This came out in 2000 – or at least that’s when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):
This soundtrack to Winona Ryder’s flick about a woman who cracks up suffers from its own split personality disorder.
The first 10 tracks are ’60s and ’70s classics from the likes of Petula Clark (Downtown), Van Morrison and Them (Bob Dylan’s It’s All Over Now Baby Blue), The Band (The Weight), and Jefferson Airplane (Comin’ Back to Me), along with one recent gem from No Depressionists Wilco (the ironic How to Fight Loneliness). So far, so good. But the disc’s back half — featuring Mychael Danna’s original score with 19 (count ’em) tracks of orchestral gloom, suicidal guitars and anxiety-attack strings — kills the mood faster than an OD at a party. Call it soundtrack, interrupted.
