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But I always thought it would be interesting to hear it with the covers replaced by the originals, and with the addition of the Bowie songs that Haynes said he had wanted to use (including the title track). The cover versions are all perfectly fine, pretty faithful to the originals and kinda fun, though they do leave you hungry for the real versions.ĭon't get me wrong the original soundtrack is pretty great you should get it. Rex, and Cockney Rebel), about half the soundtrack used covers of the songs performed by some makeshift supergroups (an all-star crew including members of Radiohead, Sonic Youth, and various others), standing in for Brian Slade and Iggy & The Stooges. Lee Buffalo) to record originals that were reminiscent of Bowie's earlyħ0s style, songs which I find surprisingly catchy (but, again, not Bowie).Īnd while the glam and proto-punk musical selections that score the film were solid (from the likes of Roxy Music, Brian Eno, the Stooges, T. Instead, Haynes recruited a few indie rock acts (Shudder to Think, Grant So you end up with a movie and a soundtrack which scream Bowie! but don't actually include any of his music. Haynes originally intended to create a David Bowie biopic of sorts, but Bowie rejected the script and refused to let his music be used instead, Haynes ended up with a fictional work about the rise and fall of an elusive glam-rock artist ('Brian Slade') that drew from Bowie's history and musical evolution and interactions (primarily with an Iggy Pop stand-in). For me, it was primarily a great soundtrack which happened to have a film attached to it. Personally, while I thought the plot was a little by-the-numbers (in a Citizen Kane/Eddie & The Cruisers way), I thought some of the gender-bending characterizations were interesting and the musical numbers were fantastic. Like many of his films, Todd Haynes' 1998 Velvet Goldmine, a sort of glam rock fable, draws mixed reactions.

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