MARRIED TO THE MOB (ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK LP, 1988)

CHRIS ISAAK, DEBBIE HARRY SINEAD O'CONNOR (Performer) | Format: Vinyl

Product Details

• Vinyl
• Label: REPRISE
• ASIN: B00131EAGK
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #871,449 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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1988 ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK LP WITH MUSIC AND PERFORMANCES BY SINEAD O'CONNOR, NEW ORDER, CHRIS ISAAK, DEBBIE HARRY, ZIGGY MARLEY & THE MELODY MAKERS, TOM TOM CLUB, Q LAZARUS, VOODOOIST CORPORATION, FEELIES, BRIAN ENO. FILM STARRED MICHELLE PFEIFFER, MATTHEW MODINE, DEAN STOCKWELL, MERCEDES RUEHL, ALEC BALDWIN. CULT COLLECTIBLE!

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13 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Hello, "Horses", April 1, 2003

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Scott Sweet "Music Freak" (Colorado Springs, CO) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Married to the Mob (Audio CD)

Music supervisors usually choose existing songs to be used in a movie, apart from the score created for the film. "Goodbye Horses" gained notoriety for its use in Jame Gumb's, um, -dancing- scene in "Silence of The Lambs". Jonathan Demme's music supervisors assembled a good set of tunes.

Most of the songs are straight out of MTV "120 Minutes" territory. Before alternative became an obsolete term, these were good examples. Sinead O'Connor's Jump in The River" and New Order's "Bizarre Love Triangle" will yank you right back into your senior year of high school (depending upon your age). "Devil Does Your Dog Bite?" is fun and goofy. The Feelies' "Too Far Gone" has a strong kinship to The B52's.

Brian Eno Closes the CD with a soothing, quasi-country lament ("You Don't Miss Your Water"), a reminder of how much variety he has brought to pop music as a musician and producer.

As for "Goodbye Horses," it sounds smaller and mellower when not played in Jame Gumb's torture chamber/basement. It's a good dance track with an easy beat. There's a slight mania surrounding this album, mainly because that song is so hard to find. Even if the "Horses" were absent, the soundtrack is a good cross-section of 80's new wave/dance pop.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Mad About The Mob, April 5, 2008

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Maxxwell T.Denton "Not Crazy,Just Mad" (Seattle, WA USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Married to the Mob (Audio CD)

I have been carring around the cassette of this soundtrack since the late 80's. I have looked through every retail and used record store up and down the west coast for this soundtrack. Thank god for the internet, and thank you Amazon.

This has got to be one of the best complitations of the late 80's music scene, that no one listened to. With the ultra rare Chris Isaak track "Suspicion Of Love" and the Debbie Harry cover of The Castaways "Liar, Liar" you have the joy of New Order, early Sinead O'Conner, Ziggy Marley and the Tom Tom Club. This album even got me into listening to Brian Eno. I have loved it since highschool and now will love it for decades to come.

5.0 out of 5 stars Classic 80's, great film!, August 14, 2011

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Keith Ross (San Francisco, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Married to the Mob (Audio CD)

What is not to like, Deborah Harry, Q Lazzarus, and Chris Isaak are the hard to find gems on this one!