 Being a fan of the US series Gossip Girl, I was eager to get my hands on this CD to review as I quite enjoy the odd soundtrack. It’s always fun trying to recognize where each song came from and which scene, but I guess I haven’t watched this series repeatedly (yet?) to be able to spot those things like a true pro. The album opens with The Kills "Sour cherry", a pretty standard Kills song with its rhythmic beats and chants of "shout when you wanna get off the ride". The song, as many true Kills songs, doesn't progress into stronger music but it just intensifies a small amount. A good starting song that carries the theme of what to expect from the rest of the album well.
Next is the oh so blah Kooks, with an unsurprisingly oh so blah song "Do you wanna". I would go into detail but it's just a typical Kooks song, but possibly slightly worse. So moving on, Phantom Planets rush in with "Do the panic", like a breath of fresh air and my definite favourite of the entire album, starting the series of better songs on here. Sounding incredibly like old skool Strokes which is probably the only thing you could hold against it - not saying that The Strokes are bad! Just that it's not particularly new sounding, but still, it's a definite winner.
The Teenagers follow on with catchy ambient "Feeling Better", which reminds me a great deal of a song by Velocity Girl, "My forgotten favourite" , incidently on the Clueless soundtrack. A good Teenagers song, as we all know they either do it or they don't, don't we? And it even reminds me a little of Teengage Fanclub, with the floweryness of it, but that could just be me. By now we're really starting to see the direction this soundtrack is taking - cool electro. The Virgins "One week of danger" is one of the most pointless songs on the album, sounding like many songs on this soundtrack, very Dandy Warhols-y, but not really memorable. Nadio Oh "Got your number" is slightly better but a bit cheesy and pretty simplistic, very much following the theme of down tempo electro. Maybe they just put this directly before the amazing Crystal Castles' "Crimewave", just to show the distinction between the two, but I doubt that was the reason why. Most people have no doubt heard this smash hit (it is, isn't it?) by Crystal Castles, and it is pretty much perfect minimal electro for those that like to be eased into it.
The Republic Tigers "Fight Song" follows on nicely from Crystal Castles, but a little bit dull to begin with, picking up nicely though further on with more intensity. Again, still keeping with a very ambient electro feel, like The Feeling meets Air, kinda. Jumping in from the pacified Republic Tigers comes in the shouty electro pop Junkie XL "Cities in Dust", a typical electro pop song, absolutely nothing special and possibly much below par of its genre. You can literally picture how annoying the female vocalist would be when singing this song.
From one annoying band to another, whispers in The Ting Tings, a band I pretty much have no time for predominantly for their ridiculously retarded and obvious songs. It literally sounds like they think of the songs on the spot and just repeat them selves over and over again. This particular song on the soundtrack though, "We started nothing" (damn right they didn't!), isn't as fully annoying as their others, but still pretty cheesy and utterly boring all the same. Oppenheimer refreshingly saves the day by breathing in with the adorable "Breakfast in NY", another cracking song on the soundtrack, chiming in with the perfectly idyllic "breakfast in New York, I know that we're dreaming, drunken conversations about the things we were dreaming".
The Pierces ruin the vibe with the disgustingly drab "Three wishes", I suppose playing the part of “the ballad” of the album, the "Colorblind" (by Counting Crows, Cruel Intentions soundtrack) of the lot I guess. Shame it's really nowhere near in the same league.
But all is well again with a predictably great close to the album from Albert Hammond with "It's hard to live in the city". Standard great song from front man of The Strokes, building up just like how all your favourite Stroke ballads go, sung with the perfect amount of sentiment. There's a little reprise at the end, jollying it up a little, making a perfect close for an overall fairly good soundtrack. Not up there with the best of 'em mind, but there’s definitely a few songs on there I'm glad my eyes have been opened to. It’s mainly minimal electro with some pop (electro) and indie, if that’s your bag then I highly recommend it.
OMFGG Track Listings:
1. The Kills - Sour Cherry
2. The Kooks - Do You Wanna
3. Phantom Planets - Do The Panic
4. The Teenagers - Feeling Better
5. The Virgins - One Week Of Danger
6. Nadia Oh - Got Your Number
7. Crystal Castles - Crimewave
8. The Republic Tigers - Fight Song
9. Junkie XL - Cities In Dust
10. The Ting Tings - We Started Nothing
11. Oppenheimer - Breakfast In NY
12. The Pierces - Three Wishes
13. Albert Hammond - Hard To Live In The City
Last edited by altsounds : October 30, 2008 at 11:32 PM.
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