Never saw this at the cinema. Oliver Stone films always seem to promise more than they deliver. I finally got in DVD when it was on sale for less than the price of a pint. Watched it once. That was about ten years after it came out, and three years after I got this soundtrack. It was supposed to be an updated media-savvy telling of the couple-on-the-run story, wasn't it? But it wasn't as memorable as Badlands or Bonny and Clyde or even You Only Live Once.
I was drawn in to getting the soundtrack by the twin promises of hearing a bit of what those Nine Inch Nails people sound like (answer: that Reznor fella may be shrewd and sharp but I have no love for his music) and a Dylan song that wasn't available elsewhere. Turns out the latter is an old staple with a chequered history, and Bob's recording of it an outttake from Good as I Been to You. Here's a dodgy version with an annoying loop of Sara Dylan, presumably from Renaldo and Clara. I sort of prefer this version by The Duprees, but Stone was probably too starstruck to pass up the opportunity of a Dylan exclusive (and, to be fair, he'd have been criticised for trying to be David Lynch)
Normally I'm in favour of soundtrack albums including dialogue from the film, as with Jackie Brown, say. But in this case it's so relentlessly violent that it pins down a particular interpretation of each song and stops them being able to breathe.
MusicBrainz entry for this album
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