Pirate Radio

Pirate Radio

Pirate Radio
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Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
Format: Soundtrack
CD Release Date: 2009-11-10
Music Label: Republic
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
  1. Duffy "Stay With Me Baby"
  2. The Kinks "All Day And All The Night"
  3. The Turtles "Elenore"
  4. John Fred & His Playboy Band "Judy In Disguise (With Glasses)"
  5. Martha Reeves & The Vandellas "Dancing In The Street"
  6. The Beach Boys "Wouldn't It Be Nice"
  7. Smokey Robinson & The Miracles "Ooo Baby Baby"
  8. Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass "This Guy's In Love With You"
  9. Jeff Beck "Hi Ho Silver Lining"
  10. The Who "I Can See For Miles"
  11. The Troggs "With A Girl Like You"
  12. The Hollies "I'm Alive"
  13. Chris Andrews "Yesterday Man"
  14. Paul Jones "I've Been A Bad Bad Boy"
  15. The Tremeloes "Silence Is Golden"
Music CD 2
  1. Easybeats "Friday On My Mind"
  2. The Who "My Generation"
  3. Cream "I Feel Free"
  4. Jimi Hendrix Experience "The Wind Cries Mary"
  5. Procol Harem "A Whiter Shade Of Pale"
  6. Otis Redding "These Arms Of Mine"
  7. The Supreme "The Happening
  8. Jr Walker & The All Stars "Cleo's Mood"
  9. The Turtles "She'd Rather Be With Me"
  10. The Bystanders "98.6"
  11. The Kinks "Sunny Afternoon"
  12. Cat Stevens "Father And Son"
  13. The Moody Blues "Nights In White Satin"
  14. Dusty Springfield "You Don't Have To Say You Love Me"
  15. Lorraine Ellison "Stay With Me"
  16. The Isley Bros "This Old Heart Of Mine"
  17. David Bowie "Let's Dance"

Music reviews of Pirate Radio

Music Review: +1/2 - The better-known sounds of 1960s UK pirate radio
Rating: 3 Stars

Ever since George Lucas built American Graffitti around its ever-present soundtrack, filmmakers have used vintage music as a shorthand to quickly evoke a specific period. In this film's fictionalized version of 1960s UK pirate radio, the nostalgic selections are in many ways the central character. Driven by monopolistic, government controlled radio's narrowness, daring entrepreneurs anchored ships outside territorial waters where they could beam their signals back to the Emerald Isles. Those radio waves were stocked with fresh, daring new artists that the BBC wouldn't touch. Forty years later, the music on this 2-CD, 32-track collection may seem quaint and familiar, but it caused quite a stir at the time.

While the Beatles-led British Invasion suggests that musical travel was all in one direction, the heavy dose of U.S. rock and soul sides heard here suggests otherwise. There are many U.K. flag bearers among the pirate radio favorites, including the Kinks, Who, Troggs, Hollies, Tremeloes, Procol Harum and Moody Blues, but also a rip tide of U.S. acts whose impact returned the favor, including the Turtles, Beach Boys, Martha and the Vandellas, Smokey Robinson and the Miracles, and Otis Redding. Star acts like the Rolling Stones are missing (no doubt due to licensing cost), but more importantly are the lesser known British acts that gave pirate radio its local flavor. The one nod in this direction is the Bystanders' version of "98.6," which shadowed the bigger international hit by Keith on the UK charts.

British favorites like Sandie Shaw, the Pretty Things, Small Faces and Ivy League, and dozens of other acts that never made a big dent in the American charts would have given this set a deeper feel for the pirate radio charts. The stations' breadth is suggested in Herb Alpert's "This Guy's in Love With You," but even that doesn't capture the freedom of a station like Radio Caroline that used Jimmy McGriff's version of "Round Midnight" as its theme song. The lead-off cover of "Stay With Me Baby" by the throwback vocalist Duffy seems to be an attempt to draw attention to an album of 45-year-old music, but with Lorraine Ellison's searing period original also included, the flavor-of-the-month cover is superfluous.

The track selections stay too close to the mainstream to really demonstrate pirate radio's unique contribution to the airwaves. The lack of radio continuity - jingles and DJs - further obscures the actual sound of the pirates. There are moments of musical discovery here, such as Chris Andrews' ska-influenced "Yesterday Man," Jr. Walker and the All Stars' dark instrumental "Cleo's Mood," and aforementioned tracks by the Bystanders and Lorraine Ellison, but the core tracks are well-worn totems of mid-60s rock and soul. For U.S. audiences, these songs American top-40 hits, so while they're great listening, they don't really say anything particular about UK pirate radio of the 1960s.

If you enjoyed the songs in the movie, and you don't already have a deep collection of `60s classics, you'll like this soundtrack. If you want to hear a broader, more Eurocentric range of pirate radio music, get a copy of 101 Pirate Radio Favorites, Rockin' With the Pirates, or We Love the Pirates. Or better yet, create your own compilation from the vintage playlists on Caroline and London's websites and add some continuity from the CD Pirate Radio Jingles Sixties. 3-1/2 stars, if allowed fractional ratings. [©2009 hyperbolium dot com]
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Description of Pirate Radio

Pirate Radio is the newest ensemble comedy from filmmaker Richard Curtis (screenwriter of Four Weddings and a Funeral and Notting Hill, and writer/director of Love Actually), spinning the irreverent yet fact-based comedic tale of a seafaring band of rogue rock and roll deejays whose "pirate radio" captivated and inspired 1960s Britain. Playing the music that rocked a nation and a decade, the group boldly and hilariously defies the government that tried to shut them down.

Broadcasting live 24/7 from an old tanker anchored in the middle of the North Sea (just beyond British jurisdiction), Radio Rock sends out a vibrant and unifying signal to millions across the nation, ranging in age from wide-eyed pre-teens secretly tuning in long past their bedtimes to everyday people in need of a musical pick-me-up.

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