Track Listing

1. I Want More
2. Goon Gumpas
3. Everything You Do Is A Balloon
4. Spoon
5. Blue Milk
6. I'm Sticking With You
7. You Can Fall
8. Gamelan Drumming
9. Cool In The Pool
10. Hold Of Death
11. Some Velvet Morning
12. Japanese Cowboy
13. Fragrance
14. Nannou

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #83496 in Music
• Released on: 2002-11-04
• Number of discs: 1

Customer Reviews

One of the best and most challenging sountracks
Just a great soundtrack. Whoever put this together knew their subject. Worth buying for the 'Boards of Canada' track and 'Can' selection by themselves!

The CD is both enjoyable and challenging, with some stranger (and funny) tracks by Holger Czukay sitting next to the cheesey pychedelia of Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazlewood, plus the dub blow out of Lee 'Scratch' Perry.

Well worth buying.

Better than the movie
It was an average film made more memorable by an unusually discerning soundtrack containing some classics you may already own and some nuggets you may not. German avant-rockers Can make several appearances by donating two of their more upbeat classics ('I want more' and the utterly brilliant 'Spoon') and some solo material (Holger Czukay's wigged-out 'Cool in the Pool' and the deranged, fugged-up synths of 'Fragrance' - which makes a fitting backdrop to a heavy partying session in the film). The ambient material is also of a high standard: Aphex Twin in a more refrained mood with the serene 'Goon Gumpas' and the spookily infantile clicks and gurgles of 'Nannou'; while Boards of Canda offer the dark and brooding 'Everything you do is a balloon' (not one of their best). Sterelob and Broadcast both weigh in with slightly art-school offerings, the latter nowhere close to their highly commendable album 'The Ha-Ha Sound'. Ultimately, though, it is Lee Hazlewood and Nancy Sinatra's cult masterpiece 'Some Velvet Morning' that steals the show (both on the soundtrack and in the film itself), possibly the best (and strangest) duet ever written, and worth the CD price alone. Another honourable mention goes to The Velvet Underground's 'I'm Sticking With You', made infinitely more menacing through its association with the film (see for yourself for details). Warp should be responsible for more soundtracks.

Great Book, Great Film, Great Soundtrack
What next? Everything I buy with the words "Morvern Callar" on it proves to be exceptionally good - were they to bring out washing machines or toothbrushes so named, I'd rush out and buy them.

This is a phenomenal soundtrack album - superbly varied with stonking classics and many changes of mood. Highlights include the Velvet Underground, Boards of Canada and Ween, with a couple of cracking tracks from Can thrown in. Totally and utterly superb.