… and I would say that you should buy it if you’re the ultimate Top Gun fan, otherwise just leave that CD on the shelf (or don’t add it to your Amazon’s cart).
If you decide to buy it anyway, what you’ll get?

Let’s start from the outside:

Overall, the case is pretty nice. We have a pretty cover, some nice pictures from the movie, and a clear frame. As you can see, the image on the CD is the same of the inside of the case.

So far so good.

Let’s talk about the booklet:

Here things start to go South. The booklet contains some nice pictures from the movie again and the songs’ credits (strictly the roles and the names for each track) and nothing else.
If you expected to find something like the songs’ lyrics or maybe some notes or maybe a small article by the producers (or the composers, or anyone else) about how the soundtrack came together, how the tracks were selected… I mean, the usual stuff that is expected to be found in a booklet, you’ll be extremely disappointed (I was).

Finally, let’s talk about the audio tracks. These are the 12 tracks found on this CD:

1. Main Titles (You’ve Been Called Back to Top Gun)
2. Danger Zone – Kenny Loggins
3. Darkstar
4. Great Balls Of Fire (Live) – TBC
5. You’re Where You Belong / Give ‘Em Hell
6. I Ain’t Worried – OneRepublic
7. Dagger One Is Hit / Time To Let Go
8. Tally Two / What’s The Plan / F-14
9. The Man, The Legend / Touchdown
10. Penny Returns (Interlude)
11. Hold My Hand – Lady Gaga
12. Top Gun Anthem

Which are exactly the same tracks you can listen to on Spotify, Amazon Music and probably other music streaming services. No big surprise here but would have been nice to have something more (like, for instance, The Who‘s We don’t get fooled again, that plays during one of the training scenes).

Tracks like Main Titles, Darkstar, Danger Zone, Hold My Hand and Top Gun Anthem are the reason why I bought this album, but overall, for a 2022 release, in an era when music is almost always consumed via streaming services, a CD release should add that bit more goodies (more tracks, a decent booklet) and be that little more “exclusive” than the same album available on anyone’s mobile.

Bye