High Fidelity: Howard Shore: Amazon.ca: Music

1. You're Gonna Miss Me - 13th Floor Elevators

2. Everybody's Gonna Be Happy - The Kinks

3. I'm Wrong About Everything - John Wesley Harding

4. Oh! Sweet Nuthin' - The Velvet Underground

5. Always See Your Face - Love

6. Most Of The Time - Bob Dylan

7. Fallen For You - Shiela Nicholls

8. Dry The Rain - The Beta Band

9. Shipbuilding - Elvis Costello & The Attractions

10. Cold Blooded Old Times - Smog

11. Let's Get It On - Jack Black

12. Lo Boob Oscillator - Stereolab

13. Inside Game - Royal Trux

14. Who Loves The Sun - The Velvet Underground

15. I Believe (When I Fall In Love It Will Be Forever) - Stevie Wonder

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Nick Hornby's novel about a middle-aged, obsessive record-store owner and his struggle with growing up in an adult world indifferent to the finer points of soul music was a sharp commentary on life, love, and a decades-long affair with popular music. If any movie has to have a decent soundtrack it's this one. And it does. Perhaps a little light on soul (Stevie Wonder is a hip pick, but how about Arthur Alexander or even Otis Redding?), it specializes in cult and indie bands that should be familiar to many. The Velvet Underground, Love, the 13th Floor Elevators, and the Kinks honor the old school, while Royal Trux, Stereolab, and Smog represent the newest wave. Elvis Costello appears with a strong pick from an odd era (early '80s), and his greatest imitator, John Wesley Harding, is featured as well. This probably should have been a box set--you end up wanting more.--Rob O'Connor

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Like a great mix tape, the soundtrack to High Fidelity feels like it was assembled by a true music fanatic. Interspersing selections from cult favorites both old (Love, the 13th Floor Elevators) and new (Smog, Stereolab), it provides a window into the mind of the film's main character, a record store owner who's better able to express his love for a rare 45 than for his longtime girlfriend. --Steven Stolder

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4.0 out of 5 stars Good Partial Soundtrack -- Here's the Full List, July 8 2002

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This review is from: High Fidelity (Audio CD)

The official soundtrack is a good listen, but for those who are curious as to what was left off, below is the complete (I think) list of songs used and/or referenced in the movie.

(from DVD credits, in order of appearance in film)

1. "You're Gonna Miss Me", The Thirteenth Floor Elevators
2. "I Want Candy", Bow Wow Wow
3. "Crocodile Rock", Elton John
4. "Crimson and Clover", Joan Jett and the Blackhearts
5. "Seymour Stein", Belle & Sebastian
6. "Jacob's Ladder", Rush (not actually in the film -- Jack Black is "singing" part of guitar solo as he comes in to work late)
7. "Walking On Sunshine", K.C. and the Sunshine Band
8. "Baby Got Going", Liz Phair
9. "Little Did I Know", Brother JT 3
10. "I'm Wrong About Everything", John Wesley Harding
11. "I Can't Stand the Rain", Ann Peebles
12. "The River", Bruce Springsteen
13. "Baby, I Love Your Way", Lisa Bonet
14. "Jesus Doesn't Want Me For a Sunbeam", The Vaselines
15. "Cold Blooded Old Times", Smog
16. "On Hold", Edith Frost
17. "Hyena 1", Goldie
18. "I'm Gonna Love You Just a Little More, Babe", Barry White
19. "Always See Your Face", Love
20. "Soaring and Boring", Plush
21. "Leave Home", The Chemical Brothers
22. "Four To the Floor", John Etkin-Bell
23. "Loopfest", Toby Bricheno and Jan Cryka
24. "Who Loves the Sun", The Velvet Underground
25. "Robbin's Nest", Illinois Jacquet
26. "Rock Steady", Aretha Franklin
27. "Suspect Device", Stiff Little Fingers
28. "Dry the Rain", The Beta Band
29. "We Are the Champions", Queen
30. "I'm Glad You're Mine", Al Green
31. "Your Friend and Mine", Love
32. "Shipbuilding", Elvis Costello
33. "Tonight I'll Be Staying Here With You", Bob Dylan
34. "Get It Together", Grand Funk Railroad
35. "Fallen For You", Sheila Nicholls
36. "Oh! Sweet Nuthin'", The Velvet Underground
37. "This India", Harbhajhn Singh and Navinder Pal Singh
38. "Tread Water", De La Soul
39. "The Moonbeam Song", Harry Nilsson
40. "Juice (Know the Ledge)", Eric B. and Rakim
41. "Doing It Anyway", Apartment 26
42. "What's On Your Mind", Eric B. and Rakim
43. "Good and Strong", Sy Smith
44. "Mendocino", Sir Douglas Quintet
45. "Inside Game", Royal Trux
46. "The Night Chicago Died", Paper Lace (Jack Black spoofs it -- "The Night Laura's Daddy Died")
47. "Chapel of Rest", Dick Walter
48. "Most of the Time", Bob Dylan
49. "I Get the Sweetest Feeling", Jackie Wilson
50. "Lo Boob Oscillator", Stereolab
51. "The Anti-Circle", The Roots
52. "Everybody's Gonna Be Happy", The Kinks
53. "Homespun Rerun (Cornelius Remix)", High Llamas
54. "Hit the Street", Rupert Gregson-Williams
55. "Let's Get It On", Jack Black
56. "I Believe (When I Fall In Love It Will Be Forever)", Stevie Wonder
57. "My Little Red Book", Love

(songs mentioned in dialogue but not in credits)

1. "Little Latin Lupe Lu", Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels / The Righteous Brothers
2. "I Just Called To Say I Love You", Stevie Wonder
3. "Leader of the Pack", The Shangri-Las
4. "Dead Man's Curve", Jan & Dean
5. "Tell Laura I Love Her", Ray Peterson
6. "One Step Beyond", Madness
7. "You Can't Always Get What You Want", The Rolling Stones
8. "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald", Gordon Lightfoot
9. "Many Rivers To Cross", Jimmy Cliff
10. "Angel", Aretha Franklin
11. "You're the Best Thing That Ever Happened To Me", Gladys Knight

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4.0 out of 5 stars Where's Lisa Bonet???, Jun 12 2004

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L. Espinoza (San Diego, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: High Fidelity (Audio CD)

All I wanted to hear was Lisa Bonet's cover Of Baby, I love your way! How can you leave out a such an important part of the story. Soundtracks are to leave an impression of the movie... Good samples... but I wanted more.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Food For Thoughtlessness, Oct 24 2003

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paul (Tucson, Az) - See all my reviews

This review is from: High Fidelity (Audio CD)

This is another good Cusack movie, only outshined by it's eclectic soundtrack. I would like to make one correction on the reviewer's song list however. The track "walking on Sunshine" was not KC and the sunshine band. The credit belongs to "Katrina and the Waves". I remember buying the 45.... ah the good old days.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Just a correction/question
I would just like to challenge what zigs215 said. Righteously by the fabulous Lucinda Williams came out in the spring of 2003. Read more

Published on Aug 30 2003 by Helena Kilander

2.0 out of 5 stars Correction
I just have a correction for the user that made a complete list of all the songs in the movie. I think the name was "A Music Fan" but I'm not sure. Read more

Published on July 16 2003 by Ray LaVigne