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First there was music, then there was Yanni. Not sure what this Yanni stuff sounds like? Imagine planetarium music, crossed with a grade-B movie soundtrack. Now imagine the musicians are a '70s rock band, accompanied by a full orchestra. All that remains to be added is a dose of '90s new age spiritualism, the sexy Greek presence of Yanni and a sky full of stars. Yanni Live at the Acropolis provides all three of these elements: the starry Greek night, 48-track digital recording and for those laser disc connoisseurs, 14 camera angles worth of Yanni's flowing dark...
...video to make it suitable for broadcast, and she has high hopes. However, almost immediately after the video begins playing, Leleina realizes that her serious work has been transformed into an MTV-style mish-mash of jumpy editing, silly graphics, and meaningless buzz words topped off with a soundtrack of hip tunes. Disillusioned, she tells Michael that their relationship is over and she storms out of the building...
...lunge at hipness comes when Troy's band performs an original song called "I'm Nothin,"' in which the opening lyrics are "I got a pothead momma/I got a cokehead dad" and it's downhill from there. Apparently, Hawke wrote this song himself and it is available on the soundtrack album...
Which brings me to the matter at hand: the soundtrack to "In the Name of the Father," a pretty good movie about the Guildford Four ("Falsely Accused. Wrongly Imprisoned"-surely you know the story by now). Why would you want to buy this slickly packaged item? Good question. Despite a few strong new compositions and a handful of rock standards, there's no overarching logic to this collection, and there is too much filler...
Which is much more than I can say for the remaining filler on the soundtrack, which is original score pieces by Trevor Jones. If you want to relive the horror of a forced confession, or feel the pain of the passage of fifteen long years in a British prison, and you find it necessary to have the boring electronic mood music featured in the movie to do so, then these songs are for you. Basically they take the spacey and percussive element I mentioned in the Friday/Seezer/Bono songs and push it way over the top. It doesn't make...