Word: soundtracking
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...comically odd soundtrack, courtesy of a colorful bouquet of musicians. A morose punk rocker in painfully tight leather, whose music marries Alice Cooper to Tracy Chapman, splits Government Center with the occasional trio of starving violinists from the New England Conservatory. The would-be blues guitarist battles an aging Rastafarian below Harvard Square. All create a soothing din amidst the T's unkind acoustics...
Jazz guitarist Pat Metheny's soundtrack to A Map of the World, the upcoming film based on Jane Hamilton's book, falls somewhere in between. Certainly no innovation, but surely no tragedy, Metheny's compositions are no doubt appropriate. The main framework of the album is a variation on a theme, punctuated by less topical instrumentations, which include very literal motifs. An apt analogy would be to say that the artist has ceded to the architect. That is to say, Metheny has selflessly concealed his artistic biases to create a non-intrusive score for a film and not a masterpiece...
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...craze the Pokemon series, playing cards, merchandise and movie have recently inspired in the States has now been augmented by the newly released Pokemon: The First Movie motion picture soundtrack. Although the album includes songs by popular teen acts like Britney Spears, 'NSync, B*Witched and Christina Aguilera, the tracks are far from the best the artists have released. In fact, the majority of the songs on the soundtrack are little more than bland, unoriginal works whose peppy beats are quickly dulled by the simple and repetitious verses they all employ. To be fair to the album, the target audience...
...psychedelic meanderings of "Summertime Rolls." P4P is also represented at its best, though the selection of two clones like "Cursed Male" and "Hard Charger" is questionable. Also included are Jane's Addiction's Beatles-esque take on The Dead's "Ripple" and Porno for Pyros' Cable Guy soundtrack version of Lou Reed's "Satellite of Love," which sounds eerily like the Dead with Farrell on vocals. Of the two new tracks, "Rev" is a respectable collaboration between Farrell and Rage Against the Machine's Tom Morello, while "Whole Lotta Love" would even be excellent drum 'n' bass if Farrell wasn...