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Get On The Bus: Music From And Inspired By The Motion Picture

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A bunch of good tracks on this album. However, the movie opens with one of the best tracks that Michael Jackson has done in years. Beautiful! Well, it's not here - nowhere to be found. A shame, since it does such a good job setting the tone for the movie. Not sure what the title of the song is, but it would singlehandedly force me to give this album a five star rating. Oh, well!

I could not believe I was hearing a brand new track by the King of Pop when I saw the beginning of this movie. I was so excited, I immediately went online to buy it, only to see that it was not on the soundtrack! Now how the heck do you have Michael Jackson do a song for a movie and don't put it on a soundtrack? It's beyond me.

I was equally disappointed that Michael Jackson's song opened the movie "Get On The Bus", but was absent from the soundtrack. There are some good tracks, but the soundtrack would have been much better had that song been included. For those who don't know, the name of the song is "On The Line", and it was written and produced by Babyface. The only place I have ever seen this song was on a special edition of "Ghosts". Hope this information is helpful to those who need it.

'get on the bus' tells an affecting story of black men on their way to attend the million man march in 1995.

the soundtrack, which is all male, parallels that story effectively. it is a great way to hear the many elements that make up black music, including call and response, chant, rap, and silken vocals from curtis mayfield and d'angelo.

it is a fine and fun soundtrack!

Firstly, while I can understand the disappointment of my fellow reviewers with reference to the omission of the Michael Jackson song, I do wish that they had taken the time to review the songs on offer on this soundtrack to one of Spike Lee's more under stated films. There is much on offer here to meet the needs of any music lover. On the hip hop front, A Tribe Call Quest bring it their on conscious offering 'The Remedy', which, as far as I know isn't available on any other CD. GURU & Dougie fresh seem to be going through the motions on their cuts (Destiny Is Calling, & Tonight's the Nite) but then I've never been the biggest fan of either artist. One of the highlights of the soundtrack is an excellent cover of the Eddie Kendrick 1971 hit' Girl You Need a Change of Mind, by D'Angelo which is worth the purchase of the CD alone. Stevie Wonder also brings a unique interpretation on the Bob Marley hit' Redemption song'. Other highlights include the late great Curtis Mayfield singing 'New World order', which was the title track from his last CD, Blackstreet with lovely mid-tempo offering' Coming home', and my personal favourite, form the unsung Marc Dorsey, 'Welcome back', which hints at what this artist has to offer ( Crave being his one and only offering, as I speak, which I found disappointing) All in all a good varied CD.

But like everyoneelse I'm disapopointed there's no Michael Jackson on it.

The song is called On The Line(written and produced by MJ himself not Babyface)

But the other songs are still good. worth the money