The 90’s soundtrack to Young Adult is as good as the movie. Teenage Fanclub is one of those bands that not enough people discovered. Bandwagonesque was one of my favorite albums of the 90s. The opening track, “The Concept,” serves as the theme song for Young Adult. It plays a half-dozen times during the drive from Minneapolis to Mercury at the beginning of the movie and is also the first song played by Buddy’s wife’s band at the bar.

Woody’s bar also has one hell of a background soundtrack. From Lemonheads to Dinosaur Jr. to Cracker, it’s as if Woody found a mixtape from my so called 90’s life. It’s good – damn good.

Even the background muzak is on point. Beck’s Where It’s At and Pearl Jam’s Even Flow are tucked into the film, the latter as the sounds of the awkward department store scene.

Here’s the complete list of all 17 songs from Young Adult with notes on the scenes that the songs were in:

• (unknown scene) – Epic – Mateo Messina
• (unknown scene) – Peach Melba – Brian Dee
• Mixtape, driving from Minneapolis to Mercury; First song played by Buddy’s wife’s band – The Concept – Teenage Fanclub
• (unknown scene) – Where It’s At – Mateo Messina (link to original by Beck)
• Driving to Woody’s bar – What’s Up? – 4 Non Blondes
• First song playing in Woody’s – Achin’ To Be – The Replacements
• Drinking with Matt at Woody’s – It’s A Shame About Ray – Lemonheads
• Talking outside with Matt at Woody’s, waiting for taxi – Feel The Pain – Dinosaur Jr
• Young girl singing on TV show, playing with hair in hotel room – We’ve Only Just Begun – Roger Nichols and Paul Williams (link to original by Carpenters)
• Matt with welding torch in his garage – Pledge Your Allegiance – Suicidal Tendencies
• Background of the department store, looking for Marc Jacobs album – Even Flow – Mateo Messina
• (unknown scene) – Big Me – Mateo Messina
• At bar drinking with Matt, talking to the super happy guy in the wheelchair – Low – Cracker
• Crashes car in parking lot at hotel – Seether – Veruca Salt
• Baby naming ceremony - Pressure Drop – Toots and the Maytals
• (unknown scene) – Picture On The Wall – The Lions (link to version by Bob Marley)
• (uknown scene) – When We Grow Up – Diana Ross

Original music for Young Adult – Rolfe Kent

There’s also one extra song that is on the Young Adult soundtrack album but must have been left on the editing floor of the movie:

• Black Hole Sun – Mateo Messina (originally performed by Sound Garden)

Here’s a couple additional videos from Young Adult, including

Dinosaur Jr’s best use of an urban golf course:

4 Non-Blonde’s song What’s Up, better known as the hey yeaah yeaaaah song:

And Cracker’s 90′s hit song Low:

Using Roy Orbison’s “Crying” to tell the tale of a crazy ex-girlfriend who you aren’t crying at all for anymore was perfect. As was throwing the Bee Gees into the pot-laden macaroons that got Adam through chemo. If I ever choose to shave my head, I think I will have to dial up a reggae tune as well. The irony of celebrating shaving your locks to a genre more popularly known for celebrating them (and imbuing them), is too much to pass on.

There were a number of new songs and artists that the 50/50 soundtrack introduced me too as well. I’ll be looking for more from Mr. Little Jeans and Liars Inc. from here on out. [Any recommendations on where to start?]

As for the movie itself, I really enjoyed it. It’s kind of hard to say you enjoy a movie about cancer, but this was a good one. Seth Rogen showed that he could un-Seth – a bit – and Anna Kendrick continued to steal the show for every movie she’s in. I even loved seeing good ole Max Headroom / Matt Frewer in there – and felt for him too.

