[I’m going to make this a recurring feature with different CDs each time. Let me know if you hate it in the comments section.]
When I first glanced at the disc, I was totally turned off. Besides it having a Rihanna song which I thought was “Don’t Stop The Music” (which I truly enjoy) but was actually the lesser “Shut Up And Drive” and appearances by MGMT and LCD Soundsystem, there was one song in particular that ruined all fifteen tracks. It was dated, post-trendy and hopelessly out of touch of the film’s music staff to include it. What was this one tune that ruined them all?
“Young Folks” by Peter, Bjorn and John.
Yes, the super-hyped track of 2007’s yesteryear resides smack dab in the middle of the soundtrack for a movie released in the spring of ‘08. And while I was dreading its inevitability during my first spin of the album, it wasn’t so bad when its memorable drum beats started. In fact, it was a nice listen, similar to all of that ’90s music that we still love only because we loved it way back when too.
Overall, the album is extremely coherent, with the highly-produced electronics and slow, almost sluggish vocals transferring over between tracks. A lot of the songs have James Bond beats, which could easily accompany what I predict to be a tense walk through hotel hallways, car chases around Vegas, escaping the casino officials who are out to get them, winning millions with a slow motion pan of money being thrown up and slowly falling to the ground around them…hmm. I haven’t seen the flick, but I’m guessing the soundtrack works well, and that PB&J track might just fit after all.
But, really, I wasn’t lying earlier — I love that Rihanna joint.
Choice Tracks: “You Can’t Always Get What You Want” by The Rolling Stones, re-mixed and re-edited by Soulwax; “Sister Self Doubt” by Get Shakes
Get: the disc and track list info at Amazon.com or ogle Kate Bosworth’s skeletal frame at the movie’s website.
Carlye Wisel: if sarah silverman, stacy london, buster bluth and ari gold had a love child, it would be me.
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Carlye Wisel
if sarah silverman, stacy london, buster bluth and ari gold had a love child, it would be me.