Bit By Bit: Five Songs from the Fletch Soundtrack

Bit by Bit, the Theme from Fletch, pretty much sums up the music in the movie. It’s a heavy dose of keyboard synthesizer mixed with electronic drum beats in an upbeat only-the-way-the-80s-could-be kind of way, just like the movie itself. Fletch came out 25 years ago, but it is still one of my favorite movies, back from when Chevy Chase was one of the funniest people in film. Fletch is often on USA on the random odd weekend. Tonight, I was flipping through the guide and founf it was on CMT. Even with commerticals, I could not turn away.

These days, Chevy Chase is back to funny as the almost begrungingly likeable curmudgeon Pierce Hawthorn in Community. But if you want Chevy Chase at his finest, you need to go back to Spies Like Us, Vacation or Three Amigos. And Fletch, definitely Fletch.

While there are only four songs credited in the movie, I would add a fifth for good measure. When Fletch is running away from the cops and ends up in the American Legion meeting, he sings the National Anthem to get the attendees on their feet so that he can get away.

The funniest song (well, at least because of the context) is when Fletch sings Moon River when he goes to Stanwyck’s doctor for an exam. He sings a line from the song before asking: “You using the whole fist, doc?”

Here’s the complete list of songs from Fletch along with downloads for them. You can put them on the Underhill’s bill.

• At the doctor’s office – Moon River – Henry Mancini and Johnny Mercer (sung by Chevy Chase; link to version by Henry Mancini)
• American Legion meeting – Star-Spangled Banner – Francis Scott Key (sung by Chevy Chase; link to version by Marvin Gaye circa 1983)
• (unknown scene) – Letter to Both Sides – Fixx
• (unknown scene) – Fletch, Get Outta Town – Dan Hartman
• End credits – Bit by Bit (Theme from Fletch) – Stephanie Mills

If you can’t get enough Fletch, you can snag the original Fletch CD soundtrack, including the score by Harold Faltermeyer. This is 80s synthesizer score at it’s best.

The 7 Songs from the Green Lantern Soundtrack Shine Brighter Than the Film

The soundtrack album for Green Lantern only has the score from the movie, but you can find all seven songs from Green Lantern here, along with notes on the scenes they were in. Most of the songs from the movie are from the 1950s and 60s, an homage to the reboot of the series with Hal Jordan in 1960.

You never know what you are going to get in the soundtrack to a comic book movie. Some go comic to the core and stick with a score that channels the sense of the graphic comic turned tune, while others shove as many hit songs as possible into the soundtrack, even if only a few actually appear in the movie itself. These soundtracks become promotional vehicles for the summer blockbuster as much as the Happy Meals, candy bars and action figures that bear its visage.

Green Lantern cuts somewhere in the middle. There’s only one song on the soundtrack to Green Lantern that I would actually expect to appear in this movie: that’s the first song, Baby You Don’t Wanna Know by Sum 41. The soundtrack quickly remembers its comic book roots and brings the sounds of Sam Cooke, The Fleetwoods and 60s songs Lawdy Miss Clawdy and Barefootin performed by New Orleans band Joints Jumpin’.

Although the reviews for the movie have been mixed, I think most people who take a listen to the songs in the movie will find that they like them. Here’s the complete list of all seven songs from Green Lantern, with links to the downloads for them and notes on the scenes they were in.

