Saturday Morning's Greatest Hits ( MCA, 1995)

I love this album...I can remember rushing out in December of 1995 and buying my first copy of it mainly for the Ramones' doin' the Spider-Man theme, but instantly fell in love with the rest of the album...

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Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band OST (1978)

One of the worst ideas for a musical ever...and I love it.

From Wikipedia:

Although the Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band debuted at #5 in the U.S. Billboard album charts and stayed there for six weeks, becoming a multi-platinum album, there was reported resistance to the interpretation of The Beatles' songs, such as Martin's comedic take on "Maxwell's Silver Hammer". However Earth, Wind & Fire's version of "Got To Get You Into My Life" became a million selling single and Aerosmith's "Come Together" charted in the top 40 and later appeared on the soundtrack for Armageddon.

Radio airplay trailed off when the film was released with poor reviews, only five weeks later. The album immediately dropped out of the top 100 and pre-sale shipments to USA failed to sell in the quantities predicted. Owing to low box office receipts the film failed to make back its production costs, but profits from the sound track album and the successful singles it spawned later covered those losses.

Track Listing:

Disc One-

1. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band / With A Little Help From My Friends - Peter Frampton/Bee Gees/Paul Nicholas
2. Here Comes the Sun - Sandy Farina
3. Getting Better - Peter Frampton/Bee Gees
4. Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds - Dianne Steinberg/Stargard
5. I Want You (She's So Heavy) - Bee Gees/Dianne Steinberg/Paul Nicholas/Donald Pleasence/Stargard
6. Good Morning Good Morning - Paul Nicholas/Peter Frampton/Bee Gees
7. She's Leaving Home - Bee Gees/Jay MacIntosh/John Wheeler
8. You Never Give Me Your Money - Paul Nicholas/Dianne Steinberg
9. Oh! Darling - Robin Gibb
10. Maxwell's Silver Hammer - Steve Martin
11. Polythene Pam / She Came In Through The Bathroom Window / Nowhere Man / Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise) - Peter Frampton/Bee Gees

Disc Two-

1. Got to Get You Into My Life - Earth, Wind & Fire
2. Strawberry Fields Forever - Sandy Farina
3. When I'm Sixty-Four - Frankie Howerd/Sandy Farina
4. Mean Mr. Mustard - Frankie Howerd
5. Fixing a Hole - George Burns
6. Because - Alice Cooper/Bee Gees
7. Golden Slumbers / Carry That Weight - Peter Frampton/Bee Gees
8. Come Together - Aerosmith
9. Being For the Benefit of Mr. Kite! - Maurice Gibb/Peter Frampton/George Burns/Bee Gees
10. Long and Winding Road, The - Peter Frampton
11. Day in the Life, A - Barry Gibb/Bee Gees
12. Get Back - Billy Preston
13. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Finale) - The Cast


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Heathers OST

Heathers (1989), directed by Michael Lehmann and starring Winona Ryder and Christian Slater (amongst others), was one of my favorite films in high school...

Track Listing-
1. Strip Croquet
2. Suicide Note
3. J.D. Blows Up
4. The Forest
5. You're Beautiful
6. Martha Dumptruck
7. Third Funeral
8. Veronica and J.D.
9. First Funeral
10. The Dorm
11. Back To School
12. Forest Chase
13. Heather's Locker
14. Veronica's Shower
15. Into The Cafeteria
16. Veronica's Dream
17. J.D.'s Final Stand
18. Dorm Party
19. Croquet
20. Second Funeral
21. Poor Little Heather
22. J.D.'s Bomb
23. Petition Montage
24. Teenage Suicide (Don't Do It)- Big Fun


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Original Music From The Addams Family

Track Listing:

01. The Addams Family: Main Theme
02. Uncle Fester's Blues
03. Gomez
04. Morticia's Theme
05. Lurch's Theme
06. One Little, Two Little, Three Little Tombstones
07. Thing
08. Laugh? I thought I'd Die!
09. On Shroud No. 9
10. The Addams House
11. Hide and Shriek
12. The Anxiety Tango
13. The Addams Family: Main Theme (Vocal)

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Nocturna, Granddaughter of Dracula OST (1979)

I just sat through this vampire/ disco/ belly-dancing fiasco, and must admit that the story behind the film is a thousand times more interesting than the film itself, and here it is, according to Vinnie Rattolle:

Okay, so the longer version of the story... Bellydancer Nai Bonet first appeared in America in the 1960s, adorning album covers, making infrequent appearances in films and on television and she also recorded the cheesy novelty song "Jelly Belly" (she filmed a music video of the tune for now-obscure video jukeboxes called Scopitones). As the '70s were ushered in, Bonet decided to set her sights full-time on acting but, unfortunately, she found roles were few and far between. She took small supporting parts in the now-forgotten flicks "Soul Hustler," "The Soul of Nigger Charley," "The Greatest," and she appeared as Sheherazade in the goofy softcore musical sex romp "Fairy Tales." However, Nai yearned to sink her teeth into something bigger.

