By Luke Smith

Daily Arts Writer

Tumbling down the trail of love songs comes the music from the motion picture "Bounce." One can't expect too much diversity on an album from a movie about falling in love. Opening track "Need to Be Next to You" feels like the anthem for the entire movie, the song whose melody will be rearranged and replayed throughout the picture over and over again. Sixpence None the Richer vocalist Leigh Nash lends her smooth pipes to the track.

The next two songs however, carry no such driving melody to keep the ship from "bouncing" right into an iceberg. Beth Orton and Dido's songs are lazy and typical, not invoking the feel good warmth of the first track. The sharp dip in quality isn't helped at all by Tara MacLean's "Divided."

Sarah McLachlan appears on "Silence," joining Delerium for a number that sounds slightly out of place in the beginning with monk-esque chanting. Then the beat enters, and with it comes McLachlan. The album's digression continues to slip south.

Anika Paris is more than right, she "Is no ordinary girl," but what she has put on this album is an ordinary love song. Ben Affleck is probably sitting on a chair in a room with his head between his hands thinking at this point in the movie, while the scene cuts to Gwenyth every few seconds.

Morcheeba lends their mild radio hit "Rome Wasn't Built in a Day" to the soundtrack. For the sake of the rest of us, this song should be returned to whomever borrowed it.

Records like this are so hard to review, because there is nothing unpredictable about them. The songs seem to blend together with nothing sticking out in particular. In fact, that may be exactly what the director wants. The one good song on this album lends one alternative: Napster.

Grade: C-