The Commitments
Original Soundtrack LP
MOVATM035
Music On Vinyl
2009
- 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
* 180 gram audiophile vinyl
* 4-page insert
* PVC protective sleeve
Alan Parker's adaptation of Roddy Doyle's crackerjack novelThe 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 Commitmentswas 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 Commitmentswere a cousin to theBlues 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.