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koganbotHaven't seen Bandslam; am sure there can be a touching movie about teens who care deeply about shitty music. And sometimes when you see bad songs in use - movies can do this - you discover that they're not bad. Sometimes. So anyway, my thoughts on the soundtrack LP, which may have little to do with the music heard in the film, though ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
hoshuteki assures me that "Everything I Own" is as dire on film as on disk.
David Bowie "Rebel Rebel": Yes, I love this song, though I have always questioned the veracity of "she's not sure if you're a boy or a girl." As for this being on a movie soundtrack: Whatevs.
The Velvet Underground "Femme Fatale": Whatevs. There are at least a score of better VU songs that are worse known. Whatevs.
Nick Drake "Road": Had never heard Nick Drake! This song is pleasant!
Wilco "What Light": There are scores of Wilco songs and I think I'd heard three before and this is one of them. I gave it a 5 out of 10 on the Jukebox, unless I gave it a 6. Or a 4. Pretty tune, dumb lyrics, I grade the singing meh-PLUS, would give the track a 6 today. Or a 5. Whatevs.
Bunch of indie and not-quite-as-indie songs by bands I've never heard of: Two are good, the Burning Hotels' "Stuck In The Middle," horror glam that's half-frantic like Franz Ferdinand; and the Daze' "Blizzard Woman Blues," like Jack White fronting the Blues Explosion, fractured jump-the-rails no-wavish funk. Would listen to more by these two.
I Can't Go On, I'll Go On f. Aly Michalka "Amphetamine": Original is by Steve Wynn & the Miracle 3 and it is good and so is this; Aly can push across a hard rock song. Slam dunk, yippee! (Steve Wynn is formerly of the Dream Syndicate.) This track is the only possible reason to pay money for the soundtrack.
I Can't Go On, I'll Go On f. Aly Michalka "Someone To Fall Back On": Superb job by Aly on neo-standard show-tune schmaltz. She talks words easily, sings with nuance, raises her voice without blaring, the accompaniment being mid-volume rock that never gets goopy. However, I hate this song no matter who's performing it.
Aly Michalka "I Want You To Want Me": Disparate energy, band clatters around, no impact. I've heard three different versions of this in the last month, and all others are better.
I Can't Go On, I'll Go On f. Vanessa Hudgens "Everything I Own": Yes, Bread fans, that "Everything I Own." Nasal-voiced Vanessa has promise - in fact achievement - as a sub-Cover Girls freestyle-lite emoter. That is not what this track is, however. It's a rock-soul-reggae amalgam, is wrong for her, she is wrong for it, they should never have gotten together in the first place, even counseling won't save this match.
hoshuteki assures me that "Everything I Own" is as dire on film as on disk.David Bowie "Rebel Rebel": Yes, I love this song, though I have always questioned the veracity of "she's not sure if you're a boy or a girl." As for this being on a movie soundtrack: Whatevs.
The Velvet Underground "Femme Fatale": Whatevs. There are at least a score of better VU songs that are worse known. Whatevs.
Nick Drake "Road": Had never heard Nick Drake! This song is pleasant!
Wilco "What Light": There are scores of Wilco songs and I think I'd heard three before and this is one of them. I gave it a 5 out of 10 on the Jukebox, unless I gave it a 6. Or a 4. Pretty tune, dumb lyrics, I grade the singing meh-PLUS, would give the track a 6 today. Or a 5. Whatevs.
Bunch of indie and not-quite-as-indie songs by bands I've never heard of: Two are good, the Burning Hotels' "Stuck In The Middle," horror glam that's half-frantic like Franz Ferdinand; and the Daze' "Blizzard Woman Blues," like Jack White fronting the Blues Explosion, fractured jump-the-rails no-wavish funk. Would listen to more by these two.
I Can't Go On, I'll Go On f. Aly Michalka "Amphetamine": Original is by Steve Wynn & the Miracle 3 and it is good and so is this; Aly can push across a hard rock song. Slam dunk, yippee! (Steve Wynn is formerly of the Dream Syndicate.) This track is the only possible reason to pay money for the soundtrack.
I Can't Go On, I'll Go On f. Aly Michalka "Someone To Fall Back On": Superb job by Aly on neo-standard show-tune schmaltz. She talks words easily, sings with nuance, raises her voice without blaring, the accompaniment being mid-volume rock that never gets goopy. However, I hate this song no matter who's performing it.
Aly Michalka "I Want You To Want Me": Disparate energy, band clatters around, no impact. I've heard three different versions of this in the last month, and all others are better.
I Can't Go On, I'll Go On f. Vanessa Hudgens "Everything I Own": Yes, Bread fans, that "Everything I Own." Nasal-voiced Vanessa has promise - in fact achievement - as a sub-Cover Girls freestyle-lite emoter. That is not what this track is, however. It's a rock-soul-reggae amalgam, is wrong for her, she is wrong for it, they should never have gotten together in the first place, even counseling won't save this match.
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Date: 2009-09-02 03:00 pm (UTC)OK, disqualifying "Heroin" and "Sweet Jane" as two that are better known (and disqualifying "Rock & Roll" because not only is it better known but I don't much like it) here are 20:
--"Sister Ray" (which is obviously too long to make it into the soundtrack)
--"Here She Comes Now"
--"I Heard Her Call My Name"
--"I Can't Stand It"
--"I'm Set Free" (the one I would have chosen as an overlooked Velvets song that could use some touting, though as I said, I can see how in the context of the movie "Femme Fatale" is more realistic)
--"White Light/White Heat"
--"I'm Waiting For My Man"
--"Venus In Furs"
--"What Goes On"
--"Temptation Inside Your Heart"
--"Candy Says"
--"Sunday Morning"
--"There She Goes Again"
--"We're Gonna Have A Real Good Time Together"
--"All Tomorrow's Parties"
--"Some Kinda Love"
--"Black Angel's Death Song"
--"That's The Story Of My Life"
--"Beginning To See The Light"
Er, OK that's only nineteen, and I was about to type in "Pale Blue Eyes" when I realized I'd say the exact same thing about it that I'd said about "Femme Fatale."
You might well hate "Sister Ray" and "I Heard Her Call My Name" owing to their noisiness, but notwithstanding the noise they have a washed-out 4 A.M. feeling that could seep into you in a good way.
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Date: 2009-09-04 01:11 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-09-04 01:48 pm (UTC)