Streets Of Fire: A Rock & Roll Fable (1984 Film)

There is not a bad song on here and the variety makes this a winner. It's just got a rock 'n roll feel to it, the kind of electricity that rock 'n roll has when you first discover it as a youth. It is alive, adrenaline pumping and fills you with possibility.

'I Can Dream About You' became a huge hit and The Fixx was a relative phenomenon in the 80s. But the best of this soundtrack can only be found by digging in. 'One Bad Stud' and 'Hold That Snake' have a swing to them that you can't help but be smitten by and 'Sorcerer' and 'Never Be You' are so filled with that angst of youth it just oozes through the speakers. The other songs are also good.

But the two songs that stand out are 'Nowhere Fast' and 'Tonight Is What It Means to Be Young' by Fire, Inc. The latter has to be one of the best songs ever to pump into your brain all the power and potency of youth, to take you right back to the time when you felt invincible and life was filled with a sense of...Read more

Saturday Night Fever was a double, Grease was a double (albeit it was the 70's and double albums/soundtracks were aplenty).Also, those films were blockbusters which ,unfortunately, Streets of Fire was not (luke warm reviews , moderate ticket summer sales and so-so public viewing interest/acceptance at best). If BladeRunner from 1982, two years prior, had been a musical-sci-fi flick, Streets is what it would have been...Streets of Fire could have easily contained more tracks by other artists or the same ones. I have always felt that the soundtrack is so awesome but too short in length...After a year of hearing fantastic soundtracks like Flashdance and being bombarded by the break dance craze (Breakin', Beat Street, etc.), Streets of Fire offered something fresh (part retro and part future).

The music was phenomenal! It's one of my favorite soundtracks of all time due to it's great range of different styles and time periods of various genres that work incredibly well...Read more

On the strength of two songs, I must give this album a perfect score. For those of you who might not know (it's pretty apparent in the production), Fire, Inc., the ensemble that performed Nowhere Fast and Tonight is What it Means to Be Young, was the brainchild of producer/songwriter extraordinaire Jim Steinman (Meat Loaf, Bonnie Tyler). There were three singers and a batch of session players including Steinman himself. One of the singers, Rory Dodd, was the male voice ("turn around bright eyes") in Bonnie Tyler's "Total Eclipse of the Heart" and also sang on a couple Meat Loaf songs. Oh and we can't forget Elaine Caswell, who was later in another Steinman project called Pandora's Box (they sang the original version of Celine Dion's "It's All Coming Back to Me Now" - it's great).

Because of Nowhere Fast and TIWIMTBY, this album is incredible. They could have easily been rock opera songs and both are deserving of worldwide recognition. A third...Read more