• Wakes up late, driving the car as he wraps a present – Baby You Don’t Wanna Know – Sum 41
• Driving to kid’s party after he crashes the plane – Fancy Women – The Roses
• Hal and Carol at the bar – That’s Where It’s At – Sam Cooke
• Hal and Carol dancing slowly – Come Softly To Me – The Fleetwoods
• First song at the Ferris party – Lawdy Miss Clawdy – Joint’s Jumpin’
• Hal talking to Hector at the Ferris party – Barefootin’ – Joint’s Jumpin’
• After the toast at the party – Hands of Time – Groove Armada

Original music for the Green Lantern – James Newton Howard

The Fleetwoods 1959 classic Come Softly To Me:

Groove Armada’s bluesy plea Hands of Time:

Here’s Elvis doing Lawdy Miss Clawdy, the song performed by Joint’s Jumpin at the party in the movie:

Take a Chance on the Taking Chances Soundtrack, But Skip the Movie

Taking Chances is not a very good movie. In fact, it should not even make it on the back up extended list of your Instant Queue. I usually like movies – most any movie. I also think Justin Long can be pretty damn funny, even if he has made some pretty bad films. Accepted is one of those movies that I will watch every time USA decides it is back to school enough to run on a loop for a week or two. Unfortunately Taking Chances would be on the bottom of the Long list of mediocre films.

In fact, just about the only redeeming thing about Taking Chances is the soundtrack. There are 13 songs in the movie, 11 of which are from the band Wyoming featuring singer Jacob Bercovici. I am very thankful to the producers of Taking Chances for introducing me to the music of Wyoming. The most recent Wyoming album, In the Wings, is about to go into heavy rotation.

The music from Taking Chances reminds me of the soundtracks to Good Will Hunting and Up in the Air – both great mixes of tunes. Wyoming sounds like a cross between Elliott Smith, Dan Auerbach and Sad Brad Smith. Good vocals, scratchy acoustic guitars and a hook that sticks in your craw.

I was able to track down two Wyoming albums on Amazon, a Facebook page as well as a references to the albums on a good ole MySpace page, but not much else about Jacob or his band. (Any fans of Wyoming out there? If so, please share.) I downloaded the 16 songs from Wyoming that I could find, off the 2011 album In the Wings, which is closest to the sound of the songs from the movie, as well as the earlier album In Prison, which is still good, but not a different sound. If you are going to go with one of them, pick up In the Wings first.

I had a really hard time trying to find downloads for the songs from the movie, so I’m not going to be able to provide the customary links to the songs in the movie, or to identify the specific scenes they were in. If you are able to track down any of these songs, please let me know. I’ll be happy to share.

Here’s the complete list of 13 songs from Taking Chances in the order they appeared in the movie:

• What Will You Do – Wyoming featuring Jacob Bercovici
• Golden Bones – Wyoming featuring Jacob Bercovici
• Over the Sun – Wyoming featuring Jacob Bercovici
• Is it Yours, Is it Mine – Wyoming featuring Jacob Bercovici
• Bumblee Lights – Wyoming featuring Jacob Bercovici
• Pol Pot’s Theme – John Gold, Sam Music and David Ralicke
• Barstow Shuffle – Wyoming featuring Jacob Bercovici
• Coral Reefs – Wyoming featuring Jacob Bercovici
• Selma – Wyoming featuring Jacob Bercovici
• London – Noonday Underground
• Prospector’s Lament – Wyoming featuring Jacob Bercovici
• Sunburned – Wyoming featuring Jacob Bercovici
• American Dream Sweet Dreams – Wyoming featuring Jacob Bercovici
• Original music for Taking Chances – Scott Glasgow

Here’s the only video that I could find for the songs from Taking Chances. It’s London by Noonday Underground:

All 5 Songs from the Cars 2 Soundtrack

The soundtrack to Cars 2 is a little bit like a mid-range compact car. It’s pretty light on features – there are only five songs in the movie – but those features that have been included complement each other well. There are two simple themes of the movie Cars 2 soundtrack: cars and international adventures.

The best song on the Cars 2 album is Weezer’s cover version of the Cars classic You Might Think. Not that the original needed a fresh coat, but Weezer’s does a reasonable job of keeping it true to the original while still making it their own. The same cannot be said for the movie. It was so slow that I saw a couple kids who fell asleep midway through it. You might be better off watching the first one twice rather than the second one once. It’s not horrible, but it’s not nearly as good as the first one either.

