How Come John Cusack Movies Get All the Good Soundtracks.
I was listening to the new best-of compilation of The Specials and remembered that Pressure Drop was featured in the hilariously funny 1997 film Grosse Point Blank. Then it occurred to me that John Cusack has starred in two movies with epic soundtracks; the aforementioned GPB and High Fidelity.
Click to view(crappy video quality I know but come on Nena, David Bowie and Queen, Violent Femmes, The Clash ... are you effing kidding me!)
Other favorites on the GPB soundtrack include Echo and the Bunnymen, English Beat, Pixies, and a-ha among others. Just a super fun, super appropriate soundtrack. Not just a good movie with a good soundtrack, but a great movie with a great soundtrack that feels like it belongs. Kudos to Joe Strummer I guess I will always be an 80s nut.
You would think that because this is a movie about a guy whose love affair with music is almost as bad as his actual love life, a movie with music at it's core, would have an awesome soundtrack but that is not necessarily the case. Many recent movies have surfaced about musicians, or music, or feature music prominently in their storylines that have atrocious soundtracks, not High Fidelity.
Eclectic pop is the work on this soundtrack; let's see: Katrina and the Waves, Belle & Sebastian, The Beta Band, Aretha Franklin, The Kinks, Al Green, Grand Funk Railroad, etc. etc. etc. Amazing!!!! Of course, it gets double bonus points for completely poking at a softspot with the inclusion of Shipbuilding by the one and only Elvis Costello.
These are movies I watch over and over again. Movies I can't decide if I watch them for the cinema or for the soundtrack. Why does John Cusack continue to get these, is this why I am such a Cusack fan? Hmmmmmm.