| Product Summary | | UPC: 00720616251824 | | Release Date: 6/21/2005 | | Buy.com Sku: 63979977 | | Item#: M2CPPE | | Buy.com Sales Rank: 25050 | Format:  CD |
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(P) 2005 Hollywood Records, Inc.
(C) 2005 Hollywood Records, Inc.
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Notes & Personnel Info |  | This is an Enhanced CD, which contains both regular audio tracks and multimedia computer files. | | Composer: Mark Mothersbaugh. | | Herbie: Fully Loaded tries to find a clever musical spin on revisiting the anthropomorphic VW Beetle of decades past by having Disney artists and a few relatively hipper acts cover hits from the '60s, '70s, and '80s. Like the Herbie movies themselves, most of these songs didn't need to be reinterpreted, either. The Mooney Suzuki and Ingram Hill strike out with uninspired versions of "Born to Be Wild" and "More Than a Feeling," both of which sound like high-end (but still bad) karaoke. But not every cover on the album is a disaster: Rooney's take on T. Rex's "Metal Guru" isn't especially creative, but it ends up being more fun to listen to than either of the previous tracks. The Donnas' "Roll on Down the Highway" shows how they sound good doing '70s arena rock, and their version of this song has way more fun and energy than Bachman-Turner Overdrive's thuddingly macho original ever had. Likewise, Caleigh Peters -- whose voice sounds a lot like a slightly sweeter, Disney-fied clone of the Donnas' Brett Anderson -- brings just enough snarly, girly attitude to "Fun, Fun, Fun" to give it a more modern identity. Based on how well these two tracks work, it's too bad that Herbie: Fully Loaded didn't go with cars and the girls who love them as the soundtrack's theme instead of mere nostalgia. By balancing Disney's usual squeaky-clean pop (like Aly & A.J.'s "Walking on Sunshine") with slightly edgier music, the soundtrack walks a fine line, reflecting -- in a way that's still marketable to tweens -- Lindsay Lohan's status as the studio's bad girl. Though Lohan doesn't contribute any new tracks, "First," the opening track from her album Speak, also appears here, and it's still fully loaded with Avril-lite rock and double entendres. The soundtrack also includes a couple of other songs that, wisely, aren't covers: Pilot's "Magic," which shows just how gloriously over-the-top '70s pop could be, and Lionel Richie's "Hello," which you get the sinking feeling was included only because of the inspired Starburst commercial that riffs on the song's painfully earnest music video. The Blacksmoke Organisation's two pop collages made from bits and pieces of the old Herbie movies, "Herbie (Fully Loaded Remix)" and "Herbie vs Nascar," are the album's most interesting moments, if only because the involvement of an art collective "dedicated to the propagation of audio visual noise" in a summer blockbuster like Herbie: Fully Loaded doesn't happen every day (is Negativland holding out for a better project?). Herbie: Fully Loaded wants to be hip, nostalgic, sexy, and innocent all at the same time, and goes in so many different directions that it can't follow one of them competently. ~ Heather Phares | | Herbie Fully Loaded collects covers of '60s, '70s, and '80s songs by Disney artists and a handful of rock acts. Highlights include Rooney's take on T. Rex's "Metal Guru," the Donnas' "Roll on Down the Highway," and Caleigh Peters' "Fun, Fun, Fun." Though the movie's star, Lindsay Lohan, doesn't contribute any new tracks, "First," the opening track from her album Speak, also appears here. The soundtrack also includes a couple of other songs that aren't covers: Pilot's "Magic," which shows just how gloriously over-the-top '70s pop could be, and Lionel Richie's "Hello." The Blacksmoke Organisation's two pop collages made from bits and pieces of the old Herbie movies, "Herbie (Fully Loaded Remix)" and "Herbie vs Nascar," end up being album's most interesting moments. Fans of Herbie Fully Loaded will probably enjoy having this soundtrack as a musical souvenir of the movie. ~ Heather Phares | | Disney's popular Herbie films from the 1970s, which chronicled the misadventures of a rambunctious Volkswagen Bug, received an update in 2005, with young Disney starlet Lindsay Lohan in the lead. Lohan also contributes the lead-off track to the film's soundtrack with the appropriately titled "First." Borrowed from Lohan's debut album SPEAK, "First" effectively revs up the soundtrack, preparing the listener for the batch of familiar, feel-good rock & roll tunes that follow. Cover versions make up the bulk of the set, with Aly & A.J. taking on Katrina & the Waves' "Walking on Sunshine," Caleigh Peters doing the Beach Boys' "Fun, Fun, Fun," and Josh Gracin working up Loverboy's "Working for the Weekend." The covers are faithful and enjoyable, with Rooney's take on T. Rex's "Metal Guru" and the Mooney Suzuki's version of Steppenwolf's open-road classic "Born to be Wild" leading the pack in wind-swept adrenaline-soaked joy. Sadly, Mark Mothersbaugh's original score is not represented, but the two sound collages (which include snippets from earlier Herbie films) that close out this set make up for it. |
Producer: Mitchell Leib; Kaylin Frank |
| | Technical Info | | Release Date : 06/21/2005 | | Original Release Date : 2005 | | Catalog ID : 162 518 | | Label : Hollywood Records | | Number of Discs : 1 | | Studio/Live : Studio | | Mono/Stereo : Stereo | | SPAR Code : n/a | | UPC : 00720616251824 |
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