Stranger Than Fiction
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Edition: Music CDFormat: Soundtrack
CD Release Date: 2006-11-07
Music Label: Sony
Soundtracks:
- The Book I Write SPOON
- Going Missing MAXIMO PARK
- Whole Wide World WRECKLESS ERIC
- Flours BRITT DANIEL/BRIAN REITZELL
- The Way We Get By SPOON
- Mind Your Own Business DELTA 5
- Bottles and Bones (Shade and Sympathy) CALIFONE
- Writers Block BRITT DANIEL/BRIAN REITZELL
- My Mathematical Mind SPOON
- La Petile Fille De Mer VANGELIS
- Thats Entertainment (Demo Version) THE JAM
- Dubbing in the Back Seat THE UPSETTERS
- Auditor BRITT DANIEL/BRIAN REITZELL
- In Church (Cyann and Ben Remix) M83
Free Music Notes for Stranger Than Fiction
Free Music Review: A CD for both bookish and dumbed-down personalities
Hit: 5 Stars
If you've ever seen the fantastic movie Stranger Than Fiction, then you know how perfectly placed the music is -- and how great it sounds. When done right, the music heard within a movie can really enhance what you're watching. Spoon's angular but tuneful piano contributions in "Stranger Than Fiction," for instance, are tailor-made to be background music as Will Ferrell brushes his teeth and a literary female voice provides narration about the goings-on of his life. "The Way We Get By" is the aforementioned Spoon song I'm referring to, minus the lyrics, and the track's tone wonderfully sets the stage for Ferrell's bizarre travails.
Spoon's music is splattered throughout this soundtrack, and it's a good way to discover the band's talent. "The Way We Get By" is pure sing-along gold, a tuneful, soulful romp with the lyrics of admitted degenerates. Its instrumental representation in the movie, as noted, is the perfect melodic hook. Spoon's "The Book I Write" was another stellar choice for the soundtrack, for obvious reasons if you've seen the movie. It's another crisp and catchy song that leads off the CD perfectly. "My Mathematical Mind" by Spoon contains lively piano and biting guitar -- classic Spoon elements -- and is basically one giant hook throughout. Spoon's final contribution, "Vittorio E," is different, a mellow acoustic number toward the end of the disc that winds things down nicely.
The producer of this soundtrack, Brian Reitzell, collaborated with Spoon singer Britt Daniel for some short, soft, ethereal selections that enhance the soundtrack and give it a "movielike" feel. The piano on "Writer's Block" is especially moving. "Auditor" is a chipper track, more quirky than the duo's previous songs on the CD but still atmospheric.
A few of the rockers on this CD equal or even exceed Spoon's contributions, and that's saying a lot. "Going Missing" by Maximo Park contains urgent guitar work, cool lyrics and a raw, rocking sound that makes you want to discover the band more. "Whole Wide World" by Wreckless Eric, though played acoustically in the movie by Ferrell, is an electric humdinger on the soundtrack. It's debatable which version is better, but there's no denying the power of the raw-to-the-bone song. A demo version of The Jam's great 1980 tune "That's Entertainment" is also a welcome donation to the CD, and sounds right at home with both its more contemporary rock `n' roll brethren and daintier tracks like Vangelis' "La Petite Fille de la Mer" (an aery tune from 1973).
Overall, this CD is an interesting mix of the refined and unrefined, kind of like the elements of a plot within a well-told tale of a novel. If you haven't seen this movie, I highly recommend it.
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