SUMMARY: RUNNING TIME: 3:21 Min.
Recorded for the 1983 Eddie and the Cruisers film soundtrack, John Cafferty (as the fictional Eddie Wilson’s singing voice) and the Beaver Brown Band (covering for on-screen Cruisers) perform this rock tune. Per a 1963-64 flashback in the film’s storyline, a troubled Eddie Wilson is inspired by 19th Century French poet Arthur Rimbaud to create a dark, mind-bending new form of rock album.
Amidst the album’s belated ‘release’ nearly twenty years later, the song appears just prior to the film’s concluding credits.
REVIEW:
Reminiscent of something Jim Morrison and The Doors might have conjured up, the enigmatic “Season in Hell” is both ruminating and pulsating. Its poetic lyrics equating some unknown love to burning fire is an intriguing notion, though little else beyond the song’s ominous finish comes to life (or makes sense). Suffice to say, the track is interesting to hear the first time, but it becomes less so with repetitive listening.
BRIAN’S ODD MOON RATING: 7 Stars
Note: The soundtrack concludes with a different segment of Eddie’s long-lost “Season in Hell” album.
