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Thursday, September 9, 2010
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FOOTLOOSE - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
CBS/Columbia (1984, Jan.)
Canadian 1rst pressing JS 3942
Rating: 3.0/ F
Category: 1980's Pop / Dance Music
Format: 120g (or less) vinyl at 33 1/3 rpm
"Footloose" performed & produced by Kenny Loggins
"Let's Hear It For the Boy" performed by Deniece Williams & produced by George Duke
"Holding Out For a Hero" performed by Bonnie Tylor & produced by Jim Steinman
"Dancing in the Sheets" performed by Shalamar & produced by Bill Wolfer
Soundtrack executive producers: Becky Shargo/Dean Pitchford
Album coordinator: Michael Dilbeck
Soundtrack associate producer: Craig Zadan
Album assembly for Mastering: John Boylan and Stewart Whitmore
Mastering engineer: Wally Traugott at Capitol Studios, Los Angeles
Album Assembled at Digital Magnetics, Los Angeles
This is one of the worse front cover 'artwork' I have ever witnessed. I mean it's as if Kevin Bacon (or Kenny Loggins) is constipated. The cheap photo/drawing is grainy and washed out in typical 1980's fuschia. Six snapshots from what is an awful movie adorn the back cover.
The floppy thin - 120g at the most - vinyl is housed in a white semi waxed inner sleeve containing the lyrics printed on it.
I won't waste too much digital ink or pixels on this record. The reason I devoted any time to it at all and chose it for my third review was to juxtapose it to my first two picks. The 2010 Arcade Fire album was strong musically but uneven and generally poor sound wise while the Count Basie scored high in both departments while oddly dating from the same year, 1984 as does this soundtrack.
The album comprises the four hits listed above in the credits, the remaining five songs are simply 'filler up' material. Musically they're all crap, the Shalamar being the least annoying of the lot. The title cut and the Deniece Williams's song are part of my personal TOP 20 CAN'T STAND IT list. The former gave birth to a nerve wracking line dance while the latter produced a kitsch music video. All share the cheap obnoxious drum machine percussion's and digital synth sounds so rampant of the mid 1980's. Writing and arrangements are so cheesy, they're painfully laughable.
The sound is compressed with a tiny bit of punch in the artificial kick drum but definitely tilted up in the tonal balance rendering hardness and listener fatigue to the mix; this being quite typical of this music period and to a lesser degree often encountered with the 'Columbia House Sound' of the late 1970's on up (original U.S.'s are even more detailed).
SUMMING UP:
Canadian 1rst pressing JS 3942
Rating: 3.0/ F
Category: 1980's Pop / Dance Music
Format: 120g (or less) vinyl at 33 1/3 rpm
"Footloose" performed & produced by Kenny Loggins
"Let's Hear It For the Boy" performed by Deniece Williams & produced by George Duke
"Holding Out For a Hero" performed by Bonnie Tylor & produced by Jim Steinman
"Dancing in the Sheets" performed by Shalamar & produced by Bill Wolfer
Soundtrack executive producers: Becky Shargo/Dean Pitchford
Album coordinator: Michael Dilbeck
Soundtrack associate producer: Craig Zadan
Album assembly for Mastering: John Boylan and Stewart Whitmore
Mastering engineer: Wally Traugott at Capitol Studios, Los Angeles
Album Assembled at Digital Magnetics, Los Angeles
This is one of the worse front cover 'artwork' I have ever witnessed. I mean it's as if Kevin Bacon (or Kenny Loggins) is constipated. The cheap photo/drawing is grainy and washed out in typical 1980's fuschia. Six snapshots from what is an awful movie adorn the back cover.
The floppy thin - 120g at the most - vinyl is housed in a white semi waxed inner sleeve containing the lyrics printed on it.
I won't waste too much digital ink or pixels on this record. The reason I devoted any time to it at all and chose it for my third review was to juxtapose it to my first two picks. The 2010 Arcade Fire album was strong musically but uneven and generally poor sound wise while the Count Basie scored high in both departments while oddly dating from the same year, 1984 as does this soundtrack.
The album comprises the four hits listed above in the credits, the remaining five songs are simply 'filler up' material. Musically they're all crap, the Shalamar being the least annoying of the lot. The title cut and the Deniece Williams's song are part of my personal TOP 20 CAN'T STAND IT list. The former gave birth to a nerve wracking line dance while the latter produced a kitsch music video. All share the cheap obnoxious drum machine percussion's and digital synth sounds so rampant of the mid 1980's. Writing and arrangements are so cheesy, they're painfully laughable.
The sound is compressed with a tiny bit of punch in the artificial kick drum but definitely tilted up in the tonal balance rendering hardness and listener fatigue to the mix; this being quite typical of this music period and to a lesser degree often encountered with the 'Columbia House Sound' of the late 1970's on up (original U.S.'s are even more detailed).
The Bonnie Tyler cut is the heaviest sinner in the compression department plus the inner groove distortion doesn't help neither, this one garnering a score of 2.0 at the most. The seven inch 'Footloose single' was even worse than this album version which has a slightly altered mix; the former exhibiting more compression to yield what AT THE TIME was considered a VERY LOUD MIX. Keep in mind that compared to the previous decade, the '1974 sound value ladder' was quite the opposite in every production aspect. Who could have predicted back then (1984) that 25 or so years in the future, the majority of dance, pop, rock & metal would sink still lower sonic wise in the Quest for even LOUDER LEVELS!
SUMMING UP:
Highly recommended as a reference to show visitors what NOT to aim for, followed right after by the Basie 45rpm "88 Basie Street" of the same year to contrast Pure Greatness with Pure Shit.
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DON'T PANIC, MORE DIVERSITY TO COME
Shahid and Kareena are back together once again…
Remember how Shahid Kapoor and Kareena Kapoor avoided shooting together for the patch work of their much delayed and now flopped film Milenge Milenge?
It’s clear that the two ex lovers have been avoiding each other likea deadly disease. But now, if things go as planned director Siddharth Malhotra whose first film We Are Family opened at theaters this Thursday might bring the two exes together.
Siddharth had originally planned his second film with Kajol. But since the actress will be on a maternity break from work for about a year and a half, the director has penned another script, a father-daughter comedy.
Siddharth hopes to rope in Rishi Kapoor and his niece Kareena, as father and daughter in the film. For the romantic angle (with Kareena obviously) the director might rope in Shahid who is his very good friend.
“I was the Associate Director of ‘Vivah’. Shahid and I have been close since then. Now we’re even closer. I really value his judgement,” Malhotra is quoted as saying by a news agency.
Malhtora added that he will approach Shahid for the role only after getting the script approved from Karan Johar whom he calls his ‘guru’.
Priyanka Chopra to star in Race 2
One of the most awaited sequels is Race 2. After the super response to Race, the combo of director duo Abbas-Mustan and producer Ramesh Taurani (Tips) is all set to return with yet another high octane thriller. The casting of Race 2 has been a much talked about topic among industry folks and on last count it was heard that Anil Kapoor, Saif Ali Khan and John Abraham are part of the project while the leading ladies were yet to be finalized.
However, the latest is that the makers have just signed Priyanka Chopra for one of the main female leads. Confirming this, producer Ramesh Taurani says, "Yes Priyanka Chopra has been finalized for Race 2 while we are still on the look out for 2 more heroines." On being asked, whom the actress was paired opposite, Taurani said, "That you will have to wait and watch as Race 2 is also full of twists and turns."
Taurani also denied the rumours doing the rounds about Saif walking out of the project. "All these stories are completely false. Saif is very much a part of Race 2. He along with Anil Kapoor, John Abraham, and now Priyanka Chopra are the actors who are confirmed on board."
With Priyanka joining the cast, Race 2 only gets hotter and hotter. We can't wait!
