Beck waited three years after Sea Change before releasing another album, but in between he found some time to record a song for my favorite movie, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.
‘Everybody’s Gotta Learn Sometime’ was originally recorded by British pop group The Korgis in 1980 and was a modest hit, though I’d never heard it before. Beck’s version is a note-for-note copy but the production and delivery are far moodier than the synth-pop sheen on the original.
If I were asked to name my favorite movie of all time, I’d have a lot of candidates from which to pick.
I might go with pop crime masterpiece Goodfellas, which was my reflex answer to that question for years. Or with the pinnacle of romantic comedies, Moonstruck. I might look to one of my all-time favorite filmmakers, Woody Allen, and choose Annie Hall or Hannah and Her Sisters. Or I might go with another of them, and choose Steven Spielberg’s throwback adventure masterpiece Raiders of the Lost Ark. Wes Anderson has crafted two films that could easily fill the slot, Rushmore and The Royal Tenenbaums.
Depending on my mood, and how recently I’d seen the films, any one of those movies could be my favorite ever.
But deep down, when I really search myself for the answer, I keep coming back to Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.
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