On Bright Lights, Big City (hideous book --should have been called Dim Bulb, Bad Writer) there is the lovely Donald Fagen track "Century's End." High end world weary.

Love the soundtrack to the Bill Murray flick Broken Flowers. O' Brother Where Art Thou? Wings of Desire, 2046, Blue in the Face, LA Confidential, Superfly, half of Betty Blue, the peculiar One From the Heart (Tom Waits and Crystal Gayle), Hurly Burly, 'Round Midnight, Let's Get Lost, Inland Empire, Paris Texas.