Sunday, February 25, 2007

13. Wave of Mutilation (U.K Surf)- The Pixies

One of the films I constantly watched as an angst ridden teenager was Pump up the Volume. Don’t rush to buy it because you’ll probably be faced with some cliché ridden high school movie. The thing is, I loved it. Amongst the clichés it’s full of great one liners and lots of despair over the futility of life,
“They say I'm disturbed. Well, of course I'm disturbed. I mean, we're all disturbed. And if we're not, why not? Doesn't this blend of blindness and blandness want to make you do something crazy? Then why not do something crazy? It makes a helluva lot more sense than blowing your brains out.”
"There's nothing to do anymore. Everything decent's been done. All the great themes have been used up--turned into theme parks."

You see, lots of things to identify with. A couple of the songs from the soundtrack stand out, Leonard Cohen’s ‘Everybody Knows’ with its worn out cynical approach to love and the Pixes – ‘Wave of Mutilation’. This version is changed from the original, slowed down into music that creeps up to you, puts it’s arm around you and slowly leads you down the path to misery.

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