In a sense, calling
\nSomething For Everybody<\/i> a Baz Luhrmann album isn’t entirely
\ncorrect. The Australian director might have compiled this group of
\nsongs (which have been featured in his works), but to the best of
\nmy knowledge, he doesn’t play one note on this album.<\/p>\n
What Luhrmann has succeeded in doing – besides creating this
\ndecade’s spoken-word hit (more on that later) – is put together the
\nultimate sampler of music crossing all genres. This is the kind of
\nalbum that reviewer Eric E5S16 would have killed to review; Eric’s
\ntastes in music run the entire gamut, and the playlist for his
\ndream radio station is proof of that. If Luhrmann has a flaw, it’s
\nthat this disc might be too eclectic for many people’s tastes.<\/p>\n
If you pick this up hoping to hear what Luhrmann has done with
\nthe original versions of songs, more often than not, you’re going
\nto be disappointed. It’s rare when the original artist performs the
\ntrack in question (such as “Lovefool,” which isn’t performed by The
\nCardigans, but by Snooper), and often, these remakes leave a lot to
\nbe desired. On the other hand, some new takes on songs are quite
\ninteresting, such as the new versions of “Aquarius\/Let The Sunshine
\nIn” and “Time After Time”.<\/p>\n
But there are a few original artists left on some of these
\ntracks, such as Doris Day (“Perhaps Perhaps Perhaps”). Also,
\nLuhrmann dares to throw a serious curve ball at the listener by
\nincluding one operatic selection (“Che Gelida Manina” from
\nLa Boheme<\/i>) and a selection from Gustav Holst’s “The
\nPlanets”. Both of these tracks impressed me; the former because I
\nam no fan of opera, the latter because I have always been
\napprehensive about sitting down to fully explore this particular
\nclassical work.<\/p>\n
One other track that stood out was the “High Heels Mix” of
\n“Happy Feet”, a song that gets new life kicked into it. You might
\nnot think that a song originally recorded in 1930 would be fitting
\nto be played in the clubs these days; this mix takes care of
\nthat.<\/p>\n
And then, there’s the smash hit “Everybody’s Free (To Wear
\nSunscreen)”, the first spoken-word smash I can think of since Paul
\nHardcastle’s “19” in the ’80s. This song reminds me a lot of
\n“Desiderata” by Les Crane (a song I tried to find for my father for
\nthree years, I kid you not). Both songs feature an inspirational
\nmessage that the listener can interpret their own way, both songs
\nfeature backing tracks fitting for their time periods… both will
\nalways have some cult following.<\/p>\n
All this said… the track doesn’t impress me that much. The
\nspeech is good (and the story behind the speech is even better),
\nbut with all due respect to Mary Schmich of the
\nChicago Tribune<\/i> (who wrote the speech for a column), I
\nhonestly don’t understand why this song has taken off on the
\ncharts. Oh, well. To each their own.<\/p>\n
In the end,
\nSomething For Everybody<\/i> is a decent enough work, though
\nthere are one or two points on the album where it’s a bit difficult
\nto plow through the material. I guess any sampler runs the risk of
\nfalling into that pitfall; it’s what happens when an artist tries
\nto provide something for… whoops, almost fell into redundancy
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