| Product Summary | | Label: Warner/reprise/maverick | | UPC: 00093624867524 | | Release Date: 2/3/2004 | | Buy.com Sku: 60624236 | | Item#: MNKFTD | | Buy.com Sales Rank: 25050 | Format:  CD |
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Disc 1
| | Song Title | Sample | | 1. Hold Me Now - Wayne Wonder ~ Original Soundtrack |  | | 2. Love Song - 311 ~ Original Soundtrack | | | 3. Lips Like Sugar - Seal/Mikey Dread ~ Original Soundtrack | | | 4. Your Love - Wyclef Jean/Eve (L.O.V.E Reggae mix) ~ Original Soundtrack | | | 5. Drive - Ziggy Marley ~ Original Soundtrack | | | 6. True - Will.i.am & Fergie ~ Original Soundtrack | | | 7. Slave To Love - Elan Atias ~ Original Soundtrack | | | 8. Every Breath You Take - UB40 ~ Original Soundtrack | | | 9. Ghost In You, The - Mark McGrath ~ Original Soundtrack | | | 10. Friday, I'm In Love - Dryden Mitchell ~ Original Soundtrack | | | 11. Breakfast In Bed - Nicole Kea ~ Original Soundtrack | | | 12. I Melt With You - Jason Mraz ~ Original Soundtrack | | | 13. Forgetful Lucy - Adam Sandler ~ Original Soundtrack | |
| Imagine having to win over the girl of your dreams ... every friggin' day. That's the Adam Sandler/Drew Barrymore romantic comedy 50 First Dates. Now imagine today's top artists recording new versions of classic '80s love songs in reggae style. That's the 50 First Dates soundtrack. From Wyclef & Eve covering The Outfield's "Your Love" and UB40 with The Police's "Every Breath You Take" to Jason Mraz with Modern English's "I Melt With You," and Seal on Echo and the Bunnymen's "Lips Like Sugar," 50 First Dates is the ultimate musical first date.
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Notes & Personnel Info |  | This is an Enhanced CD, which contains both regular audio tracks and multimedia computer files. | | This is an Enhanced CD, which contains both regular audio tracks and multimedia computer files. | | Personnel: Carl Restivo (vocals, guitar); Gabrial McNair (guitar, keyboards); Takashia Akimato, Warren Fitzgerald , Wyclef Jean (guitar); Tony Kanal (keyboards, programming); Ziggy Marley (synthesizer); Dave Carpenter (bass guitar); Santa Davis, Brooks Wackerman (drums); Elan Atias, Natasha Pearce, Gwen Stefani, Zack Hexum (background vocals). | | Audio Mixers: Dave Way; Zack Barnhorst; Chad Sexton. | | Recording information: Glennwood Place Studios; Ocean Way Recorders, Hollywood, CA; Platinum Studios, New York, NY; Record One Studios, Sherman Oaks, CA; Studio K, Los Feliz, CA. | | Reflecting the film's Hawaiian setting, the soundtrack to Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore's romantic comedy about short-term memory loss, 50 First Dates, features reggae-fied versions of new wave classics. While technically the songs should have been done with slack key guitars and ukuleles, the collection is a pretty fun mix of styles that haven't had much to do with each other since the heydays of Blondie, the Police, and Musical Youth. Only one of these groups is represented on the soundtrack -- UB40's version of the Police's "Every Breath You Take," which is pleasant enough but not one of the more inspired pairings on the album. Likewise, Sugar Ray's Mark McGrath just isn't a strong enough vocal presence to carry off a natty dread version of the Psychedelic Furs' "Ghost in You." However, Wyclef Jean and Eve's version of the Outfield's "Your Love" is surprisingly genuine, and while Wayne Wonder's version of "Hold Me Now" isn't as fresh as his own work, it's still a decent version of the song. 311's version of the Cure's "Love Song" manages to be faithful to the original and to the concept of the soundtrack, creating a new style -- rasta-goth? -- in the process. Robert Smith and company get another shoutout in the form of Dryden Mitchell's "Friday, I'm in Love," which, unfortunately, isn't as successful as 311's homage. Somewhat predictably, most of the standout tracks on the collection come from the artists with the most reggae credibility; Ziggy Marley's version of the Cars' "Drive" imbues the song with a little more soulfulness than most of the other songs here, while Elan Atias' cover of Bryan Ferry's "Slave to Love" contrasts his raspy vocals with the smooth melody. Adam Sandler's closing track, "Forgetful Lucy," is one of his better and more restrained songs in a while; this song, along with the rest of the soundtrack, keeps the emphasis on "romantic" instead of comedy. Still, 50 First Dates is a fun and funny (if gimmicky) collection of love songs. ~ Heather Phares | | The romantic comedy 50 FIRST DATES finds Adam Sandler wooing Drew Barrymore in a tropical paradise. Accordingly, the soundtrack has a decided reggae bent, with pop-reggae artists Wayne Wonder and UB40 doing their thing, and even popsters like Jason Mraz getting into the island beat. The twist is that, in perhaps a subtle homage to the previous Sandler/Barrymore film THE WEDDING SINGER, almost all the songs are reggae versions of 1980s pop hits. While it may not be such a shock to find UB40 covering the Police ("Every Breath You Take"), it's unlikely that anyone ever expected to hear Ziggy Marley crooning a reggae adaptation of the Cars hit "Drive" or ska-punks 311 adding a Caribbean lilt to the Cure ballad "Love Song." It's not all reggae, though--Sugar Ray frontman Mark McGrath gets into an R&B groove on the Psychedelic Furs' "Ghost in You," and Elan Atias's take on Bryan Ferry's "Slave to Love" is pretty faithful to the original. In any case, nearly every track here offers a new slant on songs you thought you knew like the back of your hand. |
Producer: 311; Nicholas Hexum; Jerry Duplessis; Tony Kanal; UB40; Wyclef Jean; Ziggy Marley; Chad Sexton |
Engineer: Dan Chase; Chip Karpells; Colin Mitchell; Nicholas Hexum; Marc Moreau; Pablo Munguia; Chad Sexton |
| | Technical Info | | Release Date : 02/03/2004 | | Original Release Date : 2004 | | Catalog ID : 48675 | | Label : Maverick | | Number of Discs : 1 | | Studio/Live : Studio | | Mono/Stereo : Stereo | | SPAR Code : n/a | | UPC : 00093624867524 |
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