Music From the Motion Picture Josie And The Pussycats
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Free Music Review: Awesome punk music to listen to in the car!
Hit: 5 Stars
My friend Bike and I were driving his mom's van to go get our eyebrows waxed. In the center of the road at the edge of the neighborhood there was this very fat man playing a mandolin.
I get out and go "Hey, you're going to have to get out of the way."
And the guy goes "Would you like to know your fortune?". He was wearing a rather awkwardly large codpiece on the outside of his slacks.
And I go "Ok".
And he goes "You're about to get a stick up your ureter!"
And I look behind me and there is another guy--probably the oldest man I've ever seen--hobbling toward the door of the van. He had this weird grin on his face and was sweating profusely.
Before I could stop him, I get whacked in the butt with the mandolin. While I'm pulling out splinters the other guy waddled over to the passenger's side.
I go "BIKE!!! Don't let him in!"
But the idiot Bike was outside the van as well, trying to talk this woman into breastfeeding her baby. The woman didn't even have a baby.
So the morbidly obese man and the old codger take off in the van!
We recovered it a while later, they had driven to a back alley casino that Bike's uncle runs to play some booty roulette. We agreed to not tell Bike's mom and drove right home. Needless to say we do still have rather shaggy eyebrows.
The weird thing was, on the way back to bikes house, there was a mysterious cassette tape in the console that must have been left by the thieves, playing random selections from "Josie and the Pussycats".
Free Music Review: Lovin' it!
Hit: 5 Stars
The vocals provided on this soundtrack is lead vocalist ,Kay Hanley, of the 90's band "Letters To Cleo".
She does no appearances in the film nor is she on the artwork of this CD.
She just did the singing voice of the chick who plays Josie, The leader of the Josie & The Pussycats band.
The songs are all upbeat and glossy punkpop songs (if that's what you call it).
The only songs that I don't care for are the two Ralph Dujour songs, We couldv'e done without them.
The CD is predominately Kay hanley. so you might forget it's an actual soundtrack until you come across those two songs.
This Soundtrack is another one of the CD's that made my "Straight Through Collection" because I USUALLY enjoy playing it all-the-through and every "Kay Hanley" track is #1 hit in my book.
All the songs are upbeat & power-pop except for the acoustic song "You Don't See Me" which is also a favorite of mine and it shows a completely different side to "Kay", It's very "Mandy Moore", If you will.
It's so cool of her to have done this soundtrack, I enjoyed every minute of it.
If you enjoyed this soundtrack check out the "10 Things I Hate About You" Soundtrack which features more vocals from "Kay Hanley" in her band "Letters To Cleo" on songs like "I Want You To Want Me" and The HOT cover of Nick Lowe's "Cruel To Be Kind" She sounds exactly how she sounds on this soundtrack, You'll love it.
I hope she does more fun stuff like this in the future.
Free Music Review: One of the best soundtracks in ages
Hit: 5 Stars
This is one of those rare soundtracks which you immediately want after seeing the movie. The album contains the set of material that made ficticious girl band Josie And The Pussycats achieve fame and fortune in the film. Judging by the songs on offer here it's not hard to see why. With highly-acclaimed artists such as Bif Naked and Matthew Sweet on board, you pretty much know that you're in for something good.Bubblegum-rock of the highest order seems to be the gist of it, with two tracks by ficticious boy band DuJour included as well. The rockier elements of the songs seem to hark back to the 60's and 70's, especially on 'Real Wild Child' and their excellent cover of 'Money'. Most of the tracks are about exactly what you'd expect them to be about - bad boyfriends, self-appreciation and break-ups. But it's completely impossible to resist their unique blend of high spirits with an edge of aggresivenes.
There are even a few very clever little tracks. In particular, 'Shapeshifter' is full of witty lyrics that pertain very well to the issues raised in the film about a group's fifteen minutes of fame. The only moment where the album slows down is on 'You Don't See Me', a sweet little ballad. Although the inlcusion of DuJour is annoying, it's something that you definitely have to laugh at, especially seen as 'Backdoor Lover' managed to get so many risqué lyrics into it.
If everybody could own only one soundtrack, this would be my choice.
Free Music Review: Best Movie Soundtrack I Have Ever Heard
Hit: 5 Stars
If you would like the complete story of how I fell in love with Josie and the Pussycats(2001) you can read it in my review of the movie(DVD). Here I would like to focus on the soundtrack's unique nature. First off, I don't even have to tell you that I think it is a collection of excellent songs, thats obvious. However, there are some finer points that need to be enumerated. This isn't a soundtrack that has only 1 or 2 songs by the band featured in the movie. This entire album (save 2 tracks) is completely by Josie and the Pussycats. Let me explain that, because its important. The voice of Josie is done by Kay Hanley of Letters to Cleo and solo fame. The background vocals are done by Rachael, Rosario, and Tara, which is quite frankly really really cool. The album was produced by Kenneth "Babyface" Edmunds. The songs were written by a number of famous songwriters (but most notably, to me anyway) are Deb Kaplan and Harry Elfont (the directors) and none other than Adam Duritz of Counting Crows (one of my favorite bands). Put this all together and you've got yourself one solid album. In addition to the 11 JPC tracks there are two tracks from DuJour(the boy band featured in the movie) which are hilarious. If you like the movie you will absolutely love this album.Free Music Review: Worth Every Penny...
Hit: 5 Stars
When I think of movie soundtracks, usually I think of a simple formula. Pick a couple of hit songs by different artists and throw in a few artists that no one has ever heard of. This CD is quite different. 11 of the 13 songs are by the same group, Josie and the Pussycats. Sure, this isn't a REAL band, but the music is most definately real and very enjoyable. Most of the songs are very well done and there is a little bit for everyone on the soundtrack. The CD features a slow song (which reminds me of something Jewel might sing), a couple of classics (Money and Real Wild Child), several poppy sounding rock songs, and an updated version of the Josie and the Pussycats theme song. What more could you want? Well, as an added bonus, there are two songs by the fictional boy band DuJour. This group is meant to be a joke in the movie, and their songs definately reflect that. However, I love these songs. They are so good that you eventually forget that they were meant to insult boy bands. Perhaps the only negative thing that could be said of this album (other than the fact that I never really liked the song "Money") is that there will probably never be a sequel to the movie. That means that you may never hear Josie and the Pussycats again. What a shame.