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):
Everybody’s Free To Wear Sunscreen (The Speech Song) — a list of advice to a fictitious graduating class (wrongly attributed to Kurt Vonnegut) over a lulling, trip-hoppy track — has got to be the most unlikely hit single in years.
Nor is it the only oddball outing on this year-old collection of remixes, leftovers and odds ’n’ ends from director flamboyant Baz Luhrmann’s various projects, including his films Strictly Ballroom and William Shakespeare’s Romeo + Juliet. Other tracks, like a Superfly disco version of Hair and a gospel-funk version of Prince’s When Doves Cry, show that Luhrmann brings the same cheeky irreverence to music as he did to the Bard.
