ORIGINAL MOTION PICTURE SOUNDTRACK
''THE COMMITMENTS DELUXE EDITION, DISC TWO''
OCTOBER 29 2007
104:12
DISC ONE
1 /Mustang Sally
Bonny "Mack" Rice/4:01
2 /Take Me to the River
Mabon "Teenie" Hodges/3:39
3 /Chain of Fools
Don Covay/2:58
4 /The Dark End of the Street
Chips Moman / Dan Penn/2:36
5 /Destination Anywhere
Nick Ashford / Valerie Simpson/3:09
6 /I Can't Stand the Rain
Donald Bryant / Bernard Miller / Ann Peebles/3:11
7 /Try a Little Tenderness
Jimmy Campbell / Reginald Connelly / Harry Woods/4:34
8 /Treat Her Right
Roy Head / Gene Kurtz/3:39
9 /Do Right Woman Do Right Man
Chips Moman / Dan Penn/3:16
10 /Mr. Pitiful
Steve Cropper / Otis Redding/2:10
11 /I Never Loved a Man
Ronnie Shannon/3:11
12 /In the Midnight Hour
Steve Cropper / Wilson Pickett/2:24
13 /Bye Bye Baby/3:25
14 /Slip Away
William Armstrong / Marcus Daniel/4:30
DISC TWO
1 /Hard to Handle
Alvertis Isbell / Otis Redding/2:22
2 /Grits Ain't Groceries
Titus Turner/3:44
3 /Thank You
Isaac Hayes / David Porter/3:40
4 /That's the Way Love Is
Barrett Strong / Norman Whitfield/4:08
5 /Show Me
Joe Tex/2:56
6 /Saved
Jerry Leiber / Mike Stoller/2:55
7 /Too Many Fish in the Sea
Eddie Holland / Norman Whitfield/2:45
8 /Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa (Sad Song)
Steve Cropper / Otis Redding/2:52
9 /Land of a Thousand Dances
Fats Domino / Chris Kenner/3:15
10 /Nowhere to Run
Lamont Dozier / Brian Holland / Eddie Holland/3:40
11 /Bring It on Home to Me
Sam Cooke/3:43
12 /Are You Lonely for Me Feat Andrew Strong/3:57
13 /(She's) Some Kind of Wonderful Feat Andrew Strong
John Ellison/3:21
14 /Too Many Cooks (Spoil the Soup) Feat Andrew Strong
Angelo Bond / Ronald Dunbar/3:26
15 /Same Old Me Feat Andrew Strong
Bob Thiele Jr./5:07
16 /Ain't Nothing You Can Do Feat Andrew Strong
Deadric Malone / Joseph Scott/6:03
Alex Acuña/Percussion
Robert Arkins/Vocals
Angeline Ball/Vocal Harmony, Vocals
Conor Brady/Guitar
Fran Breehan/Drums
Paul Bushnell/Additional Personnel, Arranger, Bass
Robbie Casserly/Drums
Crispin Cioe/Sax (Alto), Sax (Baritone)
Dave Finnegan
Ronan Dooney/Trumpet
Maria Doyle/Vocal Harmony, Vocals
Laurence Etkin/Trumpet
Babi Floyd/Vocal Harmony
Frank Floyd/Vocal Harmony
Eamonn Flynn/Keyboards
Mitchell Froom/Keyboards
Bob Funk/Trombone
Carl Geraghty/Sax (Baritone), Sax (Tenor), Tenor (Vocal)
Felim Gormley/Sax (Alto)
Glen Hansard
Arno Hecht/Sax (Tenor)
John Hughes
Johnny Murphy
Steve Jordan/Drums
Niamh Kavanagh/Vocal Harmony, Vocals
Kevin Killen
Danny Kortchmar/Guitar
David Mansfield/Mandolin
Dick Massey
Bobby Mayo/Keyboards
Kenneth McCluskey
John "Johnny Genius" Murphy
Dean Parks/Guitar
T.M. Stevens/Bass
Curtis Stigers/Sax (Tenor)
Andrew Strong/Vocal Harmony, Vocals
Sarah Taylor/Vocal Harmony
Waddy Wachtel/Guitar
REVIEW
by Stephen Thomas Erlewine
Alan Parker's adaptation of Roddy Doyle's crackerjack novel The Commitments kept its focus on the music -- the classic American R&B and soul the titular workingman band cranked out in pubs across Ireland. As a book and film, The Commitments was all about love of music, so it didn't matter if the soundtrack offered workmanlike versions of oldies the band and audience knew by heart: as long as it was done with some, well, soul, the film would work, and the soundtrack would too. In that sense, the Commitments were a cousin to the Blues Brothers, John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd's tribute to