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Must Love Dogs - Music from the Motion Picture

Women who remember Lloyd Dobler as the perfect sensitive, new age guy are starting to reach "a certain age," and it may take a woman of certain age--or at least one with a somewhat old school taste in music--to appreciate the Must Love Dogs soundtrack. Let's face it, when you kick a compilation off with Linda Ronstadt, and Christopher Plummer reading poetry, you're not taking dead aim at the youth market. "Hey There Lonely Girl?" "The First Cut Is the Deepest?" Sounds like someone was just at their attorney's office and found out their husband is getting the house.

That said, who hasn't found themselves in a "The First Cut Is the Deepest" kind of mood at one time or another? Yes, Natalie Cole's "This Will Be (An Everlasting Love)" is well-trod ground (the song could be called "This Will Be a Regular Fixture on Movie Soundtracks") but isn't this just the kind of recklessly upbeat feeling we go to the movies for? And Must Love Dogs does go on to feature some more contemporary acts including Rilo Kiley and Susie Suh. This CD is just another one of life's simpler pleasures, like romantic comedies...and dogs. --Leah Weathersby

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Soundtrack;

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Customer Review:

Song in the Trailer

Bluenote, I believe the song you're looking for is I Can Make A Mess Like Nobody's Business - The Best Happiness Money Can Buy.

Wanted the song from the trailer

This is a good selection of songs but, I was looking for the song from the trailer. It was a nice acoustic guitar sounding thing. Where is it, what is it? A great song. I'm still looking and hoping that song is in the movie.

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Keywords: Adult Alternative Pop/Rock; Alternative Country-Rock; Alternative Pop/Rock; Contemporary Country; Pop; Pop/Rock; Singer/Songwriter; Soundtrack; Soundtracks; Soundtracks & Film Scores;

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Baby Einstein: Lullaby Classics

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Customer Review:

Relaxation Guaranteed

I bought this cd along with a cd player for my daughter when she was 3 weeks old. The first time I played it for her she was asleep by track 3. Since then I play it softly when I am ready to put her to bed at night (on repeat) and do not turn it off until morning. When she is upset and fussy I will put on the CD and hold her close and she relaxes immediately. I was so pleased with this cd that I am looking into buying the other Baby Einstein CD's for her.

This cd is not for the weak of heart !!!

The first time I listened to this cd, I automatically said ," Man, these guys must have been born in a trash can outside of Hardees!!" But then I listened to the rest, and automatically said," Man , these guys WERE born in a trash can outside of Hardees!!" So the bottom line is that this cd is definitely not for kids, or adults, even though my uncle Remus likes it. The minute he heard the first song, he said, " Ohh, duhawuh!! Gushy!!" I know that part of the review was very disturbing.

Synthesized classics

I was really disappointed to discover that every track on this CD is played on a synthesizer and not by the authentic orchestral instruments for which it was written. Mozart's Minuet in G sounds like it's being played on a (faux) marimba. A recording of actual instruments would be much more beautiful and better for a baby's developing ears.

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Keywords: Bagatelle for Keyboard; Baroque Suite/Partita for Orchestra; Cantata; Children's; Childrens; Choral; Classical Period Variations for Keyboard; Classical Sonata/Sonatina for Keyboard; Concerto; Keyboard; Keyboard Work with Descriptive or Unclassified Title; Lullabies; Miscellaneous; Orchestral; Pop; Romantic Music for Voice and Keyboard; Romantic Sonata/Sonatina for Keyboard; Romantic Symphony; Romantic Tone Poem/Symphonic Poem for Orchestra; Song Without Words for Keyboard; Symphonic; Transcription; V/A Compilations; Violin Concerto; Vocal;

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Listen To Your Heart

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Customer Review:

I Love D.H.T.!

This CD is amazing. If you like Ace of Base, you will like D.H.T. The whole time I was listening to it, I thought it sounded like a new Ace of Base CD! This is a must buy!

Not quite what I expected

I bought this CD thinking it would be mostly dance music, like their single "Listen to Your Heart". After listening to all the songs, I was kind of disappointed. There are a few dance songs, but most of it is a little slower. The music is still great, but don't buy it expecting to have upbeat tempo trance/dance type music.

