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 OOOhhh***Here*** It***Comes***Baby***!!! March 7, 2008
Alex Honda (Los Angeles, CA USA)
I love this soundtrack! LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS (original motion picture soundtrack)cd is great. The songs all sound like they from the 50s and 60s, that do-wop sound, but the real gems are the greek chorus girls from the movie(Tisha Campbell, Tichina Arnold, Michelle Weeks).
The reason I didn't give 5-stars is because this cd needs to be remastered. Although it says that it's a "digital recording," the volume is really low so you have to crank it up.
 Love it! January 29, 2008
Julie A. Nevill (St. Paul, MN)
I got this to replace the cassette that I left in a car I sold. Love, love, love this soundtrack! All the music is well produced & in proper order of the movie so I can see it in my head while I listen. The actor who plays the plant is so wonderful & "Mean Green Mother from Outer Space" is one of the best songs ever!
Offbeat enough to be worth your time. June 1, 2007
Jene Moseley (Silver City, NM)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
This adaption of a famous Broadway play is a truly funky story with overtones of science fiction and some of the greatest music ever performed on screen. I never get tired of the soundtrack and play it often.
A great album February 3, 2007
This album contains must of the song fron 1986 movie. This movie is great the music is fantastic. Unlike the on the movie the song are all unabriged on the track. The final song one the second version of the movie mean green mother from outer space for reason I don't understand was abriged for the movie. The songs running time was drasticaly cut from about 4.5 minutes on the album to about a little over 2 minutes. This originally was not the final song for the movie. When this movie was original first the last song was Don't Feed the Plants from the off brodway play. However six months after the movie was first released the whole ending sequence of the movie with Rick Morransis, Ellen Greeen. Levi Stubs and Jim Bilusie had to be shot over again due to negative audience reactions from several people who were upset and not stastified with director Frank Ozze's original first ending. As a result of the ending being modified from a sad depressing ending to a lovely romantic happy ending the song Don't feed the plants and the footage that went along with it were instantly trimed out of footage and only a small fragmet of it exist on the dealete scenes and out take portions of the dvd. However for reason I could never figure out don't feed the plants is include as the final song one the last track of the album even though it no longer exist in the current dvd and vhs formats of the movie
Little Shop At Its Musical Best September 21, 2006
Craig C. Schenck (NYC)
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
The film recording of Little Shop is the best recording of the score yet (despite missing many of the stage version's more superflous and campy ditties)The vocal arangements and orchestrations are the best and most appropriately complementary to the piece. They capture the sound, and spirit in full and with fun and excitement. The cast is superb, and Ellen Greene proved herself quite brilliant in her ability to adapt her stage performance for the small size of film. The performance of Levi Stubbs, criticized on this site, is actually the BEST interpretation and vocal performance of Audrey II to date, anywhere. It is the only performance to truly bring the role to life and is damn funny. The cuts and changes are all logical for the medium of film, and obviously approved of as they were made by Howard Ashman himself. The original off-broadway cast (yes, the show was NOT an official broadway show, therefore could not have won a tony for anyone) is the next best recording. But to those who harp on the film for cutting the stage songs, the original cast album is not the full score, and has cuts made as well. The New Broadway Cast recording, which had great potential and money behind it, is the full stage score. Yet the worst in orchestration, quality, and casting to date. Though bland enough to easily digest, it is no where close to the film's sound and energy.
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