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Re: Rocket Man, and other new things

From: dwelch@devnull.mpd.tandem.com (Dan Welch)
Date: Thu, 24 Oct 1991 06:48:59 -0700
Subject: Re: Rocket Man, and other new things
To: rec-music-gaffa@devnull.mpd.tandem.com
Newsgroups: rec.music.gaffa
Organization: Tandem Computers (MPD) Austin, TX
References: <91Oct23.121327pdt.436505@wiretap.Spies.COM>


In article <91Oct23.121327pdt.436505@wiretap.Spies.COM> lester@gandalf.etdesg.TRW.COM (Jeffrey A. Lester) writes:
>Dan Welch writes:
>
>>At the same time, I got the soundtrack to _The_Commitments_, and it is
>>incredible -- if you like the type of music at all, you'll love this
>>album.  "Try a Little Tenderness" is unbelievable.
>
>It's pretty good, but I was disappointed. It's NOT the music from the movie
>and doesn't have the same raw energy that the actual music in the movie has.
>It seems over-produced to me.
>

'Tis true that the songs don't match the movie exactly, but about "raw energy"
I disagree . . . this is what makes TaLT so great.  The scene in the movie
was so exciting, and I think they recaptured it on the album.

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