Coffee and Cigarettes: Original Soundtrack: Amazon.co.uk: Music

1. Louie, Louie - Richard Berry and The Pharoahs

2. Nappy Dugout - Funkadelic

3. Crimson and Clover - Tommy James and the Shondells

4. Down on the Street - The Stooges

5. Nimblefoot Ska - The Skatelites

6. Baden Baden - Modern Jazz Quartet

7. Hanalei Moon - Jerry Byrd

8. Fantazia 3 in G Minor - Fretwork

9. Enna Bella - Eric "Monty" Morris

10. Saw Sage - Tom Waits

11. Joyful Process - Funkadelic

12. Louie, Louie - Iggy Pop

13. Ich Bin Der Weit Abhanden Gekommen (I Have Lost Track of the World) - Janet Baker

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5.0 out of 5 stars Another stunningly eclectic mix, 6 Aug 2004

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This review is from: Coffee and Cigarettes (Audio CD)

The best soundtracks make you not only buy the OST to the film, but rush off to investigate all the other obscure snippets, you'd never heard of. O Brother, Where Art Thou? almost triggered a bluegrass renaissance. Jim Jarmusch's soundtracks are essential ingredients for his atmospheric and deadpan films. He has usually chosen one of two options: one artist responsible for themes and incidental music (John Lurie, Neil Young, RZA), or raiding his jukebox, like Scorsese. On the best of his soundtracks, he combines both. The results are fascinating and addictive: it's Tom Waits' and John Lurie's soundtrack that makes Down By Law compulsively repeatable viewing. With Coffee and Cigarettes, Jarmusch has come up his most varied soundtrack to date, sprinkling the episodes with just about every genre from the '50's, '60's and '70's. I found the actual film uneven and unsatisfying, but the last vignette illustrates how Jarmusch can fold film and music into poetry. Two old friends (Isaach de Bankolé and Alex Descas) sit in a murky basement and talk in circles around some unnamed emotional distress before saying their inconclusive and sad goodbyes. They both hear Mahler's I Have Lost Track Of This World - Ich Bin Der Welt Abhanden Gekommen (currently misspelled on Amazon's tracklisting) in their heads. Jarmusch chose the very moving version by Janet Baker - a stroke of genius. That moment probably won't trigger a Mahler revival, but if Janet Baker shifts a few more albums, then the credit is Jarmusch's.

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4.0 out of 5 stars The Music Makes The Movie, 2 July 2004

By Kathy Fennessy - Published on Amazon.com

This review is from: Coffee & Cigarettes (Audio CD)

There are directors you can count on to put together a good soundtrack--if not a good movie--like Martin Scorsese, Quentin Tarantino, and Aki Kaurismaki. Jim Jarmusch earned his stripes from the start. Who can forget "I Put a Spell on You" (Screamin' Jay Hawkins) in "Stranger Than Paradise" (or Neil Young's guitar score for "Dead Man")? It makes the movie! "Coffee and Cigarettes" is an omnibus film made over the course of several years. It features a few musicians, such as RZA (of the Wu-Tang Clan) and the White Stripes, and some are even on the soundtrack, such as Tom Waits and Iggy Pop. This is just a great compilation of great music--and the movie isn't bad either.

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4.0 out of 5 stars A wonderfully mixed bag, 2 Jun 2004

By Gulley Jimson - Published on Amazon.com

This review is from: Coffee & Cigarettes (Audio CD)

I remember Stranger Than Paradise being hailed as a masterpiece, and being so intensely bored with most of it that I refused to see any more Jarmusch movies. But luckily when a friend wanted to see this I broke my promise, and loved a lot of it. Parts of it, of course, were boring, but it didn't have the long static segments that Jarmusch's other movies occasionally have - and it didn't continually assume that showing the audience something bizarre and surreal is the same thing as entertaining them, with the exception of the Jack and Meg White from the White Stripes talking about a Tesla coil.

Which brings me to the soundtrack. All throughout the coffee houses in the movie, songs are playing on the jukebox. It's hard to hear most of them, and except for Crimson and Clover and the two versions of Louie Louie I didn't recognize many of them. There is an emphasis on tunes from the 60s and 70s and a general sort of fun garage rock party vibe (Iggy Pop, Parliament) to most of the tracks, which make me a little disappointed that there aren't any White Stripes songs on here -Jarmusch's tastes clearly lie in that direction, since Screamin' Jay Hawkins's "I Put a Spell On You" was featured in Stranger Than Paradise.

If you're already familiar with a lot of this music, this CD probably isn't worth getting. But it's unlikely that many people are, considering that it ranges from funk to jazz to Mahler (a beautiful song, maybe the loveliest he ever wrote). Like many cooler-than-thou directors, Jarmusch only seems to let himself get sentimental when it comes to music, and delivers many of his most emotional moments through songs instead of onscreen. It's not always clear if he's being serious (or, let's say, totally committed) when he writes his movies, but his soundtracks are a labor of love - sort of like Tarantino's, but dipping into an even widen pool.

One of the nicest phrases in the movie is Tesla's idea that the world is a conductor of acoustical resonance. What does it mean? I dunno. Maybe you can listen to the soundtrack and figure it out.

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