TRACK LIST
1.) Sailor Moon Theme- Nicole Price & Brynne
Price
2.) I Wanna Be a Star- Jennifer Cihi
3.) My Only Love- Jennifer Cihi
4.) Call My Name (and I'll be there)- Jennifer
Cihi
5.) Oh Starry Night- Sandy Howell
6.) It's a New Day- Jennifer Cihi
7.) Carry On- Jennifer Cihi
8.) Rainy Day Man- Patricia Tollett
9.) Only a Memory Away- Shandi Sinnamon
10.) She's Got the Power- Stan Bush
11.) Sailor Moon Theme Reprise- Nicole Price
& Brynne Price
Let's see if I can make it through this one without
doing something stupid. This is the first American soundtrack for
Sailor Moon. The first track is the American Sailor Moon theme.
The instruments are pretty cool, but the lyrics don't really work.
Since when does "never running from a real fight" apply to Sailor Moon?
Track 2, "I Wanna Be a Star", makes me wanna be a corpse. It's very
corny, cliched, and... just bad. Gimme Japanese music I have a limited
comprehension of any day! The singer actually isn't too bad- she
could be really big if she gave up Sailor Moon and did some real music.
The next song "My Only Love" proves it. This is one of the better
songs to come out of the Sailor Moon dub. It's very pretty, and it
isn't overly corny and cliched- I need to get a thesaurus. Now, why
does track 4 sound familiar? It's a watered-down take-off on the
theme song for "Friends". The guitar riff in it even sounds awfully
similar. "Oh Starry Night" is another okay song. It has nice
harmonies, but I think I prefer the version used in the TV series.
As for track 6, it does no justice to the song it was written to replace
("You Are Just My Love", which wasn't really that great either).
The lyrics are incredibly unoriginal and cheezy. "Carry On" is pretty
awesome. I like the instruments a lot, and believe it or not, this
was actually cooler at the end of the first season than "Moonlight Densetsu".
This is probably the best thing North American Sailor Moon spawned.
The next track, "Rainy Day Man" is another good dub invention. The
vocalist sounds a lot like Lita. The lyrics aren't really a feat
of poetry or anything, but the music is great, and the harmonies rock.
"Only a Memory Away" is okay. The lyrics are nice, but boy oh boy
is the rhyming unnatural and deliberate. It doesn't really flow all
that well, but it's good. I prefer the episode version, which was
a bit slower and I think it had better lyrics. Track 10, "She's Got
the Power" is so awful I don't want to talk about it. And what is
there to say about the short version of the Sailor Moon theme? It's
the same as the first track, except it makes no mention of Sailor Venus
etc. Oh yeah, and there isn't a wicked guitar solo. Anyway,
Japanese=good, English=bad, don't get this CD or I'll be real sad.
Wow, I did a real good impression of the rhyming on this album! Unless
you're a dub fan, steer clear of this one.
Back to Miki-Robin's CD Reviews |