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| The Wedding Singer Volume 2: More Music From The Motion Picture | 
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| Artist: Various Artists
Label: Maverick
Category: Music
List Price: $11.98
Buy Used: $2.69
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Avg. Customer Rating:  48 reviews
Sales Rank: 2991
Format: Soundtrack
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 46984
UPC: 093624698425
EAN: 0093624698425
ASIN: B000009D1V
Release Date: July 21, 1998
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Tracks:
| • | Too Shy - Kajagoogoo | | • | It's All I Can Do - The Cars | | • | True - Spandau Ballet | | • | Space Age Love Song - A Flock Of Seagulls | | • | Private Idaho - The B52's | | • | Money (That's What I Want) - Flying Lizards | | • | You Spin Me Round (Like A Record) - Dead Or Alive | | • | Just Can't Get Enough - Depeche Mode | | • | Love Stinks - The J. Geils Band | | • | You Make My Dreams - Hall & Oates | | • | Holiday - Madonna | | • | Grow Old With You - Adam Sandler |
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Is it forgivable that the second volume of songs from Adam Sandler's mid-'80s-revival comedy begins with Kajagoogoo's famously limp "Too Shy"? Not really, but the rest of the disc does a good job of recapitulating worthy memories from the era of torn-sweatshirt necks and mulletheads--not just with new-wave novelties but with Madonna and Hall & Oates staples ("Holiday" and "You Make My Dreams," respectively) as bouncy and glossy as anything the also-present Depeche Mode ("Just Can't Get Enough") and Dead or Alive ("You Spin Me Round [Like a Record]") ever put on the radio or MTV. The Cars' "It's All I Can Do" and the J. Geils Band's "Love Stinks" encapsulate the Sandler character's romantic frustrations, while the star's own "Grow Old with Me" actually points toward a serious career as a singer/songwriter for our boy. Eek. --Rickey Wright
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| Customer Reviews: Read 43 more reviews...
 More great 80s music from the movie July 9, 2002
7 out of 10 found this review helpful
Few movies deserve a two-volume soundtrack, but The Wedding Singer is one of those rare exceptions. While Volume 2 is not quite as good as the first album, it still contains some exceedingly good 1980s tracks. This music is not the best the decade produced, but it does represent a good cross-section of styles and sounds. Several of these songs were also very prominent in the movie--for example, the movie opens with Adam Sandler singing (sans patch) Dead or Alive's "You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)" and closes with Spandau Ballet's slow ballad "True." "Too Shy" by Kajagoogoo is a quintessential 80s song, and anyone who grew up in the 80s can hardly forget the temporarily huge A Flock of Seagulls ("Space Age Love Song"). "Private Idaho" is a typically fun B-52's song. As hard as it is to admit, Hall & Oates were once a wildly successful duo, and "You Make My Dreams" is one of their better songs. No soundtrack from the 80s would be complete without a track from Madonna, and although "Holiday" is far from her best song, this is the song Robbie Hart chose to sing on his ill-fated return to the wedding singer stage after having been left standing at the altar. While the 1980s was about much more than greed, some would probably consider Flying Lizards' "Money (That's What I Want)" a veritable theme song of the decade. Remarkably, two CDs still do not contain all of the great 80s songs from the movie itself, and we all have some other tracks we wish had been included on the soundtracks, but this is still a great collection of quintessential 80s music.
Where's Adam? March 10, 2000
6 out of 12 found this review helpful
No one can come close to singing LOVE STINKS like Adam. Why didn't they put his version in the CD? I don't know but after hearing the real version again (for the first time since, like, 8th grade) it was pretty mellow and not enough ommmph. Adam put the punch in it like it needs and it's too bad it isn't on there. There has got to be a CD with all Adam's movie songs that he himself has made. There's just gotta. Let me know if you know of one that has slipped through my greedy fingers. The CD, is good, but.....it needs more power Jim!
Keep On Partying Like It's 1985 December 5, 2000
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
After the surprising success of the first volume of songs from The Wedding Singer soundtrack, a second volume was rushed out containing songs from the movie that didn't appear on the first one. There are some really good and underrated songs like "All I Can Do" by The Cars, "You Make My Dreams" by Hall & Oates & "Space Age Love Song" by A Flock of Seagulls, but the overall quality doesn't match the first. "Holiday" is one of Madonna's lesser songs from the era as is "Private Idaho" by The B-52's. "Too Shy" by Kajagoogoo is the most obvious 80's song on either soundtrack and while it brings back a laugh, you don't want to hear it too often. "Love Stinks" by the J. Geils Band is excellent, but just as with the first edition's use of Ellen Dow on "Rapper's Delight", it would have been great to include Adam Sandler's version from the film as it is one of the movie's highlights.
Good album, but needed a few key 80's tunes, June 23, 1999
4 out of 8 found this review helpful
Don't get me wrong, I like this CD. Yet I was watching the movie and I noticed a great song was used, but excluded from the soundtrack. After the group of four had eaten dinner and Drew Barymore had gotten sick, she was going to leave with her future husband. As the door of his Daloreon opened vertically (nice touch), you could hear the theme to Miami Vice playing in his car. This is the greatest theme song ever! Had could you not take the opportunity to add a track like that to an already incredible CD?
definitely missing something August 12, 1999
3 out of 7 found this review helpful
After watching this movie, I was so sure I'd want to go straight out and buy the soundtrack, but the two songs I was looking forward to the most ("99 Luftballons" and Jan Hammer's "Miami Vice Theme") were inexpicably missing from both albums! Oh well, it's still a great collection of 80s music, but I still can't bring myself to purchase it when they let a chance get by to put some of the best songs from the movie on it. BTW, check out Jan Hammer's "Escape from Television" album for the Miami Vice Theme and a bunch more great tunes from the show. I can't say I watched the show much, but it sure had some great music. Anyway, this is about the Wedding Singer sountrack, so buy that too.
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