Sweetback's Baadasssss Song / Don't Play Us Cheap [2 on 1] [Soundtrack]

Melvin VanPeebles | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 26, 1999)
• Original Release Date: November 9, 1999
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Soundtrack
• Label: Stax
• ASIN: B0000296NN
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #203,151 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. Sweetback Losing His Cherry

2. Sweetback Getting It Uptight and Preaching It So Hard the ...

3. Come on Feet Do Your Thing

4. Sweetback's Theme

5. Hoppin' John

6. Mojo Woman

7. Sanra Z

8. Reggins Hanging on in There as Best They Can

9. Won't Bleed Me

10. Man Tries Running His Usual Game But Sweetback's Jones Is So Strong He

Disc: 2

1. You Cut up the Clothes in the Closet of My Dreams

2. Break That Party and Opening

3. The Eight Day Week

4. Saturday Night

5. The Bowsers Thing

6. The Book of Life

7. Quittin' Time

8. Ain't Love Grand

9. I'm a Bad Character

10. Know Your Business

See all 21 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3.0 out of 5 stars Too much noise from the film on disc one, January 31, 2009

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Sean Tanner (Berkeley, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sweetback's Baadasssss Song / Don't Play Us Cheap [2 on 1] (Audio CD)

Disc one, containing the soundtrack from the infamous Sweetback film, is marred by too many snipets from the actual film layered on top of the music. Conceptually interesting maybe, but it is not listenable in the same way that the soundtrack to Superfly is. A couple of tracks are relatively free from an excess of film noise and are worth repeated listens, particularly as they are performed by an embryonic Earth, Wind, and Fire.

Disc two was a pleasant surprise and, though it is at root a soundtrack for a musical, is far better than disc one. The soundtrack is a mix of 20th Century musical styles (gospel, tin-pan alley, jazz, blues, even Bossa Nova) and feels like a much more focused effort.

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars When Lily Did The Zam Poo Oochie, September 3, 2000

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Hermine Stover "Hermine Stover" (perris, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sweetback's Baadasssss Song / Don't Play Us Cheap [2 on 1] (Audio CD)

I did not find this track on any of these albums, but i sure wish i could, it is HIS FINEST Work and if anyone knows where i can get a clean copy...mine is ancient, email me at [e-mail]

thanks

2 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars If you hated the films, you'll love the music, January 16, 2002

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Andre M. "brnn64" (Mt. Pleasant, SC United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sweetback's Baadasssss Song / Don't Play Us Cheap [2 on 1] (Audio CD)

The film sweet sweetback was cinematic garbage.... Don't Play Us Cheap as a film is too strange for a lot of people. But the music from both films are great! I strongly recommend this as Van Peebles was a better composer than he was a director.