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Score Composed, Conducted, and Produced by:
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John Debney
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Audio Clips:
2. Skipping Through Town (0:30), 150K dick2.ra
3. Lounge-Y Dick (0:29), 145K dick3.ra
15. The New Boyfriend (0:30), 150K dick15.ra
18. Driving the Girls Insane (0:30), 150K dick18.ra
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Availability:
The promotional release cannot be found
in stores. Seek copies at soundtrack specialty outlets. The regular song
release is readily available.
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Filmtracks Editorial Review:
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Dick: (John Debney) Sandwiched in between the larger projects of
Inspector Gadget and End of Days comes this unique score by John
Debney. The film utilizes a balance of score and song to give the maximum effect
of the 1970s genre setting. Because of the use of the songs, Debney wrote less
music for Dick than he has for many of his other recent efforts. Released
a few weeks after the normal song compilation album was a short promo containing
only Debney's work. Interestingly, the ideal package would have been to have the
score and songs on the same album, since they would likely play off each other
well.
Debney's score has a very loungy feeling, and I congratulate him for even adding
a touch of sleazy right into the music. Whereas the song album paints a very
laid-back and easy-going picture of the 1970s, the promo score album paints a
very close character-based image of Richard Nixon. That's where the sleaze
element comes in. The score revolves around the spirit of the second track,
"Skipping Through Town," which combines the carefree and innocent attitude of
the times with an almost "ha ha, I fooled you" sense of pride. With the
misleading, but entertaining, female "la-la" vocals accompanying the music, the
score seems like a parody of Pleasantville gone awry, or a version of the
Randy Newman music without the genuine Pleasantville heart.
The creativeness of Debney's work is evident even in the short twenty-four
minutes of non-vocal, non-reprise music on the promo album. The break-in
conspiracy motif that opens the album has shadows of JFK. The quick
marching band cue is a Hispanic (or so it sounds...) spin-off of something that
could be heard in a Little Giants type of score. The track "Dreams of
Dick" is the culmination of the wordless female vocals (undoubtedly meant to
mirror the personalities of the two leading ladies). The only really unfortunate
track is the aweful vocal performance of the character Arlene in track ten; I'm
sure it was inserted for comical reasons, but it breaks up the rhythm of the
album significantly.
The song album features absolutely no Debney material, though it has two
pseudo-score instrumental tracks of 1970s funk. The songs were all BillBoard hit
successes in the 70's, and people of an older generation than I will surely find
them entertaining. In the end, though, I wish the two albums could have been
combined (although unrealistic in the world of finance), because the songs and
score would compliment each other well. The promo album alone is very short, and
it features only about five minutes of very noteworthy music. Unlike the recent
past Debney promos of an hour or more in length, this one is ultimately too
short to hold its own weight. Therefore, I'd recommend picking up one of the
other Debney promos (Inspector Gadget, My Favorite Martian, etc)
instead. Overall rating of combined albums: ***
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Track Listings (Promo Release):
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Total Time: 26:04
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• 1. Watergate Break-in (2:34)
• 2. Skipping Through Town (1:12)
• 3. Lounge-Y Dick (1:26)
• 4. Lip Gloss Intrigue (1:06)
• 5. Girls See Liddy (1:36)
• 6. Arlene Swoons/Shredding the Evidence (1:32)
• 7. Dreams of Dick (0:34)
• 8. The Phone is Tapped (0:34)
• 9. Breezy Day (1:13)
• 10. "I Honestly Love You" (Arlene Vocal) (0:52)
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• 11. Discovering the Tape (1:27)
• 12. High School Band (0:36)
• 13. Arlene is Heartbroken (0:48)
• 14. Followed by Dick Montage (2:01)
• 15. The New Boyfriend (1:30)
• 16. Spies (0:45)
• 17. The Robbery/Escape (2:01)
• 18. Driving the Girls Insane (1:33)
• 19. "I Thought You Were Cute" (0:39)
• 20. Skipping Reprise (1:12)
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Track Listings (Regular Release):
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Total Time: 50:37
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• 1. Dancing Queen - Sixpence None the Richer (4:00)
• 2. ABC - Jackson 5 (2:57)
• 3. Crocodile Rock - Elton John (3:53)
• 4. Lady Marmalade - Labelle (3:19)
• 5. Rock On - David Essex (3:24)
• 6. Hooked on a Feeling - Blue Swede (2:51)
• 7. Popcorn - Hot Butter/G. Kingsley (2:31)
• 8. Rock Your Baby - George McCrae (3:18)
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• 9. Love's Theme - Love Unlimited Orchestra (3:33)
• 10. Mr. Big Stuff - Jean Knight (2:28)
• 11. The Loco-Motion - Grand Funk Railroad (2:45)
• 12. Come and Get Your Love - Redbone (3:32)
• 13. Coconut - Harry Nilsson (3:46)
• 14. Brother Louie - Stories (3:55)
• 15. You're So Vain - Carly Simon (4:17)
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Insert includes no information or credits
about the score, but does have a more natural photo of Debney than the one
included in the Inspector Gadget promo.
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