- Audio CD (Dec 7 1999)
- Number of Discs: 1
- Format: Soundtrack
- Label: Reprise
- Run Time: 188 minutes
- ASIN: B00003A9NN
- Other Editions: Audio Cassette
- Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (190 customer reviews)
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Amazon Bestsellers Rank:
#32,506 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
- #81 in Music > Alternative Rock > Singer-Songwriters
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Track Listings
| 1. One |
| 2. Momentum |
| 3. Build That Wall |
| 4. Deathly |
| 5. Driving Sideways |
| 6. You Do |
| 7. Nothing Is Good Enough (Instrumental) |
| 8. Wise Up |
| 9. Save Me |
| 10. Goodbye Stranger - Supertramp |
| 11. Logical Song - Supertramp |
| 12. Dreams - Gabrielle |
| 13. Magnolia - Jon Brion |
Product Description
From Amazon.co.uk
The much anticipated follow-up to Paul Thomas Anderson's Boogie Nights, Magnolia features a specially orchestrated soundtrack, largely written and performed by Aimee Mann ('Til Tuesday member and sadly overlooked solo artist). Mann's voice has always been a suitable vehicle for conveying emotional turmoil and indelible sadness, and several tracks here ("Build That Wall", "You Do", "Driving Sideways") do so with the rich melodicism that informs her best work. Producer Jon Brion's sprightly horn arrangements for "Momentum" are an unexpected (though not completely unwelcome) splash of cold water. Only Mann's cover of the Harry Nilsson-penned Three Dog Night hit "One" backfires, as it simply doesn't deliver the same effective climax as the original. The two Supertramp tracks from their Breakfast in America LP tacked on at album's end are incongruous; but for anyone with an interest in Mann's melodic song writing, there are eight worthy originals waiting for you. --Rob O'Connor
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Customer Reviews
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Solemn
Jun 26 2004
Format:Audio CD
When you're alone in the dark, thinking in a solemn way, this might be the best album you could choose to listen to. Aimee Mann defines the music that is listened to by those of us who love the sad song. She is truely the bomb.
absolutely positively magnoliaoliagnifescent
April 1 2004
Format:Audio CD
This nice pure cd has all the qualities of a great hit. i especially enjoy number two. if you don't know what it is then maybe you should buy the stinking cd ok , and no i don not work for her record companie i just enjoy the songs. well i have to go caueses i ma goig otj og listen to her. jso by
Trust me, you'll need a black magic marker...
Mar 25 2004
Format:Audio CD
Trust me, you'll need a black magic marker. I'll explain in a minute.
Overall, this isn't Aimee's best collection of songs, but it does feature two must-have songs: "Deathly" and "Save Me". Many of the other selections are a bit of a departure from her style, and they come across as a frolic--swing beats, jazz motifs, bubble-gum pop, etc.--to be taken as a bit of tongue-in-cheek. As several reviewers have pointed out, the themes are depressing. Duh. In the liner notes, it's said that the entire Magnolia film was built around the rather nihilistic Aimee lyric: "Now that I've found you, would you object to never seeing each other again?" Personally, I love it.
About the magic marker...
Before you put in the CD, take a fat magic marker and draw a 1 centimeter line from the inside (hub) of the disc radially outward. This will effectively delete the four last songs so that you never have to endure them. They weren't written by Aimee, and they have no business being on this compilation at all.
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SuperhuMann
Aimee Mann is an incredible singer. Her music can move you to tears as easily as it soothes you to sleep. Even Radiohead doesn't match her in my eyes. She is Number One.
Published on Jan 16 2004
A Gem
This was an wonderfully unexpected surprise - i bought the album because I dug the song "Wise Up" (played during a pivotal scene in the film), and it turned out to be one... Read more
Published on Dec 2 2003 by "summitaih"
A good Mann retrospective/introduction
Now that I've met you
Would you object to
Never seeing each other again?
Would you object to
Never seeing each other again?
These opening words of the song "Deathly" (track 4 on the album) inspired... Read more
Published on Oct 1 2003 by Craig Clarke
On my "My Fifteen Favorite Albums Ever" list
While technically a soundtrack, this is really an Aimee Mann record - ten of the thirteen tracks are hers - and it is her best. Read more
Published on Sep 1 2003 by P. F. Rose
Aimee Mann's Peak of Pinnacles
I think this is soundtrack is my favorite of all of Aimee Mann's work. From the cover of "One" to some absolutely brilliant and memorable tracks like "Save Me,"... Read more
Published on Aug 3 2003 by Ian Robert Hrabe
Good "One" by Aimee Mann and Jon Brion
"Now that I've met you/would you object to/never meeting each other again". Opening lines don't get much better than that one from "Deathly". Read more
Published on May 14 2003 by roastbeefalo
5 Stars for Aimee & Jon; None for Supertramp
How did Supertramp get on this clever album?!?! And Gabrielle with "Dreams"??? Didn't she release the song nearly 10 years prior? Read more
Published on May 6 2003 by Melanie Hawthorne
Good "One" by Aimee Mann and Jon Brion
"Now that I've met you/would you object to/never meeting each other again". Opening lines don't get much better than that one from "Deathly". Read more
Published on April 14 2003
WHY HAVEN"T YOU BOUGHT THIS CD YET???
Hey Aimee Mann's music inspired the story for the movie that was written around a lyric she wrote. Deep music. Didn't win the Oscar it was nominated for but should have. Read more
Published on April 12 2003 by Steven Stroupe
Aimee Mann is SO Whiney!
My roommate has this album on her computer and listens to it all the time... it was okay the first few times i've heard it but now that i've heard it a million plus times, i can... Read more
Published on Mar 3 2003
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