I wanted so badly for October 25th to fall on a Tuesday this year. If it did, I was going to push this post out to that date. Sadly, it lands on a Sunday.
Steven Spielberg presents an irresistible comic fantasy that accelerates beyond the time barrier with wit, imagination and infectious, wide-eyed wonder. Michael J. Fox stars as Marty McFly, a typical American teenager of the Eighties accidentally sent back to 1955 in a plutonium=powered DeLorean "time machine" invented by slightly mad scientist Christopher Lloyd. During his often hysterical, always amazing trip back in time, Marty must make certain his teenage parents-to-be, Crispin Glover and Lea Thompson, meet and fall in love - so he can get back to the future. Directed by Robert Zemeckis, this delightful comedy-adventure will make everyone want to get Back To The Future over and over again. - Back of the original VHSA perfectly crafted film, matched by an equally wonderful soundtrack. That's my opinion anyway.
It has the awesome hits, Power Of Love and Back In Time by Huey Lewis And The News, and from there delivers some fantastic tunes to coincide. Are they as good as Power of Love? Not necessarily. However, they're also not bad.
You get Lindsey Buckingham's Time Bomb Town, Eric Clapton's Heaven Is One Step Away, and a couple delightful score tracks from The Outatime Orchestra - composed and conducted by Alan Silvestri. With this being more than enough to shape a solid album, it's not everything.
The soundtrack rounds out with the popular 1955 hit from Etta James, The Wallflower (Dance With Me Henry), and some newly recorded classics via the fictional band, Marvin Berry And The Starlighters. These include Night Train, Earth Angel and Johnny B. Goode. The latter of the tracks being credited to the fictional Marty McFly (in addition to The Starlighters).
Much like the film, I can't help but call the soundtrack perfect. It's one of the few albums I have which all the tracks have made their way into my iTunes and iPod shuffle.
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