All 5 Songs from Exit Through the Gift Shop Soundtrack

I’ve been wanting to see Exit Through the Gift Shop for quite some time, but it just popped up in the new movies list on Netflix streaming, so I couldn’t resist. This post is a Christmas present to me. I’ve got a backlog of movies to go through, so expect more posts from me soon.

I still can’t quite tell whether the whole thing is a joke, but imagine “I’m Still Here” but with a Rutherford B. Hayes beard, combined with street art and Roni Size, and there you have it. Supposedly, Banksy et al waded through 10,000 hours of Thierry’s tapes to pull together the scenes used in the movie. If the snippet dubbed “Life Remote Control” is any indication of what Thierry’s own documentary would have looked like, it would have been worse than the shit Winona Ryder’s footage became for “In Your Face” TV.

Personally, I’m amazed by what Banksy has pulled off on the walls, corners and bridges of the world, so it’s no surprise, that his take on a documentary gone wrong was as entertaining as it was.

I don’t know who to feel worse for, Thierry, or the people who lined up by the thousands to see his big debut. Still, his stuff may be derivative, but because the entire genre of pop art is pretty much by definition, derivative, I don’t know if I can be too mad at the guy for his ?fame. If people imbue more meaning into his work than synapse he has in his brain, then he’s done his job and should get to enjoy his day.

As for the movie, and the music in it, there are only five songs in Exit Through the Gift Shop, but there’s also an engaging, accordianesque score from Geoff Barrow, as well as a good number of beat laden scenes courtesy of Roni Size. It’s a good mix of tunes, vaguely French for Thierry and then piano beats for the rest of us. Kelly Watch the Stars has always been one of my favorite Air songs too. It is quite fitting here.

Here’s the complete list of songs from Exit Through the Gift Shop with notes on the scenes they were in:

• Opening to the movie (and end credits) – Tonight the Streets Are Ours – Richard Hawley
• Zeus paints shadows, filming at night – Kelly Watch the Stars – Air
• Banksy puts painting up in Tate gallery – Kronkite (instrumental version) – The Creators
• ?Doors open for the MBW show – Gadje Sirbe – A Hawk and a Hacksaw
• MBW art show – Staying In – Diskjokke
• End credits – Tonight the Streets Are Ours – Richard Hawley (repeat)

Original music for Exit Through the Gift Shop – Geoff Barrow

Tron Legacy Soundtrack is Daft Punk at Their Finest

I’ve been hearing as much about Daft Punk’s soundtrack to Tron Legacy as the movie itself. In fact, many reviews of  Tron Legacy have been far kinder about the music than the movie. The critics were spot on about the music, but somehow forgot to open their eyes and see the movie for what it was – a beautiful lightcycle ride into a gorgeous re-imagined world.

Sure, some of the attempts at pseudo-matrixy zenlike meditations were a bit off, but did you see death spiral of the light jets? You can’t tell me that wasn’t as good as any visualized scene you’ve seen. Hold the movies side by side and you will know that the last 18 years have been worth it. They were some truly awesome things about this movie. It was made for 3D. In fact, watching it made me wonder when producers were going to start going back to old action movies and try to Ted Turnererize them into an extra dimension.

While you chew on that bit, take a good listen to the music of  Tron Legacy. The soundtrack album to Tron Legacy is chalk full of 23 tracks from the film, all by Daft Punk. My favorite tracks are End of Line and Derezzed, which played when Daft Punk were dj’ing at Castor’s night club.

Besides the score by Daft Punk, there were two other songs in the movie as well:

• Arcade Jukebox plays a song – Separate Ways by Journey
• Walking down the stairs to his dad’s office – Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) by Eurythmics

All 18 Songs from The Social Network Soundtrack

The soundtrack for The Social Network features a great score from Trent Reznor but the soundtrack album is missing the 18 songs that are in the movie. Not to worry, thanks to a little scribbledy scrawl at the midnight show, we’ve pulled together the complete list of all the songs from The Social Network with notes on the scenes they are in and downloads for most of them.

