Composer Cezary Skubiszewski
Original Music Composed and Produced by Cezary Skubiszewski © Warner/Chappell Australia
Recording Engineer (score) Adam Rhodes Music mixed by Tony Espie Brass Arrangements by Daryl McKenzie Cezary Skubiszewski Music Recorded at Sing Sing Studios, Melbourne Music Licenses and Clearances Christine Woodruff
Skippy Composed by Eric Jupp (Control) Footage used with the permission of Lee Robinson, Fauna Productions Pty Ltd
Am I Sexy written by M. Engelen/O.Adams/C.S. Johansen/C. Van Lierop © published by Shock Music Publishing (Australia) Pty Ltd on behalf of Be's Songs performed by The Lords of Acid, (p) 1999 Antler-Subway Records
You Should Be Dancing (Blockster Club Mix) Barry Gibb/Maurice Gibb/Robin Gibb Gibb Brothers Music administered by BMG Music Pty. Limited, performed by Blockster (p) 1999 Ministry of Sound Recordings Ltd, licensed courtesy of EMI Music Australia
Pull Up to the Bumper written by Sly Dunbar/Robbie Shakespeare/Dana Manno Universal - Songs of PolyGram International Inc./Ixat Music (BMI)/ Universal - PolyGram International Publishing Inc./Chenana Music/ administered by Universal - Polygram International Publishing Inc. (ASCAP) performed by Deni Hines, courtesy of Mushroom Records International BV.
Breakin' ... There's No Stopping Us written by Jerry Knight/Ollie E. Brown, © Ollie Brown Sugar Music & Crimsco Music/ Almo Music by permission Rondor Music Australia, performed by ilanda & Joanne BZ under licence from Ape Records, © 1999 Ape International
Get Tzatziki With It written by Jaime Jiminez/John Von Ahlen/Nick Giannopoulos © 1999 Warner/Chappell Music Australia Pty Limited/Control all rights reserved, used by permission, performed by Nick Giannopoulos Love Lies Bleeding written by R. Keiller/A. Cartwright Published by Festival Music Pty Limited, Australia, Performed by Sonic Animation Licensed from Festival Records Pty Ltd/Courtesy of Global Recordings Pty Limited
She's Got That Vibe written by Barry Hankerson & Robert Kelly, Zomba Enterprises Inc./Zomba Songs Inc. administered by BMG Music Pty. Limited, performed by Redzone courtesy Mushroom Records International BV
The Hinch Theme written by Peter Sullivan, courtesy of Sully Music
Born To Be Alive written by Patrick Hernandez, performed by Patrick Hernandez courtesy of Entertainment Enterprise by arrangement with Beaver Music
Somebody Like You Aaron Hendra/Jimmy Christo Lotus Music (Aust) Pty Ltd/Gotham/Universal Music Publishing Pty. Ltd performed by Jimmy Christo, courtesy of Mushroom Records International BV
Shine written by V. Amorosi/M. Holden/R.Parde, Standard Music/Dreamdealers Pty Ltd/ Marjac Productions, performed by Vanessa Amorosi, courtesy of CBK Productions Pty Ltd
Funiculi-Funicula Music by Luigi Denza, Arrangements C. Skubiszewski, D. McKenzie, D. Ashton-Smith Performed by David Ashton-Smith
Divertimento Music by W. A. Mozart, Vocal Arrangement: C. Skubiszewski Performed by Capriol String Trio, Violin: Tuillia Ashton Lomax Violin: Matthew Tomkins, Cello: Peter O'Reilly, Voice Soprano: Irena Grainge
La Rejoussance Music by G. F. Handel, Organ: Calvin Bowman
Soundtrack available through Mushroom Records (logo) on Sputnik (logo) Soundtrack CD:
A CD of the soundtrack was released: CD Mushroom MUSH332692 1999
Executive producer: Nick Giannopoulos Compiled by Nick Giannopoulos and Michael Parisi Mastered by Ross Cockle at Sing Sing Mastering
1. Pull Up to the Bumper, vocals: Deni Hines 2. Breakin' There's No Stopping Us, vocals: Ilanda and Joanne BZ 3. (She's Got That) Vibe, vocals: Redzone 4. Shine, vocals: Vanessa Amorosi 5. Somebody Like You, vocals: Jimmy Christo 6. Am I Sexy?, vocals: The Lords of Acid 7. You Should Be Dancing (Blockster Club Mix), vocals: Blockster 8. Born To Be Alive, vocals: Patrick Hernandez 9. Love Lies Bleeding (Radio Mix), vocals: Sonic Animation 10. Bang-A-Boomerang, vocals: The Mavis's 11. Love Theme from 'The Wog Boy’, Cezary Skubiszewski 12. Get Tzatziki With It (Mythologic Mix), vocals: Planet J featuring Nicky GiO 13. Pull Up to the Bumper Smash'N'Grab's "White Limo" Club Mix, vocals: Deni Hines
Review:
