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Rocky Horror Picture Show: 25 Years of Absolute Pleasure | 
 enlarge | Artist: Original Soundtrack
Label: Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation
Category: Music
List Price: $18.98
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Rating:  31 reviews
Sales Rank: 9269
Format: Original Recording Reissued, Original Recording Remastered, Soundtrack
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 79935
UPC: 081227993528
EAN: 0081227993528
ASIN: B00004YR3I
Release Date: October 3, 2000
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| Tracks:
| • | Science Fiction/Double Feature | | • | Dammit Janet | | • | Over the Frankenstein Place | | • | Time Warp | | • | Sweet Transvestite | | • | The Sword of Damocles | | • | I Can Make You a Man | | • | What Ever Happened to Saturday Night | | • | I Can Make You a Man (Reprise) | | • | Touch-A, Touch-A, Touch Me | | • | Once in a While | | • | Eddie's Teddy | | • | Planet, Schmanet, Janet | | • | Rose Tint My World | | • | Don't Dream It Be It | | • | Wild and Untamed Thing | | • | I'm Going Home | | • | Super Heroes | | • | Science Fiction/Double Feature (Reprise) |
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Amazon.com
Another installment of the Cult Show That Will Not Die, the 25th anniversary edition of the Rocky Horror soundtrack has, of course, the kinds of things one would expect of an anniversarial edition. These include previously unreleased tracks and a CD booklet that attempts to explain the inexplicable: how character actor Richard O'Brien's little slice of weirdness became such a hit that, a quarter of a century later, it's a Broadway production once again. Even today, there are people out there being, well, exposed to the phenomenon that is Rocky Horror for the first time, and the reaction is always the same: either utter enchantment or utter mystification. There's no denying that the show has a certain appeal. Creator O'Brien has called it "something any 10-year-old can enjoy," and maybe that's the secret: something about Rocky Horror's barely controlled insanity connects with our inner children. Maybe it's Tim Curry's magnetic performance. Maybe it's the music. Maybe it's '70s nostalgia. Whatever the reason, Rocky Horror has proved that one need not be mainstream to become an icon of popular culture. While the images and ideas contained therein might hardly turn a head today, there's nothing else like it that's quite as much fun. --Genevieve Williams
Album Description
Inexpensive UK remastered reissue of the soundtrack to the late-night cult phenomenon. Deluxe packaging includes booklet with rare & unseen photos. 2001.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 26 more reviews...
 Hot Patootie, Bless My Soul, I Really Love This Soundtrack October 10, 2008
My name's Miranda and I am 17 years old. I'm a (recent) fan of the Rocky Horror Picture Show and I wanted the soundtrack so I can learn all the songs and sing along, of course. There are two reasons I gave this soundtrack four stars instead of five:
#1: It's been commented on (multiple times) that the "Hot Dog" song was missing from the soundtrack and that that was a big let-down. I agree that it was a bit of a disappointment and if you like that song, don't expect it on the CD.
#2: It's also been commented on that there is dialogue in the songs (preceeding and following). I don't mind hearing the characters talk, but the narrator is rather annoying. His voice is boring and monotonous and it goes on for, like, a full minute every now and then before the songs actually start.
Aside from that, this CD is amazing. I love it. I highly recommend it.
 original Rocky Horror music CD December 23, 2007
What's not to love? Excellent clarity of sound, with the sound being Tim Curry and Company! Memories are made of this!
 Where's my Hotdog?!?!?! November 9, 2007
This would have been ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT!!! The entire soundtrack finally released on CD! Whomever compiled this left off "Planet Hotdog" and that really CHEESES ME OFF!!!
 Close, but not quite there. March 28, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This album is so close to being a worthwhile release.
I don't regret buying it, because my copy of the soundtrack was the older release on tape.
I'm very happy to have the otherwise unreleased songs on this album. The sound quality is good, but not especially noteworthy.
But the dialogue clips are insufferable. A soundtrack album is supposed to be the music, not an "album of the movie." These clips drastically decrease the likability of this recording - that and the missing end of Planet Shmanet.
There's also the plus that those silly remixes of the Time Warp are absent. And splitting up the Floor Show music sequence is a real plus.
PAGES WERE WATER STAINED AND WAVY January 30, 2007
1 out of 17 found this review helpful
I WAS EXTREMELY DISAPPOINTED IN THE QUALITY OF THE BOOK OF MUSIC I RECEIVED. THE PAGES HAD OBVIOUSLY GOTTEN WET AND DRIED, SO THE BOOK WAS ALL OUT OF SHAPE. WHEN TRYING TO COPY IT TO MAKE AN EXTRA ONE FOR MY ACCOMPANIST, IT CONSTANTLY GOT STUCK IN THE MACHINE AND IT TOOK FOREVER TO GET THE COPYING DONE. THIS BOOK WAS IN TERRIBLE SHAPE AND I WASTED A LOT OF MONEY TRYING TO COPY IT OVER AND OVER AGAIN. I WILL NEVER NEVER BUY A USED COPY AGAIN AS A RESULT. I LEARNED MY LESSON, BUT THE SELLER OF THE BOOK SHOULD BE ASHAMED OF THEMSELVES FOR MISREPRESENTATION.!!!!!!
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