Better Days (And The Bottom Drops Out) (Remix) - Citizen King
Boost Me - Trevor Rabin
Nicolas Cage plays Randall "Memphis" Raines, a former legendary car thief (who could guarantee any car "gone in 60 seconds") drawn back into the life to save his younger brother from an unfortunate fate. Surprisingly, the ... more »music accompanying this car-centric action film isn't the high-speed chase you might expect. Instead, it's a diverse, textured amalgam of styles from the heated polemics of Ice Cube (the explicit version of "Roll All Day" is on the soundtrack, the censored version is in the film) to the art rock of critics' fave Gomez ("Machismo") and the acclaimed electronica of the Chemical Brothers. Perennial soundtrack contributor Moby delivers the previously unreleased moody trip-out "Flower," while the Cult perform songwriter-for-hire Diane Warren's "Painted on My Heart," which is essentially the AOR the band once sought all those years ago. Best are the collaborations: Groove Armada, featuring M.A.D., handle "Rap," an ominous, layered, keyboard-based rap, and BT, featuring Soul Coughing's M. Doughty, up the beat cycle slightly for the psychedelically driving and heavily melodic "Never Gonna Come Back Down." --Rob O'Connor« less
Nicolas Cage plays Randall "Memphis" Raines, a former legendary car thief (who could guarantee any car "gone in 60 seconds") drawn back into the life to save his younger brother from an unfortunate fate. Surprisingly, the music accompanying this car-centric action film isn't the high-speed chase you might expect. Instead, it's a diverse, textured amalgam of styles from the heated polemics of Ice Cube (the explicit version of "Roll All Day" is on the soundtrack, the censored version is in the film) to the art rock of critics' fave Gomez ("Machismo") and the acclaimed electronica of the Chemical Brothers. Perennial soundtrack contributor Moby delivers the previously unreleased moody trip-out "Flower," while the Cult perform songwriter-for-hire Diane Warren's "Painted on My Heart," which is essentially the AOR the band once sought all those years ago. Best are the collaborations: Groove Armada, featuring M.A.D., handle "Rap," an ominous, layered, keyboard-based rap, and BT, featuring Soul Coughing's M. Doughty, up the beat cycle slightly for the psychedelically driving and heavily melodic "Never Gonna Come Back Down." --Rob O'Connor
Sinead M. (bookworm) from SAN JOSE, CA Reviewed on 10/17/2006...
great CD
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I am in awe!
Joshua Yeary | Versailles, KY | 06/27/2000
(5 out of 5 stars)
"The is probably, no, it IS, the best soundtrack I have ever heard. I saw the movie when I was in Florida and bought the cd there. I kid you not when I tell you that we listened to this cd the whole 13 hour drive back to Kentucky. And I am still listening to it right now. It has the perfect mixture or rock, rap, and techno. If there is only one bad thing about this cd, it's that if you are listening to it in the car, you will sooner or later probably get a ticket, because this cd makes you want to go about 120 mph when driving. The movie was so awesome,I saw it twice, and I am going to go see it again tonight. The movie rocks because of the awesome cars and the action,of course, but still, a lot of the credit for the quality of the movie goes to the music. One question: Where is Lowrider?"
Drive it like you stole it!!
Jon | Littleton, CO | 11/07/2001
(5 out of 5 stars)
"The movie cemented my love of cars, the soundtrack cemented my love of Techno. Which is what this Disc is really about. Techno, rock, Rap...its all in there, if you even remotely like any one of those genres, you'll love this CD.The disc starts off with the Movie's title track, (and a pretty good song too) "Painted on my heart" By The Cult. Then immediately catapults into a sweet mix of Techno and rock. "never gonna come back down" By BT is quite possibly the best song ive ever heard (and is even better if you can find the lyrics!). Also along for the ride are Apollo Four Forty, The chemical brothers, A3, and Gomez. Unfortunately, many songs are missing...many GOOD songs. Busy Child by The Crystal Method, If Everybody Looked the Same By Groove Armada, Nocturnal Transmission by BT, Ride on Josephine by some guy, and for a very strange reason Lowrider By War is also missing. These songs certanly add flavor to the CD, but arent really that big of loss. The CD rules anyway. (...)Just be sure you Omit the god-awful Rap songs!"
Better than the movie!
Thornton F. Cole | Chicago or an airport near you | 06/11/2000
(5 out of 5 stars)
"Wow, while the movie features some exciting breakneck action with a relatively lame plot, the soundtrack manages to conjure up more exciting images. A very well-rounded mix of artists such as the Cult, Moby, Method Man and DMX rock the house on this soundtrack. Strangest thing about it though, the best song on the album is from relatively unknown Caviar. Their "Sugarless" reeks of the kind of bravado, swagger and depravity that made this country what it is today. Songwriter Blake Smith has penned one of the cleverest songs out today replete with stellar guitar riffs that would make even The Ramones get excited. Buy this album for this song alone, let alone the Chemical Brothers, Gomez and believe it or not-Trevor Rabin. A must own for soundtracks."
Excellent mix of songs
Joshua Yeary | 10/13/2002
(4 out of 5 stars)
"I love this soundtrack...The Film was excellent and naturally the songs help make some of the scenes much more memorable...The only problem i have with the soundtrack is the exclusion of the song "Low Rider" by War...I believe this is probably one of the best songs out of the whole film, as we all cant forget the scene before the crew go off to start boosting cars they listen to that song to wind themselves up...I spent at least 2 weeks looking for that song over the internet as i didnt know the name of it finally i found it, so if you want the song from that scene its LOWRIDER by WAR!Another song which is one of my fav's is "Flower" by Moby...the opening credits with this song, really set the movie in motion, and everytime i hear this song i always think of the opening and naturally of cars...I also love the rap songs throughout this soundtrack as i am a huge rap fan, so if ur into a cd which has a mix of techno and Rap with 1 or 2 slow songs, this cd is defiantly for you! Also heres a tip...if your playing this song in your car or anywhere, turn it up! And if you download or buy the Lowrider song turn it up to, because it sounds EXCELLENT turned up to the max!"
Brilliant film, reserved soundtrack.
tazzy26 | 11/05/2001
(4 out of 5 stars)
"Still my favourite film at the moment, Gone in 60 secs has tight editing, a brilliant script, gorgeous cars and Angelina Jolie.
the soundtrack? well, errr not quite...
Moby is brilliant and when ever i hear that song i always think of the opening credits to the film. likewise with Apollo 440 - i never thought there'd be a song which beats the Blues Bros. 'She caught the Katy' in terms of pure driving adrenaline - but i was proved wrong with that one. 'Stop the Rock' really makes you want to open the throttle full...
'Painted on my Heart' is the Love Ballard of the film and that's fine but the rest of it is a bit ambigous. I like Cavier and Ice Cube and Gomez as SONGS. Not becasue they are on this soundtrack. If i didn't have the sountrack I wouldn't know half the songs on it were in the film. Does having half a bar of a song played in the background for a split second really justify putting it on a soundtrack?
also where is 'Lowrider' by War???
I love that song and despite it being associated with "A Knight's Tale" I still think of it with regards to this film.
Sooo... a good album and one that I play a lot but a bit misleading in terms of its definition of the word 'soundtrack' and the omission of Lowrider is a travesty. therefore it's good but not great."