Fuhgeddaboudit! Music You Heard on the Sopranos

Disc 1
1	Woke Up This Morning (Theme Song) / Mask 4:06
2	Who's Sorry Now? / Connie Francis 2:13
3	Little Star / The Elegants 2:37
4	Prisoner of Love / Perry Como 3:32
5	Don't Bring Me Down / Eric Burdon 5:11
6	White Rabbit / Jefferson Airplane Live 2:24
7	A Dreamer's Holiday / Ray Anthony 3:11
8	Smoke on the Water / BB Band 5:28
9	Non Ti Scordar Di Me / Peter Dvorsky 3:07
10	Goodnight, My Love / Ella Fitzgerald 3:08
11	I'll Never Fall in Love Again / Dionne Warwick 3:02
12	Core 'Ngrato / Beniamino Gigli 3:53
13	Baker Street / BB Band 5:14
14	Con Te Partiro / Andrea Bollo 4:08
15	Hotel California / BB Band 5:49
Disc 2
1	I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles / Les Paul & Mary Ford 2:58
2	If I Loved You / Jan Clayton 4:22
3	The Happy Organ / Dave "Baby" Cortez 2:05
4	The Good, The Bad and the Ugly / Soho Strings 2:57
5	Speedo / The Cadillacs 2:22
6	Concierto de Aranjuez (Adagio) / Slovak Chamber Orchestra 3:31
7	White Cliffs of Dover / The Blue Jays 2:52
8	Powder Your Face With Sunshine (Smile, Smile, Smile) / Dean Martin 2:34
9	(Ghost) Riders in the Sky / Rick Gale 2:16
10	Sixteen Candles / The Crests 2:55
11	I (Who Have Nothing) / Ben E. King 2:22
12	Santa Baby / Eartha Kitt 3:26
13	Take Me to the River / Tom Jones 2:57
14	Gloria / BB Band 2:46
15	Call Me Irresponsible / Frank Sinatra 2:07
16	Parlez-Moi d'Amour / Lucienne Boyer 2:54
Disc 3
1	World Destruction / Afrika Bambaataa & Timezone 5:32
2	Jin-Go-Lo-Ba / Santana 3:00
3	Adagio in G Minor for Organ and Strings (Excerpt) / Sofia Chamber Orchestra 3:52
4	Sally Go 'Round the Roses / Jaynettes 2:58
5	I Only Have Eyes for You / The Flamingos 3:22
6	Nancy (With the Laughing Face) / Frank Sinatra 3:22
7	Green Onions / BB Band 2:50
8	Oh Girl / The Chi-Lites 3:34
9	Regimental Company March / The Gordon Highlanders 4:57
10	The Man With the Harmonica / Hollywood Studio Orchestra 3:43
11	Surfin' USA / BB Band 2:18
12	Oh, What a Night / The Dells 2:51
13	Dean's Vegas Medley: Drink to Me Only With Thine Eyes/I Don't Care ... / Dean Martin 5:30
14	Woke Up This Morning (Theme Song) / Mask 4:03

Barnes & Noble

The Sopranos is not only the finest show on the tube; the modern saga of New Jersey mafiosi boasts some of the coolest music ever transmitted via the boob tube. This inaugural Sopranos soundtrack album collects 14 first-rate tracks heard on the program, and the result is unusually cohesive for a compilation album. The leadoff cut by England's idiosyncratic roots-funk-electronica band A3, "Woke Up This Morning (Chosen One Mix)" -- otherwise known as the intoxicating theme song of The Sopranos -- sets the tone for the rest of the album. It's an undulating, ominous combo of synthetic blues and gospel, underlaid with a menacing bass line and topped by the Reverend D. Wayne Love's equally menacing vocals. What follows is satisfyingly varied but still of a piece -- and in the spirit of the show as well -- the emphasis being tough, stark, blues-edged material. Septuagenarian Delta bluesman R. L. Burnside turns in a spooky, harmonica-laced, highly atmospheric "It's Bad You Know," propelled by the seductively off-kilter sound of tropical gourd percussion. Bruce Springsteen's grimly compelling "State Trooper," from his album Nebraska, sounds great here, as does Wyclef Jean's "Blood Is Thicker Than Water," entwined as it is with ironic snippets of Sly Stone's "Family Affair." Springsteen guitarist Little Steven (Steve Van Zandt, who has a role in The Sopranos as a loyal Mob lieutenant) and his Disciples of Soul check in with "Inside of Me." Also on hand are Los Lobos, Nick Lowe, Elvis Costello, Bob Dylan, the Eurythmics (with a sad, gorgeous "I've Tried Everything"), some muscular oldies (Cream's "I Feel Free" and "Mystic Eyes" by Them featuring Van Morrison), and, of course, Francis Albert Sinatra, whose masterpiece of nostalgia, "It Was a Very Good Year," ushers in season two of The Sopranos. All that's missing is the sinuous, hipster-cool "Buena" from the late, lamented Morphine -- the next soundtrack album, maybe? Moira McCormick

All Music Guide

Many of the songs on Fuhgeddaboudit! Music You Heard on the Sopranos are not the same versions heard on the show. The Jefferson Airplane track is from a live show, the BB Band and other studio orchestras play versions of the instrumental tracks, and some of the other songs are re-recordings. If you buy the set, check the live, blooper-filled performance of "Call Me Irresponsible" by Frank Sinatra. David Jeffries