I guess I'm missing something. Everywhere I look, this album is listed as one of the best soundtracks ever, or, at the very least, "a definite contender for best motion picture soundtrack of the 1990s." I'm going to respectfully disagree. I've never seen the movie, but I was fascinated by director Wim Wenders' charge to various recording artists—Depeche Mode, U2, R.E.M., Talking Heads, Patti Smith, Elvis Costello, Nick Cave, Lou Reed—for music that they thought they would be making in 1999, the year in which the film was set. That's an all-star crew for sure; however, most performers evidently predicted they would then be writing boring, atmospheric, mid-tempo music that would have been filler on The Joshua Tree. Needless to say, I was very disappointed in the vision of these artists. To me, this CD is just OK; it doesn't get any playing time here. Maybe I'd like it more if I watched the movie?
Peak on the US Billboard Top 200 chart: #114
Tracks: It's not all bad. The Talking Heads' contribution, Sax And Violins (#1 modern rock), is solid, as is What's Good by Lou Reed. The worse tracks are The Adversary by Crime & The City Solution, Elvis Costello's cover of Days (originally by The Kinks), and the Nick Cave song (I fully admit to not understanding Cave).
Personal Memory Associated with this CD: None
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