's production. The music gave the movie a film noir element that increases its credibility. Dont' hestiate if you like music from the movies.
February 9, 2008| | | A classic that influences the music of today... | |
I grew up listening to this soundtrack as my parents played it quite a bit. It's amazing how music you just "heard" as a child can touch you in a completely differnt way 20 years later when you actually LISTEN to it. It's easy to see how the work of Giorgio Moroder was a heavy influence on Madonna's 2006 "COnfessions on a Dance Floor" album. Listening to the two albums back to back, you can distincly hear Moroder's influences in Madonna's work. Confessions on a Dance Floor
June 20, 2007 | | Some Electropop Standouts of the Period | |
"Love Theme" and "Seduction" rate as probably two of the best pop-electronic film themes of the 80s, and, well, "Call Me" is just downright great. Why Giorgio bothered to squeal his way through "Hello W.A.M.", I don't know. It hurt the end of the film, itself, and adds nothing to this soundtrack. "Love and Passion" - lyrics by director Paul Shrader - totally sum up the feelings of any intelligent person who has tried to live too long in Los Angeles.
This dates very well because L.A. is STILL the L.A. of this film (1980) - fun, dangerous, superficial, materialistic - so take it along on your next trip and drive along the lonesome freeways with Moroder's hypnotic electrobeat propelling you along.
November 1, 2005| | | BEST MOVIE SOUNDTRACK, A MUST-HAVE | |
True to say that Giorgio Moroder, the man and the king of synthesizers is one of my All-Time Favorite Composers 'cuz of his scoring for other movies i.e. Scarface, Flashdance, incl. American Gigolo, among others.
This album to me is bad and it's fill w/ alot of instrumental tracks incl. 2 vocal cuts from Blondie's "Call Me" (My introduction to her be4 movin' on to other songs by her) to Cheryl Barnes "Love and Passion" (reminds of a Gospel song I used to hear singing and/or playing at Church). So long story short, if u love real good music, or classical, or something that has a feel to it, this is the 1, if not for others, it's your choice.
The only song I dug from the album is "Night Drive" incl. the reprise of it 'cuz it can blow man, I'm tellin' u. I always love it so much 'specially 'nother song I luv is "The Seduction", the love theme to the flick. It's so romantic and very smooth.
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