There’s also a couple country tunes from Brad Paisley, including a duet with Robbie Williams, who boasts a Blondie styled Route 66 talking rap in the middle of the song. Collision of Worlds is a nod to the international focus of Cars 2, as is Benabar’s “Mon Couer Fait Froom”, which translates as My Heart Goes Vroom. Fitting.

The first Cars movie was a lot of fun; the second one promises to be a good time as well. Lightning McQueen and Mater are back along with Finn McMissile and a cast of international cars. The spy caper motif is fun, giving the franchise plenty of opportunity to extend the Mater as the likable rube story from the first installment.

All of the songs in Cars 2 are available on the Cars 2 soundtrack album. You can download them all individually from Amazon, except for Polyrythm by Perfume, which can only be snagged along with the rest of the album. Two of the five songs are in the end credits of Cars 2, while the rest are used to set the scene in Tokyo and Paris. There are a couple classical songs that are uncredited in the movie, such as the song for the Queen when Mater is knighted.

Here are the five songs that are credited in Cars 2 in the order they appeared in the movie and with notes on the scenes they were in:

• Flying in the airplane to Tokyo – You Might Think – Weezer
• At the party in Tokyo – Polyrhythm – Perfume
• Paris – Mon Coeur Fait Vroom (My Heart Goes Vroom) – Benabar
• First end credits song – Collision of Worlds – Brad Paisley and Robbie Williams
• Second end credits song – Nobody’s Fool – Brad Paisley

Original music for Cars 2 by Michael Giacchino

Here’s the Japanese electropop trio Perfume, singing their song Polyrythm. Judging by the size of the crowd in this live concert video, they are slightly popular in Tokyo than Radiator Springs:

Micheael Giacchino introduces the Cars 2 score at a preview event at Epcot:

All 25 Songs from the Take Me Home Tonight Soundtrack

So this one took a while to post, but I’ve been interested in seeing Take Me Home Tonight for quite some time, primarily because the song Take Me Home Tonight is one of my favorites from the eighties. I finally got around to watching the movie tonight and scratching out some notes about the soundtrack. Ironically enough, the title song isn’t even featured in the movie.

There are 25 other songs from the eighties that are in the movie Take Me Home Tonight, so it’s not a total loss. A handful of the songs – in fact, most of them that the soundtrack producers put onto the album they released, are typical eighties songs that you could find on just about any eighties compilation mix. These include Come on Eileen, Video Killed the Radio Star, Everybody Have Fun Tonight and Hungry Like the Wolf. These are all good songs, but don’t really stretch the imagination very much. Thankfully, the songs from the movie get a little more creative than this standard fare. Richard Blade might not embrace the whole album but at least he give a good listen to half of it.

The best songs in the movie are Ship of Fools by World Party, Der Komissar by After the Fire, Situation by Yaz and Modigliani (Lost In Your Eyes) by Book of Love. All three are great songs that get slightly less rotation in the eighties lexicon. I’d also throw Jet Fighter and The Fanatic on that list as well.

As a child of the eighties, I knew all of the songs except for one which I didn’t remember right off the bat: Doot-Doot by Freur. It plays when they are on the trampoline. As soon as it got to the chorus – “We go doot-doot” – I recognized it, but it took quite a bit to get there. A little bit of digging into memory banks and Wikipedia ranks, and I discovered that the song was also used in the movies Valley Girl and Vanilla Sky. Definitely super fitting for the freaky bits of the latter. But even more interesting, the duo that comprised Freur later formed Underworld of Born Slippy/Trainspotting fame. The album they released a year before Trainspotting, dubnobasswithmyheadman, is still one of the best of the early 90s.

The soundtrack album for Take Me Home Tonight has about half of the songs from the movie on it, but it is missing some of the choicest ones. Plus, you can’t download them individually even from the MP3 album. Thankfully to the wonders of modern digital music and the power of search, you can find the individual songs standing on their own.

