Soundtrack lives up to movie vision

Usually it's the music that brings the movie to life.  In "High Fidelity" the movie brings the music to life.

The soundtrack for John Cusack's latest flick is full of music gems, rivaling the soundtrack for another Cusack movie, "Grosse Pointe Blank."

In this movie that's all about music the number of songs exceeded 50, so choosing the 15 on the soundtrack must have been a nearly impossible task.

The obscure ‘60s band The Thirteenth Floor Elevators kicks off the album with the screeching "You're Gonna Miss Me."
 

The Kinks come in not with "You Really Got Me," but with one of their lesser known songs, "Everybody's Gonna Be Happy."  Bob Dylan chips in with the beautiful "Most of the Time," a forgotten piece from his 1989 masterpiece, "Oh Mercy."

Elvis Costello's mellow "Shipbuilding" is included, as is "La Boob Oscillator" by Stereolab and some tunes by other less well-known bands such as the Beta Band, Smog, Sheila Nicholls and Love.

The album's finest moments come from the Velvet Underground. Lou Reed's group is represented by the soulful "Oh! Sweet Nuthin'" and the dark but funny "Who Loves the Sun."

Reed sings in "Who Loves the Sun": "Who loves the sun/Who cares that it makes plants grow?/Who cares what it does since you broke my heart?"

From the moment Cusack stood outside his girlfriend's window in "Say Anything" and blasted Peter Gabriel's "In Your Eyes," to his car radio in "Better Off Dead" that only played songs about breaking up after ending a relationship with his girlfriend, it is evident that he is a huge music fan.

"High Fidelity" is a movie all about his love of music and the soundtrack doesn't let fans down.