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Sordid Lives

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I absolutely love this movie... and I loved the music in it, but they left the best stuff out. I love Olivia's songs, but there is no Tammy Wynette at all. And the quoted lines are good, but not the best. The sometimes tend toward the melancholy and the unmemorable... it's like they waited for the line after the big laugh line and included it. Buy the DVD when it comes out and Tammy Wynette's greatest hits and you'll be much more pleased.

A wonderful album, you can even talk about it as a must hear. Olivia Newton-John's "Sordid Lives" is amazingly great, along with her renditions of traditional hymns and a re-release of her 1994 album "Gaia" track "Trust yourself". George S. Clinton's tracks are as swell... just give it a spin and you'll knwo what I mean ...

We used it for a comedy pantomime show to raise money for charity. We were pleasantly surprised at how many people in the audience had seen the movie and loved it. Anyone that liked the movie will enjoy the soundtrack, which includes not only many songs that were played in the background, but also some classic dialog from several scences.

This album showcases 2 well-known talents, Olivia Newton-John and George Clinton, as well as 2 who deserve to be. The raunchy title track, sung by Ms. Newton-John in character as a southern ex-convict, is a hoot and skewers narrow-minded small-town moral attitudes. Ms. Newton-John's rendition of Will the Circle Be Unbroken, sung here as a mournful lament as opposed to the traditional up-tempo arrangement, simply soars, as does her version of another traditional hymn, Coming Home. Trust Yourself, the closing song, written by Olivia, fits the movie's themes of self-acceptance and allows her to show that she is a talented songwriter as well as singer, and also shows that she knows how to rock. The 2 tracks by Kacey Jones, whose warm, smoky voice calls to mind Brenda Lee and k.d. lang, are pure country music at its best, as is the Bobbie Eakes tune Better a Painful Ending. George Clinton's score features country, latin, and blues-flavored pieces. "Please Don't Be Gay" is a delightfully campy concoction. Those who buy this album without having seen the movie may be a bit confused by all of the dialogue included here. It is a wonderful soundtrack if for no other reason than the presence of Olivia Newton-John's beautiful voice. It serves as a reminder that she still has one of the purest voices in the music industry and that it has been too long since we had a new CD from her. I would have rated this CD 5 stars had there been less dialogue and if the Tammy Wynette songs featured in the movie had been included.

As an Olivia fan, I had to add this soundtrack to my collection. But after listening to it once, I have no desire to hear it again, and it's been shelved. Nevertheless, I'm glad I have it for the few Olivia tracks that are featured.

Trashy, camp, bizarre, socially inept and smalltown bigots,all pretty much sums up the characters and storyline of Sordid Lives.

Although at times some characters and storyline would be described as over the top, both are pretty much a portayal and reflection of the world we have lived in and still live in today.

A very refreshing, realistic and somewhat disturbingly humourous movie, that will take you on the ride of your life.

Watch it with your friends over drinks, etc and just watch as the characters become a part of you.

Oh, and Olvia is excellent as trashy Bitzy Mae, a complete departuren from her usual roles.

Sordid Lives is the forthcoming gay-themed indy flick featuring Olivia Newton-John in the pivotal role of an ex-convict lesbian saloon singer with a secret. The soundtrack contains 27 tracks, 9 of which are filler - blurbs of dialogue lifted directly from the film, including "Funeral Talk", in which Newton-John tries her best to emulate Dolly Parton. Musically, Olivia is featured on 5 of the tracks, including the title song. "Sordid Lives" is performed like a tongue-in-cheek, lyrical caricature of country music. Three of the other songs (Will the Circle Be Unbroken, Coming Home, and Just as I Am) are hymms. The final (and best) Newton-John cut on the soundtrack is "Trust Yourself", a song she wrote for her outstanding 1994 album, "Gaia". Most of the other tracks (performed by various artists) are ultimately forgettable. This is not one of those blockbuster soundtracks, folks. It's loud and crass and somewhat morose. I don't regret buying it, because I'm a fan of ONJ's music. But it's not all that entertaining: it's more of a curiosity piece.

WOW, I CAN PICTURE THE MOVIE WHEN LISTENING TO THIS SOUNDTRACK AND I HAVE NOT SEEN THE MOVIE IN ABOUT 3-4 YEARS. I DID PURCHASE THE DVD AT THE SAME TIME WITH THIS SOUNDTRACK BUT SAVING IT SO I CAN HAVE MY SISTERS WATCH IT WITH ME. I RENTED THE MOVIE FEW YEARS BACK AND WANTED TO PURCHASE IT BUT COULD NOT FIND IT. PLEASE SEE MY REVIEW ON THE MOVIE.
THANKS.

Wonderful film portraying the struggles of being gay in a homophobic society using comedy as a medium. This film is a classic.

Loved this movie! Love this soundtrack! First the bad, if your looking for all those great Tammy Wynette songs Brother Boy lipsyncs to, don't bother with this cd. The good news is it also includes songs not used prominately in the movie (Get Off The Cross), full-length versions of some that were sung partially (Please Don't Be Gay), and some of the wonderful Del Shores dialogue that made up the film.