ARTIST: VATITLE: Stranger Than FictionLABEL: ColumbiaGENRE: SoundtrackBITRATE: 205kbps avgPLAYTIME: 0h 53min totalRELEASE DATE: 2006-11-07RIP DATE: 2006-11-01
Track List———-01. Spoon - The Book I Write 2:1502. Maximo Park - Going Missing 3:4303. Wreckless Eric - Whole Wide 2:59World04. Britt Daniel/Brian Reitzell - 1:06Flours05. Spoon - The Way We Get By 2:4106. Delta 5 - Mind Your Own 3:12Business07. Califone - Bottles & Bones 5:34(Shade & Sympathy)08. Britt Daniel/Brian Reitzell - 2:22Writer’s Block09. Spoon - My Mathematical Mind 5:0210. Vangelis - La Petite Fille De 5:52La Mer11. The Jam - That’s Entertainment 3:13(The Demo Version)12. The Upsetters - Dubbing In The 3:20Back Seat13. Britt Daniel/Brian Reitzell - 1:52Auditor14. Spoon - Vittorio E 3:1415. M83 - In Church (Cyann & Ben 6:56Version)
Release Notes:
Providing songs to the forthcoming Will Ferrell flick are Califone, Maximo Park, and Spoon, who penned a new tune for the film.
Stranger Than Fiction — the upcoming film starring Will Ferrell, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Dustin Hoffman, Queen Latifah, and Emma Thompson — has asoundtrack that just might be this year’s answer to Garden State’s accompanying album. Maximo Park, Delta 5, Califone, Vangelis, the Jam, M83,and others contribute songs to soundtrack, and Spoon wrote a brand new tune for it entitled “The Book I Write,” a concise and well-crafted jauntthrough groove-laden indie-rock territory.
The soundtrack also features staples from Spoon’s catalog, including Kill The Moonlight’s “Vittorio E” and “The Way We Get By,” as well as GimmeFiction’s “My Mathematical Mind.” Why so much Spoon action on the album? “I thought it might be the perfect occasion for Britt Daniel (singer/songwriter of Spoon) and I to collaborate,” soundtrack producer Brian Reitzell (who has worked on the albums accompanying Marie Antoinette, Lost in Translation, Virgin Suicides, and Thumbsucker) writes in the liner notes to the album. “I was basically scoring the film with Spoon songs — it created a kind of sonic thread that had just the right amount of nervy melody and rich,simplistic tone.” And Reitzell didn’t stop at just using Spoon songs for the soundtrack, as the producer also tapped frontman Britt Daniel to co-compose the film’s score.
Stranger Than Fiction hits theaters nationwide Nov. 10 and the soundtrack drops Nov. 7.