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Listening to: Various Artists - 'Magnolia' Soundtrack

After quickly looking through the rest of the soundtracks I have, I realized that, with the exception of The Last Kiss, I listened to all of them before I saw any of their movies. Now that we've got that fact out of the way, we can progress.

I know I told Ian that I was done with reviewing Aimee Mann records, and, while this was partially true in that there are no more records released under her name, this Magnolia soundtrack might as well be hers. Not that I'm complaining, as she's quickly, over the past couple weeks, become my favorite female singer-songwriter. As I think I mentioned somewhere in the last little while, I've not seen Magnolia, and I don't really know if I will watch it any time in the near future. Not because I think it's going to be awful, but just because I don't feel the need to see it. Plus, my mind always went like this when I heard anything about the movie: "Oh, Magnolia, isn't that that movie from the late 80's with Sally Field? Or no, that's called Steel Vaginas right? Anyway, I don't want to watch a movie about vaginas."

And here we are today.

This soundtrack, as far as soundtracks go, is quite good. It's got a couple Supertramp classics on there, and pretty much everything else works, aside from Gabrielle's Dreams, which I think is pretty indicative of everything that was wrong with mid to late-90's girl-pop shit. It's brutal, and definitely drags this album's average down with it.



Various Artists - 'Magnolia' Soundtrack ★★★★★★★✩✩✩

Favorite Tracks: One, Wise Up, Goodbye Stranger
Least Favorite Tracks: Momentum, Dreams

1. One
2. Momentum
3. Build That Wall
4. Deathly
5. Driving Sideways
6. You Do
7. Nothing is Good Enough
8. Wise Up
9. Save Me
10. Goodbye Stranger
11. Logical Song
12. Dreams
13. Magnolia