Artist	Song
Ivy	While We're in Love
dialogue	'What's your name?'
dialogue	'Do you live here?'
dialogue	'I can't see my little eyes'
The Afghan Whigs	Be Sweet
dialogue	'I've got to see you'
dialogue	'I'm not a thief, Alice'
The Cardigans	Losers
dialogue	Larry meets Anna at the aquarium
dialogue	Larry meets Alice at the gallery
dialogue	'Is he here, your bloke?'
Boa	Twilight
Pedro the Lion	Rapture
Elastica	My Sex
dialogue	'This will hurt'
dialogue	'Dan, can I still see you?'
PJ Harvey	Shame
dialogue	Larry's tirade, part I
dialogue	Larry's tirade, part II
dialogue	Larry's tirade, part III
Jawbox	Savory
Elvis Costello & the Attractions	I Want You [single version]
dialogue	The restaurant deal
dialogue	'You slept with him, didn't you?'
dialogue	'(Lying) is the currency of the world'
Gang of Four	Damaged Goods
dialogue	'I want Anna back'
dialogue	'You don't know the first thing about love'
Sonic Youth	Unmade Bed
dialogue	'Without it we're animals'

Comment:

31. The Cure- This Is a Lie (Palmer mix)
32. dialogue- 'I don't love you anymore'
33. The Rapture- Infatuation

Notes:

For this mix, I dip into the past. When I saw the movie "Closer," I liked it a lot. The acting is top-notch, as is the writing. But the soundtrack didn't work for me. I didn't believe "The Blower's Daughter" by Damien Rice fit Dan, Jude Law's character. It spoke to the character's tragic flaws, but it was too gentle and measured. I mean, it's violin-driven. When Rice sings, "Can't take my eyes off you," his voice is so fragile it's nearly cracking. Dan's not like that. As the first of the four characters to cheat, he's a man ruled by the id. He sees, he wants, he takes.
But to me, the most out-of-place song in the film was The Smiths' "How Soon Is Now?" Having it in the strip club scene clashed on so many levels. The lyrics don't speak to Larry, Clive Owen's character, or to Alice, Natalie Portman's character. They actually say the opposite of the film's messages. Musically it's cool, but is it accurate for the setting? It struck me as false. If anyone out there knows about music common to London strip clubs, I'm curious to know.
Overall, I felt the film called for a soundtrack that spoke to the darker nature of the characters and represented sonically the anguish those breakups and betrayals must have caused.
With this imaginary soundtrack, I go in chronological order, so even people unfamiliar with the film can follow the plot through a smattering a bite-sized dialogue bits. Through those, each character is introduced and you hear the betrayals play out. The music has a harder edge and speaks more to the characters than the original soundtrack, which was never, to my knowledge, commercially released as a CD. You can see the full list of songs used in the movie at its page on the Internet Movie Database, here: www.imdb.com/title/tt0376541/soundtrack

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