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I've complained about this before, years ago. What the hell is it with movie soundtrack albums that don't include the actual music featured prominently in the movie?
Yesterday I took Ben to see "Happy Feet". His class is going to see it on Monday, and I wanted to give him a test run so he would be at least a little familiar with it when they go. He lasted for 40 minutes, which was actually better than I expected. I really liked the music, at least as far as we saw it. It was kind of a mashup of familiar pop tunes, all tossed into a blender and mixed into something new. "Golden Slumbers" blending into "Tell Me Something Good" into "Heartbreak Hotel" with little dashes of lines from a half dozen other songs sprinkled in. I liked it in exactly the same way I am looking forward to the new Beatles album "Love".
So I was thinking about buying the soundtrack, and hey I can pick it up from iTunes for under ten bucks which is cool. But first I went over to Amazon to preview the tracks. First track: if it's in the movie, it's in the closing credits that I didn't see. Second track: clearly a radio cut of a song that probably appeared somewhere in the move. Third track: kind of similar to the opening, part of it was probably used in the mashup, but it is also clearly a radio cut and not the actual track in the movie. Et cetera. Et cetera. I liked the movie. I liked the penguin songs. Ben liked the penguin songs. He'd probably like me to play the penguin songs while we are in the car. But the penguin songs aren't on the soundtrack, it's famous people doing radio single versions of the penguin songs. That's not a soundtrack. That's "performances inspired by the movie". Feh. The *only* track I am moderately interested is k.d. lang's cover of "Golden Slumbers/The End", but it's not available from iTunes as an individual track. Grr. Why the hell can't I buy a soundtrack that's actually a soundtrack?
Yesterday I took Ben to see "Happy Feet". His class is going to see it on Monday, and I wanted to give him a test run so he would be at least a little familiar with it when they go. He lasted for 40 minutes, which was actually better than I expected. I really liked the music, at least as far as we saw it. It was kind of a mashup of familiar pop tunes, all tossed into a blender and mixed into something new. "Golden Slumbers" blending into "Tell Me Something Good" into "Heartbreak Hotel" with little dashes of lines from a half dozen other songs sprinkled in. I liked it in exactly the same way I am looking forward to the new Beatles album "Love".
So I was thinking about buying the soundtrack, and hey I can pick it up from iTunes for under ten bucks which is cool. But first I went over to Amazon to preview the tracks. First track: if it's in the movie, it's in the closing credits that I didn't see. Second track: clearly a radio cut of a song that probably appeared somewhere in the move. Third track: kind of similar to the opening, part of it was probably used in the mashup, but it is also clearly a radio cut and not the actual track in the movie. Et cetera. Et cetera. I liked the movie. I liked the penguin songs. Ben liked the penguin songs. He'd probably like me to play the penguin songs while we are in the car. But the penguin songs aren't on the soundtrack, it's famous people doing radio single versions of the penguin songs. That's not a soundtrack. That's "performances inspired by the movie". Feh. The *only* track I am moderately interested is k.d. lang's cover of "Golden Slumbers/The End", but it's not available from iTunes as an individual track. Grr. Why the hell can't I buy a soundtrack that's actually a soundtrack?
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I have experienced this twice in the last year:
1) The catchiest song in the movie Cellular, Sinnerman, is inexplicably not on the soundtrack. At least it was released somewhere - in a Verve cover album. Why? I don't know.
2) The Running Man soundtrack is all instrumental songs that played in the background. It's not unreasonable actually, just wish they had included some of the vocal songs as well.