Here’s the complete list of songs from 50/50, including notes on the scenes they were in. They

• Opening scene, running – Bricks or Coconuts – Jacuzzi Boys
• Coffee shop – Midnight Blue – John Fumo
• Adam finds out he has cancer – High and Dry – Radiohead
• Relaxation exercises with the therapist – Simplicity – Harmony & Balance
• At the hospital – New Country – The Walkmen
• Eating pot cookies at chemotherapy – To Love Somebody – Bee Gees
• Adam shaves his head – Work To Do - The Aggrolites
• At home, mom calls – Downtown Blues – Eric V Hachikian
• Party at the art show – Turn It Down – The Sideway Runners
• First song at the club / tells the girl he has cancer – Angel (Rac Remix) – Mr. Little Jeans
• Second song at the club – Stay The Same – Autokratz
• At the diner after the club – Soul Connection – The Diplomats of Solid Sound
• Adam having sex with the girl from the diner – Too Late For Dancing – Shapes and Sizes
• (unknown scene) – Hunters – Eric V Hachikian
• Song on the radio in the car with Adam and his therapist – Days Gone Down (Still Got The Light In Your Eyes) – Gerry Rafferty
• (unknown scene) – Survival – Eric V Hachikian
• Throwing things at ex-girlfriend’s painting – Crying – Roy Orbison
• Anesthesia / going into surgery – The Other Side of Mt. Heart Attack – Liars Inc
• Therapist comes to Adam’s house for their date / end credits – Yellow Ledbetter – Pearl Jam

Original music for 50/50 – Michael Giacchino

Here are a couple more of the videos from the 50/50 soundtrack songs, starting with the Jacuzzi Boys:

Roy Orbison’s classic “Crying” live from the Roy Orbison show:

Last but not least, Liars Inc:

Thankfully, YouTube has some of my favorite scenes from the movie, including the final scene when everyone is meeting their loved ones at the airport and the school concert where the son is playing the drums while the girl he has a crush on is singing All I Want for Christmas. At first he thinks she is singing to him, but then she points to everyone. He has such a look of heartbreak. But then, she turns and sings to him again. The twists and turns of the heart, captured in the innocence of young love.

The video is disabled for editing, but you watch it on YouTube by clicking on the picture here:

This is what I would call a perfect song in a perfect scene. The lyrics “and you, and you, and you” provide the perfect cadence to build him up, tear him down and then build him up again. It’s a classic song made new. I will never be able to hear any version of it again without thinking of this particular scene.

The final scene features the song God Only Knows by the Beach Boys, another amazing song.

Here’s the complete list of songs from the movie. I hope you enjoy the songs and call into work late tomorrow because you stayed up late into the night watching this incredible movie.

You can find links and videos for the songs from Love Actually on the Reelsoundtrack website.

I also pulled together as many of the songs as possible into a Spotify playlist for the Love Actually soundtrack.

• All Alone on Christmas – Darlene Love
• All I Want for Christmas is You – Olivia Olson
• All I Want for Christmas is You – Tessa Niles
• All You Need is Love – Lynden David Hall
• Both Sides Now – Joni Mitchell
• Bye Bye Baby (Baby Goodbye) – Bay City Rollers
• Catch a Falling Star – Cast
• God Only Knows – Beach Boys
• Good King Wenceslas – Hugh Grant and Andrew Tinkler
• Here With Me – Dido
• I’ll See It Through – Texas
• Jump (For My Love) – Pointer Sisters
• Like I Love You – Justin Timberlake
• Original music – Craig Armstrong
• Puppy Love – S Club Juniors
• River – Joni Mitchell
• Rose (From the Original Motion Picture Score Titanic) – James
  Horner
• Silent Night – Pre Teens
• Smooth – Santana ft Rob Thomas
• Songbird – Eva Cassidy
• Sweetest Goodbye – Maroon 5
• Take Me As I Am – Wyclef Jean ft Sharissa
• The Trouble With Love Is – Kelly Clarkson
• Too Lost in You – Sugababes
• Turn Me On – Norah Jones
• Wherever You Will Go – Calling
• White Christmas – Otis Redding

There are 36 songs in Scott Pilgrim, including songs from Frank Black, Plumtree, Black Lips, Beck, Metric, Queen, Broken Social Scene and The Rolling Stones. And of course, there’s Sex Bob-Omb, the band at the center of the movie, that Michael Cera plays bass for.

