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Better than your average soundtrack., Jan 6 2004
I was actually really impressed with this cd, just as much as the movie. I'm not a huge fan of any of the bands, but they're all good, and song for song it all works well together. Some of the more popular tracks are "New", "Steal My Sunshine", and "Gangsta Tripping", but alot of the others are better. "Believer", "Talisman", and "Song for Holly" are all excellent, and I suprisingly liked "Troubled By The Way We Came Together". It's all just a good mix of techno, pop, and rock. Any fan of these groups, or especially the movie should dig this.
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A SONG FOR HOLLY, Sep 26 2002
Esthero's "Song For Holly" is by far the best moment on this soundtrack to the 1999 film "Go". Produced by Danny Saber, "A Song For Holly" is atmospheric. Mixing Esthero's impressive vocals (a cool mix of Sade, Erykah Badu, Bjork, and Everything But The Girl's Tracy Thorn) with a sense of vurnablitity and remorse yet a line of optimism. Beautiful song and me being a huge fan of Esthero's, this track (although three years old) makes me feverishly await Esthero's next album. This time, I promise she'll BLOW up!!! Other than the butterfly of this collection-"Song For Holly"-
there's some other fairly entertaining music on this soundtrack. There's Len's "Steal My Sunshine", a well-produced and happy 'fun' ditty( rumored to be an in-direct tribute to the love drug, Ecstasy) which bubbles with amused good feeling. With a sample of former adult film starAndrea True's disco hit "More More More", how can you go wrong? :-) No Doubt's offbeat "New" still sounds up to par, Fatboy Slim's "Gangsta Trippin'" (heard on way too many cheesy teen-targeted television ads and MTV specials), and DJ Rap's "Good To Be Alive" all will keep you satisfied. Although the clunkers- the cornball "Magic Carpet Ride" by Phillip Steir (also heard on many a cheesy television commercials), Natalie "One Hit Wonder" Imbruglia's "Troubled By The Way We Came Together", and a limp remixing of Eagle Eye Cherry's already flat "Shootin' In Vain"-could have been omitted, "Go"'s soundtrack is actually one of the last half-decent ones to be released, since quality soundtracks have now went the way of eight-tracks! But essentially, get this soundtrack just for "Song For Holly". Anything with Esthero is worth buying!!
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A great multi-genre soundtrack., Oct 13 2001
I got the "Go" soundtrack for my birthday back in '99 before I had seen the movie.And I liked it so much I bought the movie."Go" is one soundtrack that I can listen to and not have to skip any songs. It has pop, rock, instrumental, and some rap.So it could most likely please all types of music fans. I was not all that happy with Philip Stier's remix of Steppenwolf's "Magic carpet ride", it's tolerable, but I hate it when someone butchers a classic song (and don't even get me started on the monstrosity of a soundtrack that "Small soldiers" was,and for all of you that have unfortatley heard it,you'll know what I mean). No Doubt does pretty good with "New", and I really like Len's "Steal my sunshine". I think Air French Band does an excellent job with the instrumental "Talisman", and Natilie Imbrugila's "Troubled by the way we came together" has made me a fan of her's. Before I got "Go", I hadn't heard of many of the artists or bands on the cd, but they all are very talented, and I'm glad Sony bought the rights for them, because I can't picture any other compliation of artists of mostly unknowns (to me) that could make such a good soundtrack."Go" is (in my opinion) up with "Idle Hands" and "Dick" as the best soundtracks of '99. I would not hesitate for a second to recomend "Go", it is worth the money.
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