It’s quite the mix of music actually, starting with the White Stripes before venturing to Roots Manuva, the Cramps classic “Like a Bad Girl Should,” the Dead Kennedys and the old school hip hop of Ronnie Hudson.

There’s even a bit of house music of Dennis de Laat and an a cappella version of “I Swear” by Bruin Harmony, made famous (or infamous) by All-4-One. Throw in Bob Marley, The Beatles and Super Furry Animals, and you will realize what a strange little journey it is.

But the musical glue that tied it all together was certainly the score from Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross. From the initial wandering scenes to all the crazy that followed, the persistent haunt set just the right amount of uneasiness to disquiet you but engage you at the same time. It was like the best parts of Downward Spiral.

A bit about the movie itself. Simply put – it’s awesome. David Fincher should direct every movie. The hyper-contrast stop-motionesque treatment of the rowing scene was one of my favorites visually. Similarly, Aaron Sorkin is at his finest here. The script is tight, the lines are biting, the portrayal is brutal, but it’s also emphathetic in a not so-twisted way.

Here’s the list of all 17 songs from The Social Network soundtrack. Hope you enjoy the music as much as I enjoyed the movie.

• Opening scene at the bar with his girlfriend – Ball And Biscuit – White Stripes
• Blogging on Live Journal after breakup – Man Fi Cool – Roots Manuva
• (unknown scene) – Dreadlock Holiday – Eric Stewart and Graham Gouldman (performed by 10cc)
• Caribbean party – So I Wait – Three Hour Tour
• A capella singing group / thefacebook launches – I Swear – UCLA’s Bruin Harmony [ link to original by All-4-One]
• (unknown scene) – Like A Bad Girl Should – The Cramps [link to version by the Torpedo Monkeys]
• Talk about moving to Palo Alto (?)- Ital Visions – Roots Manuva
• Intern coding & drinking contest – California Uber Alles – Dead Kennedys
• Swimming pool zipline – West Coast Poplock – Ronnie Hudson
• Club with Sean Parker – The Sound Of Violence – Dennis De Laat
• Rowing competition in England – In the Hall of the Mountain King Op. 23 – Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross [link to version by San Francisco Symphony Orchestra]
• After the rowing competition – Arrival Of The Queen Of Sheba – Lumiere String Quartet
• Girls playing videogames – Crazy Baldhead – Bob Marley & The Wailers
• (unknown scene) – Hesitation (Instrumental Version) – Exray’s
• Zuckerberg in the car with Sean Parker on the way to play trick on Case investments – Underground Rapstar (Post-Mortem Remix) – Cage
• Eduardo contract (?) – Bleed Forever – Super Furry Animals
• House party – Black Book Lodge – Gluecifer
• Tries to add Erica as a friend / end credits – Baby, You’re A Rich Man – The Beatles [cover version of the song]
• Original music for The Social Network – Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross

All 28 Songs in the Wall Street 2 Money Never Sleeps Soundtrack

There are 28 songs in Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, but most of the songs play second fiddle to the 10 songs featuring David Byrne and Brian Eno in some form or fashion. The soundtrack album has but a small slice of the music from the movie – only 9 of the 28 songs from Wallstreet 2. But at least all the songs on the album are actually in the movie. There are no derivatives here, unlike most soundtrack albums these days, or the securities that the movie slams so vigorously.

In addition to the David Byrne and Brian Eno musical extravaganza, Wall Street 2 features songs from Centric House, Speed Caravan, Stigmato Inc and the Shiny Toy Guns, not to mention Ennio Morricone’s iconic score from The Good, The Bad and The Ugly, which serves as the best ring tone I have heard in a movie since Journey rang its way into Yes Man.

