Rushmore: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
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Edition: Music CDAudio: English (Original Language); Latin (Original Language)
Format: Soundtrack
CD Release Date: 1999-02-02
Music Label: Fontana London
Soundtracks:
- Hardest Geometry Problem in the World - Mark Mothersbaugh
- Making Time - Creation
- Concrete & Clay - Unit 4 + 2
- Nothing In This World Can Stop Me Worrin' Bout That Girl - The Kinks
- Sharp Little Guy - Mark Mothersbaugh
- The Lad With the Silver Button - Mark Mothersbaugh
- A Summer Song - Chad & Jeremy
- Edward Appleby (In Memoriam) - Mark Mothersbaugh
- Here Comes My Baby - Cat Stevens
- A Quick One While He's Away - The Who
- 'Snowflake Music' From Bottlerocket - Mark Mothersbaugh
- Piranhas are a Very Tricky Species - Mark Mothersbaugh
- Blinuet - Zoot Sims
- Friends Like You, Who Needs Friends - Mark Mothersbaugh
- Rue St. Vincent - Yves Montand
- Kite Flying Society - Mark Mothersbaugh
- The Wind - Cat Stevens
- Oh Yoko - John Lennon
- Ooh La La - The Faces
- Margaret Yang's Theme - Mark Mothersbaugh
Music reviews of Rushmore: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Music Review: Withstands repeated vigorous listenings!
Rating: 4 Stars
As others have already pointed out (a long time ago, but it bears repeating), a great mix!
Only disappointment on the disk is the Nothing in The World cut by The Kinks, with it's vocals driven into clipping at a few points. Ironically, cheaper sound systems actually sound worse as they struggle to deal with this issue. A very minor point to be sure, and I assume it came from the original tracks like that, because the rest of the album sounds great.
I've always liked the one-hit wonder Concrete & Clay by Unit 4+2. If you do too, I'd suggest not trying too hard to find anything else by them. If you do manage to find one of their albums, be open-minded because apparently whoever wrote Concrete & Clay left the room leaving the rest of their tunes never hitting that fun hook again.
Buy it today! I command you!
Description of Rushmore: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
The Rushmore soundtrack manages to pleasantly skirt the line between sentiment and sentimentality with a nuanced, eminently listenable combo of score and song. The songs mostly blend raw, adolescent urges and insecurity with an awkward grace. Though composed primarily of popular music from the 1960s, none of the selections is a hit of the expected Big Chill variety. In fact, compiler Randall Poster proves himself a '60s pop connoisseur, including little-known gems such as Cat Stevens's buoyant, hummable "Here Comes My Baby" (covered by Yo La Tengo on Fakebook) and the Who 's revved-up, intentionally silly proto-opera "A Quick One While He's Away." The bossa nova folk-pop of Unit 4+2's "Concrete & Clay" is lovingly contrasted by the Creation's blistering, feedback-enhanced hit-that-never-was "Making Time." Devo founder Mark Mothersbaugh's incidental music is nothing short of delightful, but the Rugrats composer clearly comes by whimsy easily. The intriguing thing about Mothersbaugh's score--seven snippets from which are sprinkled throughout the disc--is that it complements the archival tunes while combining Beethoven-lite flourishes and jazzy instrumentation with percolating mod keyboards. Like the film itself, this soundtrack is an inspired, left-field effort, and it's difficult to plot out its many charms. --Mike McGonigalCountry CDs
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