The Wedding Singer is a musical with music by Matthew Sklar, lyrics by Chad Beguelin, and a book by Beguelin and Tim Herlihy. It is based on the 1998 film of the same. Includes unlimited streaming of The Wedding Singer and The Undertaker via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

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The very fact that the good-natured romantic comedy The Wedding Singer is set in 1985 means that the accompanying soundtrack is a perfect vehicle for a host of early-'80s new wave classics. Driver Top2004 Programmer. Although the album, like the movie, gets the time period slightly wrong -- new wave was finished by 1985, but the entire project barrels ahead as if it were the glory days of 1983 -- the end result is thoroughly enjoyable. There are only two remakes and two showcases on the 14-track album, leaving ten tracks of great new wave and post-punk from ('Do You Really Want to Hurt Me'), ('Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic'), ('Love My Way'), ('Everyday I Write the Book'), ('Hold Me Now'), ('China Girl'), ('Blue Monday'), ('Pass the Dutchie'), ('How Soon Is Now?'

), and ('White Wedding'), who also appears in the film. Do a surprisingly good job with ' 'Video Killed the Radio Star' (the track turned out to be the last thing the group recorded), and the 's tracks are better and funnier than his comedy records, but 's rappin' granny on 'Rapper's Delight' is either the funniest thing you've ever heard or annoys the hell out of you. Even if the latter case holds true for you, it's not enough to ruin one of the most entertaining pop soundtracks in a while.