Volume 15, Track 5
“Every Picture Tells A Story” by Rod Stewart (2000) “I couldn’t quote you no Dickens, Shelley, or Keats ‘Cause it’s all been said before” Originally released in 1971, “Every Picture Tells A Story” is used in Almost Famous for a fleeting thirty seconds (if that) but a wonderful thirty seconds… I do not consider myself [...]
Volume 15, Track 4
“Snakedriver” by The Jesus And Mary Chain (1994) As I have mentioned before in a previous post, I believe that The Crow soundtrack is a good pop cultural dividing line separating people that are my age and the people who are a few years younger and older than me. The Crow had a good balance [...]
Volume 15, Track 3
“Not Dark Yet” by Bob Dylan (2000) If you are someone who thinks that Bob Dylan is vastly overrated—and even a bit unbearable to listen to in general—I realize that it can be unnerving to hear Dylan fans foisting vast amounts of praise on his work. My aim with this post is not to preside [...]
Volume 15, Track 2
“Something To Talk About” by Badly Drawn Boy (2002) Damon Gough (aka Badly Drawn Boy) wrote and performed the entire soundtrack for About A Boy and, while some of the songs are simply atmospheric filler for the movie, “Something To Talk About” is a quite enjoyable standalone track. (Note: this song is an original composition [...]
Volume 15, Track 1
“To Be Young (Is To Be Sad, Is To Be High)” by Ryan Adams (2000) Played during the opening credits in Old School, “To Be Young (Is To Be Sad, Is To Be High)” is a fantastic country-ish track that is backed with a rockabilly-like drum beat and puts Adams’ twangy (and humorous) vocals in [...]
Volume 15 Introduction
Music and cinema go together like tequila and limes—while they are naturally perfect fits for each other, you must always be cognizant of when they should go together. A great song played at the wrong time in a scene is akin to a poorly timed shot of ultra-expensive tequila after a night of mixing numerous [...]
Volume 14, Track 14
“Ramshackle” by Beck (1996) The creativity and uniqueness of Odelay is something that is palpable throughout the album. Songs like “The New Pollution” and “Lord Only Knows” showcase Beck’s ability to inject layers of oddities into something that is genuinely listenable. What makes Odelay one of the greatest albums over the last fifteen years, though, [...]
Volume 14, Track 13
“Mother Of Pearl” by Roxy Music (1973) “Mother Of Pearl” is essentially two songs: the loud and energetic (and almost glam rock-ish) song that begins the track and eventually dies out at around the 01:25 mark before fully bridging into the second deliberate, slower song that runs its course for the remaining five minutes. It [...]
Volume 14, Track 12
“People Do It All The Time” by Stereolab (1999) “People Do It All The Time” is the second track on Stereolab’s seventh album Cobra And Phases Group Play Voltage In The Milky Night and it further displays the band’s terrific knack for churning out little Moog-driven masterpieces. What is impressive about this song is that [...]
Volume 14, Track 11
“2000 Light Years From Home” by The Rolling Stones (1967) To an uninterested third party Their Satanic Majesties Request could be summarized as a poor man’s attempt at Sgt. Pepper’s and an overall misguided attempt by The Rolling Stones to foray into the world of psychedelic music. To be sure, there a few songs that [...]
Volume 14, Track 10
“Don’t Ask Why” by My Bloody Valentine (1990) The best way I can describe the guitar in “Don’t Ask Why” might be to say that it sounds almost sparkly—that the means of output manipulation imposed on this acoustic guitar[1] make each strum sound like a refraction of light. To be sure, this sounds somewhat strange [...]
Volume 14, Track 9
“I Found That Essence Rare” by Gang Of Four (1979) It takes almost ten seconds for “I Found That Essence Rare” to start and when it does its metallic-like guitar moves at a slow, deliberate pace for about ten seconds longer. At this point one would be justified in wondering where exactly this song is [...]
Volume 14, Track 8
“Loaded” by Primal Scream (1991) “Loaded” features vocal samples from a movie called The Wild Angels, a Roger Corman-directed movie about a biker gang that stars Peter Fonda and Nancy Sinatra[1]. Intermixed with these samples (lines such as “Just what is it that you want to do?” and “We want to get loaded.”) is a [...]
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