Blame it on my afinity for the British sans the horrible teeth: but when I chanced upon (rather illegally– oops) the Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging movie based on Louise Rennison’s chick lit series Confessions of Georgia Nicolson’s first intsallment, Angus, Thongs, and Full-frontal Snogging, it kept me up all night (or till the wee hours of the morning) just trying to grab for me self a copy of the soundtrack just for their movie carrier single Ultraviolet, but what I didn’t expect is that the whole album itself would sweep me off my feet.
Although Angus, Thongs, and Perfect Snogging OST can be classified as somewhat Britpop, it’s a slight injustice to classify it SOLELY on such category, as it’s almost bubblegum pop on some instances, rock on the other, mixed in with some household names that have produced rather diverse music–this is LovePopTeenAngstBritPopTechnoRockAlternativeBubblegumFirstLovePuppyLoveAdolesence and so on. I could say that the OST has been pretty much picked to prolong the feeling that the movie has initially offered. While the movie brought us to the earlier days of Bridget Jones (lol) as a 14 year old awkward teenager who had to go through, yes, the most excruciatingly embarassing scenarios of her youth, Angus OST brings us the sweetest, sappiest, even some nonsense song compilation which, if you’ll listen closely, is in fact an album of adoration to all the bumbling, awkward teen love phase which at some point, we all went through. It may have been British tongue, but it’s the same universal feeling which made the album so endearing.
Album included two versions of some older songs, such as Naive by Lily Allen (oh come on, whotf does not know Lily Allen?) and Stiff Dylans‘ Ever Fallen In love with Someone. I’ve included some songs which pretty much passed as my album favorites; can’t upload the whole, please be kind to my DSL bandwidth. ^_^
Track listing:
1. She’s So Lovely – Scouting For Girls
2. Girls And Boys In Love – Rumble Strips
3. Show – Lenka
4. Naive – Lily Allen
5. She’s Got You High – Mumm-Ra
6. Who Needs Love – Razorlight
7. Your Song – Kate Walsh
8. Mad About The Boy – Ava Leigh
9. Young Folks – Peter Bjorn & John
10. Toothpaste Kisses – Maccabees
11. Sugar Mouse – Oh Atoms
12. Ever Fallen In Love With Someone – Stiff Dylans
13. I Found Out – Pigeon Detectives
14. In The Morning – Coral (The)
15. Pull Shapes – Pipettes (The)
16. Great DJ – Ting Tings (The)
17. Ultraviolet – Stiff Dylans
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Tell me your thoughts,
JC