My favorite song from Scott Pilgrim is probably Black Sheep by Metric and Brie Larson. It’s the song that The Clash at Demonhead plays when Sex Bob-Omb opens for them. I also enjoyed the use of a range of Ramona songs from Frank Black, The Flying Burrito Brothers, Beck and Michael Cera, singing solo as Scott Pilgrim, not as Sex Bob-Omb.

Here’s Black Sheep. The song kicks into gear about 35 seconds in.

Beck wrote all six songs by Sex Bob-Omb in Scott Pilgrim vs. the World as well as a few other tunes in the movie. The movie itself is like a Beck song – odd, visceral and irresistible. Beck is one of those artists that perpetually surprises me in the way he is able to layer different sounds onto each other. I remember reading that his grandfather was a collage artist. His music sounds like an aural collage, so it makes sense. What Beck does with a song, Edgar Wright has done with film. He creates a celluloid palimpsest, layering allusions atop the music, video games and pop culture referenced in the film.

Michael Cera’s range of random t-shirts is also worth the show. The SP Smashing Pumpkins t-shirt was one of my favorites from high school. It got me through some times indeed. The song By Your Side is a throwback to another time as well. Here’s the version by Beachwood Sparks from the movie. I prefer the original by Sade, but this version has a haunting hollow that is fitting.

Here’s the complete list of all 36 songs from Scott Pilgrim vs. the World in the order the appeared in the movie and with notes on the scenes they were in. If you just watched Scott Pilgrim and are seeking out the music from the movie, I hope this post helps. If you’ve found the post first, you should find the film and set yourself to watching it. You will enjoy it for sure.

And if you’re wondering where the title of the post comes from, check out these quotes from Scott Pilgrim.

• First song at band practice with Knives visiting – We Are Sex Bob-Omb – Sex Bob-Omb
• Scott’s apartment, tells his roommate he’s dating a 17 year old – Scott Pilgrim – Plumtree
• Scott playing video game with Knives – Ninja Ninja Revolution – Dan The Automator
• Scott at Goodwill with Knives – Go – Plumtree
• Background during library scene – Garbage Truck – Sex Bob-Omb
• Party – Churches Under The Stairs – Broken Social Scene Presents Brendan Canning
• Scott looking for Ramona at the party – I Heard Ramona Sing – Frank Black
• Background at the party(?) – O Katrina! – Black Lips
• Scott dreams about Ramona as he waits for his package – Enter Goddess (from Legend of Zelda) – Koji Kondo
• Scott and Ramona at the park – Hilcrest Park by Nigel Godrich (Score)
• Flying through the door at the park, at Ramona’s apartment with tea, first kiss – By Your Side – Beachwood Sparks
• First song by Crash and the Boys – I’m So Sad, So Very, Very Sad – (Crash and the Boys) Broken Social Scene and Erik Knudsen
• Second song by Crash and the Boys – We Hate You, Please Die – (Crash and the Boys) Broken Social Scene and Erik Knudsen
• First song by Sex Bob-Omb – Garbage Truck by Sex Bob-Omb
• Patel’s dance song while fighting Scott – Slick (Patel’s Song) – Dan The Automator
• Scott comes home while roommate is making food – Seinfeld – Jonathan Wolff
• Riding the bus after breaking up with Knives – Teenage Dream – T-Rex
• Scott playing the bassline to Final Fantasy II – Final Fantasy II Battle I – Nobuo Uematsu
• Start playing song before Ramona comes to practice – Summertime – Sex Bob-Omb
• Scott making dinner for Ramona – To Ramona – The Flying Burrito Brothers
• Scott sings song he wrote for Ramona – Ramona – Michael Cera
• Playing in the background at the coffee shop when Julie is cursing at Scott – Nervous Breakdown – Eddie Cochran
• Kissing after dinner, talking about cutting his hair – Sleazy Bed Track – Bluetones
• Playing in background when Knives is dying her hair; Sex Bob-Omb playing onstage at the bar – Indefatigable – Sex Bob-Omb
• Knives says hi to Ramona in bar bathroom – It’s Getting Boring By The Sea – Blood Red Shoes
• The Clash at Demonhead plays on stage – Black Sheep – Metric and Brie Larson
• After Clash at Demonhead play – Romantic Rights – Death From Above 1979
• Scott and Todd square-off in battle of bass guitars – Bass Battle – Nigel Godrich, Justin Meldal Johnsen and Jason Falkner
• Walking into after party, then Ramona fights Roxy - Roxy by Nigel Godrich (score)
• After Scott and Ramona defeat Roxy – Latin America – Holy Fuck
• Battle between Sex Bob-Omb and Katayanagi twins – Katayanagi Twins Attack – Cornelius
• Battle with Katanayagi twins – Threshold – Sex Bob-Omb
• Gideon kisses Ramona’s ring during Katanayagi battle – The Ring (Hypnotic Seduction Of Dale) – Queen
• Scott sees Knives after battle with Katanayagi twins – Anthems For A Seventeen-Year-Old Girl – Broken Social Scene
• Gideon signs Sex Bob-Omb to contract – Under My Thumb – The Rolling Stones
• Scott sitting alone in the park – Ramona (Acoustic Version) – Beck
• Sex Bob-Omb playing at the Chaos Theater without Scott – No Fun – Sex Bob-Omb [link to version by Sex Pistols]
• Fight with Gideon’s minions -  We are Sex Bob-Omb by Sex Bob-Omb
• Scott comes back into the Chaos Theater after he gets to plus up life – No Fun – Sex Bob-Omb [link to version by Sex Pistols]
• Fights Gideon for himself not for Ramona – We are Sex Bob-Omb by Sex Bob-Omb
• Walking through door with Ramona, end credits – Ramona – Beck Hansen, Brian Lebarton, Joey Waronker and Bram Inscore
• Second end credits song – Summertime by Sex Bob-Omb
• Third end credits song – Threshold (8 Bit) – Brian Lebarton

