"Until the End of the World" Soundtrack POLL

The mix of "Until The End Of The World" on this stomps all over the version on Achtung Baby

tru, but . . . 'days'

intrsting in that i believe wim wenders asked the artists to imagine what pop music would be like in the future aka today

also ws solveig dommartin rip

wim wenders asked the artists to imagine what pop music would be like in the future

Actually, 1999.

Unfortunately, "Livin' La Vida Loca" wasn't predicted.

kd lang and Jane Siberry covering "Summer Girls" would have been fab.

I want to hear Nick Cave's "Mambo No. 5"

voted Neneh Cherry.
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I went with "Calling All Angels".

Hard to vote because I have hardly heard any of these tracks. The U2 one is quite good (and actually better than the Depeche one), but hard to decide when I am not familiar with the rest.

do people like that kinks Elvis Costello cover? i remember thinking it seemed like a good idea, but when I heard it I hated it.

I heard it last night and thought my toaster oven was breaking.

i don't own this anymore, but i remember liking the Patti/Fred tune so that got my vote

Yeah -- it's got this droney keyboard loop.

Very torn between The Adversary and Calling All Angels.

Criminally missing from the official version of this soundtrack: some unique mix of Peter Gabriel's "Blood of Eden" and this is my favorite movie of all time, especially the director's cut.

agreed!

I still have an embarassing soft spot for "Calling All Angels," but leaving off "Blood of Eden" was unforgivable.

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Wednesday, April 5, 2006

i remember buying this record.
now i can't remember why.

calling all angels

Another vote for "Calling all Angels" here.

calling all angels vs. neneh

i'll go neneh but it's a tough one

quietly the car was rolling like a bullet....

the film really is terrible though

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This meant a lot to me back in the day -- seemed very sophisticated, European, moody in an adult way that was aspirational for me at the time. File alongside Tom Waits and David Lynch and red wine, among many others. Now that I've reached the age I when I imagined I would have settled into that stylish world-weariness, I spend most of my time playing 'Paperback Writer' on Beatles Rock Band with my toddler.

Re-listening now, probably 10 years since the last time I heard it, it's still almost all good. Only things I skipped past were "Days" and the post-intro part of "What's good".

A few random highlights:
*Nick Cave chewing the scenery in his verses (even if the chorus is tiresome)
*The vocals in "The Adversary". I always sang the chorus as "to her I'm just an onion".
*The backing track to "It Takes Time" (Patti & Fred Smith). I love the detail of the ultra-dry drum pattern against wobbly keyboard washes and wordless backing vocals.

Agree that REM, U2 and Talking Heads end up with career highlights here, somehow. U2 must've agreed that this was the definitive version of 'Until the end of the world', since they've been playing this way live ever since.

After all that, ended up voting for Julee Cruise, for historico-sentimental reasons.

thinking of re-watching this movie tonight

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Wow, something I voted for finally won a poll!!!

Depeche Mode: "Death's Door" 0

^ guess it was a 2nd choice of many, 1st choice of none.

The most boring song won!

Tried looking for Julee Cruise on YouTube but couldn't find a version that didn't have a ridiculous image the whole time. On the plus side, I heard the Elvis original for the first time and it's pretty damn good. Not as good as Julee's take but Elvis did just fine.

i didn't see this poll at the time, but would have voted for fretless. i think it's an old rem song that had been kicking around on bootleg cassettes for years before they formally recorded it for this soundtrack.

Wow. I honestly thought I'd have been the only Lou Reed vote. That's one of my favorite songs.

Although I remember thinking at the time that it was a copout of a submission - it didn't fit in with WW's "music of the future" theme.

what music of the future theme?

this town full of men with big mouths and no guts

I listened to this CD a lot. The Neneh Cherry track blew my mind... it was the first time I heard, like, “trip-hop.”

The short, beautiful, pygmy-kissed Graeme Revell opening theme flows so perfectly into Sax and Violins that they should always be heard together.

Bought the soundtrack over a decade ago, great song selection. Made me get Neneh Cherry's "Homebrew" because of it. Sad to see the R.E.M. and Can songs get so little love, but the Top 5 is solid, love "The Adversary".

The soundtrack makes the 200+-minute restored cut unnecessary.

The short cut was both rushed and boring, the longer cut no longer feels rushed but is twice as boring.

There’s a good movie in there somewhere. I liked the family stuff quite a bit, the globetrotting stuff not so much, go figure.

The director's cut is amazing, and I still wish he'd release the 20-hour version. One of the best movies ever made!

Never saw any of the longer versions, have a feeling I might like

The longer one, which I just finished, has many good actors reciting lines without having a clue what they're saying or what they're supposed to be doing. It's pretty, though!

The second half of the film has aged a lot better than I thought it would in the early 2000s. It's funny how the film's depiction of the future bricks it by not having cellphones but still nails the addiction to tiny screens and the techies that are as enamored of their own inventions as they are indifferent to the effect it has on their families and friends.

I'd like to see all those Wenders films again. I saw a bunch of them at Bears Place in Bloomington back in college. Wings of Desire was very beautiful. I don't remember this one much at all but it was in the summer when I saw it and 2 1/2 hours of AC was awesome.

I recognize mine is a minority opinion, but his sensibility and mine aren't simpatico. At heart he has a fascination with ponderous kitsch.

I saw this movie when it came out, at a coffeehouse in Royal Oak, MI. I remember it being kind of a slog (and the audience groaning when, two hours in, the narrator said something like — “Little did they know, the story was just beginning…”).

lol I think the majority opinion is that this movie isn't very good! I love it though, always have

xp same. Definitely the breaking point in WW's career. Odd how it all unraveled from then on (apart from the unexpected joy of Lisbon Story).

The Wenders films I like best are the ones with the least kitsch - The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick and Wrong Move.