Music From the Motion Picture Josie And The Pussycats
With the likes ofFountains of Wayne's Adam Schlesinger, formerLetters to Cleosinger Kay Hanley, andMatthew Sweeton board, the soundtrack album for the live-action update of the belovedArchie Comicsspinoff boasts some of the best rock & roll made for a Hollywood flick since Schlesinger wroteThat Thing You Do's title tune. Fast, guitars-cranked power pop with Hanley's voice-of-Josie supplying the songs' sassy attitude, the music puts across a sisterly stance that fans of theDonnasand theGo-Go'swill recognize. Program out the two frighteningly realistic boy-group pastiches by the fictional DuJour and maybe the Pussycats' sole draggy moment (Couldn't the producers at least have sped up the lame love ballad "You Don't See Me"?) and this is one feisty howl of a CD. Hope for a volume 2.--Rickey Wright