Here’s the complete list of 25 songs from the movie, with notes on the scenes they were in and links to the individual downloads. I hope you enjoy.

• Opening scene at the record store – Video Killed The Radio Star – The Buggles
• Opening credits – Hungry Like the Wolf – Duran Duran
• (Unknown scene) – Situation – Yaz
• Barry quits the car dealership – The Fanatic – Felony
• Wendy opens letter from Cambridge – Walking in L.A. – Missing Persons
• Looking at yearbook – Der Kommissar – After the Fire
• Guys wrestling before party / girl in tanning bed – Kickstart My Heart – Motley Crue
• Stealing car / singing in the car – Straight Outta Compton – N.W.A.
• Walk into the party – Let’s Go All the Way – Sly Fox
• Tori walks down the stairs – Bette Davis Eyes – Kim Carnes
• Barry dancing – Safety Dance – Men Without Hats
• Guy playing the guitar – Oh Sherrie – Bill Cuomo, Steve Perry, Randy Goodrum, Craig Krampf [link to original song performed by Steve Perry]
• Dance off – What You Need – INXS
• Matt dances with Tori – Everybody Have Fun Tonight – Wang Chung
• Wendy’s boyfriend asks her to marry her – Come on Eileen – Dexy’s Midnight Runners
• Random blonde girl talks to him about going to NYC – Jeopardy – Greg Kihn
• Matt driving the car with Tori – Let My Love Open The Door (E. Cola Mix) – Pete Townshend
• Redhead comes up to Barry at Beverly Hills party – Warm Leatherette – Grace Jones
• Matt and Tori on the Trampoline – Doot-Doot – Freur
• Matt and Tori kiss – Modigliani (Lost In Your Eyes) – Book of Love
• Tells friend he slept with the girl – Ship of Fools – World Party
• Goes back to the party – Jet Fighter – The Three O’Clock
• Rode the ball – Alrock’s Bells – Yo La Tengo
• Matt kisses Tori at the car, dad finds ball in pool, end credits – Live Is Life – Opus
• End credits – Don’t You Want Me – Atomic Tom
• Original score – Original music for Take Me Home Tonight – Trevor Horn

The most ridiculously, secretly popular song of the movie is Live is Life by Opus to the tune of 15 million views on YouTube:

Here’s World Party singing Ship of Fools live sometime way back when:

Here’s The Fanatic by Felony, which became a hit on KROQ at the time:

This song speaks the truth – Walking in L.A. by Missing Persons:

All 8 Songs from the X-Men First Class Soundtrack

There are 8 songs in X-Men First Class, primarily consisting of music from the 60s, including music from Freddy Cannon, The Jarmels, Booker T & the MGs and Chan Ramero. The dance scene with Angel also features a Gnarls Barkely song that’s a throwback to the era.

The music suits the movie. I particularly enjoyed Palisades Park and Hippy Hippy Shake, which play at the casino towards the beginning of the movie and when everyone’s dancing and breaking chairs after they picked their X-Men names.

As for the movie itself, it’s easily the best since the original, and maybe even better than that one. The backstory of the characters, the dynamic between them and the entire series of training sequences were awesome. James McAvoy and Michael Fassbender were great as foils. You almost felt for Magneto, which is quite a feat. People laughed the first time Kevin Bacon showed up on screen, but he pulled it off. January Jones did not.

The soundtrack album for X-Men First Class features the score by Henry Jackman, but skips the other songs from the movie. However, you can find all 8 songs from X-Men First Class here, along with notes on the scenes they were in and downloads for them.

