Summer Of Sam: Original Soundtrack [SOUNDTRACK]

Various Artists - Soundtracks - 1999

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 29, 1999)
• Original Release Date: June 29, 1999
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Soundtrack
• Label: Hollywood Records
• ASIN: B00000JHCE
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #139,817 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Track Listings

1. Got to Give It Up - Marvin Gaye

2. Dancing Queen - ABBA

3. Baba O'Riley - The Who

4. Running Away - Roy Ayers

5. Everybody Dance - Chic

6. Vie en Rose - Grace Jones

7. Let No Man Put Asunder - First Choice

8. Fooled Around and Fell in Love - Elvin Bishop

9. There But for the Grace of God Go I - Machine

10. Best of My Love - The Emotions

11. Dance With Me - Peter Brown

12. Don't Leave Me This Way - Thelma Houston

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

Modern Hollywood has developed a tradition of releasing similarly themed pictures in near pairs, but who'd have thought it would release two films with a central theme of societal scapegoating within weeks of each other in '99--and that one of them would be South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut? Spike Lee's Summer of Sam is a little more straightforward in its telling of a New York neighborhood's descent into paranoia and finger-pointing as a serial killer stalks its streets in the summer of '77, and while its soundtrack doesn't plumb the scabrous, madcap satiric depths of Messrs. Parker and Stone, it's a serviceable--if occasionally threadbare--collection of period rock (The Who chestnut "Baba O'Riley"), pop (ABBA's "Dancing Queen," "Fooled Around and Fell in Love" by Elvin Bishop), funk (Roy Ayers's "Running Away," "Got to Give It Up" by Marvin Gaye), and a whole lot o' 1970s disco/club music (Chic's "Everybody Dance," "Best of My Love" by the Emotions, "La Vie en Rose" by the incomparable Grace Jones among them). Oddly missing for a film in which one of the main characters sports a nascent Mohawk is any hint of the era's--and region's--blossoming punk and new wave music. Still, it's a thematically sound, smartly sequenced collection that evokes both era and atmosphere well. --Jerry McCulley

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars This compilation is representative of the "Son of Sam" era, June 30, 1999

By A Customer

I thoroughly enjoyed the music on this album. It is such an accurate representation of the late 70s dance club music. These tunes brought back memories of a crazy time. Each of these songs will be forever etched in the minds of those who heard them.

10 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars If you love Disco, get this album, October 7, 1999

By	R. Kearns-White "rockiw" (BROOKLYN, NY United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Buy the time I was old enough to buy my own albums, Disco was more than dead. It was buried. Although I HATE this 70s revival thing, but it has given me a chance to brush up and buy all my favorite disco songs. S.O.S. sdtk is filled with a bunch of favs and long heard songs !

What's wonderful is that you getting 12"-single length songs. For all of you who own the Marvin Gaye Cd with "Got to Give It Up" on it, knows that a typical Marvin Gaye song never exceeded 3 minutes. Here, it goes on wonderfully for nearly 5 and half minutes.

Some people have insulted this album stating that it was similar to a lot disco sound tracks that have come out in the past 2 years (54, Last Days of Disco, Betc...). However, some of the songs on here I've never heard on any other soundtrack. Songs I used to like but never knew the names too. It makes me want to go dancing and DO the hustle! Unfortunately, I have the soul of a dancer, but the soles of lead foot.

Give this soundtrack a chance.

5.0 out of 5 stars summer of sam soundtrack, July 18, 2009

By	glennheywood (massachusetts) - See all my reviews

great product, arrived in a timely manner, In good quality. I'm very happy with my purchase.