Rushmore

1	Hardest Geometry Problem In The World / Mark Mothersbaugh
2	Making Time / The Creation
3	Concrete & Clay / Unit 4+2
4	Nothin' in the World Can Stop Me Worryin' 'Bout That Girl / The Kinks
5	Sharp Little Guy / Mark Mothersbaugh
6	The Lad With The Silver Button / Mark Mothersbaugh
7	A Summer Song / Chad & Jeremy
8	Edward Appleby (In Memoriam) / Mark Mothersbaugh
9	Here Comes My Baby / Cat Stevens
10	A Quick One While He's Away / The Who
11	Snowflake Music / Mark Mothersbaugh From Buttlerocket
12	Piranhas Are Very Tricky Species / Mark Mothersbaugh
13	Blinuet / Zoot Sims
14	Friends Like You, Who Needs Friends / Mark Mothersbaugh
15	Rue St. Vincent / Yves Montand
16	Kite Flying Society / Mark Mothersbaugh
17	The Wind / Cat Stevens
18	Oh Yoko! / John Lennon
19	Ooh la La / Faces
20	Margaret Yang's Theme / Mark Mothersbaugh

Barnes & Noble

The RUSHMORE soundtrack is a rarity, an album that both perfectly complements the movie and is strong enough musically to stand on its own. Writer/director Wes Anderson and music supervisor Randall Poster have musically conveyed the film's feelings of teenage angst with a remarkable fluidity that makes the soundtrack an enjoyable listen from start to finish. Comprised of largely '60s garage pop songs, the album never approaches the obvious or trite. The Creation's "Making Time" is the hit that should have happened, but never did (rumor has it that even Pete Townshend belonged to the Creation fan club). While many are familiar with the repertoire of Cat Stevens, his early track "Here Comes My Baby" remains refreshing (unless you've overplayed Yo La Tengo's version from FAKEBOOK). The Who's guitar romp, "A Quick One While He's Away" fits right in with the other British Invasion tunes, but again, remains an outsider compared to the group's standards. Poster and Anderson have tapped into a familiar pop sound, and produced new songs to embrace. Tracks from the above plus the Kinks, Zoot Sims, Yves Montand, John Lennon, and the Faces are glued together by the zany synth and orchestral interludes provided by soundtrack (and once Devo) genius, Mark Mothersbaugh. RUSHMORE is one of the few soundtracks that will retain its appeal. Like the movie, the accompanying record is bound to become a classic. Dawn Sutter Madell

All Music Guide

While a soundtrack LP based on the smorgasbord of the "sounds of the '60s" is hardly a novel concept, Rushmore announced right up front it was offering more fruitful fare by emphasizing the little-known but cranking/smoking Creation single "Makin' Time" in its TV ads. That snarling-ornery classic more or less leads off this collection of British Invasion-era obscuros, a CD whose mere track selection proves its curator to be a genuine, happy, knowledgeable fan of the genre. Like the zany, hip radio station you've always longed for and will never get, in Rushmore's world the Kinks' 1964 unplugged Kinda Kinks gem "Nothing in This World Can Stop Me Worrying About That Girl" can peacefully coexist with the happy lounge of Unit 4+2, and French crooner Yves Montand, or with Mark Mothersbaugh of Devo's instrumental curiosities. The young, jauntier Cat Stevens and Chad & Jeremy provide pep, and a live version of the Who's first mini rock opera, the title track of their 1966 second LP, A Quick One, locks neatly into a film where two so-different males compete for the same woman. OK, the collection isn't timeless. There aren't enough great songs here, and compiler Wes Anderson could have done better for the great-but-in-decline John Lennon and the also-past-their-prime Faces than the pleasant but pathetic-indulgent "Oh Yoko!" and nice but pedestrian "Ooh La La." But even here, Anderson errs on the side of the whimsical and unusual, precisely the qualities missing in the movies these days. In the end, it's his sense of fun that pervades this unpredictable assortment as much as it does the cinematic experience. Synchronicity at last! ~ Jack Rabid. The Big Takeover, All Music Guide