Track Listing
1. Things Have Changed - Bob Dylan
2. Child's Claim To Fame, A - Buffalo Springfield
3. No Regrets - Tom Rush
4. Old Man - Neil Young
5. Shooting Star - Bob Dylan
6. Reason To Believe - Tim Hardin
7. Need Your Love So Bad - Little Willie John
8. Not Dark Yet - Bob Dylan
9. Slip Away - Clarence Carter
10. Waiting For The Miracle - Leonard Cohen
11. Buckets Of Rain - Bob Dylan
12. Watching The Wheels - John Lennon
13. Philosophers Stone - Van Morrison
| Details | | Producer: | Carol Fenelon, Curtis Hanson | | Distributor: | Sony Music Distribution | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes
Includes liner notes by Curtis Hanson.
Director Curtis Hanson's follow-up to the gritty L.A. CONFIDENTIAL is a generation-gap comedy about an aging novelist who's got a raging case of writer's block and is feeling the hot breath of mortality on his neck. No surprise, the mostly older songs collected here are a lot more thoughtful and a lot more thoughtfully chosen than on the average blockbuster soundtrack album; the album's concerns are thematic, not demographic.
The stylistic mix is mostly folk or folk-rock with a little R&B on the side.
The most high-profile cuts are John Lennon's autumnal "Watching the Wheels" and Neil Young's prematurely elegiac "Old Man." Bob Dylan is represented by four entries, including the movie's chilling new theme "Thing Have Changed." Southern-soul legend Clarence Carter's "Slip Away" and the underrated R&B pioneer Little Willie John's "Need Your Love So Bad" also contribute to the soundtrack's mood of quiet desperation, but by far the most amazing track is "Waiting For the Miracle" (from Leonard Cohen's 1992 release, THE FUTURE), a space-age Brecht-Weill tune featuring such inspirational verse as "The Maestro says its Mozart / but it sounds like Bubblegum." Wow.
Editorial Reviews
3 stars out of 5 - ...follows the theme of aging, with autumnal-meditations from John Lennon, Van Morrison and Leonard Cohen [and] superb obscurities from Buffalo Springfield and Tom Rush....[It] shows where rockers like Dylan learned how to rage against the dying of the light.
Rolling Stone (03/30/2000)
4 stars out of 5 - ...Extremely rarified....tantamount to THE BEST SUNDAY MORNING ALBUM IN THE WORLD...EVER!, it creates an impression of understated excellence.
Q (05/01/2000)
...The album is that rarity, a soundtrack of sustained quality that can be played through entirely without skipping.
Mojo (04/01/2000)
...offers somber classics from Tim Hardin, Leonard Cohen, and Van Morrison - plus the 1st original Dylan tune of the millenium....Proven songwriting talent taking priority over mass sales appeal? Wonderful, indeed. - Rating: B
Entertainment Weekly (03/03/2000)
3 stars out of 5 - ...follows the theme of aging, with autumnal-meditations from John Lennon, Van Morrison and Leonard Cohen [and] superb obscurities from Buffalo Springfield and Tom Rush....[It] shows where rockers like Dylan learned how to rage against the dying of the light.Q Magazine (5/00, p.119) - 4 stars out of 5 - ...Extremely rarified....tantamount to THE BEST SUNDAY MORNING ALBUM IN THE WORLD...EVER!, it creates an impression of understated excellence.Mojo (4/00, p.103) - ...The album is that rarity, a soundtrack of sustained quality that can be played through entirely without skipping.Entertainment Weekly (3/3/00, p.75) - ...offers somber classics from Tim Hardin, Leonard Cohen, and Van Morrison - plus the 1st original Dylan tune of the millenium....Proven songwriting talent taking priority over mass sales appeal? Wonderful, indeed. - Rating: B
Rolling Stone (03/30/2000)
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