Big Broadway brass crashing into a 1992 movie theater. The Aladdin soundtrack is Alan Menken and Howard Ashman at full power, and you already know half these songs by heart. "Friend Like Me" is Robin Williams doing vocal gymnastics over a jazz explosion that still hasn't been topped.
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"A Whole New World" does the ballad thing so well it won an Oscar and permanently lodged itself in public memory. And "Arabian Nights" opens the film with that bass voice setting the scene in thirty seconds flat. The score tracks between the big numbers do serious work too.
"Jafar's Hour" and "On a Dark Night" keep the tension moving. If you grew up in the 90s, this is the nostalgia hit that actually holds up on relisten.