Commitments - The Commitments : OST - 180g LP

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Commitments - The Commitments : OST - 180g LP
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Alan Parker's adaptation of Roddy Doyle's crackerjack novel 'The Commitments' (1991) kept its focus on the music - the classic American R&B and Soul the titular workingman band cranked out in pubs across Ireland. As a book and film,

The Commitments was all about love of music, so it didn't matter if the soundtrack offered workmanlike versions of oldies the band and audience knew by heart: as long as it was done with some soul, the film would work, and the soundtrack would too. In that sense, the Commitments were a cousin to the Blues Brothers, John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd's tribute to the very same music but where Jake and Elwood managed to hire Stax's house band (such are the perks of stardom), the group Parker assembled were working Irish musicians

A1 Mustang Sally
A2 Take Me To The River
A3 Chain Of Fools
A4 The Dark End Of The Street
A5 Destination Anywhere
A6 I Can't Stand The Rain
A7 Try A Little Tenderness
B1 Treat Her Right
B2 Do Right Woman Do Right Man
B3 Mr. Pitiful
B4 I Never Loved A Man
B5 In The Midnight Hour
B6 Bye Bye Baby
B7 Slip Away

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