Customer Reviews

MARRIED TO THE MOB (ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK LP, 1988)

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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.

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.

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

I RECENTLY WON AN AUCTION FOR THE MARRIED TO THE MOB CD WHICH I MAINLY WANTED FOR THE "GOODBYE HORSES" TRACK BY Q. LAZZARUS FROM THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS JAMES GUMB DANCE ROUTINE. I ALSO RECENTLY PURCHASED THE PSYCHE ALBUM "LEGACY" IN WHICH THE GROUP PSYCHE DID A REMAKE OF THE GOODBYE HORSES SONG. I HAVEN'T SEEN ANY REVIEWS WHICH COMPARED THE TWO GROUPS RENDITIONS OF THIS SONG. ALL I CAN SAY IS THAT THE ORIGINAL BY Q. LAZZARUS IS THE BEST, LIKE MOST ALL ORIGINALS. BUT I MUST SAY THAT THE PSYCHE VERSION IS EXCELLENT. THE SINGER'S VOICE IS VERY SIMILAR TO Q. LAZZARUS BUT PSYCHE'S VOCALS AREN'T AS PRONOUNCED IN VOLUME AND TEND TO BLEND IN MORE WITH THE SONG. PSYCHE TENDS TO MAKE USE OF SYNTHESIZERS MORE IN THE SONG. THE DRUMS ARE PRACTICALLY THE SAME RHYTHM AND BEAT IN BOTH VERSIONS.

MOSTLY, I'M WRITING THIS REVIEW FOR PEOPLE WHO CANNOT GET THEIR HANDS ON THE VERY RARE, HARD TO FIND MARRIED TO THE MOB CD BUT WOULD STILL LIKE TO HAVE A GOOD VERSION OF "GOODBYE HORSES" IN THEIR CD COLLECTION SINCE THE CURRENT ALBUM "LEGACY" BY THE GROUP PSYCHE IS READILY AVAILABLE. YOU CAN EVEN GET IT RIGHT HERE ON AMAZON. THE WHOLE ALBUM IS ACTUALLY VERY GOOD AND PRETTY COOL. DON'T BE AFRAID TO BUY IT. YOU WON'T BE DISSAPPOINTED.

The weird song "Goodbye Horses" by the obscure Q. Lazzarus and The Feelies "Too Far Gone" are really the only reasons to own this odd collection of mismatched songs. Brian Eno's lazy cowboy influenced piece "You Don't Miss Your Water" is a novelty, for it is Eno's take on a song probably better sourced from "Riders in the Sky". New Orders "Bizarre Love Triangle" adds to the band's growing collection of residuals for this piece's widespread appearance. The Tom Tom Club serves up their worst song ever.

This review is different in the respect that it addresses what is NOT on the Soundtrack.

Rent the movie again, and listen to the song playing when Michelle Pfeiffer's character, Angela first arrives in the city with her son. The song playing is WELCOME TO THE REAL WORLD, by Jane Child. The self-titled CD, Jane Child, was actually released a year after this movie was made.

Nonetheless, my point is that "Welcome to the Real World" should have made it onto the soundtrack. There, I've said it--- I feel better now.