It turns out I just needed to get this one instead! This was the music I grew up with, along with big hair, ripped denim, and the CD revolution...I'm soooo glad it's coming back, since my record collection is pretty useless!

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More 80s music that you wouldn't lump together  Jul 22, 1998
While one laments the omission of 'Jam on it' by Newcleus and the chopping up of Adam Sandler's 'Grow Old With You' (if you sneeze the song is over), the soundtrack pretty much includes all the songs that people complained were missing from the first soundtrack, including 'Private Idaho', 'Money' and the aforementioned 'Grow Old With You'. Plus, how often do you see Hall & Oates on an 80s related soundtrack? Not as good as the first but still cool. Of course, I am biased having seen the movie 8 times, and would have bought this soundtrack had it contained pure drivel.

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More great 80s music from the movie  Jul 09, 2002 By Daniel Jolley "darkgenius"
Few movies deserve a two-volume soundtrack, but The Wedding Singer is one of those rare exceptions. While Volume 2 is not quite as good as the first album, it still contains some exceedingly good 1980s tracks. This music is not the best the decade produced, but it does represent a good cross-section of styles and sounds. Several of these songs were also very prominent in the movie--for example, the movie opens with Adam Sandler singing (sans patch) Dead or Alive's "You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)" and closes with Spandau Ballet's slow ballad "True." "Too Shy" by Kajagoogoo is a quintessential 80s song, and anyone who grew up in the 80s can hardly forget the temporarily huge A Flock of Seagulls ("Space Age Love Song"). "Private Idaho" is a typically fun B-52's song. As hard as it is to admit, Hall & Oates were once a wildly successful duo, and "You Make My Dreams" is one of their better songs. No soundtrack from the 80s would be complete without a track from Madonna, and although "Holiday" is far from her best song, this is the song Robbie Hart chose to sing on his ill-fated return to the wedding singer stage after having been left standing at the altar. While the 1980s was about much more than greed, some would probably consider Flying Lizards' "Money (That's What I Want)" a veritable theme song of the decade. Remarkably, two CDs still do not contain all of the great 80s songs from the movie itself, and we all have some other tracks we wish had been included on the soundtracks, but this is still a great collection of quintessential 80s music.

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Keep On Partying Like It's 1985  Dec 05, 2000 By Thomas Magnum
After the surprising success of the first volume of songs from The Wedding Singer soundtrack, a second volume was rushed out containing songs from the movie that didn't appear on the first one. There are some really good and underrated songs like "All I Can Do" by The Cars, "You Make My Dreams" by Hall & Oates & "Space Age Love Song" by A Flock of Seagulls, but the overall quality doesn't match the first. "Holiday" is one of Madonna's lesser songs from the era as is "Private Idaho" by The B-52's. "Too Shy" by Kajagoogoo is the most obvious 80's song on either soundtrack and while it brings back a laugh, you don't want to hear it too often. "Love Stinks" by the J. Geils Band is excellent, but just as with the first edition's use of Ellen Dow on "Rapper's Delight", it would have been great to include Adam Sandler's version from the film as it is one of the movie's highlights.

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