1.7K likes. The other covers don't fare as well, yet the other new songs are first-rate (particularly Pulp's stomping, horn-driven Slade extravaganza "We Are the Boys") and all the original recordings are terrific, highlighted by cult items as Eno's fantastic "Needle in the Camel's Eye," T. Rex's "Diamond Meadows" and Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel's British hit "Make Me Smile (Come Up and See Me)." Little Richard has also been cited by Haynes as the inspiration for Jack Fairy.[7]. Hot One. Find album reviews, stream songs, credits and award information for Velvet Goldmine - Original Soundtrack on AllMusic - 1998 - Glam rock was all about style as substance,… Producer – Carl Glanville. Bowie initially disapproved of the film and its many similarities with his life story, and threatened to sue, resulting in substantial rewrites to create more distance between the character and the real man. Movie: Velvet Goldmine (1998) info with movie soundtracks, credited songs, film score albums, reviews, news, and more. 2Hb. In fact, it's the only one I've ever purchased which consists mostly of original material. The Venus in Furs covers several Roxy Music songs with Thom Yorke channeling Bryan Ferry on vocals,[25] Placebo covers T. Rex's "20th Century Boy," Wylde Ratttz and Ewan McGregor cover The Stooges' "T.V. "[3], In a retrospective review, Slant Magazine's Jeremiah Kipp gave Velvet Goldmine four out of four stars and said that, although unsupportive critics may be "terrified of a movie with so many ideas", the film successfully shows a "melancholic ode to freedom, and those who fight for it through art", because of Haynes' detailed imagery and the cast's "expressive, soulful performances". Listen free to Grant Lee Buffalo – Velvet Goldmine Soundtrack. Released November 3, 1998. [3] Ewan McGregor co-stars in the role of Curt Wild, a genre-defying performer who doesn't back down from sex, nudity, or drugs on or off stage, and whose biographical details are based on Iggy Pop (who grew up in a trailer park)[4] and Lou Reed (whose parents sent him to electroshock therapy to 'cure' his homosexual feelings). Brian Eno: "Needle in the Camel's Eye" (Brian Eno, Placebo: "20th Century Boy" (T. Rex cover) (, The Venus in Furs (vocals by Thom Yorke): ", Wylde Ratttz (vocals by Ewan McGregor): "T.V. The vignettes show both Wild and Slade becoming increasingly difficult to work with as they become more famous. The finished soundtrack includes songs by glam rock and glam-influenced bands, past and present. In fact, it's the only one I've ever purchased which consists mostly of original material. Listen free to Shudder To Think – Velvet Goldmine Soundtrack. Eventually, Stuart confronts Tommy Stone and once again encounters Wild, who casually passes on a piece of jewelry from Oscar Wilde. [24] However, as producer of Lou Reed's 1972 Transformer album, his backing vocals (mainly consisting of "bum-bum-bum"s and "ooh-ooh"s) can be heard on "Satellite of Love". Velvet Goldmine. Jean Genet (the subject of Haynes' previous film, Poison, and the putative inspiration for the title of Bowie's song "The Jean Genie") is referred to in imagery and also quoted in dialogue. The Venus In Furs. "[12] According to Peter Travers, "Haynes creates Velvet Goldmine...with a masturbatory fervor that demands dead-on details" and "fashions a structure out of Citizen Kane"; it's a film that "works best as a feast of sight and sound,...re-creating an era as a gorgeous carnal dream,...celebrat[ing] the art of the possible. In it, Haynes thanks the fansites for helping him compile the notes for the commentary.[20]. [14] David Sterritt from The Christian Science Monitor wrote "The music and camera work are dazzling, and the story has solid sociological insights into a fascinating pop-culture period. 'Velvet Goldmine' is one of my favourite movie soundtracks. Velvet Goldmine is a 1998 musical drama film written and directed by Todd Haynes from a story by Haynes and James Lyons. Amazon. We discover Stuart was also at the concert where Slade faked his own death, and that after seeing Wild perform on another night, Wild and Stuart had a sexual encounter. They're exactly who I was thinking about when I made Velvet Goldmine, but it just didn't get to them the first time around. … The film utilizes n… The album Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars tells a similar story of a rock star gone over the edge, and culminates in his assassination. Discover more music, concerts, videos, and pictures with the largest catalogue online at Last.fm. Add Scene Description . Add Scene Description. The film is strongly influenced by the ideas and life of Oscar Wilde (seen in the film as a progenitor of glam rock), and refers to events in his life and quotes his work on dozens of occasions. Velvet Goldmine tells a story the way operas do: blazing with exquisite yet abstract passions, and with quite a lot to look at on the side. ∴ ⚡ I'm the Gypsy - The acid queen S H O P • V i N T G E≫ Shop my Trip Factory @fantasia_superstar || instagram @muzzystardust Performed by 'Brian Slade' from Velvet Goldmine It is set in Britain during the glam rock days of the early 1970s; it tells the story of a fictional pop star, Brian Slade. The tale strongly parallels Bowie's relationships with Reed and Pop in the 1970s and 1980s. Producer – Carl Glanville. Amazon. The name of the lead character, Brian Slade, is an allusion to the 1970s glam band, Wild's backing