| The multiple award-winning musical Rent is based on | | | | the songs. Unlike in the musical, this song opens the |
| opera of Puccini, La Boheme. It has been playing on | | | | movie. A re-mixed version, featuring the legendary |
| Broadway since 1996 and is one of the longest running | | | | Stevie Wonder, was also released. The entire cast |
| shows. In 2005, the movie based on Rent was | | | | sings and the song revolves around them trying to |
| released and, like the musical itself, has gained a cult | | | | decide how you measure a year apart from in |
| following. The soundtrack album became available on | | | | minutes. They calculate that there are five hundred |
| CD soon after. | | | | twenty-five thousand six hundred minutes in a year |
| The story follows a group of eight Bohemian friends | | | | and each suggests other methods of quantifying a |
| living in modern New York over the course of a year, | | | | year but reach the conclusion that love is the one |
| specifically 1989-1990. It is a heartfelt look at ups and | | | | correct gauge of a year in a life of a human. Seasons |
| downs of life and how the various characters deal | | | | of Love is the perfect opening and acts as a teaser to |
| with addiction, loss, relationships, housing, AIDS and the | | | | the rest of the tracks on this compilation . |
| meaning of life itself. | | | | The original theme song of the musical, Rent, follows |
| A number of the original songs were deleted during | | | | as the film opens in the East Village of New York on |
| the movie adaptation and do not appear on the movie | | | | Christmas Eve, 1989. Roger and Mark are trying to |
| soundtrack in order to create more space for dialogue | | | | avoid being evicted from their previously rent-free |
| and produce a more free-flowing plot. Some purists or | | | | apartment. Another outstanding song on the Rent |
| Rentheads feel that the soundtrack is not complete | | | | movie soundtrack is the duet Take Me or Leave Me |
| because of the removal of these songs. For everyone | | | | where Maureen and her lesbian lover Joanne are |
| else, especially those who have not seen the | | | | having a quarrel at an engagement announcement |
| Broadway version, the movie is a brutally honest look | | | | party hosted by the parents of Joanne. The local bar |
| at life with aspects that most can relate to. The Rent | | | | is the perfect setting for the energetic rendition of La |
| movie soundtrack has the same rock opera feel to it | | | | Vie Boheme. It captures the nonconformity of the main |
| as the original musical score and is filled with 28 | | | | characters, which is further emphasized by everyone |
| moving, uplifting and ultimately, inspiring songs. | | | | dancing on the tables. |
| Seasons of Love is perhaps the best known of all of | | | | |