Rocky Balboa: The Best of Rocky
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Free Music Notes for Rocky Balboa: The Best of Rocky
Free Music Review: Raise your Heart Rate!!
Hit: 5 Stars
The Rocky Movies were the perfect storm of story, character and music. Listening to these takes from the movies brings back so many good memories. Put it on your IPod and go for a run, lift some weights or hit the heavy bag. If this doesn't inspire you to get off your butt, nothing will. Bring it!!!Free Music Review: Pure Rocky!!
Hit: 5 Stars
What a great selection of songs from the Rocky movies. Both upbeat and slow, I love it.Free Music Review: Gotta Love Rocky Balboa!!
Hit: 4 Stars
This album takes all of the great music from the first four Rocky movies and does an excellent job of putting them together on one disc. A great feature not yet mentioned in the Amazon.com reviews is that there are classic lines from the movies placed in between most of the tracks. For example, before "No Easy Way Out" Rocky says his famous line; "Cuz I'm a fighter. That's the I'm made Adrian. We can't change what we are" (from Rocky IV). There are a couple problems, however:
- Three Six Mafia has no place in a Rocky soundtrack. It does not fit in with the rest of the music and should have been left out.
- War and Training Montage are not included. Cut the Three Six Mafia song and the weak (yet still good) track "Adrian" and we would have had plenty of space for those two gems.
Other than that, this album does a great job in representing a sometimes overlooked aspect of the Rocky movies: The music.
Free Music Review: An Incomplete Compilation of Rocky Movie Music
Hit: 4 Stars
While this album puports to be a "best-of" collection of all the Rocky music, there are key tracks missing that would have made this album an absolute knockout. That said, it is still an engaging and inspiring album, but whoever compiled the tracks left off some crucial additions. "Philadelphia Morning", the lonesome instrumental from the original Rocky is missing, as is "First Date". "Vigil", the hauntingly mournful Bill Conti composure from Rocky II is absent as well. Two other very worthy Rocky soundtracks that should have been included are "War" and "Training Montage" from Rocky IV. I also missed "Marines' Hymn/Yankee Doodle" (Apollo Creed's theme).
While this is a good anthology of the essential Rocky movie music themes, it would have been better if it were made into a 2-disc collection and included the tracks previously mentioned, (and more).
Jim "Konedog" Koenig
Free Music Review: A Good Account of Rocky As He Lets Go of His Past.
Hit: 4 Stars
It was stirring and gets your adrenaline flowing. Adrian had kept Rocky going in life and in death. It took an exhibition fight so that he could finally let her rest in peace; as he said goodbye at the cemetery, he could get on with a new life and a new wife.
The fight (a real, violent one) in Las Vegas showed that he was still a real champion. It was incredible as he put up a good, clean fight. I kept rooting for him to hit low, play dirty. A man who looks like Bruce Hartmann helped to arrange the affair with Mason Dixon, a giant of a fellow. It was no fun to watch an old man run or cry. The music I loved.