Cover versions abound on the "Shrek 2" soundtrack, including Pete Yorn's harder-driving take on Fine Young Cannibals' "Ever Fallen in Love."

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― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Saturday, 1 May 2004 19:37 (twenty years ago) link

From a Billboard article about the Shrek 2 soundtrack.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Saturday, 1 May 2004 19:38 (twenty years ago) link

SIR YOUR EMOTICON HAS NO NOSE AND I KNOW YOU CANNOT BREATHE THROUGH A SMILE, OH GOD HE'S DYING THIS IS TERRIBLE AND NOT SMILE ENDUCING WHATSOEVER.

― David Allen (David Allen), Saturday, 1 May 2004 19:43 (twenty years ago) link

*gasp*

It's actually a Buzzcocks song.

― Andrew Frye (paul cox), Saturday, 1 May 2004 19:58 (twenty years ago) link

That's why I'm smiling. I really hope Pete Yorn didn't know "I was listening to that classic FYC track and I was like, hey...I think I'll punk that up."

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Saturday, 1 May 2004 20:10 (twenty years ago) link

I knew that one.

― David Allen (David Allen), Saturday, 1 May 2004 20:13 (twenty years ago) link

Generic "by the numbers" soundtrack though

1. Accidentally In Love - Counting Crows
2. Holding Out For A Hero - Frou Frou
3. Changes - Butterfly Boucher
4. As Lovers Go (Ron Fair Remix) - Dashboard Confessional
5. Funkytown - Lipps, Inc.
6. I'm On My Way - Rich Price
7. I Need Some Sleep - Eels
8. Ever Fallen In Love - Pete Yorn
9. Little Drop Of Poison - Tom Waits
10. You're So True - Joseph Arthur
11. People Ain't No Good - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
12. Fairy Godmother Song - Jennifer Saunders
13. Livin' La Vida Loca - Eddie Murphy
14. Holding Out For A Hero - Jennifer Saunders

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Saturday, 1 May 2004 20:22 (twenty years ago) link

I mean at the very least they could have used Pseudoecho's cover of "Funkytown" and freaked everyone out.

Otherwise zzzzzzz

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Saturday, 1 May 2004 20:23 (twenty years ago) link

maybe in keeping with the spirit of the Yorn cover, it's Lipps, Inc. covering the PseudoEcho version!!!

― Huck, Saturday, 1 May 2004 20:25 (twenty years ago) link

Anthony, you sicken me.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 1 May 2004 21:01 (twenty years ago) link

why? cuz I find this amusing?

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Saturday, 1 May 2004 21:03 (twenty years ago) link

I mean goddamn, yeah I assume this is going to be a travesty (Pete Yorn sucks) but rather than have a bitchfit I'd rather just laugh at the absurdity.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Saturday, 1 May 2004 21:04 (twenty years ago) link

Is Nick Cave doing the Cramps song? Or was the Cramps version by somebody else too. I always liked that song.

― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 1 May 2004 21:04 (twenty years ago) link

peter yorn should cover "break stuff"

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Saturday, 1 May 2004 21:05 (twenty years ago) link

he should do a more rockabilly-sounding cover of Limp Bizkit's "Faith."

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Saturday, 1 May 2004 21:07 (twenty years ago) link

He should just fall down in a lifeless heap on the street.

― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 1 May 2004 21:11 (twenty years ago) link

well he's already got "lifeless" down pat.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Saturday, 1 May 2004 21:13 (twenty years ago) link

Yeah, Nick Cave and Tom Waits and Eels, and a Cramps song and a Buzzcocks song, ugh what a by-the-numbers Disney Soundtrack. When they put Captain Beefheart and The Raincoats on the Brother Bear soundtrack I was all "Not this again!"

― David Allen (David Allen), Saturday, 1 May 2004 21:21 (twenty years ago) link

i thought the music in the first shrek was used really poorly. cale's version of "hallelujah" is beautiful but hearing the lyrics in a kids' movie made me uncomfortable, as well as the fact that they dragged it out at the worst possible point in the film.

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 1 May 2004 21:24 (twenty years ago) link

yeah, i know.

>13. Livin' La Vida Loca - Eddie Murphy

!!??!!??

― amateur!st (amateurist), Saturday, 1 May 2004 21:29 (twenty years ago) link

I really hope that's not an ironic cover, but yet another attempt to resurrect Murphy's singing career. "Wasupwitu," anyone?

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Saturday, 1 May 2004 21:30 (twenty years ago) link

i awesome his character sings it

― s1ocki (slutsky), Saturday, 1 May 2004 21:31 (twenty years ago) link

Sorry, Anthony, I initially posted that thinking that you didn't know that the song Yorn covers is actually a Buzzcocks tune. Apologies.