Original music for Scott Pilgrim vs. the World – Nigel Godrich

A couple more videos of songs from Scott Pilgrim:

My favorite music moment in Horrible Bosses was the use of Sabotage when Nick was thinking about throwing Harken out the window.

The most hilarious music moment was when Dale was singing That’s Not My Name in the car outside Harken’s house. I also liked the use of Spoon’s Underdog at both the beginning of the movie and during the end credits. Lay Me Down by the Dirty Heads was only playing in the background during the bar scene when the guys were talking about killing their bosses, but hearing it reminded me how good the song is.

In order to figure out the songs in each scene in any movie, including Horrible Bosses, I have to take pen and paper into the theater. I get more than a few strange looks when I do, but you gotta do what you gotta do. Tonight, I forgot a notepad and my pen wouldn’t work, so I had to try to remember the scenes that the songs played in after getting back home. My brain mushed the scenes a bit. I have all the songs from Horrible Bosses, and they are in the right order, but there are a couple gaps in the scenes.

The movie itself is hysterical – across the board. Jason Bateman and Jason Sudeikis are hilarious. And Jennifer Aniston was completely unexpected in how funny she was. Her character is so far from usual that everything she says is that much funnier than if someone else was delivering the line. It was so funny, in fact, that I think I might just have to go back and see it again. This time I’ll bring a pen that works. With the song list already in hand, I should be able to fill out the rest of the list.

