Gilmore Girls: Our Little Corner of the World (2002) (XTC/Sam Phillips/PJ Harvey/)

Product Summary Label: Rhin/mesa/bluemoon Records UPC: 00081227811624 Release Date: 10/1/2002 Buy.com Sku: 60569107 Item#: MCHV27 Buy.com Sales Rank: 25140 Format:  CD Song Listing Disc 1 Song Title Sample 1. Waltz #1 - Sam Phillips ~ Original TV Soundtrack 2. What A Wonderful World - Joey Ramone ~ Original TV Soundtrack 3. Child Psychology - Black Box Recorder ~ Original TV Soundtrack 4. Know Your Onion - The Shins ~ Original TV Soundtrack 5. I Found Love - The Free Design ~ Original TV Soundtrack 6. Car Song - Elastica ~ Original TV Soundtrack 7. Oh My Love - John Lennon/The Plastic Ono Band ~ Original TV Soundtrack 8. Getting Married - Sam Phillips ~ Original TV Soundtrack 9. Where You Lead I Will Follow - Carole King/Louise Goffin ~ Original TV Soundtrack 10. Clear Spot - Pernice Brothers ~ Original TV Soundtrack 11. One Line - PJ Harvey ~ Original TV Soundtrack 12. I'm The Man Who Murdered Love - XTC ~ Original TV Soundtrack 13. Maybe Next Week - Sam Phillips ~ Original TV Soundtrack 14. Thirteen - Big Star ~ Original TV Soundtrack 15. Human Behaviour - Bjork ~ Original TV Soundtrack 16. I Don't Mind - Slumber Party ~ Original TV Soundtrack 17. Tell Her What She Wants To Know - Sam Phillips (previously unreleased) ~ Original TV Soundtrack 18. It's Alright, Baby - Komeda ~ Original TV Soundtrack 19. God Only Knows - Claudine Longet ~ Original TV Soundtrack 20. Smile - Grant Lee Phillips (previously unreleased) ~ Original TV Soundtrack 21. O'oh - Yoko Ono ~ Original TV Soundtrack 22. Rory And Lane - Sam Phillips ~ Original TV Soundtrack 23. Girl From Mars - Ash ~ Original TV Soundtrack 24. My Little Corner Of The World - Yo La Tengo ~ Original TV Soundtrack (P) Rhino Label (c)2002 Rhino Entertainment Company   Album Notes and Credits Notes & Personnel Info Compilation producers: Amy Sherman-Palladino, Daniel Palladino. Only on the soundtrack records for the films of Wes Anderson (Rushmore, The Royal Tennenbaums) does one find such a unique and unpredictable collection of well-chosen music by such strong artists -- almost universally using distinctive LP tracks over the usual singles favored everywhere else for soundtracks and compilations. In fact, this differs from all the other bogus TV show compilations in one other crucial fact: Every one of these 24 songs has appeared on a Gilmore Girls episode, and quite prominently at that. Aside from one truly asinine track by Black Box Recorder and an ineffective college-try effort from the ageless Claudine Longet, there are so many corners of fun and enterprising pop here, one hardly knows where to begin. Any comp/show that so prominently features the magnificent Pernice Brothers ("Clear Spot"), the Shins ("Know Your Onion!"), and Ash ("Girl From Mars") gets this writer's approval. But who wouldn't stop dead for the older, immortal beauty of Big Star's Olympian Radio City track "Thirteen" from three decades ago? Joey Ramone's "adios amigos," fare-thee-well cover of "What a Wonderful World" is inarguably great, too. And for all this -- and both John Lennon and Yoko Ono separately -- for this writer's money, the collection is nearly stolen by the heartfelt theme song, an exclusive from the far-from-washed-up Carole King and daughter Louise Goffin (so it's still a Goffin & King match, if a very different one). "Where You Lead I Will Follow" is a song that remembers King's most affecting penwork, and her lead vocal still grabs you by the aorta. The sentiment of the song, fitting for a modern single mother/daughter drama, is also apropos for this CD as a whole. There is a great demand for lasting, quirky, non-rote, singular music, instead of the rote formulas the industry so fearfully, shortsightedly clings to like famine survivors with stale crusts of baguettes. It's all over this. ~ Jack Rabid   Technical Info Release Date : 10/01/2002 Original Release Date : 2002 Catalog ID : 78116 Label : Rhino Records (USA) Number of Discs : 1 Studio/Live : Studio Mono/Stereo : Stereo SPAR Code : n/a UPC : 00081227811624   Professional Reviews Rolling Stone (11/14/02, p.88) - 4 stars out of 5 - "...This inspired collection embraces whimsy and conveys wonderment..." Spin (2/03, p.102) - "...Give the producers their own radio station now..."    Product Image