Why this record has so many enthusiastic fans, lights me only once. The film is nice and personable, making every amateur musicians a bit wistful and appeals to a wide audience of both sexes. In addition, Soul is now fortunately become quite a universal music, with a lot of people at once, at least be able to identify superficial and their big hits stored them as potential earwigs in mind. Should have something to do with the review of this CD? No. Here no film will be discussed, but music - choice and quality of the song material, its implementation, skills of the musicians involved, sound, production and artistic value. Moreover addition has a plate are measured in my opinion, to fundamental aesthetic standards of their musical genres and the overall musical context - this should be included in the assessment of individual points. For songmaterial following may be said: It is excellent in itself, but unfortunately largely recover on the black list of songs that should never be more gecovert on board because of her enormous awareness. If you want to still dare to them, there are two promising methods: Either the overly familiar song exceeds in the new version of the original and / or new aspects of its potential produced, for example, by style and instrumentation to be changed (see "I Will Survive "by Cake). Both discover here just in its infancy. The plate is, however, not produced unloving as a mainstream product; it sounds smooth, without being sterile. The musicians obviously know their craft, even if they are largely rocky for my ears. The singer can sing well. Is that enough for a really good CD? Absolutely no way! The Commitments - a band which do not really exist - are a better than average soul cover band, without significant own ideas, not requiring material and - in somewhat exaggerated - without Soul. Andrew Strong is a great Joe Cocker Impersonator without question. Maria Doyle has proven well enough talent to earn even today as a musician her buns. But considering the originals to which they dare, they can only lose. And here lies the real problem of the disc: Otis Redding, Al Green, James Carr and Aretha Franklin are among the most outstanding singers of the 20th century. The Commitments play and sing their music, closely applied to the original, according to. Because you just can not avoid a direct comparison. And then have words like "mannerisms", "hollow pathos", "cliche cluttered" and fall "unsubtle". Even just to touch such a perfect shot like Otis Redding's masterpiece "Try A Little Tenderness", is actually classified even as a serious crime. Who wants to buy the disc, because he likes again scenes of the film in mind, would you please. Whoever finds the actual songs great, oriented incomparably better on the compilation "The Commitments - Original Artists Recordings of Featured Music". Who would like to hear great Soul, worried myself equal slices of OV Wright, Ray Charles, Geater Davis or the above mentioned. Unlike which the Commitments are considered per se unfortunately superfluous. More than a mediocre evaluation has accordingly not deserve this CD.