Brad Green reviewed the CD release for Urban Cinefile, available here and saved to WM here: Seemingly, The Wog Boy soundtrack has been compiled as an upbeat, unpretentious accompaniment to an upbeat, unpretentious movie. It is. It’s also astonishingly uninspiring. The first track is a Deni Hines reworking of Grace Jones’s Pull Up to the Bumper; and it sounds like a car commercial. Hines has vocal chords of impeccable pedigree but they’re put to a meagre challenge here. Indeed, I’ll be surprised if this dance ditty doesn’t end up Gracing an ad for one of those pastel coloured sports coupes with a chic chick at the wheel honking at horny hunks. The whole soundtrack, in fact, comes across like an extended jingle, with formula computer sequenced arrangements of the club-pop "variety" (ahem… club-pop uniformity) underscoring slick but insipid performances that reek of a corporate average session sound. This is the sonic equivalent of colour by numbers: four- on-the-floor kick drum, tizzy snare sample on the back beat, open hi-hat on the upbeats, gooey synth samples with all the verve of pre-packaged, microwaved moussaka and technically proficient vocals totally bereft of character. Ironically, the best track, Born to be Alive, really has been utilised in a recent ad campaign (those marvellous beer commercials starring The Castle’s Michael Caton). But another disco classic, the BeeGees’ You Should Be Dancing, has all the life sucked out of it in a trite club-mix reworking. Admittedly, the diva-esq vocals of Vanessa Amorosi really do gleam on Shine, and I thought I caught some interesting use of a bouzouki around track 12, but by that time it may have just been an Hellenic haze seeping through the sonic stupor. I believe that the correct Wog-speak for anything excellent, colourful and compelling is "Sick". This soundtrack is beyond such ailments; it’s deathly dull.
Chart:
Ilanda’s and Joanne BZ’s version of Breakin' There's No Stopping Us reached #38 on the Australian ARIA chart, wiki here.
The track Get Tzatziki with It was used in the promotional campaigns for the film.
Lyrics:
Two songs run over the tail credits. The first is Somebody Like You, performed by Jimmy Christo:
You look around the world and you see You can have it all But there’s one thing you need Sometimes that can be the hardest to find Wooo oooh … yeah
(song edit*)
Every minute, every moment I dream about you 'cause it’s all I can do You got me feeling, the deepest emotions What did I do to deserve, Somebody like you Wooo oooh … somebody ...
Guess only time can tell Where the road's gonna take us Where we'll be tomorrow I hope and pray I will always be with you Only you …
Every minute, every moment I dream about you 'cause it’s all I can do You got me feeling, the deepest emotions What did I do to deserve, Somebody like you
Every minute, every moment Oooh I dream about you 'cause it’s all I can do (chorus ‘all I can do’) You got me feeling, the deepest emotions (‘what did I do’) What did I do to deserve, Somebody like you Wooo oooh … somebody ... Oooh oooh Somebody ...
(* Lyrics deleted for the film version:
There's nothing like holding you close in my arms Make me feel like I could fly so high I don't know what I would do, baby if you weren't mine)
The second song is Shine, performed by Vanessa Amorosi. Lyrics as heard in the film with cuts compared to other versions:
(Chorus: Shine, shine) (Don't, don't, don't, don't you do it) (Don't, don't, don't, don't you do it)
You say, that you never had a mum and nobody needs you So cry, so cry You believe that life rolls by just to deceive you By your time, by your time
You're getting old And the longer you take, the slower your pain will grow It will grow, it will grow You can close your eyes And hope that when you open them you've got a brand new life Friend you'll find, you can't hide (shine) You can give your life You can lose your soul (shine) You can bang your head or you can drown in a hole (shine) Nothing lasts forever, but, you can try Look around you, Everyone you see, everyone you know is gonna (shine) shine (Don't, don't, don't, don't you do it) Shine, shine (Don't, don't, don't, don't you do it) (shine)
(Song edit*)
Nothing lasts forever, but, you can try Well, look around you, Everyone you see, everyone you know is gonna shine
(Second song edit**)
You say that you've never had a mum and nobody needs you So cry, so cry, so cry You believe that life rolls by just to deceive you By your time, well, by your time You're getting old And the longer you take the slower your pain will grow It'll grow, it'll grow You can close you eyes And hope that when you open them you've got a brand new life (shine)
You can give your life, or You can lose your soul (shine) You can bang your head or you can drown in a hole (shine) Nothing lasts forever, but, you can try Look around you, Everyone you see, everyone you know is gonna (shine) shine
You can bang your head or you can drown in a hole Nothing lasts forever, but, you can try But look around you, Everyone you see, everyone you know is gonna Shine
(Don't, don't, don't, don't you do it) (Don't, don't, don't, don't you do it) (Don't, don't, don't, don't you do it) (Don't, don't, don't, don't you do it) Shine ...
