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The Best Since "Trainspotting"

08/12/1999

(4 out of 5 stars)

""The Acid House" is one great soundtrack, however I still think that "Trainspotting" is the greatest soundtrack ever (that is the reason for the 4-star review, as apposed to a usual 5-star). The album starts off - well - strangely, with Primal Scream's "Insect Royalty", but really picks up and rocks with the second and third tracks "Break" from The Gyres, and The Pastels "Nothing To Be Done". Barry Adamson and Nick Cave's collaboration, "Sweetest Embrace", is just one of the smoothest songs I have heard since Tinderstick's "Snowy in F# Minor" (from Tindersticks #2). Bentley Rythym Ace's track features some killer drums and beats. "You'll Never Know" by The Soul Renegades and Texas, comes off sounding like a really cool James Bond Theme, and is followed by Beth Orton's sweet "Precious Maybe". It is a pleasure to hear T-Rex's "Hot Love", the only track on the disc recorded before the nineties. Belle and Sebastian's "Slow Grafitti" is my favorite song on the album. It slowly develops into a song of great beauty, just like Blur's "Sing" (from "Trainspotting"). It is followed up by fellow Scots, Arab Strap's "I Still Miss You" starts out dark and heavy, but the gentle guitar comes in like a cool breeze, and once the violin kicks in, the song totally turns in to a thing of beauty. Oasis' "Going Nowhere" is probably the only song on the disc that may get some serious airplay, and might revive Oasis' slouching condition in the States. Because if it does, great, this song is absolutely incredible. The Chemical Brother's "Leave Home" totally rocks, enough said. The Sons Of Silence's "Bobby Dazzler" is a great song, but Death In Vegas' "Claiming Marilyn" is a slow, moody, electronica masterpiece. "Toujours L'Amour" from Dimitri in Paris sounds like a song form the twenties, and The Verve's "On Your Own" is flat out great (makes you wonder why they made "Urban Hymns" such a bore). The Album concludes with Underworld's remix of "Leave Home", which is a tour-de-force. Get this album and discover "The Acid House" for yourself, although it is not as good as "Trainspotting", it is the best soundtrack since "Trainspotting", and that's not bad."

Not another "Trainspotting", then?

Ben Rowland | Toronto, Ontario Canada | 08/28/1999

(4 out of 5 stars)

"While "The Acid House" is the underdog of "Trainspotting", they have both produced excellent Britpop (or in this case, post-Britpop) soundtracks. As I expected, this is not as good as "Trainspotting", but it has a great wealth of good songs from the likes of The Verve, Belle and Sebastean, Oasis, Beth Orton, and The Chemical Brothers. Others, like Primal Scream and Bently Rythum Ace fit in perfectly with the atmostphere of the movie, which plays like a superlong drug trip. Essential music for playing Nintendo whilst heavily under the influece."