This is my very favorite soundtrack.

I really like Roman Coppola’s CQ. Great film. It feeds my I-should-work-in-film phases. I will forever be a Jeremy Davies fan because of this film.

Now, about the soundtrack… It consists of twenty songs from Mellow and also songs from Claude François, Antonello Paliotti, Jacques Dutronc and Paul Piot. I like all of it and love songs like “Seek You”, “Airplane” and “CQ Song”.  It is fun, playful, kitschy, dreamy, late 60′s era pop gems. Mellow’s “Take Me Higher” has the same come-hither vibe as Bacharach’s “The Look of Love”. Great song.

There was a day when I could play several soundtracks from start to finish and I would be content. George Herbert Walker Bush was president then. Most of those soundtracks were from films that I have a hard time watching now. But CQ works so well because it can be fun background music, an intimate party soundtrack or a way to revisit the film.

How about that cover too? Uau. (Portuguese for “wow”.) I dig Angela Lindvall’s moon glasses.

I admit that it is fun to like relatively unknown films and/or soundtracks. CQ is a film I try and watch at least once a year. I think it was a carefully and semi-personal story, with rich characters, that was wonderfully crafted and filmed. It seems like Roman may have put all of his eggs in this film’s basket. If that is the case, that makes this film and its soundtrack even more rare.

happy coincidence

I noticed, on allmusic.com, that the soundtrack was released eight years ago today, on 30 April 2010.

Playlist Bookend Recommendations

Burt Bacharach: Casino Royale > CQ > April March: Chrominance Decoder

Françoise Hardy: Les Chansons D’amour > CQ > Pizzicato Five: Guilty Pleasures