band, The Rats, shares its name with one of, The scene where couples are shown walking into the Sombrero Club on New Year's Eve 1969 is similar to a shot of people entering a party from Welles' film, Maxwell Demon's guitarist shares his name, Trevor, with Bowie's, "Venus in Furs" is a reference to a Velvet Underground, Much of the script consists of quotations from various works of, The "pantomime dame" from the vaudeville troupe is played by influential dancer, The little girl on the train is reading ", "The Ballad of Maxwell Demon" contains the lyrics: "The boys from Quadrant 44 with their vicious metal hounds never come 'round here no more," referencing, The scene near the middle of the film that portrays Slade and Wild about to make love as, Padva, Gilad. It is set in Britain during the glam rock days of the early 1970s; it tells the story of a fictional pop star, Brian Slade. On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film has a 58% rating based on 45 reviews, with an average of 6.5/10. I loved the 1998 film starring Jonathan Rhys-Myers and Ewan McGregor, but was drawn into the music mostly, and tended to concentrate more on that than the drama of what was actually taking place on screen. [7] Little Richard is shown as an early influence on Brian Slade. [5] Also featured are Christian Bale as the young glam rock fan and reporter, Arthur Stuart, and Toni Collette as Slade's wife, Mandy, who is based on Bowie's first wife, Angela. Eye" and "Gimme Danger", and Teenage Fanclub and Donna Matthews cover the New York Dolls' "Personality Crisis". Lou Reed, Brian Eno, T. Rex, and Steve Harley songs from the period are also included. Velvet Goldmine (Music From the Original Motion Picture) Tracklist. … The soundtrack, like the film itself, may be more of a collection of moments than a coherent experience, but those moments are pretty spectacular. Velvet Goldmine is a 1998 musical drama film written and directed by Todd Haynes from a story by Haynes and James Lyons. The soundtrack features new songs written for the film by Pulp, Shudder to Think and Grant Lee Buffalo,[25] as well as many early glam rock compositions, both covers and original versions. Shudder to Think. In Padva, Gilad, Queer Nostalgia in Cinema and Pop Culture, pp. The English musicians who played under the name The Venus in Furs on the soundtrack were Radiohead's Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood, David Gray Band's Clune, Suede's Bernard Butler, and Roxy Music's Andy Mackay. Upgrading that missing CD of mine, it will serve as a reminder to rewatch Haynes’ film again sometime soon. The film was nominated for the Palme d'Or at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival and won the award for the Best Artistic Contribution. [9] It would ultimately gross $1,053,788 in North America and $3,259,856 internationally for a worldwide total of $4,313,644. From Velvet Goldmine O.S.T.Voice : Thom YorkePhoto : Les Biches de Claude Chabrol The film's narrative structure is modeled on that of Orson Welles' Citizen Kane, in that the reporter Stuart tries to solve a mystery about Slade, traveling around to interview Slade's lovers and colleagues, whose recollections are shown in 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s flashback sequences. 23 Oct 1998 (19 Songs) Soundtracks. Discover more music, concerts, videos, and pictures with the largest catalogue online at Last.fm. Set in 1984, British journalist Arthur Stuart is writing an article about the withdrawal from public life of 1970s glam rock star Brian Slade following a death hoax ten years earlier, and is interviewing those who had a part in the entertainer's career. Producer, Written-By – Shudder To Think. Placebo - Covers. "[13] In a less enthusiastic review, Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film two out of four stars and found its plot too discursive and confusingly assorted because of how it "bogs down in the apparatus of the search for Slade" by clumsily using scenes from Citizen Kane. Which means, of course, that Haynes' view of glam was based on the artier inclinations of David Bowie and the sinister cabaret and full-blown dementia of Brian Eno-era Roxy Music. Like many of his films, Todd Haynes' 1998 Velvet Goldmine, a sort of glam rock fable, draws mixed reactions.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. Shudder To Think – Hot One. Shudder To Think – Hot One. The American musicians who played as Curt Wild's Wylde Ratttz on the soundtrack were The Stooges' Ron Asheton, Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore and Steve Shelley, Minutemen's Mike Watt, Gumball's Don Fleming, and Mark Arm of Mudhoney. [8], The film opened in the United States on 6 November 1998 in 85 venues, earning $301,787 in its opening weekend and ranking sixteenth in the North American box office, and fifth among the week's new releases. Producer, Written-By – Shudder To Think. Altogether, the Velvet Goldmine soundtrack is a whole lot of not fucking things up evolving into something substantial. Against a $9 million budget, the film was a box office bomb. Todd Haynes realized this, constructing Velvet Goldmine, his ode to glam, as a hallucinatory experience where the surface means as much, if not more, than the underlying meanings. Rock shows, fashion, and rock journalism all play a role in showing the youth culture of 1970s Britain, as well as the gay culture of the time. 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