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Cameron Crowe and longtime collaborator Danny Bramson raised the bar for film music with their stellar time-capsule soundtrack to Almost Famous. For the highly anticipated Vanilla Sky, the pair have crafted an equally excellent soundtrack of twisted pop to help narrate this eerie parable about the nature of beauty and love. Paul McCartney penned the title track, a pure pop acoustic guitar ditty with a spooky chorus that sets the tone for the rest of the disc. Radiohead’s shimmering postmodern rock gem “Everything in Its Right Place” and Icelandic oddities Sigur Rós’s atmospheric “Svefn-G-Englar” provide chills alongside the sunny thrills of R.E.M.’s jangle-fueled “All the Right Friends” and Peter Gabriel’s “Solsbury Hill.” The Monkees’ little-known psychedelic classic “Porpoise Song (Theme from Head)” chimes in with the perfect amount of bittersweet estrangement. The soundtrack also features warped electronic pop from Looper (“Mondo ’77”), über-DJs Leftfield and Afrika Bambaataa (vocoder-laced “Afrika Shox”), and the Chemical Brothers (the otherworldly, backwards-sample-comprised “Where Do I Begin”). Crowe also enlisted wife/Heart guitarist Nancy Wilson for two tracks -- the delicate instrumental “Elevator Beat” and the pleasantly surprising “I Fall Apart,” a moody Nico-flavored number composed by Wilson and sung by cast member Cameron Diaz under her character’s name, Julianna Gianni. With additional songs by Bob Dylan, Todd Rundgren, and Jeff Buckley, Crowe and Bramson have assembled another lineup that’s anything but vanilla. Dave Gil de Rubio, Barnes & Noble

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