• Concentration camp background – Concentration Camp – Michael Kamen
• Record player playing in the office at the concentration camp – La Vie En Rose – Edith Piaf
• In Vegas, half-dressed girls walking into the casino – Palisades Park – Freddy Cannon
• At the strip club looking for Angel – Run (I’m A Natural Disaster) – Gnarls Barkley
• (unknown scene) – A Little Bit Of Soap – The Jarmels
• Talking about picking names for themselves – Green Onions – Booker T & The MGs
• Dancing, breaking chairs – Hippy Hippy Shake – Chan Romero
• Soviet officials saluting sending ships to war – Soviet National Anthem – The Red Army Choirs of Alexandrov
• Original score – Original music for X-Men First Class – Henry Jackman

Here’s Green Onions. You know you know the keyboard riff from this one:

The Hippy Hippy Shake:

All 11 Songs from the Super 8 Soundtrack

The Super 8 soundtrack brings 11 songs straight from the summer of ’79 to the screen, including ELO, Blondie, The Cars and Wings. The music plays well with the kitschy look back to the new technologies that seemed amazing in the day, but somewhat hilarious in the context of today. Imagine being able to listen to a tape on your own portable music system, the Walkmen, or being able to rush the development of your Super 8 film, so that you can reveal all of the secrets of your own home mystery movie in just three whole days.

I loved this movie. It reminded me of the Goonies in all of its innocence and adventure. If you are reading this post and have not seen Goonies, stop reading, turn on Netflix, watch the movie, and then return to the post. If you’ve already seen Goonies, you know what I’m talking about. The kids were amazing in this movie. They were funny, awkward, endearing and brave. The movie at the end of the movie was hysterical as well.

As for the music from Super 8, here’s the complete list of all 11 songs from Super 8, along with notes on the scenes they were in. Don’t Bring Me Down and My Sharona are repeated twice, being used in the movie itself as well as the end credits.

• Getting out of school – Don’t Bring Me Down – Electric Light Orchestra
• Dinner at Charles’s house – Match Game Opening Theme – Robert Arnold Israel
• Joe and his dad at the diner talking about baseball camp – Easy – Commodores
• Kids singing at night waiting to shoot the movie scenes – My Sharona – Zach Mills, Riley Griffiths, Ryan Lee, Gabriel Basso and Joel Courtney
• Driving in the car to shoot the movie scenes – Bye Bye Love – The Cars
• Kids sitting at the diner talking about the crash – Silly Love Songs – Wings
• Gas station attendant listening to his Walkman on his headphones – Heart of Glass – Blondie
• Cartoon in the background on the TV – High Diving Hare – Carl Stalling
• Stoner smoking pot in the car outside the school – Undercover Angel – Alan O’Day
• Stoner drives up in the car the bus attack – Le Freak – Chic
• First end credits song – Don’t Bring Me Down – Electric Light Orchestra
• Second end credits song (after the mini movie) – My Sharona – The Knack
• Original music for Super 8 – Michael Giacchino

I’ve picked the live versions so you can get a bit of the flavor of the time period. Yeah, that was some time ago.

Here's My Sharona, which plays twice in Super 8: 



Last but not least, you can't have the 70s, without Blondie:

All 18 Songs from the Bridesmaids Soundtrack

The Bridesmaids soundtrack brings you Wilson Phillips, Britney Spears, Kate Nash, Fiona Apple, Blondie and Courtney Love wrapped up into 18 songs of celebratory goodness. I don’t know which is more surprising to see turn up and still in rotation, Wilson Phillips or Fiona Apple, but they are both fitting. I also liked Nouvelle Vague’s less violent take on the Violent Femmes classic Blister in the Sun.

Sometimes (a lot of the time) movies introduce us to artists that we probably should have known but don’t. For me, that was Inara George, whose song “It’s Raining” perfectly captures the sense of loss and loneliness that Annie is feeling when she sees her old bakery.

The music producers found a way to make room for a a few of the boys as well, including Smokey Robinson, AC/DC, Dr. Dre and the always fitting Ryan Adams, whose song Answering Bell plays when Annie is baking the carrot cake.

