Ok, we just invented a new weekly feature on the spot that will run every Friday [ed. yeah, right, don’t bank on it] called “Four For Friday” (super creative, right?)
The gist is this: We pick four random soundtracks and we pick one song from each of them to highlight for the day. Cool? Cool.
So today we’ve chosen Beck’s cover of Bowie’s “Diamond Dogs,” a song he produced with Timbaland for the “Moulin Rouge” soundtrack (a collaboration people hoped would yield more than one measly cover song). The second cut is the Monkees’ very excellent “Porpoise Song,” that was originally used as the theme to their absurdist, psychedelic surrealist film, “Head,” but was recycled by Cameron Crowe for the music used in “Vanilla Sky.”
We’d been thinking about the very tastefully curated soundtrack for Jim Jarmusch’s “Broken Flowers,” so we broke out the Tennors reggae cut, “Ride Your Donkey,” (which is amusing considering it’s a movie about a guy who’s fathered a son, but doesn’t know who the mother is so goes a on a road trip to find his old ex’s and find out if they’re the mother) and then lastly, we’re pretty much always on a Leonard Cohen kick, and we’ve always admired Concrete Blonde’s fantastic renderings of his songs, so we looked to the “Pump Up The Volume” soundtrack which features their version of “Everybody Knows.”
Download: Beck – “Diamond Dogs” (David Bowie)
Download: The Monkees – “Porpoise Song”
Download: Concrete Blonde – “Everybody Knows” (Leonard Cohen)
Download: The Tennors – “Ride Your Donkey”
And why not, a clip of the beginning of “Head” that uses the aforementioned ‘Porpoise’ theme