I love that Dido song!
I loved that song also, Chuck.
Interestingly, it was in the soundtrack of the 1998
Gwyneth Paltrow movie,
Sliding Doors, a year before it was finally put in
Dido's debut album,
No Angel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Angel
Just continuing, I really liked
Sliding Doors a lot, even though I wasn't a huge fan of Gwynnie's, and I disliked her two male co-stars,
John Hannah as
James and
John Lynch as
Gerry (one in particular, Lynch, I actually loathed). The reason I liked the movie was 1) I loved London and I was spending a lot of time there at that part of my life, and 2) the
soundtrack, and I bought it soon after--
Scary to realize it was nearly 20 years ago--
(Goddamn it, I am disgustingly OLD!!!!)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sliding_DoorsSoundtrackAimee Mann – "Amateur"
Elton John – "Bennie and the Jets"
Dido – "Thank You"
Aqua – "Turn Back Time"
Jamiroquai – "Use the Force"
Abra Moore – "Don't Feel Like Cryin'"
Peach – "On My Own"
Olive – "Miracle"
Dodgy – "Good Enough"
Blair – "Have Fun, Go Mad"
Andre Barreau – "Got a Thing About You"
Andre Barreau – "Call Me a Fool"
British singer Dido's song
"Thank You" made its appearance on the soundtrack, becoming a hit three years later. It was a commercial for this film featuring. The song eventually hit no. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.
Aqua's song
"Turn Back Time" was released as a single in 1998 and topped the UK Singles chart. The music video is heavily based on the movie and featured scenes from it.
This soundtrack is notable as the last from a
Paramount film to be released by
MCA Records, which, as successor to Paramount's former record division, continued to release soundtracks for some Paramount films starting in 1979. In 2003, when
Geffen Records absorbed
MCA and became another successor to the former record division of Paramount, it began to share the duty of issuing Paramount film soundtracks with sister labels
Interscope and
A&M.
An important omission from the soundtrack is the
Patty Larkin cover of
"Tenderness on the Block" that plays during the final scene. Due to copyright and recording issues, this track was never released and is only available in the movie.