One Star Music

Patrick Swayze featuring Wendy Frazer, “She’s Like The Wind” (Dirty Dancing OST, 1987)

“Five pre-Beatle classics plus six postmodern horrors equals the soundtrack to the world’s longest rock video, a brutally depressing top-forty apotheosis. The comparisons are torture—revolting as the contempo material is, it sounds even worse in among the Five Satins and Mickey & Sylvia, who are in turn rendered unlistenable by the commercial manipulations that bring them back to commercial life.” Robert Christgau, Christgau’s Record Guide: The ’80s (1990)