There are three things a soundtrack album can do for someone who
\nhasn’t had the opportunity to see its corresponding movie can do:
\nits music can make you feel like you can follow the storyline as it
\nunfolds in your mind, it can act as a nice collection of songs that
\ndoesn’t allow you to follow the plot, or it can bore you to
\ntears.<\/p>\n
I’ve probably got my friends at Capitol shaking now, wondering
\nwhat I’m going to say about the soundtrack to the film
\nNever Been Kissed<\/i> (hey, look, a story about my life up to my
\nfreshman year in college! – no, wait, forget I said that). Well,
\ngang, you can breathe a sigh of relief; while this disc doesn’t fit
\nthe formula to allow one to follow the plot, it is a wonderful
\ncollection of songs from groups that you’ve either heard of or will
\nbe hearing a lot of soon.<\/p>\n
If you don’t consider yourself the adventurous type when it
\ncomes to music, you can take some comfort with the inclusion of
\nsuch established jewels as John Lennon & Yoko Ono’s “Watching
\nThe Wheels”, The Beach Boys’s “Don’t Worry Baby” and (to a lesser
\nextent) The Smiths’s “Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I
\nWant”. (I wouldn’t mind seeing a rebirth of interest in The Smiths;
\nmaybe this inclusion will spark something.)<\/p>\n
What is surprising is that one “established” group, R.E.M.,
\nfails to impress with the inclusion of the track “At My Most
\nBeautiful” from their
\nUp<\/i> album. (After hearing this one, it kind of made me glad
\nthat I lost an eBay auction for this album a few months ago.)<\/p>\n
While I don’t want to take away from the “name” artists on
\nNever Been Kissed<\/i>, this soundtrack really is the main stage
\nfor some groups whose work you might nevber have heard before.
\nOkay, maybe Semisonic and The Cardigans don’t belong under this
\nlabel (with the inclusion of their songs “Never You Mind” and
\n“Erase\/Rewind”, respectively), but these particular selections
\nrock. The first time you hear artists like Remy Zero (“Problem”),
\nJimmy Eat World (“Lucky Denver Mint”), The Moffatts (“Until You
\nLoved Me”) and Kendall Payne (“Closer To Myself”), chances are
\nyou’ll be asking out loud, “Who are these people, and why haven’t I
\nheard them before?”<\/p>\n
Also making an appearance is Block, with a different version of
\n“Catch A Falling Star” than the version I remember off his debut
\nalbum
\nTiming Is Everything<\/i>. If this is indeed a different version
\nof the track, I’m sorry, but I liked the bizarre original mix
\nbetter.<\/p>\n
Despite one or two small missteps (nothing unusual for a
\nsoundtrack – hey, it’s hard to cover all the bases to please
\neveryone),
\nNever Been Kissed<\/i> is a pleasant listen that is sure to bring
\na smile to anyone’s face. If, minimally, you gain pleasure from
\njust this disc, so be it. But something tells me that once you hear
\nsome of the artists on this disc, you’re going to want to hear more
\nof them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27600,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"artist":[5729],"rating":[5613],"class_list":["post-38975","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-soundtrack","rating-rating-a-minus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/38975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/38975\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=38975"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=38975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}