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There's Something About Mary
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Soundtrack to the 1998 movie There's Something About Mary, which features History Repeating.
The film is a story of infatuation and love between Ted and Mary, played by Ben
Stiller and Cameron Diaz.
01. There's Something About Mary
(Jonathan Richman)
02. How to Survive a Broken Heart
(Ben Lee)
03. Every Day Should be a Holiday
(The Dandy Warhols)
04. Everything Shines
(The Push Stars)
05. This Is the Day
(Ivy)
06. Is She Really Going Out With Him?
(Joe Jackson)
07. True Love Is Not Nice
(Jonathan Richman)
08. History Repeating
09. If I Could Talk I'd Tell You
(Lemonheads)
10. Mary's Prayer
(Danny Wilson)
11. Margo's Waltz
(Lloyd Cole)
12. Speed Queen
(Zuba)
13. Let Her Go Into the Darkness
(Jonathan Richman)
14. Build Me Up Buttercup
(The Foundations)
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"They may know something about domestic and
imported ale/But they don't know a thing about love," croons legendary singer
Jonathan Richman on-screen and on the title track to the Capitol Records
original motion picture soundtrack to There's Something About Mary, the new 20th
Century Fox film from the Farrelly brothers, creators of such classic comedies
as Jim Carrey's Dumb and Dumber, and the world's first Amish bowling movie,
Kingpin. The screwball comedy stars Ben Stiller, Cameron Diaz and Matt Dillon in
a hilarious love triangle that starts with an ill-fated prom date and ends up 13
years later in Miami Beach with some hair gel of questionable origin.
If you saw the classic scene in Kingpin with Blues Traveller playing in the
middle of a field at an Amish harvest, you know the Farrelly brothers take great
care in choosing the music for their movies. "There's Something About Mary" is
no different, with a line-up of some of the leading names in alternative
pop-rock, including The Dandy Warhols, the Propellerheads, Ben Lee, Ivy, The
Lemonheads, Lloyd Cole, Danny Wilson, Joe Jackson, newcomers The Push Stars,
unsigned band Zuba and The Foundations' classic, "Build Me Up Buttercup," which
can be heard over the film's memorable final sequence.
The highlight of the soundtrack, though, is three new songs from modern rock
legend Richman, who founded the influential band Modern Lovers back in the '70s
as a tribute to his love of the Velvet Underground and Lou Reed. Aside from the
title song, Vapor Records recording artist Richman contributes "True Love Is Not
Nice" and a new version of "Let Her Go Into the Darkness," all of which he
performs in the movie as a roving troubadour/Greek chorus who comments on the
action, sort of like Stubby Kaye and Nat King Cole in "Cat Ballou."
The soundtrack isn't just made up of unrelated songs, but music that furthers
the movie's wacky, romantic saga of neurotic loser Ted (Ben Stiller), who
suffers an unfortunate accident which ruins his prom date with most eligible
Mary (Cameron Diaz), only to seek her out in Miami Beach 13 years later through
the help of sleazy private eye Pat Healy (Matt Dillon). When Healy falls hard
for Mary, Ted travels from Providence to try to reclaim his lost love.
Australian teenager Ben Lee made his first album with the band Noise Addict when
he was just 14. Now recording for Beastie Boy Mike D's Grand Royal label, Lee's
"How To Survive a Broken Heart" comes from his '97 solo album, Something To
Remember Me By.
Capitol Records recording artists The Dandy Warhols came from Portland, Oregon,
fresh from a major label bidding war with a big reputation and even bigger rock
star attitudes. Though somewhat humbled, they remain unbowed, with their bouncy
pop ballad, "Everyday Should Be A Holiday," the second single from the band's
critically acclaimed '97 label debut, ... The Dandy Warhols Come Down, featured
prominently in the film.
The Push Stars are a Boston-based pop-rock group newly inked to Capitol Records,
and make their debut with the previously unreleased, "Everything Shines," a song
featured on the band's upcoming label bow.
Ivy is a New York based band with a Paris-born lead singer in Dominique Durand,
who croons over ambient pop crafted by husband/guitarist Andy Chase and
co-songwriter/bassist Adam Schlesinger, the very same one who fronts Fountains
of Wayne and wrote the Tom Hanks hit, That Thing You Do! The dreamily romantic
"This Is The Day" comes from their '97 Atlantic album, Apartment Life.
Virgin recording artist Joe Jackson's '79 crossover new wave hit, "Is She Really
Going Out With Him?," originally on his Look Sharp album, is particularly
appropriate set to the scenes of Diaz starting to date the sleazy Healy.
U.K. electronica group the Propellerheads contribute the pulsating smash
single/video "History Repeating," featuring "Goldfinger" singer Shirley Bassey,
from their hit DreamWorks debut album, Decksanddrumsandrockandroll.
The Lemonheads' "If I Could Talk I'd Tell You," from their '96 Atlantic album,
car button cloth, is yet another lovelorn ode to pop romance from songwriter
Evan Dando.
Danny Wilson is not an individual, but a trio from Dundee, Scotland whose
appropriately titled "Mary's Prayer" comes from their '87 Virgin album Meet
Danny Wilson and actually spent eight weeks on the stateside charts, reaching
#23.
Lloyd Cole is another Scotsman, a sensitive singer/songwriter type who ditched
his fellow Commotions to become a solo artist. "Margo's Waltz" comes from his
'91 Capitol recording, Don't Get Weird On Me, Babe.
Finally, U.K. interracial pop-soul group The Foundations had two Top 40 hits in
'68-'69, "Baby Now That I've Found You" and "Build Me Up Buttercup." The latter
appears in the final, pre-credit "blooper highlight" section of There's
Something About Mary, which is sure to send filmgoers out the door humming and
laughing. As will the entire Capitol Records soundtrack to the Farrelly
brothers' latest exercise in questionable taste and unquestionable hilarity.
There's something about this record...
Executive Soundtrack Producers are Peter Farrelly and Bobby Farrelly. Music
Supervisors are Happy Walters and Tom Wolfe. Robert Kraft and Laura Ziffren
supervised the music for 20th Century Fox. Liz Heller, Julia Michels and Kim
Niemi supervised the music for Capitol Records.
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