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 ‎– The Commitments (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Label:  ‎– MCA 10286 Format: , LP, Album 
Country: Released: Genre: ,  Style: ,  Tracklist A1Mustang Sally Written-By – * A2Take Me To The River Written-By – , * A3Chain Of Fools Written-By –  A4The Dark End Of The Street Written-By – ,  A5Destination Anywhere Written-By – * A6I Can't Stand The Rain Written-By – , , * A7Try A Little Tenderness Written-By – , *, * B1Treat Her Right Written-By – *,  B2Do Right Woman Do Right Man Written-By – ,  B3Mr. Pitiful Written-By – *,  B4I Never Loved A Man Written-By –  B5In The Midnight Hour Written-By – ,  B6Bye Bye Baby Written-By –  B7Slip Away Written-By – , ,  Credits Producer – , , 




Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine 

Alan Parker's adaptation of Roddy Doyle's crackerjack novel The Commitments 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, well, soul, the film would work, and the soundtrack would too. In that sense,  were a cousin to ,  and '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. This would seem to lend  some degree of authenticity and it does to a certain extent, as these guys can crank out familiar favorites without missing a step, but the description of working musicians suggests that there is some grit here, which there's not. After all, this is music for a movie, so it is cleanly produced: the horns have a punch, the guitars are crisp, the drums tight and neat, all the better to showcase the bar band growl of  -- his  worship comes out like  crossed with  -- and Maria Doyle's salute to . All of this sounds fine, if a bit generic: these are great songs performed ably and if they're not distinctive, they at least suit the spirit of the film's open-hearted hero worship.

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