School Daze (1988 Film) [SOUNDTRACK]
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Free Music Review: School Daze
Hit: 5 Stars
It is one of Spikes best efforts. The music is great in every way.Free Music Review: YEARS LATER AND I SEE WE WERE CORRECT
Hit: 4 Stars
I composed the songs BE ALONE TONIGHT and WE'VE ALREADY SAID GOODBYE that were featured on the School Daze soundtrack and film. It is nice to see that the music has found its audience. As a writer and musician its the ultimate compliment.
BE ALONE TONIGHT was written for a band project I was trying to do with Dolette McDonald (Sting, Laurie Anderson etc.). I had envisioned it as a throw back to girl groups of the sixties. My concept for our planned video was for Dolette to be singing on a show like SHINDIG (a 60's dance show) looking like a Ross/Reeves/Ronnie Spector styled singer. She would be singing into the camera but actually singing (while holding back tears) to a Berry Gordy type character (her love interest) who was behind the camera. I had envisioned it as a sad/defiant type of love song. After my group broke up, I played it for Spike when he visited LA in '85 and he loved it. Before I knew it, I was in Atlanta recording the vocals with Tisha, Jasmine, Paula and Michelle (but not before torturing drummer Steve Ferrone with the drum overdubs at Sunset Sound in LA). While I was listening to a playback of the track at Sunset Sound, who walked in but BOB DYLAN bopping his head in approval. I thought hey, I might have something here!!!
We've Already Said Goodbye was based on a relationship breakup I was going through at the time. Pieces of a Dream did the track in NYC. They were curt and professional. Ain't seen 'em since.
We recorded the strings with arranger Clare Fischer who was doing a lot of things with Prince at the time. I was a fan of his work from the Rufus days so I was glad he obliged. Saxaphonist Branford Marsalis takes off for flight on that song and even quotes Stravinsky's Rite of Spring near the end.
At the end of the song Portia Griffin tells us to "turn that sukka off" because we were at the end of the song and she didn't feel she had anything else to sing (after she got all up in that mofo) and we had kept the tape running just in case she had anything else brilliant to add to the performance. She did. It just wasnt sung. And being young and cocky, I decided to keep it as the end.
I'm glad y'all have enjoyed that music over the years as it was great fun to create!
Free Music Review: SCHOOL DAZE...A FLASHBACK TO MY DAZES @ VA UNION UNIVERSITY
Hit: 4 Stars
OUT OF SIGHT SOUNDTRACK ALONG WITH A GREAT MOVIE! THANK YOU SPIKE! THERE ARE ONLY A FEW MOVIES AND SOUNDTRACKS THAT CAN GET YOU FEELING GOOD WHEN WALKING OUT OF A THEATRE. THIS SOUNDTRACK WAS SO PERFECTLY MATCHED WITH THE MOVIE THAT I TALKED ABOUT IT FOR WEEKS. SCHOOL DAZE WAS AT THE THEATRES AFTER I ATTENEDED MY DAZES AT VIRGINIA UNION UNIVERSITY IN THE EARLY 1980s, BUT I TELL YOU I LOVE LISTENING TO THE SOUNDTRACK AND WATCHING THE MOVIE JUST SO I CAN WALKED DOWN MEMORY LANE.MANY GOOD TIMES AT VUU & MANY THANKS TO THIS SOUNDTRACKS.
Free Music Review: Only for the true at heart and the wise in mind!
Hit: 4 Stars
It has taken me over three years to find this CD and it was worth every day. I searched and longed for the inner ear satisfaction that I received when I open the jewel case. The movie was monumental as far as cinema to capture the the love and turmoil studying at an HBCU (Historical black college and University- Fisk University representing). From EU-Da butt to the sleeper of the CD which is the late Phyllis Hyman's-Be one. If you have this CD, share it with friends, but guard it with your life.Free Music Review: 20 Years Later, It Still Rocks!
Hit: 4 Stars
Wow, how time flies. It's been 20 years since the film/soundtrack and as I listened to the soundtrack today, memories of college filled my mind. This soundtrack is chock full of gems - EU introducing the world to go-go music with Da [...] and Tisha Campbell's fantastic vocals on Be Alone Tonight, remember the scene with Tisha and Giancarlo when the thumping bass line of The Perfect Match begins? The disc wraps up with the light and airy We've Already Said Goodbye. Good times!