Party Monster [Soundtrack]

Various Artists (Composer) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 2, 2003)
• Original Release Date: 2003
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Soundtrack
• Label: Tvt
• ASIN: B0000C23H1
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (24 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #51,712 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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114 of 119 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Empty-Headed Happy, December 18, 2003

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Darshan "darshan1" (Houston, TX USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Party Monster (Audio CD)

From my trips to the Limelight, I'm pretty sure the soundtrack to Party Monster mostly won't recreate Disco 2000 for the listener, but it will still provide a numbing, druggy tripped-out atmosphere. Since, strangely, Amazon doesn't list the contents, let's start there:

Mannequin "Take Me to the Club"
Ladytron "Seventeen"
Miss Kitten & The Hacker "Frank Sinatra"
Felix da Housecat vs. Pop Tarts featuring Macauley Culkin "Money Success Fame Glamour"
Waldorf "You're My Disco"
Stacey Q "Two of Hearts"
Tomcraft "Overdose"
Happy Thought Hall "Get Happy"
Vitalic "Le Rock 01"
Tones On Tail "Go"
Nina Hagen "New York, New York"
Scissor Sisters "It Can't Come Quickly Enough"
W.I.T. "Inside Out"
Stephen "tin tin" Duffy "Kiss Me"
Shannon "Give Me Tonight"
ABC "How To Be A Millionaire"
Keoki "Crash" (original mix)
Marilyn Manson as Christina "The La La Song"
Headrillaz feat. Ricky Barrow "Good is Bad"

If you can't tell from the track listing, a lot of it is actually not electroclash music, and contrary to popular belief, "Total Eclipse Of The Heart" is NOT on the soundtrack, thank goodness.

A lot of the music sounds like Kraftwerk-era old school techno when the beats-per-minute were still well below 140. For example Mannequin's "take me to the club" is bored-with-the-world down tempo dance music. Ladytron's "seventeen" and Miss Kitten's "Frank Sinatra" are Emperor Norton tracks which both leave you feeling that the vocalists are jaded, louche and stoned. "Frank Sinatra" has been described as "merciless" and it's very apt. Happy Thought Hall's "Get Happy" and W.I.T's "Inside Out" are also mindless, mild techno. Again, the female vocalists sound spacey, like they've been hit in the head with a hammer. (hmm...)

Felix da Housecat's "Money Success Fame Glamour" is a great, nihilistic anthem worthy of the club kids with a beat to rival Frankie Goes To Hollywood's "Relax." Vitalic's "Le Rock 01" and (of course) Keoki's "Crash" are actually club-use tracks. Marilyn Manson's song also sounds like it would be great under strobe lights. Scissor Sisters "It Can't Come Quickly Enough" is, finally, not down-tempo techno. It's mellow, trippy and pretty.

Now, the 80's music. Why Stacey Q's "Two of Hearts" and Shannon's freestyle "Give Me Tonight" are on the soundtrack, I can't imagine, but they are cute songs. If you don't know Tones on Tail's "Go" then you're really missing out, but I bet you already have it on The Grosse Pointe Blank soundtrack. Stephen Duffy's song "Kiss Me" also sounds really 80's. And if you know Nina Hagen, you know she's an acquired taste.

There are probably better, deeper mixes available of a lot of these songs, but this is a good collection, and if you enjoyed the film, this conjures up its carefree but lethal aura very well.

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars First CD I bought in a WHILE, June 1, 2006

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Boris Shapiro "Biggie" (NJ, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Party Monster (Audio CD)

This CD is absolutely addicting there is no doubt about it! I often keep it in my cd player for days on end just listening to it on a cycle. You can just cruise and have it playing in the background or blast it and sing like an idiot with the music. Its just so damn catchy its rediculous.....

8 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I Can't Get Enough!, September 1, 2005

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Bridgett (Georgia, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Party Monster (Audio CD)

I was introduced to the movie Party Monster last year during my first semester in college...... Needless to say I fell in love with all of its glamour and glitter covering the infectious wounds caused by obsession and fame...

Any who, this CD is one of the few that I can honestly say I can listen to from beginning to end without skipping tracks... POINT BEING: It Is FABULOUS, 'nuff said.