Tracks: 1. Overture
2. Rolling Stock
3. Call Me Rusty
4. Lotta Locomotion
5. Pumping Iron
6. Freight
7. AC/DC
8. Hitching And Switching
9. He Whistled At Me
10. Race Heat One
11. There's Me
12. Blues
13. Belle
14. Race Heat Two
15. Race Heat Three
16. Starlight Express
17. Rap
18. Uncoupled
19. Rolling Stock (1)
20. CB
21. Uphill Final
22. Right Place Right Time
23. Race/Downhill Final
24. No Comeback
25. One Rock 'n' Roll Too Many
26. Only He
27. Only You
28. Light At The End Of The Tunnel
Posted 2007-08-05 20:52:48: Amazon.com Editoral Review: Between his megahits Cats and The Phantom of the Opera, Andrew Lloyd Webber came up with one of his slightest efforts, Starlight Express. The composer admitted it was targeted at kids--centering on a set of trains and the plot of The Little Engine That Could--yet it lacks the charm of his other kids' show, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. While the live staging was exciting, featuring costumed roller skaters racing around, over, and through the audience, the score is one of Lloyd Webber's least subtle demonstrations of his ability to compose in different musical styles--country ("U.N.C.O.U.P.L.E.D."), blues ("Poppa's Blues"), rock ("Rolling Stock"), funk ("C.B."), rap ("The Rap"), and the like. Of course, there are some catchy tunes plus one hit (the title tune), and Richard Stilgoe's lyrics are sometimes cutely clever and sometimes banal ("Starlight Express, you must confess, are you real, yes or no / Starlight Express, please answer 'yes,' I don't want you to go."). The show was revised and revived in 1992, switching some songs, removing the most obvious cold-war references, and adding one pop single ("Next Time You Fall in Love"). --David Horiuchi
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