Last Holiday [Soundtrack]

Various Artists (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (July 11, 2006)
• Original Release Date: 2006
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Soundtrack
• Label: Bulletproof
• ASIN: B000GI3QYI
• Also Available in: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #222,741 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Music CD Tracks:
1. Let's Get It On - Marvin Gaye
2. Heavy Makes You Happy (Sha Na Boom Boom) - The Staples Singers
3. The Tracks of My Tears - Smokey Robinson & The Miracles
4. Feeling Good - Nina Simone
5. The Nearness of You - Ann Hampton Callaway
6. Don't Wait Too Long - Madeleine Peyroux
7. Isn't It Romantic - Ann Hampton Calloway
8. Never Can Say Goodbye - Isaac Hayes
9. The Best Years of My Life - Eddie Floyd
10. Make Do With What You Got - Solomon Burke
11. Sometimes - Michael Franti & Spearhead
12. Back Together - Lewis Taylor

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Mixed batch, March 20, 2010

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Xmarc999 (Half Moon Bay, CA United States) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Last Holiday (Audio CD)

As noted in the other review, there are four songs included that were not in the movie (actually five... more on that), and six songs or so that were in the movie and not on this soundtrack. Perhaps there was a rights problem with these other songs, and so the record producer filled in the four added songs. Still, it's odd to have an impression of the music from the movie, and to have a different mix on the soundtrack. But worse is that the new songs in the movie were not included. Queen Latifah did two songs with the Ebenezer Baptist Church Radio Choir; neither appear in the sound track. But in what I consider a capital offense, Smokey Robinson's absolutely incredible, obviously-done-as-a-personal-favor-to-Queen-Latifah, version of The Tracks of My Tears is cavalierly replaced with the version from his hits collection. (His song was the main reason I bought the soundtrack.)

As a compilation of songs, this is a decent collection, and I would probably give it more stars. But it is a distorted reflection of the actual soundtrack, and depriving us of the new songs from the movie is inexcusable.