Another Friday, another very-infrequent installment of “Four For Friday”: we pick four random soundtracks and four not-so-random songs we happen to love from said disc.
Today we pick, David Gordon Green’s “All The Real Girls,” Walter Salles’ “The Motorcycle Diaries,” “Laurel Canyon” and the ill-fated Dylan-penned/Larry Charles directed (‘Borat’) film, “Masked & Anonymous.”
We’ve blogged about “All The Real Girls,” and its excellent soundtrack many times, it’s one of our ’00 faves. But we wanted to shout out the disjointed and fractured, but lugubrious track by Mark Olson and the Creekdippers, “Cactus Wren.” The song is like the three-legged down in the movie: wounded, sad, hobbling, but containing its own special charms.
Jorge Drexler’s beautiful nylon-string Spanish-language acoustic ballad, “Al Otro Lado Del Rio” (The Other Side Of The River) from the “‘Motorcycle Diaries” is so damn gorgeous it always bring us to our knees. “Shade & Honey” from “Laurel Canyon” was actually written by Sparklehorse’s Mark Linkous years before it was released by the band. Two S-horse songs are featured in the 2002 film and the movie’s fictional band (that features Sebadoh’s Lou Barlow and lead actor Alessandro Nivola as the band’s singer) are shown struggling to record a version of and old Vivadixie-era track, “Someday I Will Treat You Good.” Linkous also has a quick cameo in the film at a party sequence. “Shade & Honey” actually made its debut in the film and wasn’t properly released on a Sparklehorse album until2006’s Dreamt for Light Years in the Belly of a Mountain.
Dylan’s “Most Of The Time” is one of our all-time favorite Zimmy tunes, so Sophie Zerere can’t really stand a chance at matching its marvelousness, but it’s still one of the more enjoyable Dylan covers on the pre-“I’m Not There,” Dylan covers album “Masked & Anonymous” soundtrack.
Download: Mark Olson / Creekdippers – “Cactus Wren”
Download: Allesandro Nivola – “Shade & Honey”
Download: Jorge Drexler – “Al Otro Lado Del Rio”
Download: Sophie Zerere – “Most Of The Time”
