05/04/2020

The End of Violence - Disrobe / Medeski Martin & Wood





The End of Violence soundtrack neatly categorises thusly:


  • A bunch of trendy indie snooze inducers, loosely organised around whatever hipster posturing was de rigeur that week, to wit: Ry Cooderised Latin tokenism -- Howie B, Los Lobos, Raul Malo, DJ Shadow, the Cood, Whiskeytown (emphasis added).

  • U2 and flipping Sinead O'Connor trying to do Peej, To Bring You My Love-style, and -- wa-hey! -- producing listless soundtrack filler cast-off guff.

  • Surprising and engaging oddities: EELS. Michael Stipe and professional hick-savant Vic Chesnutt have a boisterous duet. Tom Waits! Actually, that Howie B track is pretty good.

plus some intermissive tracks comprising completely uninteresting snippets of dialogue from the film, laden with Hollywood signifiers fortuitously filling in for the thing signified.

The remainder being the moistening dirty-old-man-in-a-mac Roy Orbison pant-wetter, 'You May Feel Me Crying', whose opening lines go, "When we make love / you know we're making love / to everyone we've ever made love to / So when you take him down inside / just know I'm there with you..."

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