It's not often that we go 'off-site' for the Music Club, but sometimes, people insist on hosting and who am I to deny them that right? Last week's event was hosted by Music Club veterans Anthony and Marosi White at their lovely home in the south area. Lots of new faces made their way to the event and we hope to see them again.
Our theme was 'Song from a Soundtrack', which brought up some very good material to work with. Most of our 80's babies provided us with soundtracks from such movies as Soul Food, the Nutty Professor and The Best Man. For others, 80's classics like The Karate Kid and Dirty Dancing provided the music.
In all 34 people made their appearance for the March edition and we hope to keep it moving for next month.
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Tuesday, March 2, 2010
Album of the Month - The Boomerang Soundtrack
The greatest of them all?
Quiet possibly.
True, my personal bias invades this review due to the fact that this is in my personal Top 10 for movies, but one cannot deny the excellence of the soundtrack that accompanied the movie, which starred Eddie Murphy, Halle Berry and Robin Givens.
The year was 1992 and Kenny "Babyface" Edmonds was at the height of his musical prowess. His emerging solo career notwithstanding, his label, LaFace (co-founded with L.A. Reid), was changing the sound of R&B music. The collaborators were given full control of the album and what was created was a soul/new jack masterpiece. The album was successful in the mainstream (four songs charted quite high) and also contained some really solid love ballads ("Tonight Is Right" by Keith Washington and "There U Go" by Johnny Gill, to name a few).
While the 90s were the heyday of movie soundtracks (some which accompanied really bad movies), the beauty of Boomerang is how the soundtrack flows so effortlessly with the movie itself. An album so well conducted that it still stands the test of time despite being released over 15 years ago.
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