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The Wedding Singer Volume 2: More Music From The Motion Picture

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Aahh...the uniqueness of 80s music. Been looking for the Flying Lizards "Money" song since then. It's been on several movie sound tracks however it never made it on the 'sound track CD' until now. "Leisure Rules"

I bought the original Soundtrack album, and then was disappointed that many of the songs I heard in the movie, and wanted, weren't on it.

It turns out I just needed to get this one instead! This was the music I grew up with, along with big hair, ripped denim, and the CD revolution...I'm soooo glad it's coming back, since my record collection is pretty useless!

While one laments the omission of 'Jam on it' by Newcleus and the chopping up of Adam Sandler's 'Grow Old With You' (if you sneeze the song is over), the soundtrack pretty much includes all the songs that people complained were missing from the first soundtrack, including 'Private Idaho', 'Money' and the aforementioned 'Grow Old With You'. Plus, how often do you see Hall & Oates on an 80s related soundtrack? Not as good as the first but still cool. Of course, I am biased having seen the movie 8 times, and would have bought this soundtrack had it contained pure drivel.

Few movies deserve a two-volume soundtrack, but The Wedding Singer is one of those rare exceptions. While Volume 2 is not quite as good as the first album, it still contains some exceedingly good 1980s tracks. This music is not the best the decade produced, but it does represent a good cross-section of styles and sounds. Several of these songs were also very prominent in the movie--for example, the movie opens with Adam Sandler singing (sans patch) Dead or Alive's "You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)" and closes with Spandau Ballet's slow ballad "True." "Too Shy" by Kajagoogoo is a quintessential 80s song, and anyone who grew up in the 80s can hardly forget the temporarily huge A Flock of Seagulls ("Space Age Love Song"). "Private Idaho" is a typically fun B-52's song. As hard as it is to admit, Hall & Oates were once a wildly successful duo, and "You Make My Dreams" is one of their better songs. No soundtrack from the 80s would be complete without a track from Madonna, and although "Holiday" is far from her best song, this is the song Robbie Hart chose to sing on his ill-fated return to the wedding singer stage after having been left standing at the altar. While the 1980s was about much more than greed, some would probably consider Flying Lizards' "Money (That's What I Want)" a veritable theme song of the decade. Remarkably, two CDs still do not contain all of the great 80s songs from the movie itself, and we all have some other tracks we wish had been included on the soundtracks, but this is still a great collection of quintessential 80s music.

After the surprising success of the first volume of songs from The Wedding Singer soundtrack, a second volume was rushed out containing songs from the movie that didn't appear on the first one. There are some really good and underrated songs like "All I Can Do" by The Cars, "You Make My Dreams" by Hall & Oates & "Space Age Love Song" by A Flock of Seagulls, but the overall quality doesn't match the first. "Holiday" is one of Madonna's lesser songs from the era as is "Private Idaho" by The B-52's. "Too Shy" by Kajagoogoo is the most obvious 80's song on either soundtrack and while it brings back a laugh, you don't want to hear it too often. "Love Stinks" by the J. Geils Band is excellent, but just as with the first edition's use of Ellen Dow on "Rapper's Delight", it would have been great to include Adam Sandler's version from the film as it is one of the movie's highlights.

This movie was a favorite in our household and my daughters always enjoyed the karaoke a the end of the DVD, so we searched for the soundtrack. I actually chose this volume over volume 1 for two reasons...it contains the favorite from the movie, "I want to grow old with you" actually sung by Adam Sandler and secondly, because Volume 1 contains the song that Adam Sandler sings about his ex-girlfriend, which contains quite a bit of profanity, so I didn't want to get it for my kids. I would have given it five stars, but we find the introduction by Billy Idol at the start of the last track, "I want to grow old with you," which is dialog from the movie, to be distracting and it gets tiring to have to listen to over and over when you just want to hear the song, which I mentioned was the absolute favorite.

you will love this album. Truth be told I liked this one more than the first cd. The recordings are excellent.

I love this movie and the music in it!

(BTW, the old musical is The Music Man. The Beatles also sang it. :D )

notable exclusions include "Boys Don't Cry," "99 Luftballons" and also "Der Kommissar." I don't really care about Boys Don't Cry since i can listen to it anytime on my Cure CD but 99 Luftballons and Der Kommissar should have made the cut over anything by Hall and Oates. Yuck. I think we have some anti-german sentiment present.

What happened to The Cure?? I bought the first CD, thinking that Boy's Don't Cry was on it, but lo and behold, it wasn't on there! I bought this CD thinking it would be on there, but NO! Ah, well, it's still a great CD! I like Too Shy and Money, That's What I Want, Love Stinks, You Spin Me Round, I'll Grow Old With You, and all the others!