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Whoever did the track production should have stuck to the listing.combining two tracks while splitting one makes no sense. Tracks 5 - 9 shift up to 4 - 8.
It has hit the airwaves recently and reminded me about the great songs. Eddie & The Cruisers was a favorite college movie.
Track #4 is the 'concert' version of 'Down On My Knees & Hang Up My Rock And Roll Shoes'. The CD sounds great, clean, crisp and just like I remember.
5 Stars for the songs.The problem - the track listings are wrong. Tracks 9 & 10 are 'Season In Hell'.split into two tracks.
-1 Star for these track decisions.
Excellent value. Lots of Eddie and the Cruisers with a 3-piece package, but worth the price. Quick ship. Thanks.
"Summer Nights" brings back memories of almost everyone's teen years. While the movie, "Eddie & The Cruisers" met with modest success, the same can't be said about the soundtrack. "Tender Years" evokes fond memories in a somewhat sad tone. John Cafferty & The Beaver Brown Band did the true musicianship for the movie and I think this added to some of the confusion in regards to further success for them. Michael Pare' did such a great job lip synching in the movie most people really didn't realize that the music was done by someone else.There is not a clinker on this recording. "Season In Hell" makes you ironically sad that Eddie didn't go on making music (but that's the point, huh). I could go song by song and link an emotion or crucial aspect of the movie to each.The movie had its short comings but, song by song, this soundtrack is as strong as it gets.
The EDDIE AND THE CRUISERS movie soundtrack is far better than the movie, which concerns the mysterious disappearance (or is it). Instead, John Cafferty and the Beaver Brown Band provide bar-band rock & roll similar to Bruce Springsteen and Bob Seger's best work. of a rock star who'd recently transitioned from smart rocker to serious artist, leaving an unreleased album called THE DARK SIDE, which blended straight-ahead rock with French Symbolist poetry (in 1963, no less). The movie took its cues from rumors concerning the death of Jim Morrison, but the music is nothing like the Doors. In addition, you get two songs by doo-wop pioneer Kenny Vance fronting the Beaver Brown Band. The fact that Cafferty, along with many of his American rock and country music peers, expressed support for police use of aggressive force to rescue two girls kidnapped in California in 2002 makes it worth having this example of his music, even if the film was totally mediocre.
A tip for anyone intending to spot download the album. The titles are all messed up. Listen to the previews. Believe what you hear, not what you read.
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