We Hate It... We Love It!
There's something very funny about this compilation of love (and anti-love) songs on the Mr. & Mrs. Smith soundtrack CD (Lakeshore). Twenty years ago it would have been impossible to find such a pile of very different, yet still very classic, songs together on the same CD. Long-haired metal heads would be offended to hear Poison's "Nothin' But a Good Time" surrounded by the likes of 80s pop tarts The J. Geils Band and Soft Cell. Never! But look what's happened.... with the right sense of humor (not unlike John and Jane Smith's) and a good balance of love and hate (not unlike the Smith's), a bunch of songs seemingly unfit for each other serves up one of the more entertaining song-driven soundtracks of the year. We know most of these songs in their original beauty, and some are thankfully preserved ("Love Stinks," "Tainted Love," "Making Love Out of Nothing at All"), but many are new versions and most welcome for recharging the batteries and sparking those plugs again. This is the second time in as many years "I'll Melt With You" is covered for a movie soundtrack (the other on Fifty First Dates), and for good reason. Nouvelle Vogue's version is one of our favorites, as is 8mm's redo of the Bond love song "Nobody Does It Better," Stine J's surf-punked "You Are My Sunshine" and Magnet's sensually smooth version of Dylan's "Lay Lady Lay." If you hate cover songs as a rule, stay away from the CD you losers; crank it up otherwise. This is one fun mess of songs, and matter of factly, we happen to like washing our Poison down with Soft Cell.
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