All 32 Songs from the Easy A Soundtrack

There are 32 brilliant songs in the Easy A soundtrack, but there’s not a soundtrack album with all of them. That’s a damn shame, but not to worry, because we’ve pulled all of the songs from Easy A together for you along with notes on the scenes they were in, including Sweet Thing, Death Cab, Rooney, the Cary Brothers and Dan Black, one of my favorite artists of the past year. Only part of his song Symphonies is in the movie, but I’m hopeful that it serves as enough of a teaser for people to explore more, because Dan Black is absolutely amazing.

I hope you enjoyed the music as much as I enjoyed the movie too. Hilarious stuff. Any movie that can take a Google Earth reference and play it back and forth for a while is alright by me. And if you weren’t already in love with Emma Stone from Superbad or Zombieland, you certainly are now.

One of the most pleasantly surprising musical elements of the movie was that the producers wove in references to and covers of some of the best 80s movie songs into Easy A, including the Cary Brothers cover of the Thompson Twins “If You Were Here” from Sixteen Candles, and both the original Simple Minds version of “Don’t You (Forget About Me)” from Breakfast Club, as well as a cover version by AM.

Even though I love this song, I was disappointed that they used this song for the boombox scene instead of “In Your Eyes” by Peter Gabriel, which would have been the right song to suit the original scene from Say Anything. The producers even worked in references the lawnmower reference from Can’t Buy Me Love. Too bad they couldn’t have found a way to incorporate the African anteater dance into the party scene. [Note: if any of these references are totally confusing for you, please add Say Anything, Sixteen Candles, Can’t Buy Me Love and Breakfast Club to your Netflix immediately. It probably means you were too young to enjoy them the first time around, but there’s still time for redemption.]

Here’s the complete list of all 32 songs from Easy A with notes on the scenes the songs were in and downloads for almost all of them.

• Opening – Change of Seasons (Demo Version) – Sweet Thing
• Opening – Change of Seasons – Sweet Thing
• Greeting card throughout the weekend – Pocketful of Sunshine – Natasha Bedingfield
• Blue devils pep rally – Fight Dillon Fight – Rob Walker
• The lie spreads – Cupid Shoot Me – Remi Nicole
• Flashback to seven minutes of heaven – Don’t Cha – Pussycat Dolls
• Walking through the school – The Wolf – Miniature Tigers
• Principal’s office – Trouble Is A Friend – Lenka
• After the principal, sees the woodchuck mascot boy – Symphonies – Dan Black
• Mopping the floor in detention – Perfect Picture – Carlos Bertonatti
• Sitting on top of her car with her best friend – Go On – Rooney
• Ben comes to Olive’s house – 15 Minutes – The Yeah You’s
• (unknown scene) – Confession – Brad Segal
• (unknown scene) – Parking Lot – Brad Segal
• Party – Move Shake Drop (Remix) – DJ Laz
• Fake having sex at the party – Numba One (Tide Is High) – Kardinal Offishall
• Ringtone – Pocketful of Sunshine – Natasha Bedingfield
• Friend calls Olive to bitch at her for not telling her she slept with Ben – Bad Reputation – The Dollyrots [link to Joan Jett version]
• Walking into school – Sexy Silk – Jessica Cornish
• Prayer group singing – Go Down Moses – Traditional
• Rumor about sex for money spreads – Bad Before Good – Day One
• Many rumors spreading – When Life Gives Me Lemons I Make Lemonade – The Boy Least Likely To
• I want the 80s movie romance – If You Were Here – Cary Brothers [cover of Thompson Twins song from 16 Candles]
• Friends with Amanda Bynes to Chlamydia – We Go Together – I Heart Homework [cover of original from the movie Grease]
• People carrying signs, to the confession – Good Life – One Republic
• Sitting alone – Rhapsody of the Awesome – Bert V. Royal and Will Gluck
• Mascot guy drives Olive home – Big Jet Plane – Angus and Julia Stone
• Talking to mascot guy in his car – If You Were Here – Cary Brothers [repeat of earlier song]
• Wants to set the record straight – Satellite – Mark Maher
• Prayer group singing again – Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen – Traditional [link to version by Nat King Cole]
• Olive talks to her mom – Transatlanticism – Death Cab for Cutie
• Olive sings at the pep rally – Knock On Wood – Eddie Floyd and Steve Cropper [link to version by Amii Stewart]
• Webcast – Change of Seasons – Sweet Thing [repeat of first song from the movie]
• Mascot guy standing outside Olive’s house – Don’t You (Forget About Me) – Simple Minds [from the Breakfast Club]
• End credits – Don’t You (Forget About Me) – AM
• Second end credits song – Change of Seasons – Sweet Thing [repeat of first song from the movie]

Original music – Original music for Easy A – Brad Segal

~ by montelutz on September 20, 2010.