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<center><h3> | <center><h3> In Motion Pictures </h3></center> | ||
<center>''' Elvis Costello </center> | |||
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<center> L. Kent Wolgamott </center> | <center> L. Kent Wolgamott </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.," 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," 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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{{tags}}[[In Motion Pictures]] {{-}} [[Miracle Man]] {{-}} [[I Want You]] {{-}} [[Days]] {{-}} [[Crawling To The U.S.A.]] {{-}} [[Americathon: Music From The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]] {{-}} [[Jimmy Cliff]] {{-}} [[Seven Day Weekend]] {{-}} [[Club Paradise: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]] {{-}} [[My Mood Swings]] {{-}} [[The Big Lebowski: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]] {{-}} [[You Stole My Bell]] {{-}} [[Oh Well]] {{-}} [[Q-Tip]] {{-}} [[Prison Song]] {{-}} [[God Give Me Strength]] {{-}} [[She]] {{-}} [[Notting Hill: Music From The Motion Picture]] {{-}} [[A Town Called Big Nothing]] {{-}} [[Alex Cox]] {{-}} [[Straight To Hell (soundtrack)]] | |||
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[[L. Kent Wolgamott]] reviews ''[[In Motion Pictures]]'' | [[L. Kent Wolgamott]] reviews ''[[In Motion Pictures]]'' | ||
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