Rock'n'Roll Circus - Ayumi Hamasaki
This starts out extremely dark... but quickly pivots to full on pop fun. And lots of ballads.
Highlights: RED LINE ～for TA～ [album version], Microphone, Sunrise ～LOVE is ALL～, You were...
7.5/10
Rockin' Bones: 1950s Punk & Rockabilly - Various Artists
Imagine it is Friday night and you are cruising the town in your 1957 Chevy. Not the phone. If you are not playing this collection, then you deserve to crash into an ice cream truck.
Highlights: Down on the Farm - Al Downing, Red Hot - Bob Luman, Froggy Went a Courting - Danny Dell, Sunglasses After Dark - Dwight Pullen, Duck Tail - Joe Clay, Cast Iron Arm - Peanuts Wilson
7.5/10
Rocky: Original Motion Picture Score - Bill Conti
If this does not get your blood pumping and want to take on the world, then you are dead and I am standing triumphantly on your grave with my arms in the air like Rocky.
Highlights: Gonna Fly Now (Theme from Rocky), Going the Distance, The Final Bell, Butkus
8/10
Rocky Balboa: The Best of Rocky - Various Artists
As the title suggests, this is a best of the Rocky soundtracks/score - used in Rocky Balboa. Which is one of the greatest entries in the Rocky franchise. Which also is a way to sum up this album. All great songs connected by inspirational dialogue from the movies. I am a champion!
Highlights: Gonna Fly Now (Theme from Rocky), Going the Distance, Redemption (Theme from Rocky II), It's a Fight - Three 6 Mafia
8/10
Rocky II: Music by Bill Conti - Bill Conti
Gonna Fly Now gets a bit more funkified, and the rest is not as exceptional as the first film.
Highlights: Redemption (Theme from Rocky II), Gonna Fly Now, Conquest, All of My Life
7/10
Rocky III: Original Motion Picture Score - Various Artists
Less of a score and more of a proper soundtrack, with Frank Stallone providing half the songs. And they are kind of disco pop. In 1982. Kind of reminds me of The A-Team a little.
Highlights: Eye of the Tiger - Survivor, Gonna Fly Now - Bill Conti, Conquest - Bill Conti, Pushin' Frank Stallone
7/10
Rocky IV: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack - Various Artists
Bill Conti has been replaced by the man who did the score for The Transformers: The Movie. I would like to hear his full score. Instead we get a fun super 80s compilation, with such luminaries as James Brown, Go West and Kenny Loggins. Take that, communism!
Highlights: War/Fanfare from Rocky - Vince DiCola, Training Montage - Vince DiCola, Living in America - James Brown, No Easy Way Out - Robert Tepper
8/10
Rocky V: Music from and Inspired by the Motion Picture - Various Artists
Things go deeper in to mainstream music with a full on compilation of 1990 hip-hop. We get some Rob Base, Joey B. Ellis and the man himself, MC Hammer! And an Elton John ballad to round things off, I guess? How did nothing from this album make the cut for the Rocky Balboa soundtrack?
Highlights: That's What I Said - MC Hammer, Feel My Power - MC Hammer, Go For It! (Heart and Fire) - Joey B. Ellis, The Measure of a Man - Elton John
7/10
Romeo + Juliet: Music from the Motion Picture - Various Artists
I do not have the full album - I grabbed my favourite songs from this off my friend's CD. In 2024, I would have ripped the full CD. In November 2025, I would have taken one song less. Is this the strangely-sexiest song by Garbage ever?
Highlights: #1 Crush - Garbage, Local God - Everclear, Lovefool - The Cardigans, You and Me Song - The Wannadies
8/10
Romeo Must Die: The Album - Various Artists
Jet Li's first Hollywood leading role. Which meant teaming up with modern hip-hop and R&B superstars. Because hip-hop dudes appreciate martial arts.
Highlights: It Really Don't Matter - Confidential, Swung On - Stanley Clarke, We At It Again - Timbaland, Try Again - Aaliyah
7/10
The Rookie: Music From the Motion Picture - Various Artists
This is just a song called In My Time of Need by Ryan Adams. I may have this elsewhere? Probably a different version. Because LOGMAN has all the versions of everything like a moron.
6/10
Room Service - Bryan Adams
BA recording an album in a hotel while on tour just to prove he can. And it is mostly upbeat pop rock, so clearly he was staying in nice hotels. Or he was getting the kind of "room service" his buddies Kiss were singing about on Dressed to Kill...
Highlights: She's a Little Too Good for Me, Not Romeo Not Juliet, Room Service, Right Back Where I Started From
7/10
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