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Music From the Film the Groomsmen

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Sure, the CD is a nice enough collection of excellent classic rock tunes. But I came here to get the versions, I heard on the DVD. There, actor John Leguizamo was singing "My Kinda Lover", "The Breakup Song (They Don't Write `Em)" plus "Shakin'" by Eddie Money. He did a pretty good job. So I have no idea, why these recordings are not included on the soundtrack album. Instead we get the original versions, most fans of this kind of music already own. Hmm...
Also, actor Donal Logue performed (and wrote!) a short little acoustic song for the movie, which, despite being a very close cousin of The Beatles' "Hey Jude", I would have liked finding it here. But again, no such luck!

Having just watched the movie on DVD, and being pleasantly surprised by John Leguizamo's versions of The Breakup Song, Shakin', and My Kinda Lover, I was hoping that I'd find his renditions of these tunes on the soundtrack album. Instead, what I find are just the songs as performed by the original artists, which I could find in any number of places! And why replace Shakin' with that bonus track that wasn't even in the movie?

I wanted to purchase the songs AS PERFORMED in the movie. NOT the original songs by the original artists. I really liked Leguizamo's singing as well as the little tune sung by Logue. Pity.

You'd probably like the soundtrack even if you didn't see the film...but you'd be doing yourself a disservice if you DON'T see it. Watching the film, my impression is that the music choices were quite careful, "conscious," that no one song has been "thrown in there" for the sake of having background noise. I think that kind of awareness is impressive given that it's fairly rare!

Again, the soundtrack itself is still WELL worth listening to. There are sentimental melodies/ballads, some familiar classic rock, new band(s) & a great original. I just wish that they'd included some of the other originals that were written for & performed in the film. Just another reason to go see it: more great music. Watch Jay Mohr driving along, hurting, singing along while "Only the Lonely" plays on the radio & that song will get to you like never before.

It's a 5 star soundtrack & most enjoyable, perhaps, when witnessing the 5 star performances.