Various Artists - Soundtrack / Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World
Artist Various Artists - Soundtrack
Album Title: Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World
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Primary Genre Soundtrack: Film Soundtrack
Format CD
Released 08/10/2010
Label ABKCO Records
Catalog No 0343-2
Bar Code No 0 18771 03432 2
Packaging Jewelcase
Tracks
1. We Are Sex Bob-Omb / Sex Bob-Omb (2:01)
((P) 2010 Iliad Records/Beck)
2. Scott Pilgrim / Plumtree (3:02)
((P) 1997 Plumtree Partnership/Amanda Bidnall/Carla Gillis/Catriona Sturton/Lynette Gillis)
3. I Heard Ramona Sing / Frank Black (3:41)
((P) 1993 4AD Limited, under license from XL Recordings Limited/Charles Thompson)
4. By Your Side / Beachwood Sparks (4:58)
((P) 2001 Sub Pop Records/Andrew Hale/Paul Denman/Sade/Stuart Matthewman)
5. O Katrina! / The Black Lips (2:52)
((P) 2007 Vice Records by Arrangement with Zync Music/Cole Alexander/Ian St. Pe/Jared Swilley/Joe Bradley)
6. I'm So Sad, So Very, Very, Sad / Crash And The Boys (0:13)
((P) 2009 Arts & Crafts Productions Inc./Brendan Canning/Charles Spearin/Kevin Drew/Ohad Benchetrit)
7. We Hate You Please Die / Crash And The Boys (0:58)
((P) 2009 Arts & Crafts Productions Inc./Brendan Canning/Charles Spearin/Kevin Drew/Ohad Benchetrit)
8. Garbage Truck / Sex Bob-Omb (1:44)
((P) 2010 Iliad Records/Beck)
9. Teenage Dream / T.Rex (5:46)
((P) 1974 Spirit Catalog Holdings, S.à.r.l., Under license from Spirit Music Group./Marc Bolan)
10. Sleazy Bed Track / The Bluetones (4:35)
((P) 1998 A&M Records Ltd./Adam Patrick Devlin/Edward Daniel Chesters/Mark James Morriss/Scott Edward Morriss)
11. It's Getting Boring By The Sea / Blood Red Shoes (2:55)
((P) 2008 V2 Records International Limited./Blood Red Shoes)
12. Black Sheep / Metric (4:55)
((P) 2009 Metric Productions/Emily Haines & The Soft Skeleton/James Shaw)
13. Threshold / Sex Bob-Omb (1:47)
((P) 2010 Iliad Records/Beck)
14. Anthems For A Seventeen Year Old Girl / Broken Social Scene (4:35)
((P) 2003 Arts & Crafts Productions Inc./Brendan Canning/Charles Spearin/Emily Haines & The Soft Skeleton/James Shaw/Jessica Moss/John Crossingham/Kevin Drew/Peroff Justin)
15. Under My Thumb / The Rolling Stones (3:42)
((P) 1966 ABKCO Records Inc./Keith Richards/Mick Jagger)
16. Ramona [Acoustic] / Beck (1:01)
((P) 2010 Iliad Records/Beck)
17. Ramona / Beck (4:23)
((P) 2010 Iliad Records/Beck)
18. Summertime / Sex Bob-Omb (2:10)
((P) 2010 Iliad Records/Beck)
19. Threshold (8 Bit) / Brian LeBarton (1:50)
((P) 2010 Universal Studios/Beck)
Date Acquired 06/07/2011
Personal Rating
Acquired from Amazon
Purchase Price 12.99

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Review by Heather Phares
The soundtracks to movies adapted from comic books are often marketing free-for-alls; promoting bands takes precedence over choosing songs that make sense for the film. However, nothing could be further from the truth for Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’s music. Since so much of the comic revolves around the bands that the characters play in, the film was already somewhat protected from having a bunch of random songs crammed into its soundtrack, but the film’s creative team ensured that the music was done right. Director Edgar Wright's other films (Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, etc.) boast soundtracks that brim with personality onscreen and play more like mixtapes than albums in their own right; that feeling continues here with picks like Beachwood Sparks' “By Your Side,” T. Rex's “Teenage Dream,” and Frank Black's “I Heard Ramona Sing.” The musicians who bring the comic’s bands to life are just as cleverly chosen. Beck revisited his slacker-punk roots with the songs he wrote for Scott's band Sex Bob-Omb; though they’re performed by Michael Cera and the other actors in the film, “Threshold,” “Summertime,” and “Garbage Truck” still have Beck's gloriously messy early-‘90s vibe to them. Later, he contributes “Ramona,” a dreamy ballad that sounds more like his 2000s work. Meanwhile, Broken Social Scene are Crash and the Boys, the rival band whose “I’m So Sad, So Very Very Sad” lasts a whopping five seconds. Every part of the soundtrack shows how much care went into it, from choosing artists like Broken Social Scene and Metric to nod to the story’s Canadian setting, to the 8-bit version of “Threshold” that reflects Pilgrim’s immersion in video games. The sweetest detail may be the song that started it all: “Scott Pilgrim,” by the Canadian all-female band Plumtree from their 1997 album Predicts the Future, holds within it all the breathless true love and crunchy guitar goodness that sparked the comic. Somehow, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World's music remains true not just to the comic, but to the work of everyone involved in the story at every stage, with plenty of fun and heart to boot.
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