Jesus Fuck! Is Nick Cave on the soundtrack to "Shrek 2"? He's really making it harder and harder for me to be a fan of his.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 1 May 2004 21:32 (twenty years ago) link

dude, (as mentioned in another thread) nick cave is on a million ridiculous soundtracks, esp. "red right hand," one of the most soundtracked songs ever ("i feel good" and "bad to the bone" aside)

― s1ocki (slutsky), Saturday, 1 May 2004 21:33 (twenty years ago) link

That's not the Cramps tune from A Date with Elvis, by the way, but a Cave original (which can be heard on The Boatman's Call). What it's doing in a Disney film, I'll never know.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 1 May 2004 21:33 (twenty years ago) link

Nah, I know. And it wounds my heart.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 1 May 2004 21:34 (twenty years ago) link

weird, cuz i heard jeffrey katzenberg is a HUGE cramps fan (xp)

― s1ocki (slutsky), Saturday, 1 May 2004 21:34 (twenty years ago) link

I believe the butterfly boucher cover of bowie also features bowie.

― teeny (teeny), Saturday, 1 May 2004 21:37 (twenty years ago) link

what's up with her, btw? does anyone give a shit?

― teeny (teeny), Saturday, 1 May 2004 21:37 (twenty years ago) link

Or is it "Changes" by Sabbath?

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 1 May 2004 21:37 (twenty years ago) link

i awesome his character sings it
-- s1ocki (parrisactava...) (webmail), May 1st, 2004 3:31 PM. (slutsky) (later) (link)

is this some kind of new syntax?

― amateur!st (amateurist), Saturday, 1 May 2004 21:42 (twenty years ago) link

Fine Young Cannibals' "Ever Fallen in Love."

...as used in Jonathan Demme's great Jeff Daniels, Melanie Griffith and Ray Liotta road movie 'Something Wild', which is on BBC1 tonight, listings fans.

― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Saturday, 1 May 2004 21:42 (twenty years ago) link

the track listing reads like a parody! if only...

― lovebug starski, Saturday, 1 May 2004 22:19 (twenty years ago) link

...as used in Jonathan Demme's great Jeff Daniels, Melanie Griffith and Ray Liotta road movie 'Something Wild', which is on BBC1 tonight, listings fans.

It must be FYC night, cos the magnificent Tin Men has just finished on BBC2. Levinson should never have left the Baltimore dinerworld.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Saturday, 1 May 2004 23:03 (twenty years ago) link

To be pendantic, isn't Shrek not a Disney movie? (Hence all the thinly-veiled Disney bashing in the first one?)

― Prude (Prude), Sunday, 2 May 2004 00:07 (twenty years ago) link

Yep. And a fine movie it is too. Which makes the hating somewhat incomprehensible. Are y'all too grown up to watch cartoons or something?

― noodle vague (noodle vague), Sunday, 2 May 2004 00:12 (twenty years ago) link

i awesome his character sings it
-- s1ocki (parrisactava...) (webmail), May 1st, 2004 3:31 PM. (slutsky) (later) (link)

is this some kind of new syntax?

-- amateur!st (amateur!s...), May 1st, 2004 6:42 PM. (amateurist) (later)

i wish i had any idea what i was trying to convey with that post!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 2 May 2004 00:36 (twenty years ago) link

it sort of sounds like a gary numan song title

― amateur!st (amateurist), Sunday, 2 May 2004 00:56 (twenty years ago) link

Jody OTM re: the lyrical content of "Hallelujah" (didn't make me uncomfortable but it was a funny disconnect at best), although it wasn't the Cale version but the Rufus Wainwright one in the movie.

And yes, haters, Shrek ain't no Disney -- it's Dreamworks. And it was a very good movie, too.

― David A. (Davant), Monday, 3 May 2004 19:53 (twenty years ago) link

wasn't the Cale version in the film but the Rufus one on the OST for some reason?

― peter dee (peter dee), Monday, 3 May 2004 21:04 (twenty years ago) link

yes

― cinniblount (James Blount), Monday, 3 May 2004 21:05 (twenty years ago) link

Oh, okay. I sit corrected.

Anyone know why, though?

― David A. (Davant), Tuesday, 4 May 2004 00:46 (twenty years ago) link

SYNERGY

― cinniblount (James Blount), Tuesday, 4 May 2004 00:48 (twenty years ago) link

john cale stars in the "minority report" sequel for dreamworks

― amateur!st (amateurist), Tuesday, 4 May 2004 08:17 (twenty years ago) link

Thank you! I nearly went crazy reconciling the Cale/Wainwright thing in my head.

Shrek just tipped the scale into annoying by lingering a little longer on each edgy joke than was necessary. It is good, just not as good as it thought it was. Plus if you're going to start pissing on Disney (particularly considering the grebt stuff they've been making recently), only targeting the classics and ignoring the "second golden age (of shit)" seems wrong headed and lazy.

I'm sort of surprised Smash Mouth aren't on the soundtrack: That Damn Song is all over the trailers.

what's up with her, btw? does anyone give a shit?

Eh, it turns that my Perfect Indie Pixie buttons last pushed by Winona Ryder still work, though for how much longer I don't know.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 4 May 2004 09:53 (twenty years ago) link

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