Austin Powers in Goldmember (Promo)

Review by Thomas Glorieux:

Spoofs are always hilarious when they actually succeed in making a mockery of themselves and of the franchise they trying to spoof. And Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery, The Spy who Shagged Me and Goldmember are all incredibly funny movies one way or another, with the second and third really hitting the mark where it should do it. Of course Mike Myers created amazing characters to treasure for ever and alone the invention of Mine Me is a sight on itself. George S. Clinton became the composer on the first movie, and luckily everyone wanted him on board on the other 2, because the tone he created for the Bond era like of music is a spoof on itself. Sadly only the first 2 received somewhat a score release, yet they featured from both movies way too less score and felt like a Scream / Scream 2 release, featuring score but so little to wonder why it was released in the first place. The best score of Clinton, namely Austin Powers in Goldmember was never commercially released, but a promo of about 40 minutes surfaced to give those die hard fans a great surprise. And alone a score such as this can be appreciated when you know the context and when you experience them both in and out of the film, and this score doesn't disappoint one bit in bringing all the Austin Powers trademarks to life. Only to hear this score apart from the movie shows how fun this tone of Clinton really is, starting with 'Action!', beats and electronics over brass fanfares of the Austin Powers theme, a brief choral smash and stating almost the Bond theme mixed with Dr. Evil's theme in what must be one of the funniest scenes ever to grace an opening, with all the cameos of the stars. What is noticed directly is how much George S. Clinton introduces the choir now in the music, 'Meeting Goldmember' could be devious but it introduces soft choral scoring, a French accordion and the funky tunes like Shaft for Foxy Cleopatra, which just makes you swing. And the more you keep hearing, the more you hear simply diversity in all its Shagedalic delight.

'Austin and Foxy' is laid back music, 'Submarine Lair' has a dark choral fanfare for its evil base, 'Stained Diapers' some sneaking around music with a cool but brief Asian like tone for the disguise of Foxy, 'High Wire Stunts' even has brief throat singing with a great Scottish bagpipe moment for Fat Bastard and what about the brief but heartfelt emotion in 'A Touching Moment' with soothing emotional choir. All sings of different material, and basically it continues. 'Break In / Rescue' has some jazzy like flavor, the lair fanfare, some choir and it mixes to more action led material, naturally all fluffier then usual. 'Chasing Goldmember' is the continuation of that, with the beats of that first track, and choir basically making it a little more epic then it perhaps should be, but who's complaining? 'Disguise' has some pizzicato sneaking around music while 'Secrets Revealed' has that Foxy funk returning to delicious effect along with a cute Dr. Evil theme on accordion. True, the really good material starts to unveil with 'Family Reunion', an optimistic, wonderful, emotional non Powers moment where choir and strings make the emotion really tear jerking. And 'Goodbye, Goldmember' finally makes the Austin Powers score from the second return in true form, with the theme for Austin and the choral climax to really finish it off. A Wonderful suite of tracks 1, 7, 12, 8, 3 and 16 make the coolness factor even more Devilish in 'Goldmember Suite', and to throw every serious nature out of the window we have Dr. Evil performing Annie in 'It's A Hard Knock Life (Ghetto Anthem)', getting wonderful results. Don't take it seriously and Austin Powers in Goldmember really amuses you, it doesn't repeat the main theme as often as Johnny English did but as spoofs, both bring a lot of funny and cool material. Only in Goldmember you have to know a bit what it all represents to get the Shagedalic taste of it goods.

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Tracks

Single Disc

1. Action! (3.13)

2. Asking For Help (2.33)

3. Meeting Goldmember (2.27)

4. Austin And Foxy (2.00)

5. Submarine Lair (1.08)

6. Nigel And Mini Me (1.15)

7. Stained Diapers (2.17)

8. High Wire Stunts (1.01)

9. A Touching Moment (0.49)

10. Break In / Rescue (2.05)

11. Chasing Goldmember (1.15)

12. Disguise (1.43)

13. Henchman Checkups (1.45)

14. Secrets Revealed (2.29)

15. Family Reunion (1.13) Excellent Track

16. Goodbye, Goldmember (2.35) Excellent Track

17. Goldmember Suite (6.22)

18. It's A Hard Knock Life (Ghetto Anthem): Dr. Evil (1.45)

Total Length: 38.40

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=== Link to Composer Site: George S. Clinton ===