Last night I was watching the indie comedy Eagle Vs. Shark, starring Loren Horsley and Jemaine Clement, who of course is most known for playing “Jemaine” on Flight of the Conchords. The film itself was very okay; weird and awkward characters in the Wes Anderson or Napoleon Dynamite vein, but a bit too quirky for its own good. So while it was a middling to sort of bad movie, it did have a couple songs that, like a Wes Anderson movie, really stood out.
Both are from albums I have, but don’t listen to very often for some reason or another: “The Body Breaks” by Devendra Banhart from Rejoicing in the Hands…
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqvlfveHTQ8[/youtube]
and “This Is The One” by The Stone Roses from their self-titled album.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXfnZ7HYD_k[/youtube]
Both of these songs are pretty great and have made me want to go back to these records again for another listen, in particular, the fantastic athemic Britpop of The Stone Roses. If there’s one good thing about so many quirk-fest films coming out ever year, its that you know the soundtracks are going to be pretty great and you might find a new artist or rediscover an old one in a new light.