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TOPLESS WOMEN TALK ABOUT THEIR LIVES - SOUNDTRACK
Music from the feature film and television series
Harry Sinclair's Topless Women Talk About Their Lives is attracting
huge attention and rave reviews as it opens at film festivals around
New Zealand this month and goes on general release in August. Already
screened out of competition at Cannes and at the Sydney film festival,
and scheduled to show this year at major festivals in Edinburgh, Melbourne,
Montreal, Toronto and Germany's Hof festival, Topless Women is threatening
to make a huge impact and let the world in on what life's like for
a group of young friends in nineties' Auckland, New Zealand.
Music is a central part of Topless Women, and the director mined the Flying Nun catalogue for songs throughout the movie. This followed on from the process of getting a song for each of the 41 four-minute episodes that comprised the original Topless Women Talk About Their Lives TV series. Harry's selection of songs for this soundtrack album picks through the wealth of Flying Nun material that made it into the movie and TV series. A prime consideration was to make the 14 song soundtrack album cohesive, and he certainly achieves that through leaning on the considerable talents of the 3Ds (three tracks), The Clean, Superette, and Straitjacket Fits (two each), and classics from the Bats, Snapper, the Chills, and Chris Knox.
Overall, Topless Women Talk About Their Lives has given us a Flying Nun compilation as strong as the now-famous Tuatara, In Love With These Times and recent PopEyed. Even if you don't catch the movie - which you should, by the way —- take a dip into Flying Nun's vaults with this superb soundtrack album, packed with gems deserving of attention in their own right.
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A bit of loving re-mastering has helped bring out the best in older
tracks. The legendary rush of the Clean's driving guitar sounds
has never sounded better, and in the company of more recent tracks
like Superette's "Saskatchewan" and the 3Ds' "Animal"
(both from last year) shows how the Flying Nun bands have remained
consistent to their guitar- and song- oriented values.