• Opening scene through the first couple minutes – The Underdog – Spoon
• Nick, Dale and Kurt at the bar – Crazy – Booker T. Jones
• (unknown scene) – Learn to Lose – Hockey
• Nick thinks about throwing Harken out the window – Sabotage – Beastie Boys
• (unknown scene) – Sydney (I’ll Come Running) – Brett Dennen
• In the bar talking about killing their bosses – Lay Me Down – Dirty Heads
• Bar in the crappy neighborhood looking for a killer – Beatin’ Down the Block – B.A.S.K.O.
• (unknown scene) – How You Like Me Now – The Heavy
• (unknown scene) – The Message – Cymande
• (unknown scene) – Koo Koo Rocks – With the Quickness
• Pettit’s cell phone ring, under the bed in Harken’s house – Kung Fu Fighting – Carl Douglas
• Dale singing in the car on the lookout for Harken – That’s Not My Name – The Ting Tings
• (unknown scene) – Perfect Day – The Constellations
• Meet at the bar after Pettit is shot – Moneygrabber – Fitz and the Tantrums
• Go back to Motherfucker Jones – I Be Doin’ It – Classic
• (unknown scene) – Rhythm of the Night – DeBarge
• End credits – This is How I Roll – Money Mark
• Second end credits – The Underdog – Spoon

Original music for Horrible Bosses – Christopher Lennertz

Here’s the best song from the movie – it’s Spoon performing The Underdog:

The Dirty Heads remind me of summer:

Brett Dennen hold his own:

Jane Campion has written and directed a gorgeous film – one of the best I’ve seen in the last couple years. It’s a shame it took so long to watch it. I encourage you to do so. It’s quite the counterpoint to the popcorn cinema in theaters now. Encore is playing the film right now and you can pick it up from Netflix too.

Most of the music in the movie Bright Star is comprised of a quiet, pensive score by Mark Bradshaw that incorporates the poems of Keats directly, including Ode to the Nightengale playing over the end credits. I also enjoyed the Human Orchesta, which is comprised of a half dozen men singing music notes in the middle of the film. Here’s the song:

As for the actual songs in the movie, there are three, including two songs by Mozart and another from Wilson, written in 1816, and featured in an album of period music labeled the era of Jane Austen. Here are the songs:

• Serenade in Bb K361 Adagio by Mozart – Mark Bradshaw
• The Sussex Waltz K536 No. 2 (Trio) by Mozart – Spare Parts
• Scotch Reel and Bonnie Highland Laddie Written by Wilson (1816) – Spare Parts
• Original music for Bright Star – Mark Bradshaw

And here’s U2. I can’t find the download for the song North Star, but I hope a live version via video suffices:

I liked Transformers 3 better than the second movie but not quite as much as the first. Rosie Huntington-Whiteley is an apt replacement for Megan Fox. She walks on screen and stares through the scene just as well. I was actually a bit surprised that her part was as big as it was.

While the producers of Transformers Dark of the Moon may have fallen for Rosie, the music producers were smitten with two songs in particular, playing them repeatedly throughout the movie. U2′s North Star is the first song in the movie, playing when Carlye gives Sam a stuffed animal bunny rabbit. It also plays when Sam visits Carlye at work. Linkin Park’s Iridescent plays when Sam and the crew are driving to Chicago to save Carlye and also as the first song during the end credits.

Here’s the complete list of songs from Transformers 3 along with notes on the scenes they were in. Enjoy!

• Carlye gives Sam a stuffed bunny – North Star – U2
• Little Autobots watching Star Trek – More Soup from Stark Trek Amok Theme – Gerald Fried
• Little Autobot starts singing – We Are Family – Bernard Edwards and Nile Rodgers
• Sam goes for job interviews – Sweet Emotion (David Thoener Remix) – Aerosmith
• Sam visits Carlye at work – North Star – U2
• (Unknown scene) – The Better Angels of Our Nation – Stars of the Lid
• Sam in the mail room at his job – All That You Are – Goo Goo Dolls
• Sam in the elevator with Jerry Wang – You Light Up My Life – Debby Boone
• Simmons on the O’Reilly Factor – The O’Reilly Factor Theme – Phil Garrod, Reed Hays and Scott Schreer
• Visiting the Russian cosmonauts – Discomalaria – Seryoga
• Dylan and Carlye at dinner – String Quartet No. 12 in C Minor D 703 Quartettsatz – The Kodaly Quartet
• Simmons at NASA – I Will Survive – Freddie Perren and Dino Fekaris
• Driving to Chicago toward to save Carlye – Iridescent – Linkin Park
• Bumblebee pulls out a bunch of rings – Bridal Chorus – Richard Wagner
• First end credits song – Iridescent – Linkin Park
• Second end credits song – Monster – Paramore
• Third end credits song – Many of Horror – Biffy Clyro
• Original score – Original music for Transformers Dark of the Moon – Steve Jablonsky

