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Brand: SonyComposer: Various Artists
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Soundtrack
CD Release Date: 2004-08-10
Music Label: Sony
Soundtracks:
- Don't Panic - Coldplay
- Caring Is Creepy - The Shins
- In The Waiting Line - Zero 7
- New Slang - The Shins
- I Just Don't Think I'll Ever Get Over You - Colin Hay
- Blue Eyes - Cary Brothers
- Fair - Remy Zero
- One Of These Things First - Nick Drake
- Lebanese Blonde - Thievery Corporation
- The Only Living Boy In New York - Simon & Garfunkel
- Such Great Heights - Iron and Wine
- Let Go - Frou Frou
- Winding Road - Bonnie Somerville
Free Music Notes for Garden State
Free Music Review: What a stunning compilation!
Hit: 5 Stars
I owned this CD a few months before viewing the movie, and the wonderful mix of artists and genres on this CD completely baited my appetite for this movie (although the movie did not live up to the preamblic soundtrack experience I'd had!). Overall, the songs on this CD are fresh, introspective, and well-written. The artists are unknown talents, for the most part, so if you're looking to begin expanding your musical horizons, begin here. These songs completely set the stage for the movie Garden State was supposed to be. However, despite the fact that most of these songs do not fit in the context in which they are placed within the movie, they are stunning and fabulous songs in their own right. This is a soundtrack where you expect the music to tell the story and, had the movie lived up to its expectations, it would have. The musical score here was completely and utterly well-chosen, and well-primed to tell an intimate story of what it's like to come back home.
Track by track review:
1. Don't Panic - Coldplay
If you own Coldplay's first CD, you will recognize this as the opening track. Yearning vocals, deep-set guitar rhythms, you know Coldplay. This is probably one of their simpler tracks, with very short lyrics, but its melody makes it speak beyond its words. Of course, Coldplay is always introspectively moody and wise, and you can't go wrong by including them on a movie soundtrack.
2. Caring Is Creepy - The Shins
Having never listened to the Shins before, I was stunned at the anthem-like soar of this song. I'd lumped the Vines, the Strokes, and all the other "the" bands together, but the Shins shine brightly with this track.
3. In The Waiting Line - Zero 7
This song flows like honey: slowly, thickly, and gently. It's like being inside an opaque bubble and floating weightlessly. Very very nice song; I completely hated its placement in the movie.
4. New Slang - The Shins
Very Sunday afternoon-ish. Nice use of the tambourine. Here, The Shins relax from their earlier song with a nice, easy song that will roll right through your head.
5. I Just Don't Think I'll Ever Get Over You - Colin Hay
Another song where I didn't agree with its movie placement. Probably one of the most heartbreaking songs I've ever heard. Hay's voice is timeless and yearns with the feel of an old soul. The acoustic guitar only adds to the melancholy of the song. Truly beautiful.
6. Blue Eyes - Cary Brothers
Probably one of the weaker songs on the album (but that's not saying much, since all of the songs are incredibly strong), since it tends to drag out the sorrow of Hay's song before, and it's not very distinguishable from the song following. The singers' voices are clear and powerful, and the song is well-done, most likely just not well-placed on the album.
7. Fair - Remy Zero
Desperate and uncertain, this song's tone has a "romantic challenge" vibe to it, with a bit of a resistance in the singer's voice, but maintains the mellow vibe of the middle section of the album.
8. One Of These Things First - Nick Drake
Nice use of the piano here, with a very Everyman quality. Drake has a very unique voice, making him sound like a cross between a post-nap yawn and a fledging deer's first steps (if there was a sound for that).
9. Lebanese Blonde - Thievery Corporation
The song is funky and rolling; the title aptly describes the transitioning: begins with a semi-Arabesque vibe, dropping into a very '60s, flowery groove.
10. The Only Living Boy In New York - Simon & Garfunkel
Maybe one of the reasons this movie is so often compared to The Graduate. S & G have a way of adding depth to a movie's introspective and uncertain moments. Your thoughts just ride along with this song.
11. Such Great Heights - Iron and Wine
I first heard this as the synth-pop version from The Postal Service, so I was a bit disoriented when I heard the slow, quiet wail of this song. But it grew on me. The lyrics are impeccable: "they will see us waving from such great heights/come down now, they'll say/but everything looks perfect from far away/come down now/but we'll stay."
12. Let Go - Frou Frou
Arguably the best song on the soundtrack. Who'd heard of "Frou Frou" before this, and where was this talent hiding? Breathy European-accented vocals, rolling-alterna-pop sound, a beat that makes you actually understand the physical meaning of "undulate." Definitely the moral of the Garden State story, and the most aptly placed song within the movie itself.
13. Winding Road - Bonnie Somerville
Somerville isn't a vocal epiphany by any means, but her youthful voice reaches out to you, and her lyrics are truly a gem with their introspective nature and uplifting view of an unknown future.
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Soundtrack to eagerly anticipated 2004 film features music from Coldplay, The Shins, Zero 7, Colin Hay, Cary Brothers, Remy Zero, Nick Drake, Thievery Corporation, Simon & Garfunkel, Iron & Wine, Frou Frou, & Bonnie Somerville.Writer and director Zach Braff does a masterful job matching the charming, heartfelt tone of films like The Graduate and Rushmore in his motion picture debut, Garden State, so it only makes sense that the music he personally compiled for the soundtrack plays just as of big a part here as it did in those films. Simon & Garfunkel's languorous "The Only Living Boy in New York" is an obvious thread, but aside from Nick Drake's "One of These Things First," Braff is able to carry the mood without getting tripped up in the past. Frou Frou's "Let Go" and Zero 7's "In the Waiting Line" supply soft techno touches, while Iron & Wine's "Such Great Heights" and former Men at Work singer Colin Hay's "I Just Don't Think I'll Ever Get Over You" offer understated angst. It's the pair of emotionally racked contributions from the Shins ("Caring Is Creepy," "New Slang"), however, that really make this compilation a must-have. --Aidin Vaziri
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