the very same music but where Jake and Elwood managed to hire Stax's house band (such are the perks of stardom) , the group Parker assembled were working Irish musicians. This would seem to lend The Commitments some degree of authenticity and it does to a certain extent, as these guys can crank out familiar favorites without missing a step, but the description of working musicians suggests that there is some grit here, which there's not. After all, this is music for a movie, so it is cleanly produced: the horns have a punch, the guitars are crisp, the drums tight and neat, all the better to showcase the bar band growl of Andrew Strong -- his Otis worship comes out like Rod Stewart crossed with Mick Hucknall -- and Maria Doyle's salute to Aretha Franklin. All of this sounds fine, if a bit generic: these are great songs performed ably and if they're not distinctive, they at least suit the spirit of the film's open-hearted hero worship.
REVIEW
by Stephen Thomas Erlewine
In 2007, some 16 years after Alan Parker's adaptation of Roddy Doyle's novel turned into a feel-good cult sensation, Universal released a two-disc Deluxe Edition of The Commitments soundtrack. The first disc contains the original 1991 soundtrack, the second its 1992 sequel The Commitments, Vol. 2, with the two rounded out with five selections from the group's lead singer Andrew Strong's 1993 album Strong. All this music is of a piece -- it's all competent, respectful tribute to classic '60s R&B and soul -- so it makes for a consistent deluxe edition; indeed, for big fans of The Commitments who don't already own the two soundtracks, this is a nice way to get all of the music at once, if they're so inclined to do so.
DoWnLoAd
''THE COMMITMENTS DELUXE EDITION, DISC TWO''
OCTOBER 29 2007
104:12
DISC ONE
1 /Mustang Sally
Bonny "Mack" Rice/4:01
2 /Take Me to the River
Mabon "Teenie" Hodges/3:39
3 /Chain of Fools
Don Covay/2:58
4 /The Dark End of the Street
Chips Moman / Dan Penn/2:36
5 /Destination Anywhere
Nick Ashford / Valerie Simpson/3:09
6 /I Can't Stand the Rain
Donald Bryant / Bernard Miller / Ann Peebles/3:11
7 /Try a Little Tenderness
Jimmy Campbell / Reginald Connelly / Harry Woods/4:34
8 /Treat Her Right
Roy Head / Gene Kurtz/3:39
9 /Do Right Woman Do Right Man
Chips Moman / Dan Penn/3:16
10 /Mr. Pitiful
Steve Cropper / Otis Redding/2:10
11 /I Never Loved a Man
Ronnie Shannon/3:11
12 /In the Midnight Hour
Steve Cropper / Wilson Pickett/2:24
13 /Bye Bye Baby/3:25
14 /Slip Away
William Armstrong / Marcus Daniel/4:30
DISC TWO
1 /Hard to Handle
Alvertis Isbell / Otis Redding/2:22
2 /Grits Ain't Groceries
Titus Turner/3:44
3 /Thank You
Isaac Hayes / David Porter/3:40
4 /That's the Way Love Is
Barrett Strong / Norman Whitfield/4:08
5 /Show Me
Joe Tex/2:56
6 /Saved
Jerry Leiber / Mike Stoller/2:55
7 /Too Many Fish in the Sea
Eddie Holland / Norman Whitfield/2:45
8 /Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa (Sad Song)
Steve Cropper / Otis Redding/2:52
9 /Land of a Thousand Dances
Fats Domino / Chris Kenner/3:15
10 /Nowhere to Run
Lamont Dozier / Brian Holland / Eddie Holland/3:40
11 /Bring It on Home to Me
Sam Cooke/3:43
12 /Are You Lonely for Me Feat Andrew Strong/3:57
13 /(She's) Some Kind of Wonderful Feat Andrew Strong
John Ellison/3:21
14 /Too Many Cooks (Spoil the Soup) Feat Andrew Strong
Angelo Bond / Ronald Dunbar/3:26
15 /Same Old Me Feat Andrew Strong