Here’s Paramore with Monster:

Extra songs that are on the soundtrack album for Transformers Dark of the Moon but that weren’t in the movie itself:

• The Only Hope is Me For You – My Chemical Romance
• Faith (When I Let You Down) – Taking Back Sunday
• The Bottom – Staind
• Get Thru This – Art of Dying
• Head Above Water – Theory of a Deadman
• Set the World on Fire – Black Veil Brides
• Awake and Alive (Rock Radio Mix) – Skillet
• Just Got Paid – Mastodon

Musically, Impostor started out right. I wasn’t expecting to hear John Lee Hooker in a movie set in 2079, but was pleasantly surprised by it. Boom, boom, boom, boom. Pretty funny given that the movie is about a guy who is supposedly carrying enough Centauri C4 to blow up half of a city. Unfortunately, the cleverness of the movie ended there – it went from bomb to bust.

After a few piss poor special effects, Impostor shifts to a few scenes that are supposed to make you care about the future Earth by displaying emotional scenes that we can relate to today – young love and motherhood. Just your average shuttle ride featuring teens making out next to a mother breastfeeding her child. A little bit forced on the sentimentality. Or maybe that’s just the piano score that seems a bit forced.

I usually love movies, oarticularly sci-fi films about identity, but this one was a dud. Whichever cast of characters rated this four out of five stars on Netflix needs a bit more supernova in their lives. If you were tempted to watch this, watch Moon instead. A much better choice on the sci-fi list.

I won’t make bad space jokes anymore. I’ll just leave you with the music. There were three songs in the movie Impostor. I suppose that’s more than most future apocalyptic alien invasion movies. They were better than the movie itself as well as Isham’s score.

• Olham in the shower – Boy from Ipanema by Crystal Waters
• Second song in the shower, asks for something different – Boom Boom by John Lee Hooker
• Doctor Pearl washing his hands before Olham body scan – Tribal Flight 1 by Richard Downing

I had the same verve of a reaction when I realized that The Adjustment Bureau was based on a short story by Philip K. Dick. There are a great many of his stories that have been turned into movies – Blade Runner and Total Recall are at the top of the list for me. I’d put Adjustment Bureau near there as well – certainly higher than Next and Paycheck – maybe somewhere near Minority Report. The movie kind of reminded me of The Candidate, if it were told by JJ Abrams within a dream in which Frank Capra was telling a tall tale.

Besides the two songs from Ashcroft, the rest of the soundtrack for The Adjustment Bureau is a ragtag bunch, including a remix of Fever and a tune from They Might Be Giants, each good in their own right, but making for an interesting mix here. I could not for the life of me figure out where the They Might Be Giants song was in the movie, nor where the Gleedsville song was either. Sorry for the holes in the scene list. Perhaps my viewing experience was adjusted for the chairman’s shits and giggles. Google gave me no more relief.

The score for the movie is appropriately pensive, with a little bit of clarinet, followed by a slow guitar and strings. It paints a lush landscape – one where your brain may wander unto itself, asking questions about free will and those purposeful accidents that have made you who you are today. My favorite line from the movie came early, after Norris accidentally sees an adjustment happening. He is sitting in the bar trying to remember Elise’s number. Harry tells him: “your entire world just turned upside down and you’re thinking about a woman”. This could describe any number of scenes from a Matt Damon movie. It could also capture what makes us fundamentally human, and subject to the tantrums of fate. Love.

What would you do? Risk your life and hers? Choose a destiny of promise or make a promise that destiny says you can’t keep? Would you counter that clock and turn the door opposite?