Bonet's story was moronically simple: Dracula's granddaughter, Nocturna, hops into bed with a disco guitarist and then decide she's in love with him, but the Count is against their courtship, so she flees Transylvania with her new beau and heads to New York City. Bonet set up the production company "Nai Bonet Productions, Ltd." in her apartment and went searching for investors. If internet rumors are to be believed, she acquired the cash from William Callahan, a child actor turned construction businessman who was apparently embezzling funds and had ties to the mob that resulted in his brutal murder in 1981. But that's a whole other story that seems to be steeped in a lot of alleged facts. In any event, Bonet raised $200,000 from whomever and set out to make her movie.

Track Listing:

01. Love Is Just a Heartbeat Away (Nocturna's Theme) - Gloria Gaynor
02. Nighttime Fantasy - Vicki Sue Robinson
03. Whatcha Gonna Do? - Heaven 'n' Hell Orchestra
04. Bitten by the Love Bug - Heaven 'n' Hell Orchestra
05. Love at First Sight - Moment of Truth
06. I'm Hopelessly in Love with You - Moment of Truth
07. Why Do Lovers Come Together? - Jay Siegel
08. Opus 55 #1 (Nocturna) - Heaven 'n' Hell Orchestra
BONUS TRACKS!
09. Love is Just a Heartbeat Away (Glenn Rivera Restructure Mix)
10. Nighttime Fantasy (Glenn Rivera Restructure Mix)
11. Love is Just a Heartbeat Away (Club Mix)
12. Love is Just a Heartbeat Away (Radio Edit)
13. Nighttime Fantasy (2007 remix)
14. Jelly Belly - Nai Bonet

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Men At Work (1990

I am of the opinion that this film is probably one of the more under-rated comedies around, and have been a fan of it for years.

Track Listing:

1. UB40 - Wear You To the Ball
2. Sly & Robbie - Super Cool
3. Tyrants in Therapy - Big Pink House
4. Pressure Drop - Feeling Good
5. Blood Brothers - Back to Back
6. Black Uhuru - Take Heed
7. Sly & Robbie - Here and Beyond
8. Blood Brothers - Truthful
9. Third World - Reggae Ambassador
10. Ziggy Marley & the Melody Makers - Give A Little Love
11. Stewart Copeland - Las Playas Down (Instrumental)
12. Stewart Copeland - Pink Panther No. 23 (Instrumental)
13. (Bonus) Technotronic - Pump Up the Jam
14. (Bonus) 2 Live Crew - Move Somethin'

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American Graffiti Promo CD (1998)

Recently, while going through my CD collection, I came across this little oddity. It was originally packaged with the (I believe, assuming from the copyright date: 1998) 25th Anniversary VHS release of George Lucas' AMERICAN GRAFFITI. I remember purchasing this VHS release, and was amused by the clever little promotional CD which was packaged with it, and intrigued by it's odd shape (see above picture). Over the last decade plus, I've listened to the disc a few times, amazed that a CD player would recognize the disc, what with it's devience from the standard circular shape....

When I came across it again a few days ago, I figured it'd be a nice little piece of promo weirdness to throw up here on the blog, and then....after a decade, the little bastard decides it's not gonna play...nor will any of numerous DVD or CD drives recognize it, thus losing my ability to rip the tracks contained on it.

So....basically, I decided to share it anyway. Going through my massive music collection (several hundred vinyls and CDs, plus nearly 350 G of sound files) I was able to track down the tracks I believe (if memory doesn't fail me) this weird shaped little CD contained...and if I'm not 100% accurate (I'm pretty sure I'm at least 75%), then what you get is a nice little sampler of tracks that are contained on the AMERICAN GRAFFITI OST proper....enjoy!

I've been curious for years about the CD's credited manufacturer: ShapeCD, Inc. I've wondered from time to time if they produced any other discs, and if so, what did they look like?

Track Listing:
01- Rock Around the Clock- Bill Haley
02- Maybe Baby- Buddy Holly
03- Ain't That A Shame- Fats Domino
04- That'll Be The Day- Buddy Holly
05- Johnny B. Goode- Chuck Berry

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