Eddie & The Cruisers - Soundtrack
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Free Music Review: Eddie and The Cruisers
Hit: 5 Stars
I fell in love with these two movies the first time I saw them back in the 80's. If you love good rock and roll, you will like these two movies and the soundtracks. I don't know why the first "original" soundtrack was released with different songs than what was played throughout the movie but I got it any way because I loved most of the tracks on it so much. I agree with other listeners, get the Volcano release of the soundtrack. I played that cassette tape so much that both sides merged with each other and I couldn't hear it any more. I like a lot of different types of music and a lot of different groups but every now and then, there is music that speaks to my sould and I get chills. The music that is on both soundtracks of these cult movies gives me chills each and every time I listen to them. John Cafferty and the Beaver Brown Band did an excellent job with these tunes. I can't say enough good things about Michael Pare playing the lead role as Eddie Wilson in both movies either. It is hard to lip sync to music and make it look believable. Michael Pare did an excellent performance. He was so totally believable as Eddie Wilson. Even though I know it is not him singing these songs, when I listen to them, I see him performing them in my minds eye. All the albums that John Cafferty released as the voice of Eddie Wilson are marvelous and well worth the purchase. Bruce Springsteen eat your heart out this is how good rock and roll should sound.Free Music Review: Still holding up well after all these years
Hit: 5 Stars
One of my friends was one of the handful of people who actually saw this movie in it's theater run and couldn't stop talking about it. We searched everywhere for the soundtrack, but it was a tough find in those days (late '83?) When he finally tracked it own, he stuck it on the back side of a 90 minute cassette that I had given to him to record the new Cheap Trick album. I liked the Cheap Trick album, but when the tape clicked back for side two, I was blown away by the Eddie & the Cruisers music. When the album took off the following summer, he and I had our hands full dubbing and recording for all of our friends, and my tape spent a ton of time in my car stereo alongside Born In The USA. Never having heard the new version without Tender Years and Wild Summer Nights, I can't comment on the replacement songs, but I can tell you the songs that they replaced were both great. Tender Years is one of the best ballads from this time period and Wild Summer Nights may be one of the great lost classics of the mid '80's. I saw the band play on the subsequent tour in the winter of 1984 and based on that show always expected them to be the next big thing. (Well, even J.J. Jackson was wrong about Thomas Dolby.)Free Music Review: Forever Hot!
Hit: 5 Stars
Have always loved the two movies. The one with his "death" and even better, when he takes the stage once more. What I have always felt sad about is the fact I have never thought that John Cafferty got the credit he deserved. Yes, he is often spoken of having a " Springsteen" like sound and then they bad mouth him like he is trying to be a Springsteen wanna be. Personally I like him better! ( Yeah that will drive a lot of you all nuts LOL) But the songs are wonderful. Beautifully soft and sexy or loud with a HOT beat. Love it. Sure wish he had been done better by. Sure wish he was still writing. sigh. There are lot of us fans out here that would like to see Eddie live again! :) Maybe having his own record company and still singing. I mean Michael is only 52 now and is still as handsome as ever. I never saw a better job of lip-synching . I tried hard to catch MP being off but couldn't. He can actually sing but he won't do it for the public. In my wishful thinking, I would have John Cafferty and his band do the music!! How's that for a dream?Free Music Review: Great Soundtrack For A Mediocre Movie
Hit: 5 Stars
The EDDIE AND THE CRUISERS movie soundtrack is far better than the movie, which concerns the mysterious disappearance (or is it?) 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. Instead, John Cafferty and the Beaver Brown Band provide bar-band rock & roll similar to Bruce Springsteen and Bob Seger's best work. 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.Free Music Review: One of the best soundtracks ever!
Hit: 5 Stars
While the movie, "Eddie & The Cruisers" met with modest success, the same can't be said about the soundtrack. 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. "Summer Nights" brings back memories of almost everyone's teen years. "Tender Years" evokes fond memories in a somewhat sad tone. "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.