We haven’t done Four For Friday in a while now and since it’s basically the weekend for Americans about to take off for Thanksgiving, we thought we drop another installment. It’s not really Thanksgiving-themed, sorry, but we think it’s pretty decent nonetheless.
We suppose we’re in a Sofia Coppola kind of mood (or you could even say ‘hipster film’ mood), cause we have two songs from her soundtracks, both “Lost In Translation” and “Marie Antoinette.” From everyone’s favorite fish-out-of-water trip to Japan comes the moody synth track by Brian Reitzell/Roger Joseph Jr. Manning (Beck’s old keyboardist) “On The Subway.” As we’ve noted countless times, Reitzell is Coppola’s go-to soundtracks guy, both for composing original music and helping her in a music supervision role.
Since My Bloody Valentine is reuniting, we thought it would be nice to rep some of the great remixes that MBV headmaster Kevin Shields did for ‘Antoinette,’ namely their cloud-fluffing of their take on “Fools Rush In.” Jon Brion’s “Strings That Tie To You” from Michel Gondry’s “Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind” might be the best song he’s ever written, it’s gorgeous in every way. And “Waltzing Matilda” was always our favorite Lou Reed song (from Street Hassle) and in fact, we always thought it was the perfect song to make a movie and there we were watching Noah Baumbach’s excellent “The Squid & The Whale,” and of course the film ended with that amazing song (and as much as we were thrilled, we thought, “shit, there goes our idea.”)
Yeah, yeah, every 20-something loves these films and we have problems with the idea of the ‘hipster film’ (more on that one day), but all these songs are excellent.
Download: Brian Reitzell/Roger Joseph Jr. Manning – “On The Subway”
Download: Bow Wow Wow – “Fools Rush In” (Kevin Shields remix)
Download: Jon Brion – “Strings That Tie To You”
Download: Lou Reed – “Street Hassle/Waltzing Matlida”