This movie is being called the female Hangover. And they’re right. It’s outrageous and hilarious. Personally, I would put it somewhere between the original Hangover and Hangover Part 2, but it’s definitely one of the funniest movies I’ve seen this year. I’d also nominate it for best use of Wilson Phillips. You may have loved to hate them, but I’m sure you were singing “Hold On” just like the rest of us.

The Bridesmaids soundtrack album has 12 songs from the movie plus an extra bonus live version of Blondie’s “Rip Her to Shreds.” It’s an all or nothing affair – kind of like the movie itself – you have to buy all of the tracks together. Not a bad investment if you’ve been trying to figure out a way to justify adding something from the Britney Spears Greatest Hits to your rotation without having to admit that you bought the album.

However, if you like to pick your mixes one track at at time, you can find the complete list of songs from Bridesmaids, with downloads for them and notes on the scenes they were in below.

• Leaving the house – Rip Her To Shreds – Blondie
• Lillian tells Annie she got engaged – Specks Blues – Specks Williams
• Driving to the engagement party – Blister In The Sun – Nouvelle Vague
• Singing during engagement toast – That’s What Friends Are For – Burt Bacharach and Carol Bayer Sager [link to version by Dionne Warwick and Elton John]
• Annie baking a cupcake – Paper Bag – Fiona Apple
• Playing tennis – Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap – AC/DC [link to tribute version]
• (unknown scene) – Do Wah Doo – Kate Nash
• Brazillian restaurant – Manha De Carnaval – Joao Donato
• (unknown scene) – Morning Dance – Spyro Gyra
• On the plane to Vegas – I’ve Just Begun (Having My Fun) – Britney Spears
• At the bar with the cop – My Love Is Your Love (Forever) – Smokey Robinson & The Miracles
• Annie looking at the bake shop – It’s Raining – Inara George
• Annie is driving, Megan passes her with the puppies in her van – Violet – Hole
• Watching Castaway – Wilson…I’m Sorry – Alan Silvestri
• Annie baking the carrot cake – Answering Bell – Ryan Adams
• Driving slowly in the car past the cop – Natural Born Killaz – Dr Dre and Ice Cube
• Wilson Phillips singing at the wedding – Hold On – Wilson Phillips
• End credits – Shakin’ All Over – Wanda Jackson
• Original score – Original music for Bridesmaids – Michael Andrews

Extra song on the album but not in the movie

• Rip Her to Shreds (Live Version) – Blondie

Here’s Answering Bell from Ryan Adams:

And Violet off of Hole’s album Live Through This:

All 21 Songs from the Hangover 2 Soundtrack

There are more than 20 songs in the Hangover 2, but the soundtrack album to Hangover Part 2 only has about half of them. It’s also an all or nothing proposition – you can’t download the songs individually. I had a bit of a hard time figuring out what all of the songs were, so there are a few gaps in the list, but I think this will get you most of the way.

The soundtrack to Hangover 2 is a random, kickass good time, just like the movie itself. It goes from hip hop with Kanye and Flo Rida, to rock with Danzig and Wolfmother, old school with Billy Joel, Jim Croce and Mark Lanegan covering Johnny Cash, as well as house with Deadmau5 and random as hell with Mike Tyson on the mic. You’ve also got some good ole Flock of Seagulls and a host of classical and Thai songs, which I could not place to save my life, or even a single finger.

Here’s the list of songs from Hangover Part 2. It’s not complete yet. I’m going to have to see the movie again to be able to fill in the blanks. I think I have all the songs that you will be looking for with the exception of the tattoo parlor and car chase scenes. We’ve included info about the scenes the songs were in and downloads for the songs as well. Enjoy.

