| Product Summary | | Label: Emd/capitol | | UPC: 00724385563126 | | Release Date: 10/7/1997 | | Buy.com Sku: 60135217 | | Item#: MDJS7S | | Buy.com Sales Rank: 25079 | Format:  CD |
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Disc 1
| | Song Title | Sample | | 1. Intro (Feel The Heat) - John C. Reilly/Mark Wahlberg ~ Original Soundtrack |  | | 2. Best Of My Love - The Emotions ~ Original Soundtrack | | | 3. Jungle Fever - The Chakachas ~ Original Soundtrack | | | 4. Brand New Key - Melanie ~ Original Soundtrack | | | 5. Spill The Wine - Eric Burdon/War ~ Original Soundtrack | | | 6. Got To Give It Up (Part 1) - Marvin Gaye ~ Original Soundtrack | | | 7. Machine Gun - The Commodores ~ Original Soundtrack | | | 8. Magnet And Steel - Walter Egan ~ Original Soundtrack | | | 9. Ain't No Stopping Us Now - McFadden & Whitehead/Whitehead ~ Original Soundtrack | | | 10. Sister Christian - Night Ranger ~ Original Soundtrack | | | 11. Livin' Thing - Electric Light Orchestra ~ Original Soundtrack | | | 12. God Only Knows - The Beach Boys ~ Original Soundtrack | | | 13. Big Top, The (Theme From "Boogie Nights") - Michael Penn/Patrick Warren ~ Original Soundtrack | |
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| | Album Notes and Credits |
Notes & Personnel Info |  | Paul Thomas Anderson's second film, Boogie Nights, was an epic tour de force concerning the porn industry in the late '70s and early '80s, running two and a half hours and featuring nearly ten major starring roles. Throughout it all, Anderson uses pop music of the era as a counterpoint to the action on the screen, filling the movie with literally countless songs. Part of the problem of putting so much music in a film is that the soundtrack ultimately suffers, since it can't contain every memorable song from the movie. That is the case with the Boogie Nights soundtrack (several important songs were later issued on a second volume), but what is here is pretty terrific. The music captures the feeling of the era, as it runs through disco ("Best of My Love," "Jungle Fever"), folk-pop ("Brand New Key"), funk ("Spill the Wine," "Got to Give It Up, Pt. 1," "Machine Gun"), soft rock ("Magnet & Steel"), AOR ("Livin' Thing"), oldies ("God Only Knows"), and heavy metal power ballads ("Sister Christian"). While Michael Penn's plodding Germanic circus music slows things down a bit at the end, the presence of "Feel the Heat" and the uncredited "You Got the Touch" -- the two hard rock songs Dirk Diggler and Reed Rothchild record in the film -- makes the album essential for any hardcore fan of the film. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine | | Taken from the film of the same name, BOOGIE NIGHTS is a compilation overflowing with the "why worry" attitude of disco that is a perfect compliment to the rise and fall of fictional porn star Dirk Diggler. Hand-picked by writer-producer Paul Thomas Anderson, the songs are used as cues for characters like porn star Roller Girl (Melanie's "Brand New Key") who does her thing without removing her skates, and they sound like they were recorded specifically for sex scenes (c.f. the moan-filled "Jungle Fever"). The remainder of this soundtrack shows Thomas's nose for the funkier side of Marvin Gaye ("Got To Give It Up [Part 1]"), The Commodores ("Machine Gun") and McFadden & Whitehead ("Ain't No Stoppin' Us Now"). |
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| | Technical Info | | Release Date : 10/07/1997 | | Original Release Date : 1997 | | Catalog ID : 55631 | | Label : Capitol/EMI Records | | Number of Discs : 1 | | Studio/Live : Studio | | Mono/Stereo : Stereo | | SPAR Code : n/a | | UPC : 00724385563126 |
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| | Professional Reviews | | Entertainment Weekly (10/10/97, p.93)
- "Soundtracks for '70s-era movies are too often loaded with the decade's usual camp suspects...but this porn-industry drama spotlights...refreshingly underexposed tunes..."- Rating: B |
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