Another song that is not on Spotify is The Chordettes’ Lollipop (Squeak E. Clean & Desert Eagles Remix) that I originally heard from the soundtrack to the underrated movie Whip It. It might be more of an earworm than a hit, so you’ve been warned.
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Swamp Dogg
The part of High Fidelity where Rob says “I will now 5 copies of the 3 Ep’s by the Beta Band” is the reason I know and really like the Beta Band. That bit is repeated in the HULU show, but substituted with this jam. Not as great, but still worth a couple listens.
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Blue Ridge Rangers
While the album, The Blue Ridge Rangers Ride Again is on Spotify, John Fogerty’s first solo album after CCR is not on. Fogerty has a history with having label issues, so probably not a surprise that something might not be cleared to be on Spotify. My favorite of this album is his cover of the Hank Williams song Jambalaya:
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High Fidelity, the TV show
After being very caught off guard that this existed, I watched the first couple of eps. I have so many thoughts on this, but first, the trailer.
Again, these thoughts are based off of only 2-3 episodes watched. I would say, if you liked the movie, give this a go. For me, it really is a rollercoaster of liking it and not liking it. …
–Zoe Kravitz is a good actress. She fits well with the character, but would fit better if she was older. The age she seems now sometimes comes off as whinny millennial rather than someone going through a midlife crisis. You know would have been better? Her mom, Lisa Bonet, who was in the movie.
-The music selection is great. Sometimes too great; they seem like they are trying to targeting a stereotype of vinyl collector too hard . Ie. the abundance of Bowie references seem excessive. Even having Questlove as a music supervisor seems heavy handed.
-Some elements are verbatim from the movie (I don’t know about the book – I’m still working through Love in the Time of Cholera), and some have been updated. Jokes from the movie are played the same exact way (like standing in front of Charlie’s apartment in the rain with the next lover coming from behind), which makes it come off cheap imitation. It seems lazy that the only time she wears sunglasses in the show is the same time Rob does in the movie. I can’t tell why it matters to me but it is weird that the apartment looks like an exact replica of the movie version. And the things that are only slightly updated can be cringing. IE. I got used to the Jack Black/Barry character the more I watched, but it started out as a bad parody of Jack Black.
-Lastly, I know the book was based in London, but the movie was purposely so Chicago (look at all these iconically shot locations), so as a Chicagoan, the HULU show gets a knock against it for putting it in New York. Cause fuck new york, too.
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Bittersweet Jason Derulo
The story of Bittersweet Symphony has a lot of drama attached to it. Using a sample from the symphonic version of Rolling Stones’ The Last Time, The Verve, the Rolling Stones and Andrew Oldham have been suing each other up until as recently as last year.
So it should be a surprise to no one that Jason Derulo couldn’t get the sample cleared. It got replaced with different instrumentation in the actual release, but I really like this demo version: