Scott Pilgrim's tidy soundtrack

You can say whatever you like about the Scott Pilgrim movie (which is admittedly the cinematic equivalent of ADHD, even though I thought it kicked ass) there's no denying the quality of it's garage-rockin' soundtrack.  One of the highlights of the film for me was the film's intro, "We Are Sex Bob-Omb" (best band name ever right?)- an awesomely simple, fuzzed-up garage-pop gem.  

Don't you wish they were a real band?  Everything from the guitar riff to the production itself kicks ass.  It's credited to Sex Bob-Omb on the OST, but it turns out Beck wrote their songs for the movie- that explains it.  How fucking sweet is that. Beck himself is credited with "Ramona",  a gorgeous wee love song.  See that's the level of musical talent you want on your film's soundtrack.  Alongside Beck we have some Frank Black- "I Heard Ramona Sing", which is also cool as hell.  It's classic Black with the added weird pop colourings of the overall soundtrack.  There's a really weird Broken Social Scene track I really like, Metric are in there too...   There's T.Rex, Bluetones and Stones in there too but I can forgive them that.  Rex's "Teenage Dream" was placed really well in the film and I guess that's what it's all about right?


It's weird how an excellent soundtrack can turn a good film into a great film.  Remember when "Hey" came on in Zack And Miri Make A Porno?  That was so intense!  Or maybe I'm just shallow.


Anyway here's a Spotify link to the soundtrack.  Enjoy.  I know you will.


Various Artists – Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)


In other news, yesterday I interviewed Ghosts Of Progress before an awesomely badass set in a bookstore (seriously)- that should be up here and on Edrock.net today or tomorrow.  Woo.