While you decide, take a look at the complete list of all six songs from The Adjustment Bureau Soundtrack. I was able to figure out which scenes for of the six songs were in. If you can figure out where the They Might Be Giants song is in the movie, I’d greatly appreciate it.

• Opening, candidate for senate – Future’s Bright – Richard Ashcroft
• (unknown scene) – Let Your Body Loose – Gleedsville
• Dance club – Groove Ensemble – Joseph Katsaros
• (unknown scene) – Mr Correct – They Might Be Giants
• Running with the hat trying to break-up the wedding – Fever (Adam Freeland Extended Remix) – Sarah Vaughan
• End credits – Are You Ready? – Richard Ashcroft & The United Nations of Sound

Original music for The Adjustment Bureau – Thomas Newman

And a little more from the score to The Adjustment Bureau:

But there’s also an odd streak in there too, kind of like the movie itself. The soundtrack is rounded out with music from Coolio, Rooney, JT and Hall & Oates.

And what movie is complete without a little Schlittenfahrt, which as far as I can tell is an actual German Christmas song. Please, correct me if I’m wrong. The album cover looks pretty legit. A little Google Translator and, what do you know, it means sleigh ride. Well, that’s fun. The movie itself was fun at times, but dragged a bit too. I found it funny, then not funny, funny, then not funny. Not bad for a popcorn movie but I don’t think it will be jumping to the top of my queue anytime soon.

• Opening – Teacher Teacher – Rockpile
• Elizabeth driving like crazy out of the school parking lot – You’ve Got Another Thing Comin’ – Judas Priest
• Speech at end of school year - Into My Mind – Charlie Wadhams
• Showing the movie in class - Stand And Deliver (Main Title) – Craig Safan
• Doctor’s office – Cafe Jazz – Tim Ziesmer
• Seventh grade car wash – Still Of The Night – Whitesnake
• Collecting money for operation - Gangsta’s Paradise – Coolio
• Elizabeth smoking pot in her car – Rainbow In The Dark – Dio
• Winter Dance – 867-5309 Jenny – Tommy Tutone
• Russell arguing with kid about Lebron – I Can’t Get Enough – Rooney
• (Unknown scene) – Chicago Beatdown – Tim Ziesmer
• Elizabeth and Russell talking in the gym – Everything You Need – Kate Booye and Jon-Michael Estep
• Parent of student drives up in car, invites her to dinner – Schlittenfahrt – Die Flippers
• Shows Scream the movie in the classroom – Mr Himbry Gets It from Scream – Marco Beltrami
• School teacher band playing at the bar – Lullaby – Period 5
• Justin Timberlake singing at the bar – Simpatico – Justin Timberlake, Lee Eisenberg and Gene Stupnitsky
• Restaurant with the test administrator – Swing Easy – Tim Ziesmer
• Taking shots at the restaurant with the test administrator – Nothing From Nothing – Billy Preston
• Internet radio in the test administrator’s office – 54-46 That’s My Number – Toots & the Maytals
• Test administrator is about to pass out – Sara Smile – Daryl Hall and John Oates
• (unknown scene) – Smoothie – Tim Ziesmer
• Roommate smashes scooter into test administrator’s car – The Ripper – Judas Priest
• End credits – Real Wild Child – Joan Jett & The Blackhearts
• Original music for Bad Teacher – Michael Andrews

There are also some great songs in the trailers/commercials for Bad Teacher, including:

• Beggin - Madcon (this song was popularized in the Step Up 3D soundtrack)
• Stroke Me – Mickey Avalon (this song samples the 80s song Strokin by Billy Squire. Mickey Avalon had his big movie break when his song “What Do You Say?” was featured in the pool scene of the first Hangover.)

Here’s White Snake in all their hair band glory:

Watch out for Joan Jett, she’s a Real Wild Child:

I don’t quite get the subtitles in this concert footage, but it’s Hall & Oates, so you can’t go wrong:

And last but not least, it’s Rooney singing I Can’t Get Enough: