Something for everybody, indeed. For how else could one possibly describe an album that includes: 1) a flaccid remake of the Cardigans' "Lovefool" sung by a guy; 2) Doris Day's campy 1947 hit, "Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps"; 3) David Hobson and the Australian Opera & Ballet Orchestra's stirring rendition of the famous "Che Gelida Manina" aria from a 1990 production of La Boheme; 4) a zippy, drum-and-bass-influenced remake of Prince's "When Doves Cry," produced by Nellee Hooper; 5) a slightly jazzy remix of John Paul Young's goopy late-seventies hit "Love Is in the Air"; 6) "Now Until the Break of Day," in which a memorable melody from Benjamin Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream is Disney-ized into a Technicolor pop ballad; 7) an execrable, disco-styled version of Jack Hylton & His Orchestra's early jazz number "High Heels"; and 8) an excerpt from the London Symphony Orchestra's 1974 recording of "Jupiter," from Gustav Holst's The Planets? But wait—that's only half the CD.

If your head isn't swimming yet, perhaps this oddball selection of tracks compiled by noted Australian film director Baz Luhrmann (Strictly Ballroom, Romeo + Juliet) from several of his projects will appeal to you. Perhaps it will serve nicely as the soundtrack to your next soiree. On the other hand, Something for Everybody might sound suspiciously like the fevered dreams of someone who listened to a few too many Bronski Beat albums in the early eighties while bemoaning the downfall of disco.

Either way, the most interesting cut is primarily spoken—a pithy graduation speech that offers sage advice for people of all ages. It's totally out of place, but certainly welcome on this odd, but not appealing, album. --Bob Remstein