《A Walk to Remember》的电影不仅给我们留下一段甜美的初恋，还留下了一串如初恋般甜美的音乐。最熟悉的美式Pop和轻摇滚,最温情的旋律，勾起你记忆中最甘甜的一隅，湿润你心灵中最柔软的一片。如果你钟爱这部电影，这张原声一定会让你爱不释手；如果你未曾看过这部电影，那分初恋的情怀也值得珍藏，你会被纯洁的心泉感动得无可抗拒。 “演而优则歌，歌而优则演”现在似乎是个中外娱乐圈通行的规则，玉女歌星曼迪·摩尔也不能免俗。在处女作《公主日记》（The Princess Diaries）大获好评之后，曼迪又加入了《初恋的回忆》的拍摄。为了演好杰米·苏利文这个在普通的外表下透射着人性魅力的女孩，曼迪告别了她流行小歌后的时髦形象，化上淡淡的妆，换上随随便便的衣服，甚至连一头金发也染成了不起眼的褐色，简单地用皮筋束在脑后——要是没人告诉你，你在欣赏影片的时候可能真想不到那个缺乏美貌的女主角是位风靡欧美的小歌星。不过，曼迪·摩尔也没让人们彻底忘记她是个歌手，表演之余，她还为影片配唱了四首插曲：《Cry》《Only Hope》《It's Gonna be Love》 和《Someday We'll Know》（由Mandy和Switchfoot乐队的主唱Jonathan共同演唱，这是New Radicals乐队1998年创作的作品）。 　　男主角的扮演者夏恩·韦斯特有着一副亦正亦邪的面孔，因此对于扮演兰杜这样一个由坏小子转变成阳光男孩的角色来说，是最合适不过的了。也许是某种巧合，夏恩在演戏之余也有着同曼迪相同的爱好——他和几个朋友组建了一支名为“Average Jo”的流行朋克乐队，自己兼任乐队的吉他手和主唱。说不定在影片拍摄的间隙，夏恩还向曼迪讨教了不少关于歌唱方面的经验呢。Capitalizing on the release of Mandy Moore's Coverage album, the soundtrack to A Walk to Remember, the movie in which she had her first starring role, returns with a spate of extra tracks. Compared to the autonomy she shows on Coverage, Moore sounds a little unformed on songs like the single Cry and the Jonathan Foreman duet Someday We'll Know, as well as on Only Hope and It's Gonna Be Love, but nevertheless, her delivery on these songs has the sensitivity and intelligence that has placed her above her teen pop contemporaries as they exit their teen years. Switchfoot's earnest performances on Dare You to Move, You, and the group's version of Only Hope are pleasant enough, but also reflect the fact that most of the characters in A Walk to Remember seem to be afraid of rock music. Indeed, Cold's brooding No One and West, Gould & Fitzgerald's punk-pop by numbers So What Does It All Mean?, the album's most rock-oriented tracks, are among the album's weakest selections. Rachael Lampa's If You Believe is both overworked and forgettable; perhaps it was included to make Moore's songs look better by comparison. However, Toploader's effervescent cover of King Harvest's Dancin' in the Moonlight and the New Radicals' Mother, We Just Can't Get Enough are charming in their own right and two of the best non-Moore tracks on the album. The bonus tracks continue the mixed-bag quality of the soundtrack, with the Breeders' alt-rock classic Cannonball upping the ante as Fuel's turgid Empty Spaces and Noogie's blandly pleasant cover of the Easybeats' Friday on My Mind lower it. The expanded version of A Walk to Remember also includes Moore's video for Cry; while this is also included on the DVD of the movie, that, along with the bonus tracks, may be enough for some Moore fans to check out this soundtrack again.