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I had this on cassette tape when it came out. I was (at the time) disappointed (I was 14) that some songs were omitted and just thought the soundtrack was ok. I am a Blues Brothers nut! I bought this again on CD just to have it in the collection and for days "She Caught the Katy" was running through my head! When I got it, I listen to it several times all the way through. This is a classic album and a great soundtrack. The Blues Brothers will always remain one of my favorite bands. The music they performed seems timeless and you can sense the fun they had doing these songs!

My dad and I watch the Blues Brothers on tv a lot. I enjoy the music and this is a great cd to have in the car to listen to. It’s not that long, but you can’t help but sing along or just listen to the songs.

I got this album both as I'd liked to Blues Brothers movie, and as I wanted to add some of the blues songs and artists on the album to my collection. Elmore James, Sam Cooke, Otis Redding - if you you're just getting into the blues, this album is a great "gateway" drug.

Just a classic !!! Great Soundtrack to an Awesome Movie , My CD collection of over 900 CDs was stolen and I had to by this in the 1st 100 replacements .

It seems unthinkable now that what started out as a musical act on a late night TV comedy show featuring musicians in bee costumes would morph into an entertainment blockbuster, but, to paraphrase Elwood Blues, the show business gods can work in mysterious ways. By 1977 the bees became the "Blues Brothers," and in 1978 came the inevitable album, which soared to the top of the charts. With "Animal House" cleaning up at the box office, the next stage was inevitable. When "The Blues Brothers" movie finally arrived in theaters in the troubled summer of 1980 both Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi had long since ankled SNL and left their TV roots far behind (or so they thought, by 1981 Belushi's movie stratospheric movie career was already on a downswing and he was exploring a return to TV, according to Bob Woodward's biography, "Wired") and in many ways "Blues Brothers" was the culmination of the pop culture revolution SNL and the "Not Ready For Prime Time Players" had started when SNL went on the air in 1975. Movie critics, always a good ten steps behind the curve, basically dismissed the movie as a pointless exercise in mindless moviemaking, seen as lacking in characters or plot, basically an excuse to blow millions of Hollywood studio dollars on car crashes and explosions. Perhaps if it had been in black-and-white, with characters speaking in Romanian with French subtitles, they would have hailed it as great art. "Blues Brothers" was the book-end to "1941," clear evidence that American movies were going to hell in a bloated budget hand basket. At a more serious level, culture critics and academics attacked the film for privileging white performers over African American artists, an act of cultural colonialism, with Belushi and Aykroyd the great white hunters pillaging the native villages for their own personal enrichment. To which the only appropriate response is the great big fat raspberry. One night in Cambridge I wandered into the House of Blues club. Duck Dunn (rest his soul) was performing. In-between songs he spoke about the "Blues Brothers". He said outright that neither Belushi or Aykroyd were very talented musicians, but he gave them all the credit in the world for using their celebrity status to introduce the blues to an audience that otherwise would never have been exposed to it, in all likelihood. Bringing the blues to white suburban kids, using comedy and car chases as spoonfuls of sugar to help it go down, that is what "The Blues Brothers," project was really all about. It's clear that unlike other pop culture pilferers who lift black music out of its original context and plug it into their own projects, with no regard to its deeper meanings or its use as a way to transmit messages about the black experience in America (no names, Quintin Tarantino) Belushi and Aykrord honored the music, the musicians who made it, and the life experiences that produced the blues. Diners, churches, concert halls, music shops, even the hard streets of Chicago, all are backdrops for performances in the film. The film, like the soundtrack, has gone on to endure, partly because it does have that historical respect and substance behind, and also because of its tremendous entertainment value. In essence "Blues Brothers" are comfort food, guaranteed to raise a smile whenever you are feeling the blues or even the mean reds. The soundtrack has no real weak spots and, like every soundtrack or album that has survived for over 30 years, stands up to numerous repeated listenings. For me the highlights include Aretha Franklin's show-stopping rendition of "Think," the rollicking performance numbers from the film, "Everybody Needs Somebody to Love," and "Sweet Home Chicago," "She Got the Katy," which shows off Belushi at his best, vocally, and a dead-on parody of "Rawhide." But it's also hard to go wrong with James Brown pulling out all the stops on the gospel- inflected "The Old Land Mark," or hearing Cab Calloway twisting the tongues of young white people into knots while scat singing on that old warhorse, "Minnie the Moocher." There's even the "Peter Gunn Theme," arguably the best TV theme song ever recorded, thrown in for good measure. Sadly, the Jon Lee Hooker number from the film is not included, for recording company contractual reasons, one can only image. In retrospect, the "Blues Brothers" project represented the peak of the careers of Belushi and Aykroyd. We all know the tragic downward trajectory that Belushi was on by 1981, and while Aykroyd would go on to have a very successful career as a character actor and businessman, he would never be in any project with the impact of "Blues Brothers." Still, how many other performers can claim a legacy as lasting " The Blues Brothers: Original Soundtrack Recording Blues Brothers" ? Recommended for: Any one who's ever been 200 miles from Chicago, with a pack of cigarettes and half a tank of gas, in the dark, wearing sunglasses.

Other than the fact that vinyl records are now outrageously priced because millennials discovered them, I love this movie and this soundtrack. Would definitely recommend!

So happy to find a new replacement CD for an old soundtrack!

Ottimo

Quelle CD. Une musique toujours SUPER. Quelle plaisir de la réécouter.

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