Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me - Music From The Motion Picture
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Various Artists - Soundtracks - 1999
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"Beautiful Stranger," the Madonna track that opens and highlights this mixed-bag soundtrack, perfectly captures the nouveau shagadelic mood that Mike Myers's if-the-'90s-were-the-'60s sequel requires. With hints of the psychedelic pop that drove some of her best music between Like a Prayer and Bedtime Stories, this William Orbit collaboration could be a remix of a great lost Jackie DeShannon track. As for the rest of the dozen cuts, they split fairly predictably between the good (the Who, R.E.M., Costello/Bacharach, and Flaming Lips numbers), the bad (Lenny Kravitz's dull "American Woman" cover), and the whatever (Melanie "Scary Spice" G's failed takeover of Cameo's "Word Up"). --Rickey Wright