sex and the city: soundtrack season six December 26, 2007

 

almost five more months to wait for the movie. i’m not used to waiting so long for things these days…once upon a time a may release in the US meant we would be lucky to see the movie before the end of the year.

at the end of the series we saw each girl coupled up. love harry, love big, love smith. i like steve but have trouble with the idea that miranda would pass up blair underwood for a speccy barman from brooklyn, even if he is the father of her child.

i wonder if the film will pull out all of the stops? will we see the return of aidan, berger (god no), the russian (bleurgh), trey, robert and richard? will stanford and his boy candy still be together? will natasha turn up to ruin carrie and big’s chances?

so many questions…and i am so looking forward to jennifer hudson as carrie’s assistant. inspired casting there.

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a man called adam – yachts

audio lotion – jacuzzi jazz

deep area – mad love for ya

fila brazillia – dna

mc solaar – la belle et le bad boy

moby- jam for the ladies

nickodemus- cleopatra in new york

organic audio – good to go

paul oakenfold – ready steady go

source – you got the love

tao of groove – prelude no1

tina turner – proud mary

tommy guerrero – falling awake

u2 – even better than the real thing

zero 7 – polaris / in the waiting line

sex and the city: the soundtrack season four November 17, 2007

there’s been as much hype around the clothes in the upcoming satc movie as the storylines. but then, the fashions from each series have never really gone away. corsages were huge in season 4, filmed in 2001, and they’re making a comeback.

i wanted the dolce and gabbana floral dress carrie almost wore at the fashion show so much…

i like season 4. but i find the resurrection of carrie and aidan’s relationship disturbing. i’m on the fence about miranda and steve. charlotte and trey- no no NO.

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barry manilow – copacabana

billy joel – new york state of mind

cheryl lynn – got to be real

hooverphonic – waves

kirsty maccoll – in these shoes

lenny kravitz – are you gonna go my way

louis armstrong – moon river

maxwell – gotta get to know you

red venom – let’s get it on

sade – by your side

spiderbait – shazam

wang chung – everybody have fun tonight

sex and the city: season three soundtrack November 9, 2007

this might be my favourite series. one of the first of three moments that always make me cry is in here. when carrie tells aidan that she’s been sleeping with big at charlotte and trey’s wedding. my friends and i are always divided on the big vs aidan debate. i think big is the one but the movie may yet prove me wrong.

this, for me, is the series where the girls’ friendship comes into its own. i love the way each character reacts to carrie and big’s affair. i love how they all end up alone by the end of the series but never seem happier.

cosmopolitans, as carries cocktail of choice, feature heavily, and we are introduced to the flirtini – pineapple, vodka and champagne. yum. i made some strawberry cosmopolitans in honour of rewatching this series. for research purposes, obviously.

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amber – object of your desire

andrea true connection – more more more

carol douglas – doctor’s orders

de la soul – thru ya city

de la soul and chaka khan – all good

donna summer – bad girls

groove armada – sex and the city theme

incognito – parisienne girl

jesse cook – that’s right

nick gilder – hot child in the city

steppenwolf – magic carpet ride

talvin singh – traveller

sex and the city: season two soundtrack November 5, 2007

do you remember the frenzy for diamante horseshoe necklaces during season 2? i got mine from fenwick – which saved me about £170 as i was fully prepared to go pay £200 for the liberty version, i was that desperate. i don’t even wanna know how much the real thing cost…it wasn’t an option at the time but later i did fork out for the adina circle necklace as worn by jennifer aniston and eva longoria.

this is one of my favourite series. sorry, seasons.

i even like the twentysomething women episode – let’s get one thing straight though. natasha was most definitely sleeping with someone at ralph lauren. no 26 year old is as far up the career ladder as she was portrayed to be. but, there was a little irony in skinny, self-obsessed carrie calling her the ‘idiot stick figure with no soul’.

the soundtrack for season one is here

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diana krall – devil may care

diana ross – love hangover

fatboy slim – praise you

fatboy slim – rockafeller skank

four piece suit – bombasteroid

frank sinatra – it was a very good year

jesse cook – tempest

montefiori cocktail -gne gne

ozomatli – como ves

right said fred – i’m too sexy

tchaikovsky – dance of the sugar plum fairy

voo doo phunk – point of view

sex and the city: the soundtrack season one November 3, 2007

 i’m not sure i’ve looked forward to a movie this much since the rumour that ‘dirty dancing 2’ would be made a few years after the original. that took about 15 years to materialise (and i still haven’t bothered to watch it) but with movies still commercially viable i have a feeling this one will run to schedule.

when the show first aired in 1998, i was living in an absolute hellhole. i’d just graduated and was sharing with a friend in london. we had a bed in the living room, in order to have something to sit on and so watching older, successful women with real apartments was slightly removed from our reality.

what i couldn’t relate to then but i can understand now is the feeling of being in your 30s and single. i now have many single friends, mostly older, who are slightly panicked at the thought that they might not find ‘the one’ i can understand that feeling from looking for a new job and in the end, maybe they’re quite similar as the longer you hold out the better the end result.

the distinct personalities of the girls are perhaps a little too exaggerated here as the series aims to establish the characters. its a fun series as the girls are mostly single and having fun but the warmth and complexity of their friendship doesn’t always shine through as in later episodes.

the music in the first series was mostly jazz, new and standard. with a few disco numbers thrown in for certain scenes. ‘under paris skies’ is currently being used in a ford s-max advert.

you can check out the soundtrack for season two here.

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amber – flying above the clouds

aretha franklin – respect

big bad voodoo daddy – you and me and the bottle makes 3 tonight

edith piaf – no regrets

etta james – something’s got a hold on me

evelyn champagne king – shame

joe ‘fingers’ carr – under paris skies

kc and the sunshine band – that’s the way i like it

morphine – honey white

patrick hernandez – born to be alive

sheryl crow – a change would do you good

squirrel nut zippers – meant to be