Word: soundtrack
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Secondly, akin to the Disney industry, anime boosts its franchise through soundtrack releases. Amazingly, each show comes packaged with its own CD of best hits, or two or three or four. But none of those characteristic "toony" jingles. Composed mainly by Yoko Kanno, prominent composer in the soundtrack industry, it represents an eclectic mix of lyrical ballads, orchestral vignettes, with a funky Gregorian chant piece thrown in as well. With a beautifully incorporated soundtrack, any dramatic moment in anime can be enhanced tenfold...
Walking into the screening for Miramax's new release Music of the Heart, I actually contemplated selling the pass and booking it towards the Tower Records to buy the soundtrack instead. (I hear it's pretty good--'NSync has a song on it.) Seriously though, I really wasn't in the mood for tear-jerking scenes and cheesy life lessons. Don't I get enough of that from my parents' weekly phone calls...
Clapton Chronicles seems to be made for just such occasions. This 14-track album combines some of Eric Clapton's best from the past two decades, including the acoustic-strummers "Change the World," "Tears in Heaven," "My Father's Eyes" and "Layla" and throws in two more soundtrack tunes, "Blue Eyes Blue" (Runaway Bride) and "Get Lost" (The Story of Us). Yet, surprisingly, nothing from From the Cradle, Clapton's 1994 hit blues cover album is included. Instead, the collection showcases Clapton's original compositions, reaffirming his signature music and creative genius in this collection...
...sequel to the soundtrack for a sequel? The Austin Powers cash cow seems just about ready to kick the milking stool. Fortunately, More Music from Austin Powers 2 tries to avoid the charge of merely trying to cash in by including snippets of dialogue and a fair number of movie-relevant songs (They Might Be Giants' "Dr Evil"). Unlike the hero of the execrable movie, the album remains firmly fixed in the '60s. It sadly lacks the Bacharach tunes and kitschy cover versions of the first two soundtracks, but it has a solid sense of pop music in Swingin' London...
...Down." The hard guitar riffs and big rock sound, combined with Weiland's whiny, albeit pleasantly grating, voice conjure memories of the early '90s rock. The power chords and simplistic drop D chords make the song sound vaguely like "Big Empty," the major hit from Purple and The Crow soundtrack...