2. "Strings That Tie To You" By Jon Brion (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lr8EGyJOpZc Jon Brion's score to Michel Gondry's 2002 collaboration with Charlie Kaufman functions as a narrator, or at times another character following Joel and Clementine in their fever dream journey of erasing one another. The few non-score pieces play similar roles, Beck's cover of "Everybody's Gotta Learn Sometimes" being the most embraced. The great thing about having someone like Jon Brion score a film like "Eternal Sunshine" is that he is versatile enough to slip in an original song like "Strings That Tie To You" and it still feels apart of the score. In fact, the track is really just words fitting a reoccurring melody. Yet, with such a simple song, Brion fits the concept of the story into a perfect metaphor, describing all the little physical details and inconveniences as just memories with "strings that tie to you." Small imagery fit over sweet and sparse production allows for the song to reflect delicately on a film that generally takes multiple viewings to really be understood.