Bow Wow Wow - 'Fools Rush In (Kevin Shields Remix)' 3.

Siouxsie & The Banshees - 'Hong Kong Garden' 2. As a primer for the music of the early-to-mid-1980s, mood music for folks who came of age in the era of the Cure or appropriate accompaniment for Sofia Coppola's latest opus, this soundtrack is indeed both new and romantic pick this one up and lose yourself in its luxurious, melancholy decadence. Ultimately, this two-disc set stands so well on its own that it really requires no movie to go with it imagine Air's recent LateNightTales mix CD as a companion piece or comedown album and you have a sense of the modest majesty this collection evokes. While 'Ylow' is by far the more 'authentic' Aphex piece, sounding like an overcranked music box that was beat into submission, it also serves the movie's mysterious, timeless purposes, which intend to draw the very real connections between these irresponsible kids who inherit responsibilities for which they are unprepared, and the irresponsible kids who will be sneaking in to catch this movie in between matinee showings of Saw III. James' electronic gibberish and a piece by anyone who actually lived during Marie's time. Two tracks by Aphex Twin, 'Jynweythek Ylow' and 'Avril 14th,' are quite frankly perfect for attention-starved movie audiences, if for no other reason than that most moviegoers won't be able to discern the difference between Richard D. Disc Two, meanwhile, offers the lion's share of the film's proper score, featuring a cross-section of lesser-known composers (Francois Couperin, Domenico Scarlotti) along with a few oddballs to balance out the collection's modern-versus-classical bent. In fact, the only digression into stuffy classical chops is two and a half minutes of Vivaldi's 'Concerto in G,' which seems reinvigorated in the context of so many '80s rock luminaries.

This juxtaposition between the elegant and the emotionally naked - a staple of the Romantics - is what propels the collection forward, bouncing from contemporary art-rock by The Strokes (with 'What Ever Happened') to percussive new wave by Adam & The Ants ('Kings Of The Wild Frontier'), and only occasionally slowing down for anything resembling 'appropriate' music for a period piece. The brilliance of the two-disc set is its careful construction, which slyly appropriates those strange, beautiful, baroque elements that bind the music to Coppola's indelible images: the opener, Siouxsie & The Banshees' 'Hong Kong Garden,' features an orchestral introduction/reinterpretation by music supervisor Brian Reitzell that highlights the tune's punk-bourgeoisie sneer.

Marie antoinette soundtrack download