Magnolia (soundtrack)

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Magnolia: Music from the Motion Picture
Magnolia album.jpg
Soundtrack album by
ReleasedDecember 7, 1999
Genre Pop, rock
Length50:49
Label Reprise
Producer Jon Brion
Buddy Judge
Aimee Mann
Brendan O'Brien
Michael Penn
Aimee Mann chronology
I'm with Stupid
(1995)
Magnolia: Music from the Motion Picture
(1999)
Bachelor No. 2
(2000)
Singles from Magnolia: Music from the Motion Picture
  1. "Save Me"
    Released: 1999

Magnolia: Music from the Motion Picture is the soundtrack album to the 1999 film Magnolia . It comprises several songs by Aimee Mann, plus tracks by Gabrielle, Supertramp and Jon Brion. The album received positive reviews and was certified gold in 2001. Mann's song "Save Me" was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song.

Contents

Music

The music of Aimee Mann inspired the director Paul Thomas Anderson to write Magnolia; he said he "sat down to write an adaptation of Aimee Mann songs". [1] Mann wrote two songs for Magnolia: "You Do" and "Save Me". [2] "Deathly", "Driving Sideways" and "You Do" also appeared on Mann's following album, Bachelor No. 2 . "Nothing Is Good Enough", here an instrumental, appears in lyrical form on that album.[ citation needed ] (Bachelor also includes "Red Vines", a song Mann wrote about Anderson.)[ citation needed ] "One" is a cover of the 1968 song by Harry Nilsson, recorded for the 1995 tribute album For the Love of Harry: Everybody Sings Nilsson. [3]

The film features a sequence in which the characters sing along to Mann's song "Wise Up". [4] Mann originally recorded "Wise Up" to be used in the 1996 film Jerry Maguire , but the director, Cameron Crowe, felt it did not fit. According to Crowe, he had used Mann's original version, a simple demo piano, in a scene in which Jerry Maguire is moving through an airport. Mann's final version was "larger, more lush, more of a personal epic, and quite incredible... suddenly it was too big for the scene it was meant for." He said not being able to use it was "heartbreaking". [5] The song was included on the Jerry Maguire soundtrack. [6]

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svg [7]
The Austin Chronicle Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [8]
Christgau's Consumer Guide Five Pointed Star Solid.svg [9]
Los Angeles Times Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [10]
NME 4/10 [11]
Q Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [12]
Rolling Stone Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [13]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [14]

By February 2001, the soundtrack had sold 410,000 units in the United States. [15] Mann's song "Save Me" was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song, losing to Phil Collins's song "You'll Be in My Heart" from Tarzan . [7] In 2021, the Los Angeles Times described "Save Me" as Mann's masterpiece, which "solidified Mann's stature as an esteemed songwriter". [16] The success of the Magnolia soundtrack caused Mann stress, as she felt pressure to capitalize on it and tour heavily. [17] In a 2020 retrospective, Alex McLevy of The A.V. Club praised the film for widening Mann's audience and the unique way that the writing of the film coincided with her songwriting. [18]

Track listing

All songs performed by Aimee Mann, except where noted.

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."One" Harry Nilsson 2:53
2."Momentum" Aimee Mann 3:27
3."Build That Wall"
4:25
4."Deathly"Mann5:28
5."Driving Sideways"3:47
6."You Do"Mann3:41
7."Nothing Is Good Enough"Mann3:10
8."Wise Up"Mann3:31
9."Save Me"Mann4:35
10."Goodbye Stranger" (performed by Supertramp)5:50
11."The Logical Song" (performed by Supertramp)
  • Davies
  • Hodgson
4:07
12."Dreams" (performed by Gabrielle)
  • Gabrielle
  • Tim Laws
3:43
13."Magnolia" (performed by Jon Brion)Brion2:12
Total length:50:49

Charts and certifications

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