The band whose sound was so incredible they jumped from the movie into reality

The 45th installment of introducing 100 albums that a 55-year-old guy has listened to over 100 times in his life!

"THE COMMITMENTS" Original Soundtrack

Released in 1991

As I have written before, great movies often come with great soundtracks.

That just goes to show how essential music is to a movie.

And that is even more true if the movie itself is about music.

This work is a coming-of-age film set in Dublin.

It is a movie about a young man who loves Black music (the manager) running around trying to fulfill his long-held dream of forming a soul band in Dublin.

Each member has their own family circumstances, and it is a group with strong personalities, so the band does not go well at first.

But they finally take shape, their fans increase, and they get to the point where they might even have a famous musician watch their live performance.

But an incident occurs at that live show...

That is the content.

The movie is great, but the selection of soul classics performed by the band is even better.

Here is the list.

01 Mustang Sally

02 Take Me to the River

03 Chain of Fools

04 The Dark End of the Street

05 Destination Anywhere

06 I Can't Stand the Rain

07 Try a Little Tenderness

08 Treat Her Right

09 Do Right Woman, Do Right Man

10 Mr. Pitiful

11 I Never Loved a Man

12 In the Midnight Hour

13 Bye Bye Baby

14 Slip Away

Aretha Franklin, Dan Penn, Wilson Pickett, Ann Peebles, and so on.

It is a parade of soul masterpieces.

And the person who took on the role of main vocalist for the band in the film is a man named Andrew Strong.

Following the success of this movie, he also released a solo album (unfortunately, it wasn't quite as good, haha).

Regardless, his powerful, raspy voice is the best.

You can also enjoy this as an introduction to soul music.

It is such a shame that despite being such a good movie, it is not very well known.

For everyone, here is the footage of the live performance held in Berlin, rather than the one from the movie.