Rushmore: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
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Free Music Notes for Rushmore: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Free Music Review: Proper length and film sequence for this magnificent soundtrack
Hit: 5 Stars
Here are all the songs and the order in which they appear in the film (* denotes a track that is not on the CD):
1.Hardest Geometry Problem In The World - Mark Mothersbaugh
2.Sharp Little Guy - Mark Mothersbaugh
3.Making Time - Creation
4.The Lad With The Silver Button - Mark Mothersbaugh
5.Take Ten - Paul Desmond (*)
6.Concrete & Clay - Unit 4 + 2
7.Nothing In This World Can Stop Me Worrin' Bout That Girl - The Kinks
8.Edward Appleby (In Memoriam) - Mark Mothersbaugh
9.A Summer Song - Chad & Jeremy
10.Blinuet - Zoot Sims
11.Piranhas Are A Very Tricky Species - Mark Mothersbaugh
12.Here Comes My Baby - Cat Stevens
13.Friends Like You, Who Needs Friends - Mark Mothersbaugh
14.Jersey Thursday - Donovan (*)
15.A Quick One, While He's Away (live) - The Who (* the ragged-but-right version featured in the film is from The Rolling Stones' Rock 'n Roll Circus, NOT the Live at Leeds version found on this CD)
16.I Am Waiting - The Rolling Stones (*)
17.Snowflake Music from Bottlerocket - Mark Mothersbaugh
18.Rue St. Vincent - Yves Montand
19.Kite Flying Society - Mark Mothersbaugh
20.The Wind - Cat Stevens
21.Oh Yoko! - John Lennon
22.Manoir De Mes Reves - Django Reinhardt (*)
23.Ooh La La - Faces
24.Margaret Yang's Theme - Mark Mothersbaugh
I've listened to this longer and more frequently than any other soundtrack. Pitch-perfect for the summer time.
Free Music Review: great, unique soundtrack for a great, unique movie
Hit: 5 Stars
This accomplishes what a great soundtrack should do... enhance the movie, offer an interesting collection of songs and intoduce the listener to works that you would not have otherwise listen to.
The theme of the music seems to be 60's style, very Brittish pop.
"Making Time" by the Creation is a raw, punkish song from a group long forgotten. It is used commercially all of the time and often misunderstood for the Kinks. Its a rock and roll rave up that will rock your stereo off.
Chad and Jeremy's "Summer Wind" is a wimpy, melodic chestnut that you would never own up to liking but is a certain guilty pleasure.
Cat Stevens has 2 cuts. "The Wind" a fine short song on many compilations and the more interesting "Here comes my baby" which was done before he established his trademark sound.
"Oh Yoko" is a song that never did anything for me until I saw it used in the movie. Oh the power of film!
"Ooh La la" by the Faces is an uplifting song which is used in the same manner in the close of the film.
There are in between ditties by former Devo man Mark Mothersbaugh. This music was more effective in the film than listening to it in your car.
Overall, this soundtrack is a top notch soundtrack.
Another good soundtrack by the same director is the "Royal Tannenbaums"
Free Music Review: All The World's A Stage
Hit: 5 Stars
The vision of soundtrack producer Mark Mothersbaugh and movie director Wes Anderson which captures the movie scenes, while standing on its own as an eclectic collection of songs from classic artists.
The Mod movement and British Invasion - Chad & Jeremy, Unit 4 + 2, The Kinks (Nothin' in the World Can Stop Me Worryin' 'Bout That Girl), The Who (A Quick One While He's Away) - and early 1970s compositions - Ooh La La (Faces, by Ronnie Lane and Ron Wood) and Oh Yoko! (John Lennon) - tell the story of the ever changing moods of the rebellious teen, Max Fischer.
Selections by Cat Stevens (Here Comes My Baby & The Wind), Zoot Sims, Yves Montand, The Creation are paint brushes over a vast canvas, which are seamless in the mix. Mothersbaugh is responsible for nine of the tracks for the soundtrack, which was released on February 2, 1999.
Five songs in the movie do not appear on the CD, including Donovan's Jersey Thursday and I Am Waiting by the Rolling Stones. But the scope of the music makes this a great example of a soundtrack that tells a perfect story, all by itself.
Free Music Review: never a dull moment
Hit: 5 Stars
After I saw Rushmore, I needed this CD, and it was no disappointment. Mark Mothersbaugh lends a very whimsical tone to the movie which is very befitting. Wes Anderson originally wanted a soundtrack only of obscure early Kinks stuff, but actually ended up making a delightful mixture of some memorable and some rare 1960's British pop and folk songs. The guitar driven chords of Creation's "Making Time," opens up this very textual album. The only Kinks song included is "Nothing In This World Can Stop Me Worrin' Bout That Girl." Like that song, "Here Comes My Baby," a song by Cat Stevens highlights the theme of betrayal, which is apparent in the film. A personal favorite is the mini-opera, "A Quick One While He's Away," from the Who's "Live at Leeds." This is a wonderful and powerful recording from my favorite rock group. Also included are Zoot Sims's jazz piece "Blinuet" and "Rue St. Vincent," by Yves Montand. They are seemingly contrasting pieces but are also textual. This is a recommended soundtrack from a recommended movie.Free Music Review: This is what a soundtrack should be
Hit: 5 Stars
This is the height of the soundtrack. Higher even than Quentin Tarantino's soundtracks, which is saying a lot.I own in, and I have transfered the whole thing (even serched out "I am Waiting" by the stones) to mp3 so I could listen to it while on my computer. I take the CD with me to school so I can listen to it while my students are working (one a very few disks I will play at school).
Every song is a dead on match. I even think it would have been a match if every song was by the Kinks as originally intended. Simply, the music makes the film all the more of an impact upon the senses.
What needs to be emphasized is the emotional tie between the characters and the music which is created by Mark Mothersbaugh in the isntrumental sections of the CD. Listening to the songs I am taken to the exact moments in the film. A rarity in movies today when you look in other places than those movies that drown you in an attempt to market the latest aerosmith song (see armageddon etc etc)
I love this music and I love the film. They go together perfectly.