Stealing Beauty: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1996) Audio CD - Perfect for Movie Lovers & 90s Music Collectors

Let's be honest: Most soundtracks are not particularly good mix tapes with a hit or two, some stuff that the record company demanded be part of the mix, and a lot of filler, none of it fitting together very well, as the corporate interests don't really worry about such things. People will pick up the soundtrack just for the hit songs, right?Not in the case of the "Stealing Beauty" soundtrack. First off, there isn't a breakout hit -- although, in a just world, the Liz Phair tune would have been -- and there's no real attempt to turn this into a prepackaged record company sampler. Instead, we get an album full of lesser-known (at the time) artists all singing about romantic desire and the bittersweet nature of love.Thematically, and musically, "Stealing Beauty" comes together in the same way the best mix tapes do. Portishead, the incomparable Liz Phair, John Lee Hooker, Stevie Wonder, Nina Simone, the then-unknown Mazzy Star, Sam Phillips ... it's an eclectic delight of an album, better than the movie, and cooler than anything else released in 1996.If you're a fan of any of the artists on the album and wondering whether or not to snatch this up, do it. "Stealing Beauty" is a must-have album.