Bob Thiele Jr./5:07
16 /Ain't Nothing You Can Do Feat Andrew Strong
Deadric Malone / Joseph Scott/6:03
Alex Acuña/Percussion
Robert Arkins/Vocals
Angeline Ball/Vocal Harmony, Vocals
Conor Brady/Guitar
Fran Breehan/Drums
Paul Bushnell/Additional Personnel, Arranger, Bass
Robbie Casserly/Drums
Crispin Cioe/Sax (Alto), Sax (Baritone)
Dave Finnegan
Ronan Dooney/Trumpet
Maria Doyle/Vocal Harmony, Vocals
Laurence Etkin/Trumpet
Babi Floyd/Vocal Harmony
Frank Floyd/Vocal Harmony
Eamonn Flynn/Keyboards
Mitchell Froom/Keyboards
Bob Funk/Trombone
Carl Geraghty/Sax (Baritone), Sax (Tenor), Tenor (Vocal)
Felim Gormley/Sax (Alto)
Glen Hansard
Arno Hecht/Sax (Tenor)
John Hughes
Johnny Murphy
Steve Jordan/Drums
Niamh Kavanagh/Vocal Harmony, Vocals
Kevin Killen
Danny Kortchmar/Guitar
David Mansfield/Mandolin
Dick Massey
Bobby Mayo/Keyboards
Kenneth McCluskey
John "Johnny Genius" Murphy
Dean Parks/Guitar
T.M. Stevens/Bass
Curtis Stigers/Sax (Tenor)
Andrew Strong/Vocal Harmony, Vocals
Sarah Taylor/Vocal Harmony
Waddy Wachtel/Guitar
REVIEW
by Stephen Thomas Erlewine
Alan Parker's adaptation of Roddy Doyle's crackerjack novel The Commitments kept its focus on the music -- the classic American R&B and soul the titular workingman band cranked out in pubs across Ireland. As a book and film, The Commitments was all about love of music, so it didn't matter if the soundtrack offered workmanlike versions of oldies the band and audience knew by heart: as long as it was done with some, well, soul, the film would work, and the soundtrack would too. In that sense, the Commitments were a cousin to the Blues Brothers, John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd's tribute to the very same music but where Jake and Elwood managed to hire Stax's house band (such are the perks of stardom) , the group Parker assembled were working Irish musicians. This would seem to lend The Commitments some degree of authenticity and it does to a certain extent, as these guys can crank out familiar favorites without missing a step, but the description of working musicians suggests that there is some grit here, which there's not. After all, this is music for a movie, so it is cleanly produced: the horns have a punch, the guitars are crisp, the drums tight and neat, all the better to showcase the bar band growl of Andrew Strong -- his Otis worship comes out like Rod Stewart crossed with Mick Hucknall -- and Maria Doyle's salute to Aretha Franklin. All of this sounds fine, if a bit generic: these are great songs performed ably and if they're not distinctive, they at least suit the spirit of the film's open-hearted hero worship.
REVIEW
by Stephen Thomas Erlewine
In 2007, some 16 years after Alan Parker's adaptation of Roddy Doyle's novel turned into a feel-good cult sensation, Universal released a two-disc Deluxe Edition of The Commitments soundtrack. The first disc contains the original 1991 soundtrack, the second its 1992 sequel The Commitments, Vol. 2, with the two rounded out with five selections from the group's lead singer Andrew Strong's 1993 album Strong. All this music is of a piece -- it's all competent, respectful tribute to classic '60s R&B and soul -- so it makes for a consistent deluxe edition; indeed, for big fans of The Commitments who don't already own the two soundtracks, this is a nice way to get all of the music at once, if they're so inclined to do so.
DoWnLoAd