• Opening credits – Black Hell – Danzig
• Walking through the airport – Stronger – Kanye West
• On the plane – The Downeaster Alexa – Billy Joel
• Wedding party drinking outside in Thailand – (unknown classical song)
• Cello performance by Teddy – (unknown classical song)
• Bonfire on the beach – Monster – Kanye West featuring Jay Z, Rick Ross, Nicki Minaj and Bon Iver
• Wake up in random hotel room – The Beast in Me – Mark Lanegan [cover of Johnny Cash song]
• Tattoo parlor – (unknown blues song, male vocal)
• Second tattoo parlor song – (unknown blues/60s song, male vocal)
• Thai monestary – (unknown Thai song)
• Alan’s flashback meditation at the monestary – Imma Be – Black Eyed Peas [thx @smarterthanu for the scene. and yes, on this one, i will cede the scene to you]
• At the club – Sofi Needs a Ladder – Deadmau5
• Ed Helms singing in the boat – Allentown – Ed Helms
• Dinner with Chao – (unknown Thai song)
• Smoking monkey – Pusher Man – Curtis Mayfield
• Car chase – (Unknown guitar song, possibly score)
• Singing in the elevator – Time in a Bottle – Jim Croce
• Riding in the speedboat – Love Train – Wolfmother
• Waiting for the wedding – (unknown classical song)
• Walking down the aisle – (unknown classical song)
• Lighting the lanterns after the wedding – I Ran – Ska Rangers
• Mike Tyson singing – One Night in Bangkok – Mike Tyson
• End credits – Turn Around – Flo Rida

There is at least one song that I cannot place in the movie, but I know it was there:

• Bad Man’s World – Jenny Lewis

And another song that is on the soundtrack album to Hangover Part II but I don’t think it’s in the movie:

• Just the Way You Are – Ska Rangers

Here’s the video for the smoking monkey song – Pusherman by Curtis Mayfield:

And the ridiculous amazing disaster that is Mike Tyson singing One Night in Bangkok:

And the song from the elevator scene, Time in a Bottle by Jim Croce:

All 15 Songs from the Fast Five Soundtrack

Fast Five is the best movie in the series and the soundtrack to Fast Five holds its own as well. We’ve pulled together the complete list of all 15 songs from Fast Five along with notes on the scenes they were in. The music has a decidedly Brazilian flair – not surprising given the setting. There’s “Carlito Marron” by Carlinhos Brown, “Desabafo/Deixa Eu Dizer” by Marcelo D2 and a couple songs from Don Omar and Hybrid as well.

With Ludacris on screen, they couldn’t get away with skimping on the soundtrack. Luda performs Furiously Dangerous during the scene that plays after the end credits.

The soundtrack album to Fast Five has about half of the songs from the movie on it, but you can find all the songs from Fast Five in the list below, including descriptions of the scenes they were in and links to downloads for them.

• Opening scene – Batalha – ObandO
• Walkie talkie – OA – Euphon
• Negotiator – Carlito Marron – Carlinhos Brown
• Ludacris drives into the warehouse – Follow Me Follow Me (Quem Que Caguetou?) (Fast 5 Hybrid Remix) – Tejo, Black Alien and Speed Freaks
• Testing cars – How We Roll – Don Omar
• At the beach with Reyes – L.Gelada-3 Da Madrugada – M.V. Bill
• Girl in bikini – Desabafo/Deixa Eu Dizer – Marcelo D2
• The safe – Reppin’ My City – John John [link to version by Rick Ross]
• Racing the cop cars – Million Dollar Race – Edu K
• (unknown scene) – Han Drifting – Hybrid
• (unknown scene) – Taboo (Lambada Interpolation) – Don Omar
• BBQ – Big City – DougSimpson featuring Slim
• Open the safe – Danza Kuduro – Don Omar
• End credits – How We Roll (Fast Five Mix) – Don Omar
• Scene after the end credits – Furiously Dangerous – Ludacris
• Original score – Original music for Fast Five – Brian Tyler

Extra songs:

• How We Roll – Busta Rhymes
• Desabafo/Deixa Eu Dizer – Claudia

A little Desabafo/Deixa Eu Dizer by Marcelo D2