High Fidelity | 
 enlarge | Artist: Various Artists
Label: Hollywood Records
Category: Music
List Price: $13.98
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Rating:  77 reviews
Sales Rank: 3891
Format: Soundtrack
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 162188
UPC: 720616218827
EAN: 0720616218827
ASIN: B00004S51T
Release Date: March 28, 2000
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| Tracks:
| • | You're Gonna Miss Me - 13th Floor Elevators | | • | Everybody's Gonna Be Happy - The Kinks | | • | I'm Wrong About Everything - John Wesley Harding | | • | Oh! Sweet Nuthin' - The Velvet Underground | | • | Always See Your Face - Love | | • | Most Of The Time - Bob Dylan | | • | Fallen For You - Shiela Nicholls | | • | Dry The Rain - The Beta Band | | • | Shipbuilding - Elvis Costello & The Attractions | | • | Cold Blooded Old Times - Smog | | • | Let's Get It On - Jack Black | | • | Lo Boob Oscillator - Stereolab | | • | Inside Game - Royal Trux | | • | Who Loves The Sun - The Velvet Underground | | • | I Believe (When I Fall In Love It Will Be Forever) - Stevie Wonder |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.com's Best of 2000
Like a great mix tape, the soundtrack to High Fidelity feels like it was assembled by a true music fanatic. Interspersing selections from cult favorites both old (Love, the 13th Floor Elevators) and new (Smog, Stereolab), it provides a window into the mind of the film's main character, a record store owner who's better able to express his love for a rare 45 than for his longtime girlfriend. --Steven Stolder
Amazon.com
Nick Hornby's novel about a middle-aged, obsessive record-store owner and his struggle with growing up in an adult world indifferent to the finer points of soul music was a sharp commentary on life, love, and a decades-long affair with popular music. If any movie has to have a decent soundtrack it's this one. And it does. Perhaps a little light on soul (Stevie Wonder is a hip pick, but how about Arthur Alexander or even Otis Redding?), it specializes in cult and indie bands that should be familiar to many. The Velvet Underground, Love, the 13th Floor Elevators, and the Kinks honor the old school, while Royal Trux, Stereolab, and Smog represent the newest wave. Elvis Costello appears with a strong pick from an odd era (early '80s), and his greatest imitator, John Wesley Harding, is featured as well. This probably should have been a box set--you end up wanting more.--Rob O'Connor
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| Customer Reviews:
 "Pop:" Redux June 6, 2008
Howlinw (California, USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Film soundtracks are a tricky business typically, and usually don't do much for me. Among the notable exceptions to this are two soundtracks that actually changed my approach towards music quite a lot. The first was "Singles," the grunge exposition that accompanied the Cameron Crowe film. When that one came out, it introduced me to then-new/new-to-me acts like Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, the newly solo Paul Westerberg, Mudhoney, Alice In Chains, Smashing Pumpkins and The Screaming Trees, which paved the way for much of my listening during my teenage years. That soundtrack has actually held up remarkably well over the years and I still dig it out fairly regularly.
"High Fidelity" was the second. The film was released right as the 1990s were closing, and I was quite frankly bored with new "pop" (probably meaning "rock" more than anything else) music by this time in my life. Sure I still enjoyed the stuff I had listened to over the years but the new songs I was hearing (a lot of post-grunge noise and hip-hop-metal was popular during that time) just grated on my nerves. I was mainly listening to jazz in fact. But this film introduced me to characters who cared so deeply about songs and the importance of pop music in daily life that I was inspired to dig back in and learn more about pop music again. The novel on which this film was based, by the way, had a huge impact on me as well (as did Nick Hornby's Songbook a few years later). It was the soundtrack to this film that opened me up to new music once again.
I think my favorite thing about this soundtrack is the balance it strikes between then-new "underground" artists and historical artists, and how seamless the whole thing sounds. Tracks by the likes of The Velvet Underground, Love and the Thirteenth Floor Elevators sit nicely beside those of newer artists like The Beta Band, Stereolab and Smog. The inclusion of the older music on this soundtrack in a sense validates its significance to a younger generation of record collectors (Stevie Wonder, Bruce Springsteen, The Smiths and others are namechecked by Rob Gordon and his cohorts in the film), which is nice for me as a lot of the songs I liked at the time (and the songs which have stuck with me) come from "classic" artists such as these (I remember that I was discovering 70s-era Stevie Wonder right when this film came out - and of course I've always loved classic alternative artists like The Smiths). There were also some nice, lesser-known buried treasures here, like the later 80s work of Elvis Costello ("Shipbuilding") and Bob Dylan ("Most Of The Time"), both of which became two of my favorite songs. However, probably the most exciting aspect of this soundtrack at the time was the then-new indie rock. The thing that had turned me off to new pop music was the loud, tuneless blather on late-90s rock radio. However, the work of the Beta Band, Smog and Stereolab couldn't have been further away from that awful noise. One of the first CDs I bought after hearing this soundtrack was The Three E.P.'s, which is to this day one of my all-time favorite discs and really takes me back to this great period of my life when I was rediscovering music all over again. I also bought CDs by Stereolab and Smog, both of which are in regular rotation as well.
However, I didn't stop there. I began to learn more about the music that was out there, looking for more classic stuff as well as new indie artists. I lived in Berkeley at the time and became a regular at Amoeba and Rasputin records on Telegraph Ave, hanging with the employees trying to discover what I might have been missing. Along the way my collection grew to include everything from Built To Spill and Yo La Tengo (two indie artists recommended by an employee at Amoeba and still two of my favorites to this day) as well as just about everything Elvis Costello released during the late 70s and 80s (the Rykodisc versions went out of print around this time but I was still able to find used copies of most of that stuff). Eight years later my collection of CDs, vinyl and tapes has grown to over 1,000 and my apartment looks a lot like Rob Gordon's in High Fidelity.
My point is, never before did one film and soundtrack have such an influence on my life. Several years later the soundtrack holds up just as nicely even if the "new" artists featured here aren't on the cutting edge anymore (or even together, as in the case of the Beta Band). I'd recommend it in conjunction with the film and the Nick Hornby novel, along with Songbook. For me this is larger-than-life stuff, and if you are like me it just might draw you into the universe of thoughtful, quality pop music.
YOU NEED THIS March 28, 2008
P. Driscoll (NY)
Phenomenal movie about good music could only generate a phenomenal soundtrack. My only dissappointment is that there aren't more tracks on this cd. However, as other reviewers have already kindly added the lengthy list of tunes heard and discussed in the film, you can look them up and explore the sounds. I have been turned onto at least 3 bands from this soundtrack i previously was unaware of, definitely a bonus to any soundtrack collection.
enjoyable February 10, 2008
Desbo (CA)
got a few of the songs on other albums before (think elvis costello etc) but there are a few gems that are harder to find.
 not yet recieved December 27, 2007
Aliki Dimakopoulou
0 out of 4 found this review helpful
i have not yet recieved my purchase and am very unhappy as it was a christmas gift to someone.
Honestly, bought this for just one song... December 11, 2007
Kristi L. Waterworth
But I found many others that were really good. Soundtrack from the movie, Jack Black's version of "Let's Get It On" can only be found here and as of my purchase, cannot be bought seperately from the CD. I LOVE that song, so here we are. Also found other very nice songs, like Stevie Wonder's "I Believe." Great compilation!
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