Music Review: Footloose Soundtrack

Footloose is a movie about wanting to dance.  It presents a high school where dancing has been outlawed, and what happens when new blood moves in, with different rules.  The movie soundtrack is an eclectic collection, with a few classics.  Kenny Loggins "Footloose" is one of the most popular and really carries the entire show.  Loggins also sings "I'm Free (Heaven Helps the Man)."  "Lets Hear it for the Boy" by Deniece Williams is very nice.  Holding Out for a Hero by Bonnie Tyler is in a similar vein.  Another highlight is "Waiting for a Girl Like You" by Foreigner.  This is a song you can listen to over and over and still be entranced.  There is a part in the soundtrack that the music gets too hard, but then it comes back to some very enjoyable songs.

Music Review: Finding Neverland, Soundtrack 2004

 This is the soundtrack for the 2004  movie “Finding Neverland" which starred Johnny Depp and Kate Winslet.  It is all instrumental, mostly orchestral with a couple piano versions of the pieces thrown in.  I like the bear theme, Russian dancing bear to be exact, and the Russian flare to the music is there.  There is also the mysterious sounds of the faeries and other enchanted creatures of Neverland.  Very peaceful overall. 

Composer Jan A.P. Kaczmarek.