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):
What better way to illustrate a romance movie based on a quirk of fate — an airplane crash that brings Sandra Bullock and Ben Affleck together — than with quirky covers of classic love songs?
It’s so simple, it just might work. And, for the most part, it does. U2 giddily embrace the disco chestnut Everlasting Love, Chris Tart tarts up Stephen Stills’ Love The One You’re With, and Brit shoegazers Swerve Driver fire up The Who’s Magic Bus. Besides the celebrity matchmaking, this collection of love notes features the usual assortment of album tracks (Gomez, R.L. Burnside) and no-names (Holly Palmer? Blue Boy?) — along with one name to watch for — Faithless, whose teasing, achingly slow sex-rap grind If Loving You Is Wrong is a force of nature all by itself.