What D.H.T has going for it... and against it

Lacking lyrical gusto not withstanding, this album offers a bit of a feel good rush. The covers are done well... "Listen To Your Heart" is a moving rush as a dance track and hauntingly sad with just a piano and the lead singer as the bonus remix featured on the album. "At Seventeen" is a bitingly harsh look at teenage life with some rather thought provoking lyrics that make you wonder if the beauty who is singing them really can relate to whom they were intended for. "Drivers Seat" offers a deliciously intriguing verse followed by a dud of a chorus. What is the point of the Drivers Seat... is it just there or is it supposed to offer some odd devine direction... the song left me wanting more of the flow that the verses offered. "I Can't Be Your Friend" is a humerous look at wanting to advance to the next step and it is set to a catchy beat that makes the car shake. "My Dream" is poetic but offers no symbolic solution. The dream is lovely and a sign of the times, but the realisim of it is lost in the shuffle of silly rhyming. "Sun" while having the makings of being another annoying "Macarena" hit, is a catchy fun song. The words are meant to take you nowhere... just to get you grooving. "Depressed" is just the message our youth needs today... (not really) as the song is almost blatantly about killing yourself to "end the misery" and again you are left wondering if the lead singer relates or just sings the words.
All in all, the album is feel good fluff with some fairly decent vocals and catchy beats and melodies. I find it amusing that the covers are the best songs because face it, the writing on the origional songs could use a bit of development. Still, it is a decent album... although I do wish it was longer.

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Keywords: Club/Dance; Dance Music; Dance-Pop; Euro-Dance; Pop; Pop/Rock; Soul/R & B;

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Hairspray (2002 Original Broadway Cast)

The cast recording for the Broadway musical of John Waters's 1988 paean to dance, music, big beautiful women, and integration is a sheer delight. It's wonderfully upbeat all the way through, with a classic feel that's in keeping with the story's setting in the early 1960s. The characters come alive in these songs, from Marissa Jaret Winokur's (Tracy Turnblad) opening lines in "Good Morning Baltimore" to the stunningly upbeat finale, "You Can't Stop the Beat." The music is by Marc Shaiman, whose recent projects include South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut, as well as a number of film soundtracks, and his compositions are simultaneously solid and exuberant. Shaiman and Scott Wittman's lyrics brim over with the unreserved passions and primary-color emotions that made the film so successful. Regardless of one's familiarity with the story or the stage production, it's hard to avoid the appeal of this recording; even the less cheerful songs are awash in bright colors, without disrespect for their subjects. --Genevieve Williams

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Very Good, Definitely Deserves It's Tony's

A very upbeat, happy musical! A bit bubblegum pop but hey, what do you get when the show's named Hairspray? Very good, Harvey Fierstein definitely does a good job as Edna and Marissa Winokur does a great job playing a teenage girl

Five Best Tracks

Good Morning Baltimore
Mama, I'm A Big Girl Now
I Can Hear The Bells
Run And Tell That!
Timeless To Me

A real hit!

After seeing this musical at the Golden Gate Theatre in San Fransisco I knew that I just HAD to get the CD. Seeing Matthew Morrison (Link Larkin) on stage is one thing, but getting to listen to him day after day on a CD is AMAZING! This musical is a way of attacking racial stereotypes, but in a way so that it is humerous. I love to be able to listen to this CD day after day and hear such wonderful singers. It's a great CD geared towards teenagers and adults alike!

Exactly what it's supposed to be.

I don't get it. Are all these "Fantasia" references coming from the same reviewer using different accounts? You're supposed to use this space to review this CD, not to comment on American Idol. That aside, I'm not sure what kind of problem these people have. "Hairspray" accomplished exactly what it set out to do. It's fun, funny, clever, and not meant to be taken seriously. If you're looking for a vocal showcase, then this isn't the show for you. If you have a sense of humor, though, and don't mind just kicking back and enjoying yourself once in a while, then give "Hairspray" a try. The actors were cast for their parts precisely because of how they sound. And they're also playing roles that call for a certain kind of irony. If the producers had wanted traditional big Broadway-style voices, they would have picked a different cast. It's a character-driven musical, too, and in any case, it's intended as popular entertainment, not high art. It may not appeal to everyone, but unless you're this one guy who seems to be posting lots of suspiciously similar bad reviews, then you'll probably enjoy it.

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Keywords: Cast Recordings; Music Theater; Musical Theater; Musicals; Pop; Showtunes / B'way;

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