Adaptation [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]

1	Adaptation, film score~Adaptation (Fatboy Slim remix) 4:50
2	Adaptation, film score~The Evolution of the Screenwriter 1:12
3	Adaptation, film score~The Writer and the Crazy White Man 3:23
4	Adaptation, film score~An Unashamed Passion 3:15
5	Adaptation, film score~The Evolution of Evolution 2:08
6	Adaptation, film score~On Judgement, Human and Otherwise 1:43
7	Adaptation, film score~Whittle The World Down 1:52
8	Adaptation, film score~On the Similarity of Human and Orchid Forms 1:17
9	Adaptation, film score~The Screenwriter's Nightmare 1:00
10	Adaptation, film score~Approaching the Object of Desire 3:31
11	Adaptation, film score~Shinier Than Any Ant 1:13
12	Adaptation, film score~The Slough Pit of Creation 3:30
13	Adaptation, film score~Adaptation Versus Immutability 2:33
14	Adaptation, film score~Effects of Sibling Pressure 3:21
15	Adaptation, film score~Evasion and Escape 7:05
16	Adaptation, film score~The Unexpressed Expressed 1:38
17	Adaptation, film score~The Screenwriter's Nightmare (ZENO remix) 0:55
18	Happy Together 2:53

Barnes & Noble

Spike Jonze's Adaptation, starring Nicolas Cage and Meryl Streep, is based on Susan Orlean's 1999 bestseller The Orchid Thief, which tells the tale of the rare ghost orchid and the cryptic gentleman who attempts to poach it from a federally protected Florida swamp. Screenwriter Charlie Kaufman's Möbius strip–like treatment is more a meditation on passion and the creative process than a film translation of Orlean's book. Reflecting Adaptation's shifting narrative is Carter Burwell's lush, noirish rock- and jazz-infused score. Noted for his work with the Coen brothers (on Raising Arizona, Barton Fink, and Fargo) as well as Jonze (on Being John Malkovich), Burwell hints at his own arty, downtown New York origins in the score's masterful mix of spectral synths, urbane drum loops, and classical instrumentation. Befitting the mysterious, slightly sinister flower at the story's heart, a warm air of the exotic echoes throughout these gorgeous pieces. The disc also features the Turtles' 1967 classic "Happy Together" and an exclusive Fatboy Slim remix of Burwell's Adaptation theme. With Burwell's Adaptation, one of the year's most talked about films gets an equally arresting musical complement. L.D. Beghtol

All Music Guide

The unusual, uncategorizable Adaptation is hardly what anyone would call a thriller (in the conventional sense of the word). Carter Burwell's atmospheric soundtrack, however, while never quite "creepy" or "eerie," does mine a palpably suspenseful vein from ominous start to melancholy finish. Since you never know what's going to happen next in Spike Jonze's acclaimed "meta-movie," this seems only fitting. Best known for the many soundtracks he has composed for the equally iconoclastic Joel and Ethan Coen, Burwell's complete score is included with the release, along with two non-dance-oriented remixes: "Adaptation," as interpreted by Fatboy Slim (aka former Housemartin Norman Cook), and "The Screenwriter's Nightmare," by Zeno. Longtime Jonze fans are sure to appreciate the aptness of Cook's participation as the director who was also behind the award-winning video for "Weapon of Choice" (featuring a kinetic Christopher Walken). The Turtles' radiant "Happy Together," which plays a key role in the film, caps things off. ~ Kathleen C. Fennessy, All Music Guide