Various Artists - 54 (Music From The Miramax Motion Picture - Volume 2) (1998)

Country: U.S.A.

Genre: Disco, Pop, House

Label Number: TBCD 1294

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© 1998 Tommy Boy/Miramax Films

54, Vol. 2 Review by Jason Ankeny

The second of two soundtracks to director Mark Christopher's ill-advised 54 is even more unsatisfying than the first, with only a handful of disco classics (including Blondie's "Heart of Glass" and Thelma Houston's immortal "Don't Leave Me This Way") to its name. Much like the film itself, the soundtrack fails to paint an accurate portrait of the disco era as it really was -- too many key records are absent, and too many of those that did make the cut simply don't capture the genre at its electrifying peak; viewers and listeners alike are instead directed to Whit Stillman's vastly superior The Last Days of Disco (and its accompanying soundtrack) for a real sense of what all the fuss was really about. 

 

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