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For the remainder of the year (save holidays and weekends, of course), we'll be sharing some additional lists of our favorites in music from 2009. Today, that lists is our top 10 movie soundtracks from films that came out this year. All of the songs don't have to be unique to the film however, so it's open for quite a few endeavors. This is also the only time you'll ever see Twilight mentioned in this space besides for being the awful, cultish collection of poor storytelling it's usually regarded as, and is.
(Top Track: David Bowie's "Cat People (Putting Out the Fire)")
(Top Track: The Who's "I Can See For Miles")
(Top Track: Doves' "There Goes the Fear")
Nothing seems to make, or ruin, a great album like the last song. Something otherwise great can be sullied in your eyes (ears) if that final glimpse leaves much to be desired, and something a little above average can gain a much higher evaluation solely off of that last collection of notes. Here, we list our favorites of the ladder category-- our favorite album closers. Though Imeem does not have one of my top picks, Grizzly Bear's "Foreground," I'll forgive them for the most part, as the rest of the list is pretty solid. Enjoy below.
In keeping with the feature we relaunched last week, we'll be posting up 10-track playlists on Thursdays every week from now on. These playlists are themed in some way, and this time we chose summer. So enjoy. Oh, and my apologies for not having the actual Beatles version of "Here Comes the Sun". Imeem doesn't have most of the band's catalog, so hopefully George Harrison and Paul Simon will suffice.
Song: Caroline, NoArtist: The Beach Boys
Album: Pet Sounds
Year: 1966
Like many others, ever since the first time I heard The Beach Boys' Pet Sounds, I've been enamored with it. It's one of those albums where you almost feel something inside you change from the experience. One of the things that amazes me most is how vivid and brilliant the sounds were, even in the original recording, despite the fact that it was all done in mono rather than in stereo. It makes you think about how complex and painstaking the whole process must have been that even in lower quality, people found it breathtaking.
"Caroline, No" was the album's closer, and an interesting track because it was actually released in advance to the album as a Brian Wilson solo single. A questionable move by today's music business standards, but maybe not so strange for the day. Another interesting note is that while the song was being written by Wilson and Tony Asher, it was originally penned as "Carol, I Know", later being changed when the pair realized how it sounded when spoken, and coming to the conclusion that it added a certain "earnestness" to the tune. It's one of the more sparsely orchestrated songs on the album, but it doesn't seem to need anything more. The emptiness is almost a reflection of the narrators yearning to reclaim some of the innocence from his past. Give it a listen.
For the remainder of the year (save holidays and weekends, of course), we'll be sharing some additional lists of our favorites in music from 2009. Today, that lists is our top 10 movie soundtracks from films that came out this year. All of the songs don't have to be unique to the film however, so it's open for quite a few endeavors. This is also the only time you'll ever see Twilight mentioned in this space besides for being the awful, cultish collection of poor storytelling it's usually regarded as, and is.
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