...I landed another one of those editing gigs downtown and wrote this post on my way there this AM...what up MOG? I'm on my way to another gig downtown and thought I'd pull your coat on an album worth checking that I'd uncovered in my old iPod using that "iPod access" program over the weekend (it had about 2,000 songs that I thought I'd have to buy again but, amazingly after letting it die and sit for a month, I was able to yank out all of my jams and add them to my MacBook/ external drive's files...yeah, that's pretty fekkin righteous...anyway, the LP I'm talking about is the soundtrack to The Beach contains some of my favorite soundtrack cuts (I think the film got overlooked because when it dropped everyone was going into Leo DiCapri-overkill mode as the film came out after that Titanic monstrosity that "iceberged" Celine Dion into everybody's face for months on end. I like most of the tracks for one reason or another as there's a mix that varies which one rarely finds on MPSTrks...there's the poppy "Pure Shores" by All Saints..."Voices" by Dario Gand which breathlessly coasts along until the gears switch up and lock in on the dance track "Yeke Yeke (Hardfloor Remix)" by Mory Kante and passable cuts are "Return of Django" by Asian Dub Foundation (kinda fucks up the Upsetters' classic reggae original that I've grown to know and love over the years)-- dyed-in-the-wool electronica heads might feels otherwise and dig on it, though) and the closing cut, "Beached" with Angela Badalamenti and Orbital which opens with one of those Leonardo journal entries from the film could've been left out as well but whatever's clever, yo...the tunes that I instantly noticed when I first got this LP are "Brutal" and "Woozy", by New Order and Faithless, respectively...in fact, I'm checking the New Order joint as I write this...I think I hear a train coming...dig this...
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..."Woozy" by Faithess is also bangin' so get your inner glow-worm ready because although it takes a couple of ticks to wind up, when that funky loop drops at around 2:40, everything falls right into the pocket...
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Another great, yet not talked about soundtrack. I bought this for the New Order song, and have loved every minute of it since
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Pretty cool tracks.
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hmm . . . never heard the faithless track, it's definitely kicking, and I enjoyed going back to New Order land. I must admit that I was one who stayed away from this movie, primarily to punish the guy I was dating a the time for making me sit through that fucking boat movie. Jesus Mary and Joseph, was that the most convulted POS . . .
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Ahhhh, Faithless like they used to sound. Fabulous.
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Whenever I wanna hear the beach, I put a sea shell to my ear. But let us not forget that the B-side to New Order's watershed 12-inch "Blue Monday" was an instrumental version of the same song retitled..."The Beach." Coincidence?
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@CooP: yeah, I'd have to agree...it's one of those soundtracks that I've listened to a lot over the years...I still think a lot of people won't give it any dap because of the DiCaprio-ciousness quotient..
@charles: ...you'd probably get more cluck for your buck by looking for it in an old-CDs bin...or maybe one of your buddies will sort you out...(wink, nudge)
@michelle: I'll admit, I watched it...just to get on with it...
@Ingham: Love that track, yo...
@Mikey: Co-inky-dink?...NEIN...
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hadn't heard this in forever... good stuff Crash
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Nice post, Crash. I have this CD back East & I almost forgot I still owned it. I'm glad I do.
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@ms: I was loving it when I saw that I still had it in that iPod, too...
@Marco: did you leave before the digital age like I did? I've got a lot of shite scattered all over the Eastern seaboard that I have yet to get back to and upload...I should get on that before Europe..
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Really cool! My favourite will always be Beached :) The only thing missing form it was Vast's great song Touched that was used in the trailer: