Inability to be understood is an integral part of a broken relationship (the other integral part of it is, of course, inability to cope with the inability of being understood), so it is quite a smooth and unbroken current that carries you from superficial whining about your messed up life into the deep sea of realizing there must be more serious, and more scary, reasons that underlie this mess. That's what the movie was about and this is why, not coincidentally, the soundtrack album opens with 'One' - for all I know, One could have been the title of the album. 2 - not that the slow, hypnotic keyboard-and-strings-driven waltz isn't delightful on its own, but she must sing!).įew things are more tragic to savour in the soul than one's own loneliness, and unless our genes somehow fail to elevate us to the level of Homo sapiens sapiens, we all feel this sometimes. Maybe the four-year break in recording helped, too: the eight originals, plus Aimee's cover of Harry Nilsson's 'One', are all stunning - not a single melody fails to stir up feelings (one semi-exception is the instrumental 'Nothing Is Good Enough', which works much better with vocals on Bachelor No. Not only that, but the movie's wide-reaching goals almost certainly help Aimee overcome her own artistic limitations and finally match her exciting, moving music to broader themes than relationships fucked up for no apparent reason other than that relationships have to be fucked up, or else what sort of fucking relationships are they? I feel very fortunate, therefore, that I can safely state: I admire the movie - one of the bravest and quite hard-hitting in its bravery epic creations of the 1990's - and I think its soundtrack fits its atmosphere perfectly. This is that rare example of a movie soundtrack that stands well on its own terms - a fairly appropriate instance, too, since the battalions of admirers and haters of Magnolia the movie and Magnolia the soundtrack intersect, but do not overlap.
1) One 2) Momentum 3) Build That Wall 4) Deathly 5) Driving Sideways 6) You Do 7) Nothing Is Good Enough 8) Wise Up 9) Save Me 12) Dreams 13) Magnolia.
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