Edge Of Seventeen: Music From The Motion Picture Soundtrack [Soundtrack]

Various Artists (Composer) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 18, 1999)
• Original Release Date: May 18, 1999
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Soundtrack
• Label: Razor & Tie
• ASIN: B00000J76O
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #164,627 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Right By Your Side - Eurythmics

2. Small Town Boy - Bronski Beat

3. Wishing (If I Had A Photograph Of You) - A Flock Of Seagulls

4. Obsession - Animotion

5. The Politics Of Dancing - Re-Flex

6. Love Plus One - Haircut 100

7. Destination Unknown - Missing Persons

8. So Many Men, So Little Time - Miguel Brown

9. High Energy - Evelyn Thomas

10. Mickey - Toni Basi

11. Why - Bronski Beat

12. Modern Love Is Automatic - A Flock Of Seagulls

13. In The Name Of Love - Thompson Twins

14. You're My World - Cilla Black

15. Blue Skies - Lea Delaria

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Beautiful '80s Soundtrack, July 19, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Edge Of Seventeen: Music From The Motion Picture Soundtrack (Audio CD)

If you grew up in the early '80s and loved the popular music of the day -- New Wave, of course -- you're going to go crazy for this great soundtrack. It's a well-chosen collection, going for powerful favorites rather than just the Top 40 hits. For example, the Eurythmics are represented here not by Sweet Dreams but by the upbeat and delightful Right By Your Side. And who remembered to put the seemingly lost hit The Politics Of Dancing on this disc? Fabulous! A great soundtrack for a great movie.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great as a Gift, March 24, 2003

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Gina M. Valdez (Pacifica, CA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Edge Of Seventeen: Music From The Motion Picture Soundtrack (Audio CD)

If you have a gay best friend, this is the perfect gift, especially if he/she has already seen the film. I sent this to my best friend and he absolutely loved it and remarked that he was not even aware that the film had a soundtrack. Thanks to my search for the movie, surprisingly available on DVD, I was able to send my friend both the DVD and the soundtrack. He loves them both and acknowledges that he received it in the best condition.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Quintessential 1980s ..., September 28, 2001

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Mark - See all my reviews

This review is from: Edge Of Seventeen: Music From The Motion Picture Soundtrack (Audio CD)

"Edge of Seventeen" was a wonderful film, in part for the near-perfect way it encapsulated American popular culture of the early 1980s. This soundtrack album does an equally fine job, providing us with a diverse and generally-memorable collection of tunes from that era.

The soundtrack includes a few well-known 1980s "standards" (if there is such a thing), but this is significantly more than a "greatest hits" collection. The real reason to buy this album is for its collection of lesser-known selections, including some surprisingly sensitive and evocative tunes that you probably haven't heard in a decade or more. Chief among these is perhaps the georgeous and etherial "Small Town Boy" by Bronski Beat. There's also great stuff by the Thompson Twins, A Flock of Seagulls, and others.

Of course, there's also something to be said for the somewhat tackier pop tunes on the album, too. You could, for example, reenact the movie's opening scene by popping this album into your car CD player, cueing up Toni Basil's "Mickey," cranking up the volume, and singing along. Guaranteed to instantly cheer you up!