High Fidelity - Soundtrack

This album is very very good, the only downer is the lack of some of the songs that featured in the film. The film had about twice the amount of songs on this album, but I for one would of liked a double CD of all of the songs, not a small selection of them. Even so, the album is very good, with a good selection of sounds from The Jam to Stevie Wonder. As diverse as the film. A must for those that loved the film, and a great album for those that like good music. ...

I have to admit, I don't know much about music in general, but you have to realise when a movie's got a great soundtrack if the audience is reluctant to leave the theatre until the credits have stopped rolling. The CD does not fail to live up to the high expectation set by the movie. After all, a movie set in a record shop could hardly place S Club 7 or A-ha in their top 15 songs to put on a soundtrack album. Amongst old classics like The Velvet Underground (from whom we get 2 songs, which seems like a bit of a cop out to be fair) and The Kinks comfortably sits The Beta Band ("I am now going to sell 5 copies of the Beta Band's 3 EPs) and Stereolab. ...