The Blues Brothers Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
The Blues Brothers
User Submitted Album
View Submitter's ProfileAlbum Summary
The Blues Brothers: Original Soundtrack Recording (later rereleased as The Blues Brothers: Music from the Soundtrack) is the Blues Brothers Band's second album. Released on June 20, 1980, it was a followup to their debut live album, Briefcase Full of Blues. The band toured the same year to promote the film, later releasing a second live album, Made in America, which featured the Billboard Hot 100 top 40 track "Who's Making Love". The soundtrack was recorded in Chicago at Universal Recording Corporation at the same time the movie was being filmed, with the exception of "Gimme Some Lovin'", which was recorded at the Record Plant in Los Angeles, and "The Old Landmark", which was recorded live on a Universal Studios sound stage on the West Coast, with overdubs later recorded at a studio in New York City. The songs on the soundtrack album are a noticeably different audio mix than in the film, with a prominent baritone saxophone in the horn line (also heard in the film during "Shake a Tail Feather", though no baritone sax is present), and female backing vocals on "Everybody Needs Somebody to Love", though the band had no other backup singers, besides Jake and/or Elwood, in the film. A number of regular band members, including saxophonist Tom Scott and drummer Steve Jordan, perform on the album but are not in the film.
Read more on Wikipedia
Reviews
I put this in the same box as The Rocky Horror Picture Show - I love it but I don’t understand it. I watched it at an age where perhaps I was too young, but further watching did not make it make more sense. But still made my ears light up when I saw this was the choice.
Lots of fun and nostalgia. Though not as much fun as watching the film. Everybody needs somebody is an all timer, as is Aretha's Think. A cultural phenomenon at the time, would definitely had been included in the main book if compilations were not specifically excluded. But they were. Oh well. Long past caring after only 60 albums or so. Always forget they started on SNL, which seems wild as that never seems to be funny, from my perspective from afar.
Never seen the film so no cultural connection to it. It's just a bunch of covers of great songs by artists. The covers are great but it's a greatest hits type collection which isn't in the spirit of this list (yes I know some exist on here). My personal rating: 4/5 My rating relative to the list: 4/5 Should this have been included on the original list? No
I’m not sure a soundtrack featuring mostly covers would go on my before-you-die list over the originals, but this is a fun album.
Rating: 6/10 Best songs: Gimme some lovin’, Everybody needs somebody to love
What a brilliant collection of songs, with wonderful guests and world class musicians on every track. An absolute delight, which only loses a couple of points because IT'S NOT A BLOODY ALBUM!!! The clue is in the name: "motion picture soundtrack"
Great songs and a fun movie, too
Canciones con mucho ritmo, de la época del blues/rock/swing. Para no parar de moverse. Y con personajes de mucho renombre como colaboradores. También es verdad que tiene que gustarte el estilo.
It was nice to get this type of album. Something that clearly had influence for its time. I'd never heard this before and it was something different. I definitely recognized some of the songs and it was overall a fun album.
This one is just pure fun. Does it break the "rules" of this list?? As if that hasn't been shattered a hundred times by the obscure, the ephemeral, and the mundane. Extremely specific note: check the bass playing [Donald Duck Dunn] and especially on "Shake a Tail Feather." This album/movie had a huge impact and they were clearly on a mission from god. What more do you need? 8/10 4 stars IMO: Belonged in the book? Yes.
It is a good sound track.
My lack of cultural awareness is showing, never seen any of the original SNL skits or movie and am lacking in context. That said, I get the historical reasons for adding this to the user list — I would normally be a bit over listening to a 40 minute album of alright blues/soul covers, but get this was a cultural sensation of the time. Does expose the list's metastructure though, musicals and soundtracks usually suffer due to a lack of familiarity or audience.