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<center><h3> | <center><h3> In Motion Pictures </h3></center> | ||
<center>''' Elvis Costello </center> | |||
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''In Motion Pictures'' is, to say the least, an unusual compilation album, putting together 15 songs by Elvis Costello that have turned up in movies. | |||
While it contains a few familiar numbers, like | While it contains a few familiar numbers, like "[[Miracle Man]]," which was in ''The Godfather III'', "[[I Want You]]" and "[[Days]]," many of the songs here are lesser known. That makes the record feel both new and old, a career-spanning, off-beat collection. | ||
"[[Crawling To The U.S.A.|Crawling to the U.S.A]].," an early tune featuring [[Jimmy Cliff]] that appeared in ''Americathon'', adds some bounce to the mix while "[[Seven Day Weekend]]" from ''Club Paradise'' struts and swings, and "[[My Mood Swings]]" from ''The Big Lebowski'' is a hooky, dusky blues rocker. | |||
On the slower side, | On the slower side, "[[You Stole My Bell]]" is Costello at his most soulful. "[[Oh Well]]" is an atmospheric, acoustic-rooted drifter co-written with rapper [[Q-Tip]] for the movie ''Prison Song''. And the great "[[God Give Me Strength]]" is prayerful, a perfect soundtrack song. | ||
Costello as crooner turns on the cover of | Costello as crooner turns on the cover of "[[She]]" he did for ''Notting Hill'' and the spaghetti-westernesque "[[A Town Called Big Nothing|A Town Called Nothing]]," which he wrote for Alex Cox’s ''Straight To Hell'', a movie in which Costello played a shotgun-toting butler, a perfect way to end an illuminating record. | ||
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'''Grade: B+ | |||
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