Eyes Wide Shut

1	Musica Ricercata, II / Dominic Harlan Mesto, Rigido E Cerimoniale 4:17
2	Waltz 2 from Jazz Suite / Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam 3:41
3	Baby Did a Bad Bad Thing / Chris Isaak 2:54
4	When I Fall in Love / Victor Silvester 3:00
5	I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good) / Oscar Peterson Trio 3:11
6	Naval Officer / Jocelyn Pook 4:51
7	The Dream / Jocelyn Pook 4:57
8	Masked Ball / Jocelyn Pook 3:42
9	Migrations / Jocelyn Pook Ensemble 3:44
10	If I Had You / Roy Gerson 7:01
11	Strangers in the Night / Peter Hughes 2:31
12	Blame It on My Youth / Brad Mehldau 6:17
13	Grey Clouds / Dominic Harlan 3:19
14	Musica Ricerta, II (Reprise) / Dominic Harlan Mesto, Rigido E Cerimoniale 4:17

Barnes & Noble

You want songs that walk the thin line between sexy and scary, you call on Chris Isaak. For his own sexy and scary film, director Stanley Kubrick found the perfect pop counterpoint in Isaak’s "Baby Did a Bad Bad Thing," another of the brooding singer/songwriter’s tales of the wicked games that lovers play. The centerpiece of the EYES WIDE SHUT soundtrack, Isaak’s song is only one of a diverse group of musical set pieces that stick in your head like indelible cinematic images. Among them are jazz standards from two classy pianists - - Oscar Peterson’s "I Got It Bad and That Ain’t Good" and Brad Mehldau’s "Blame It on My Youth" - - dance music from the Victor Sylvester Orchestra, classical sounds from pianist Dominic Harlan, and haunting tones from the crossover viola and violinist Jocelyn Pook, who’s been heard with everyone from Peter Gabriel and the Cranberries to the Electra Strings ensemble. In all, a cast as unpredictable, and entrancing, as the film they underscore. Steve Futterman

All Music Guide

Stanley Kubrick made his own musical choices for his films, many of them existing pieces that were forever redefined by their use. (Remember "Thus Spake Zarathustra" in 2001: A Space Odyssey?) For his final work, Eyes Wide Shut, he employed composer Jocelyn Pook to compose some evocative string-filled music (including one track, "Masked Ball," eerily featuring backwards vocals), but his score also included works by Liszt and Shostakovich, syrupy versions of "When I Fall in Love," "If I Had You," and "Strangers in the Night," a jazzy rendition of "Blame It on My Youth" by Brad Mehldau, Chris Isaak's cross between John Lee Hooker and Roy Orbison on his 1995 song "Baby Did a Bad, Bad Thing," and, opening and closing the disc, a simple but intense solo piano piece by Gyögy Ligeti, whose work also had been used in 2001 and another Kubrick film, The Shining. The result was an eclectic soundtrack album that primarily was of interest to fans of the film who were in need of an aural souvenir. William Ruhlmann