(* First edit deleted lyrics: Grow up and make the best of what you've got, Of what you've got, (of what you've got), of what you've got The days are going by and you're sittin' on your ass And you're wondering why, why, why? Yay Ay.
You can give your life, or You can lose your soul You can bang your head or you can drown in a hole)
(** Second edit deleted lyrics:
Grow up and make the best of what you've got, Of what you've got, (of what you've got), of what you've got The days are going by and you're sittin' on your ass And you're wondering why, why, why? Yay Ay.
You can give your life, or You can lose your soul You can bang your head or you can drown in a hole… - cut ends here).
Music in the film:
Apart from the dance music at the disco club, and a goodly number of pop songs on the soundtrack, classical music is also briefly heard, which along with sushi, stands for all that’s wrong with toffs who really want pizza rather than a shrieking soprano.
The image dissolves into the horrendous scene of the high culture chow down, pans across the string quartet and ends up on the offending soprano (who was re-voiced in post):
Composer Cezary Skubiszewski:
Composer Cezary Skubiszewski has had a long career in Australian film and television, but he was particularly fashionable for feature films in the late 1990s, especially in the arthouse area, as shown by this career note in The Age, Thursday, 25th May 2000: The comedies The Craic and The Wogboy were something of a change of pace for him.
Cezary Skubiszewski is too well-known a composer to dwell on at length here. Skubiszewski was listed at move here, WM here, had a reasonably detailed wiki listing here, and his own eponymous website here, WM here, which contained information about his works, YouTube links, awards, recordings, etc, as well as this short CV:
Cezary Skubiszewski is an Australian film and TV composer whose work has claimed numerous awards. Cezary’s first film score was for Lilian’s Story (1996), directed by fellow Pole Jerzy Domaradzki and staring Toni Collette. This was followed by Bootmen (2000) and La Spagnola (2001), for which he collected Best Original Music awards from the Australian Film Institute. His other early works include Black & White (2002), The Brush Off (2004), The Book of Revelation and Blessed. His work on the 1999 film Two Hands saw Cezary collect the Best Film Score Award from APRA at the annual Screen Music awards. This was followed in later years by the mini-series After the Deluge (2003) starring Hugo Weaving and Rachel Griffiths, and Death Defying Acts (2007) for which he also received Best Film Score Awards. He then went on to compose scores for The Book of Revelation (2006) and Blessed (2009). His latest work composing for Night (2008) Bran Nue Dae (2009), Red Dog (2011) and The Sapphires(2012) – which received critical acclaim at an international level, have seen him win awards from Inside Film and the Film Critics Circle of Australia. In last few years Cezary composed music for Serrangoon Road (2013 APRA AWARD), The Broken Shore (2014) (APRA AWARD) Parer’s War (2014), Jeziorak (2014 Polish Film Festival Best Music Award) Turkey Shoot (2014), Women H'e Undressed (2015) , Karbala (2015) Oddball (2015), Red Dog - True Blue (2016) and USA film Tiger (2016). In 2017 Cezary Received ACCTA Award for Best Music in a documentary for his score to Monsieur Mayonnaise. Cezary just finished scoring TV mini-series Picnic At Hanging Rock. In 1981 Cezary composed the symphony Home at Last and in 1991 created musical theatre multi-media production Soundescape which was performed at Melbourne and Adelaide Festivals. (2015) Cezary has also composed music for a number of adverts,including Sydney 2000 Olympics, Australian Football Finals, Melbourne 2006 Commonwealth Games, Carlton Draught Big Ad campaign and the VB Bottle Symphony which became a worldwide hit. In 2008 and 2011 Cezary was the Musical Director of APRA/AGSC Screen Music Awards. Cezary is the Recipient of the Centenary Medal 2003 "For Service to Australian Society and Australian Film Production" and Film Circle of Australia (FCCA) 2010 Award "in recognition of contribution to Australian Cinema".
(Below: Cezary Skubiszewski) In 2010 Albert published a collection of Skubiszewski’s soundtrack work. There were some 18 tracks from a variety of films on the CD, but significantly neither The Craic nor The Wogboy made the cut:
Skubiszewski’s discography can be checked at Discogs here - the site had this list of tracks for his Filmworks album: