KITSCH_-_Soundtracks

CRUEL INTENTIONS (1999)

Review by VH1:

Cruel Intentions is the latest example of The Pretty Young Thing movie/sountrack kit being sold by Hollywood these days. Included are the latest heartthrobs distracting from lackluster scripts with their angelic faces, and their not-so-angelic, but definitely heavenly bodies. It also contains the obligatory soundtrack filled to the brim with mushy relationship songs, to go with the bad boy falls in love theme of the movie.
The soundtrack starts off strong with Placebo's "Every You Every Me" and

the radio friendly "Praise You" by Fatboy Slim. The next few songs spiral together with droning vocals and depressing melodies. The Counting Crows bore us with another snoozer ballad, "Colorblind", while Blur serves us a disappointing new one, "Coffee and T.V." Even the usually edgy and powerful Skunk Anansie provide a sappy, love-hurts song, "Secretly". The closing tracks offer some relief with the tricky-like styling of Faithless on "Addictive" and the liveliest song off the CD, "You blew me off" by Bare Jr. The big finale is the monster hit that refuses to go away, "Bitter Sweet Symphony" by the verve. Unfortunately, there is too little, too late. Even the "P.Y.T." photos in the liner notes won't stop the cruel intentions stirred up by this compilation.

Track Listing:
1. Every You Every Me - Placebo
2. Praise You - Fatboy Slim
3. Coffee and T.V. - Blur
4. Bedroom Dancing - Day One
5. Colorblind - Counting Crows
6. Ordinary Life - Kristen Barry
7. Comin' Up From Behind - Macy's Playground
8. Secretly - Skunk Anansie
9. This Love - Craig Armstrong (Featuring Elizabeth Fraser)
10. You Could Make A Killing - Aimee Mann
11. Addictive - Faithless
12. Trip On Love - Abra Moore
13. You Blew Me Off - Bare Jr.
14. Bitter Sweet Symphony - The Verve

VELVET GOLDMINE (1998)

Review by MTV:

This soundtrack is a something-old-something-new-something-borrowed musical composite that manages to successfully manages to capture the Ziggy/Iggy era, despite the conspicuous absense of Mr. Bowie/Mr. Pop.
Grant Lee Buffallo wins the great glam emulator prize with the "Whole Shebang" which sounds so much like Bowie, it's eerie. "Shudder To Think" also contributes two whammy-glammy "Hot One" and "The Ballad Of Maxwell Demon" Pulp, meanwhile submitted "We Are The Boyz", which is not their best effort.

Radiohead's Thom Yorke, and Jon Greenwood, Bernard Butler, Clune, Paul Kimble and Roxy Music's Andy McKay formed The Venus In Furs for the Velvet Goldmine occasion covering some Roxy Music tunes as well as Brian Eno's "Baby's on Fire" and Steve Harley's "Tumbling Down". The latter two song's vocals are performed adequately by Goldmine star Jonathan Rhys Meyers. The first three songs are performed deeply and starkly by Thom Yorke.
Thurston Moore and Steve Shelly from Sonic Youth, Ron Asheton from The Stooges, and Mike Watt comprise The Wylde RaTTz, whose cover of Iggy Pop's "T.V. Eye," With vocals by another Goldmine actor, Ewan McGregor, is possibly the weakest link here. The rest of the soundtrack is rounded out by classic glam rock nuggets like Lou Reed's "Sattelitte of Love" and Roxy Music's "Virginia Plain"
Velvet Goldmine is, as soundtracks go, relatively coherant. And so what if all that glitters here is not gold? Listening to the soundtrack begs the question: just where are my purple sequined platform boots?

Track Listing:
1. Needle in the Camel's Eye - Brian Eno
2. Hot One - Shudder to Think
3. 20th Century Boy - Placebo
4. 2hb - The Venus in Furs
5. T.V. Eye - The Wylde Rattz
6. Ballad of Maxwell Demon - Shudder to Think
7. The Whole Shebang - Grant Lee Buffallo
8. Ladytron - The Venus in Furs
9. We Are The Boys - Pulp
10. Virginia Plain - Roxy Music
11. Personality Crisis - Teenage Fanclub & Donna Matthews Johannson
12. Satellitte of Love - Lou Reed
13. Diamond Meadows - T-Rex
14. Bitter's End - Paul Kimble
15. Baby's On Fire - The Venus in Furs
16. Bitter-Sweet - The Venus in Furs
17. Velvet Spacetime - Carter Burwell
18. Tumbling Down - The Venus in Furs
19. Make Me Smile - Steve Harley