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Classic Album Review: Various Artists | The Other Sister Soundtrack

This feel-good romantic soundtrack is as cloying as you expect — but much duller.

This came out in 1999 – or at least that’s when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):

 


When the movie is a feel-good romance between a mentally challenged couple, it’s no surprise the soundtrack is as cloying and saccharine as this one.

But it is surprising how dull this is — freighted and weighted with earnest love-girl balladry from Alison Krauss, Paula Cole and Joan Osborne (what, did Sarah McLachlan cost too much?). Even the usually wondrous Chrissie Hynde is wasted here, stuck with Diane Warren’s latest insipid power ballad. But worst of all is star Juliette Lewis’s pointless rendition of Come Rain Or Come Shine. Oh brother.

 

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