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Me Without You

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I was so surprised with this soundtrack. It is full of great music that is not so commonly heard. I loved the movie and the songs fit each era perfectly. Favorite would have to be Whole Wide World and The Normal

[This} soundtrack is totally freakin' awsome.
It has my favourite Echo and the Bunnymen song on it.
"The Cutter."
You should totally buy it.
Because it rules.

Thank you.
The End.

For anyone born in the mid-1960s this movie and this soundtrack are like a replay of your life. Glam rock on television that you were too young to understand. Sitting at and watching the Sonny and Cher show with your parents. Bad psychedelia which is like childhood revisted. The pleasurable slide into punk and reggae. Endless plays of "Warm Leatherette" by The Normal to figure what it was about. Listening to the only band that matters, The Clash, at high volume. Those were the days of Adam Ant and Depeche Mode. Drugs followed. The music was a background hum to our post college amnesia. Maybe you even read a few books in the meantime? Then now your favorite band is Super Furry Animals. I guess that is more about me than you. You probably liked Michael Jackson and voted for George Bush.

This album evokes the time and so does the movie. Mostly the time around 1977-1984. They even threw some weird songs like "White Horses" by Lucy Street which opens up the great film about two close female friends over decades. Apparently this is what Ian Broudie has been up to lately. "I Got You Babe" is here mainly because it's a song about interdependence, and in this case an unhealthy one. A few Clash songs thrown in just remind us that punk was important at some point. Bands like Depeche Mode, The Stranglers, and Echo and The Bunnymen remind us that the 1980s was not all drugs but some good music occasionally. Some sensitive music by Tim Buckley and Nick Drake is thrown in. Girls love it.

"January February" by Barbara Dickson sounds like some bad television sitcom music and must be for pavlovian reasons. Some music is on this soundtrack is horrible and sentimental. Now we know where Celine Dion has been. The disc gets back on course with tracks by The Normal and Wreckless Eric. The one single by The Normal and the previous song "The Cutter" by The Bunnymen are like bookends and evokes those years better than any songs. "White Riot" is used in a scene when the girls, now known as "Harina," to jump up and down on a bed. Girls do this. They take baths together too. Anna Friel and Michelle Williams are great actors. Adam and The Ants and The Only Ones are here because there was some shoddy music in the 1980s too, and hence the drugs. The soundtrack ends with a present day song by Super Furry Animals. This is a reminder that me, and the director, and the people this movie was based on, and maybe you too, are all older and nearing 40. It's a wake up call. Life is a blink really. Enjoy.

I was shocked that they used Scritti Politti "Sweetest Girl" in this movie. This tune came out around 1982 or so. Americans and other nationalities probably wouldn't know this song. Only the Brits. They did an excellent job of researching the era that most of the music is released. Where I got confused is during the <?> mid-to-late 80s. Like the scene where they go to the dance club with Kyle M who plays the randy professor. I think they would have synth-pop playing other than Depeche Mode "I Just Can't .." This song is from 1981-82. I assumed that it was a few years later. Back then it seemed like music was constantly changing; and Elvis Costello was still king. ...They would have heard Culture Club and Eurythmics. ...yada yada

I bought the CD because I have the movie and like the music in it. Their are several songs I really like and some I'm not too crazy about, but no worries I can fast forward. If you like 80's punk, you should enjoy the CD. Depeche Mode, Echo and the Bunnymen, The Clash, Adam and the Ants and Wreckless Eric with Whole Wide World were enough to make me happy. ENJOY!

If you didn't grow up at the time watching BBC1 on Saturday morning then you wouldn't know that White Horses was an east European children's program long before Swap Shop ever existed. For the life of me I can't remember what it was about but the tune is instantly recognizable to anyone who watched it as a 6-8 year old in 1973 which is where Me Without You begins. I also seem to remember reading somewhere that it was voted best ever theme song in the UK.

And forget about Adam Ant, the Only Ones is superb, one of the best intros to any song early punk song. Also used as the signature tune
by Dave Fanning for years on his Irish radio show.

Love the CD but have to say the Barbara Dickson track means I couldn't give it 5 stars.

I really like this movie and the soundtrack. All the songs are great. The guy who said Adam and the Ants was "shoddy music". Hello?? What planet are you from dude? Whatever...

Anyway REAL music lovers will like this cd very much.