Best Soundtrack ever

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(I think I must have a rare or UK cover as it's different and nicer to this)

The soundtrack to Amateur - I mean the original music to the Hal Hartley film (by Hal Hartley himself and Jeff Taylor) from 1994 is haunting, but get this:

• Mind Full of Worry -- The Aquanettas
• Only Shallow -- My Bloody Valentine
• Water -- PJ Harvey
• Japanese to English -- Red House Painters
• Shaker -- Yo La Tengo
• Tom Boy -- Bettie Serveert
• Girls! Girls! Girls -- Liz Phair
• Then Comes Dudley -- The Jesus Lizard
• Here -- Pavement
• Various excerpts from the OST by 'Ned Rifle' and Jeff Taylor
  

That's one hell of a lineup. I dug it out for a relisten and it's good as it sounds. Incidentally this is the album that introduced me to Red House Painters, Yo La Tengo and Pavement, (a little later than most; also they didn't have any hits here til Terror Twilight)  I picked this album up several years later for 99p at a stall near New Scotland Yard off Victoria Street, near where I was working. I was picking up some films from Jessops during my lunch hour and stopped to look at the used CDs. It kind of became one of my moving to London soundtracks which dates it to around 1999, although I might have bought it earlier. I remember I saw the film in London on my own at some point, and it really moved me. Odd since I wasn't living in London at the time, I think it was a matinee at the Curzon Soho (?).

People criticise Hal Hartley for his quirkiness and strange slightly cold characters but the alienation and surrealness of his characters and the soundtrack fitted my life at that point, cities are odd places where people don't communicate and years and years before the likes of Sliding Doors he was talking about the chance occurence changing peoples lives and breaking that silence. Which resonated with me, I must rewatch it.

Weird how one album has so much memories.