Swing Kids: Music From The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
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Free Music Notes for Swing Kids: Music From The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Free Music Review: great swing dance music
Hit: 5 Stars
If you love to swing dance, this CD is great. I t makes me want to dance more then my body should.
Free Music Review: Swing Kids is awesome!
Hit: 5 Stars
The songs are great and fun to sing to!It just makes you want to get up and dance!Free Music Review: It's the best cd ever next to newsies
Hit: 5 Stars
I Love this cd!!!!Swing kids is my 2nd favorite next to Newsies!!!!I Love it!!Free Music Review: Swing, Swing, Swing...
Hit: 4 Stars
SWING KIDS is a fine but obscure movie about young nonconformists in prewar Nazi Germany who rebel against their authoritarian society by indulging in Swing music and dance clubs. Derided by the Nazis as "decadent", "Black" and "Jewish," Swing was banned, and it's adherents were forcibly conscripted, arrested, tortured, and sent to concentration camps. In SWING KIDS, the irresistible pressures of conformity ratchet apart the relationship between three best friends. Sad, yet ultimately defiant, SWING KIDS is a fascinating look at ordinary day-to-day life in National Socialist Germany.
Fortunately, "sad" is not a word that can be applied to the soundtrack, which is rife with Swing classics from Benny Goodman, Artie Shaw, Count Basie, and others. Some of the records are wonderfully archaic scratchy originals. Others are new orchestrations done for the film.
The downside to this CD is James Horner's film orchestrations which are mostly not Swing, and manage to interrupt the party just as it settles into its groove. It's unfair to complain: After all, this is a movie soundtrack, the guy who wrote the original music for the movie should be on it, and when he's in Swing, he's got that Thing. But having to listen to a cheery little minor key string piece titled "Arvid Beaten" in between "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen" and "Jumping At The Woodside" is really disconcerting. Like the soundtrack to YELLOW SUBMARINE, the film orchestrations should have been gathered together on the "B" side (a good argument to bring back the 33.3 record). For myself, I just hit the "Track Forward" button.
Fortunately, the Swing more than outweighs Horner's minor musical distractions. This should have been a five star recording, and could have been a three star recording. I'm giving it four stars. The Swing is splendid.
Free Music Review: A great soundtrack for its purpose.
Hit: 4 Stars
There isn't a very high chance I'll put this soundtrack to the 1994 feel-good Nazi flick of the year in my CD players anytime soon. This is no attack on its quality as a soundtrack, since in composition it perfectly fits the film.No, the problem with this is that by making it authentic, its listening quality is instantly diminished. The swing music is great! The orchestral sections are beautiful, some wonderful work from Horner. But together, the rhythm of the soundtrack gets slightly annoying. Imagine you're driving down the road on a long trip, and you're really enjoying your favorite radio station. You cross through an area where that signal dips out, and instead you have to put on a totally different genre radio station. As soon as you start to get into that, the signal for it drops, and your original one comes back on... until it drops again, and... see my point?
The swing/orchestral combination isn't the problem. The problem is that juuuust as you start to really get into a swing music feeling, an orchestral comes on, and just as you get into that... well, I'm sure you excruciatingly get my long-winded point by now.
Excellent soundtrack, inescapable arrangment issues... decide how much that would affect you before you buy it.