Boys On The Side ~ Original Soundtrack Album [Soundtrack]

Various Artists - Soundtracks - 1995

Product Details

• Audio CD (January 31, 1995)
• Original Release Date: January 31, 1995
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Soundtrack
• Label: Arista
• ASIN: B000002VO2
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (23 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #63,501 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Track Listings

1. You Got It - Bonnie Raitt

2. I Take You With Me - Melissa Etheridge

3. Keep on Growing - Sheryl Crow

4. Power of Two - Indigo Girls

5. Somebody Stand By Me - Stevie Nicks

6. Everyday Is Like Sunday - The Pretenders

7. Dreams - The Cranberries

8. Why - Annie Lennox

9. Ol' 55 - Sarah McLachlan, Sarah McLachlan

10. Willow - Joan Armatrading

11. Crossroads - Jonell Mosser

12. You Got It - Whoopi Goldberg

13. You Got It - Bonnie Raitt

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A solid collection of new songs and classic hits, May 13, 2001

By	Lawrance M. Bernabo (The Zenith City, Duluth, Minnesota) - See all my reviews (TOP 10 REVIEWER)    (COMMUNITY FORUM 04)

The years are rolling along and I am still listening to this original soundtrack album, which has the virtue that these songs are actually in the movie. I would agree the soundtrack is better than the film, but you have to appreciate that the album includes the memorably moving moment when Whoopi Goldberg signs "You Got It" because Mary-Louise Parker does not have the strength to continue. This is still one of my favorite love songs. As with most such collections, for me the standout tracks are those I cannot get anywhere else, which includes: Bonnie Raitt's cover of Roy Orbison's "You Got It" (which is both the first and last track on the album in an interesting bookend effect), Melissa Etheridge's "I Take You With Me" (the song that is actually used at the end of the film), and Steve Nicks's "Somebody Stand By Me" (written by Sheryl Crow and Todd Wolf). "Boys on the Side" remains one of the best soundtrack collections of the 1990s and is certainly evocative of the film.

7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A cd I actually think I may have wore out, March 18, 2003

By	"rlc295" (loogootee, IN United States) - See all my reviews

This is such a great cd, where do I start? It goes from rockin' blues of Bonnie Raitt. To the rock of Chrissie Hynde with The Pretenders, who I have been a long fan of. Then to the excellent voice and range of Annie Lennox, who I think has got to have one of the most wonderful voices around. Joan Armatrading, I saw her in concert many many moons ago in Germany. She was not known then in America and she was as good then as she is now.

There is not a bad song on this CD, and that says something this day and age. I plug this CD in when I need some umph to get started doing what ever I need to get done. When I need a pick-me-up get me in a better mood. Or just whenever... and want to hear some good music.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Pretty Good Soundtrack!, November 8, 1999

By A Customer

I bought this soundtrack for two reasons: 1 - Melissa Etheridge and 2 - Bonnie Raitt.
I was pleasantly surprised upon hearing a few other choice cuts on this album. The Indigo Girls' "Power of Two" is one of the most intense songs I have heard in ages, and one that I play repeatedly. It possesses a certain magic that most artists in the studio today seem to lack.
I could have done without most of the other songs on this album (including the Whoopi Goldberg cover of "You Got It") but the songs by Etheridge, the Indigo Girls, Stevie Nicks, the Cranberries, and Sheryl Crow most definitely make up for it. If I had it to do all over again, I would run out and buy this album again.