Crimes of Passion [Soundtrack]

crimes of passion [soundtrack]

Track Listings
1. It's a Lovely Life
2. Eastern Shadows
3. Joanna
4. Stretch
5. Policeman's Ball
6. Stax
7. Taken in Hand
8. Paradise Lost
9. Box
10. Web of Love
11. Dangerous Woman [*]

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Crimes of Passion [Soundtrack]
Crimes of Passion
Average customer rating: 3 out of 5 stars
  • Nasty piece of work!
 Crimes of Passion
Rick Wakeman
Manufacturer: President Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0000075XP
Release Date: 1993-05-13

Tracks:

  1. It's a Lovely Life
  2. Eastern Shadows
  3. Joanna
  4. Stretch
  5. Policeman's Ball
  6. Stax
  7. Taken in Hand
  8. Paradise Lost
  9. Box
  10. Web of Love
  11. Dangerous Woman [*]

Customer Reviews:

3 out of 5 stars Nasty piece of work!.......2001-05-01

Rick Wakeman seems like he might be an ideal composer for movie scores. Why then, I wonder, are so many of the films he has done music for either extremely obscure, off the beaten path, or just plain weird? CRIMES OF PASSION (1984) certainly fits the film-- a sordid, nasty tale in which a disturbed woman works out her demons by posing as a high-class call girl-- and winds up meeting both a man whose marriage is on the rocks, AND an even more disturbed character posing as a street preacher! As with most of his films (including LISZTOMANIA) Ken Russell tends to go too far over the edge of bad taste and lunacy. In this case, the end result is a truly heart-rending story of lust, depravity, love & redemption-- but to get there you have to wade through some really disturbing stuff (especially if you see the "unrated" version!).

Wakeman's score ranges from the sadly beautiful (including "Web Of Love" which features an excerpt of Dvorak's "Going Home") to the in-your-face nasty ("It's A Lovely Life", an ironic main title for such a UGLY song, with vocals by Maggie Bell). As on THE BURNING, there are spots where Rick seems to be on auto-- I'd swear he's simply lifting certain passages from earlier, and better, of his own albums. Both the film and the soundtrack are hard on your nerves-- but on its own, the film works, while I rank this album near the bottom of Rick's output.
Crimes of Passion
Average customer rating: Not rated
    		Crimes of Passion
    Rick Wakeman
    Manufacturer: Landmark Distributor
    ProductGroup: Music
    Binding: Audio CD

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    ASIN: B00000DTGE
    Release Date: 1993-11-16

    Tracks:

    1. It's a Lovely Life
    2. Eastern Shadows
    3. Joanna
    4. Stretch
    5. Policeman's Ball
    6. Stax
    7. Taken in Hand
    8. Paradise Lost
    9. Box
    10. Web Love

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