Filed under: movies, music | Tags: cruel intentions, marcy playground, party like it's 1999, sherry fraser, two ton boa
I don’t know why, but I just got out of a rather intense afternoon-long meeting and suddenly felt the urge to listen to the Cruel Intentions Soundtrack. Though definitely a product of its era (also my senior year of high school) it is an awesome compilation and excellent companion to the awesome Dangerous Liaisons-inspired film. And even the Counting Crows song is pretty tolerable!
Marcy Playground always seemed kinda skeezy to me–and Sex And Candy was fucking everywhere for like a full year–but one of my favorite songs on the Cruel Intentions soundtrack is their stompy blues-rock song Comin’ Up From Behind. The song was written by Sherry Fraser, the high school girlfriend of Marcy Playground singer John Wozniak. The third single off Marcy Playground’s self-titled debut was actually called Sherry Fraser, and she performed the song with her own band, Two Ton Boa, who were signed to Kill Rock Stars and therefore by default considerably cooler than her stoner ex ever was.
The Cruel Intentions soundtrack also featured lots of other hits, some of which had been previously released or which were on albums that were about to be released: The Verve’s Bittersweet Symphony, Fatboy Slim’s Praise You, Aimee Mann’s You Could Make A Killing, Placebo’s Every You Every Me, Blur’s Coffee & TV… But my favorite song of all might be the other stompy blues-rock number, after the jump:
Bare Jr.’s You Blew Me Off is almost comically dumb, but it’s also totally awesome.
(Incidentally, I didn’t actually know who Mohinder and Sylar were until I just Googled them.)
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