Velvet Goldmine: Music From The Original Motion Picture
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Free Music Review: Wow! I mean just wow!
Hit: 5 Stars
Even if you don't want to watch the movie (and why wouldn't you) you have to buy this soundtrack. This is the soundtrack that proves that other soundtracks are merely prepackaged garbage. No soundtrack so captures an era and a mood as completely as this one (ok there's also the 24 Hour Party People soundtrack but that's IT!)
These songs are riveting, amazing, great. Twentieth Century Boy is worth the price alone. I want to find every version of this song (I heard a version in the Truman Show as well - a 50s rockabilly version) and play them on repeat. The movie did such a great job of capturing the 70s versions of Bowie and Iggy Pop, it'd almost be blasphemous for the soundtrack to fizzle. It doesn't fizzle. This is the CD that you wish Bowie would have put out (he's done great songs but he's also done mediocre ones) and this is the CD that you can play loud and play on repeat.
There's really not much more to say about it but the gushing joy of a fan.
Free Music Review: DEAR GOD, FOUND THE MAXIMUM VOLUME ALBUM!!!
Hit: 5 Stars
saw the film-- LOVED it. heard the music-- ADORED it. the movie is absolutely fabulous for many reasons, including the cast (JONATHAN, EWAN). the soundtrack is just as awesome, but because of the intense mixture of singers. no david bowie (who is basically the essence of the film) but who cares? you get brian eno ('73 pre-punk glam, incredible if you can hear the words), roxy music, lou reed, steve harley... and the thing is, i hardly knew of these people before i heard the album! but they are amazing. relative new comer people like shudder to think (HOT ONE will become an absolute CLASSIC), grant lee buffalo (we'll take the whole shebang...), placebo (doing the boy george), and even donna matthews from elastica give the album the five stars that it deserves. MAKE IT A POINT TO LISTEN TO THIS ALBUM SOMETIME ALONG YOUR LIFE, BUT MOSTLY WHEN YOU WANT TO GO BACKWARDS, TO THE GOOD TIMES THAT SOME OF US NEVER EVEN LIVED THROUGH.Free Music Review: Not Complete from The Movie
Hit: 5 Stars
The soundtrack is missing quite a few of the songs that were in the movie but luckily I've managed to find them all except "Sebastian" sung by Jonathan Rhys Myers and "Unclean" song by Ewan McGregor. The Stooges got together to form the Wylde Ratts (seen as the Rats in the movie)and wrote T.V. Eye and Unclean. They recorded T.V. Eye with Iggy Pop (the Ewan McGregor version is on the soundtrack)later. Gimee Danger is also sung by Ewan on the cd but available with Iggy on vocals elsewhere. As far as I can tell, Unclean hasn't been recorded at all!! The 2 most notably missing songs would be by Marc Bolan and Gary Glitter as they highlight specific scenes in the movie, Cosmic Dancer and Do You Wanna Touch Me. You have to be careful if you use a program like Gracenote when downloading your cd's because there are 2 different versions out there. Placebo fans DON'T MISS their cover of 20th Century Boy.Free Music Review: no title at all
Hit: 5 Stars
I've always been a Radiohead fan.Have all their cd's, all posters, t-shirts and all the stuff you can buy with an idiotic and obsesibe Radiohead paranoia.Why am I talking about Radiohead on the Velvet Goldmine review?, simple actually.It was one of those ugly grey days when you just want to kill yourself instead of being inside a car, after of course spending 8 hours non-stop inside one.So I turned the radio on and a voice said: Radiohead's Thom Yorke and John Greenwood cooperated on this soundtrack making Roxy Music covers. After hearing 2HB, I bought it inmediately. Being on a completely static glam stage, the album develops very well, giving the audience a 70's glam nostalgia, a complete odisey which, if you are permanently on a ironic mood, youll love this soundtrack perfect to play inside an airport, a complete collection of music for airports (remember Brian Eno).Free Music Review: The Doors (of Glam) are open
Hit: 5 Stars
Certainly, this soundtrack doesn't contain all the songs of the film (otherwise it would have been a double cd, wouldn't it?), and the lack of a masterpiece like Cosmic Dancer is incredible, but listening to this cd has gave me a complete mindblow; not only, has encouraged me to discover David Bowie, which, even if he didn't allow using his songs (generous as usual) has been the great inspiration of fantastic new and truely glam pieces like The Ballad of Maxwell Demon.And then have come the beautyful Marc Bolan, the New York Dolls, Roxy Music and Brian Eno, a whole new musical world where everything is "perfect, and venomous".
To conclude, don't waist this oportunity, if you don't know much about those glitterig years but you have been fascinated by what you saw in the film, this disc is the first step to a stairway to heaven.