As for the movie itself, I can’t say that I was sold. I think Gordon Gekko’s speech about greed was a brilliant critique of the excesses and arrogance that got us into this mess. Indeed, the image of the gecko has come a long way since Gordon sullied the Gekko name in 1987. There also are a few cameo surprises that I enjoyed. But there were also a few characters/devices that I just missed completely. What the hell was the whistling bird thing? In classic Oliver Stone hit you across the forehead two-by-four style, the recurring kid bubbles were just a wee to blatant for me too. Of course, if the guys from Squawk Box had been a little more blatant in calling bullshit, maybe there would not have been a need for a sequel to Wall Street in the first place.

But I digress. We’re here to talk about the music, and there was a lot of it in this film. Here’s all 28 songs from Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps in the order they appeared in the movie and with notes on the scenes they were in. Enjoy it, before this little soundtrack bubble bursts.

• Limo picks up guy from prison – Beatin’ Down the Block – Basko featuring Nomadik and Classic
• Seven years later / opening credits – Home – David Byrne
• Riding the motorcycle – Life is Long – David Byrne and Brian Eno
• Bulgari and the Bar – Reality Check – Stigmato, Inc.
• Walking down the street – Is It Really Possible – Wet Cookies
• Walking down the street – Diamond Belly Button – Speed Caravan
• Walking down the street – I Be Doin’ It – Classic
• Walking down the street – Alright, Alright (Seaside Remix) – Centric House
• Asks girlfriend to marry him – Home – David Byrne [repeat of earlier song]
• Spreading rumor, drinks, motorcycle, boxing – Strange Overtones – David Byrne and Brian Eno
• (unknown scene) – Sleeping Up – David Byrne
• Ring tone – The Good, The Bad and The Ugly – Ennio Morricone
• At Brenton James’ house – Sonata for Piano No. 8 Pathetique Adagio Cantabile – Alice Burla
• (unknown scene) – Mnemonic Discordance – David Byrne
• Jake visits Gekko – Ball – Craig Armstrong
• Alzheimer’s benefit dinner – Cheek to Cheek – London Musicians Orchestra
• Gekko at dinner with Bud – Puttin’ on the Pin Stripe Suit – Chris Walden
• Benefit dinner – Relax and Dance – Gerd Kadenbach
• People dancing at benefit dinner – Carousel Waltz – London Musicians Orchestra
• (unknown scene) – I’m Out of Here – Dick Stephen Walter
• Jake on the phone – Two Latin Lovers – John Cacavas and Hal David
• Dow drops (?) – Passionata – London Musicians Orchestra
• Pregnant – My Big Nurse – David Byrne and Brian Eno
• Brenton and Jake racing motorcycles – Ricochet! – Shiny Toy Guns
• Riding in the taxi – Dekha – Ali Zafar and Baqir Abbas
• Signing loan papers – Tiny Apocalypse – David Byrne
• Frozen Truth story – Lazy – X-Press2 featuring David Byrne
• James busts his painting – I Feel My Stuff – David Byrne and Brian Eno
• Second end credits song – This Must Be the Place (Naïve Melody) – Talking Heads
• Original music for Wall Street 2 Money Never Sleeps – Craig Armstrong

All 5 Songs from The Town Soundtrack

The soundtrack album for The Town only has the score from the movie on it, but you can find all five songs from The Town here. It’s a bit of a bizarre mix for a gritty heist movie. Jason Derulo’s “Watcha Say” is a great song, but not one I would have expected here. True, it plays in the background during a bar scene, but still.

The two songs from Slaine – 99 Bottles and Run It – are more on point. The first also plays in the background during the first bar scene, while the latter plays during the FBI surveillance scene toward the end.

The end credits song by Ray LaMontagne is more of what I would have expected as well – haunting and a bit lost.

I cannot say that I loved this movie. I liked it, but there was something missing. It felt a bit like it was directed by a junior version of Clint Eastwood. Maybe that’s high praise these days, but I’m not certain I mean it that way. It was sad but not tragic, heartfelt but not heartbreaking. Maybe I want movies that are supposed to break you to really break you. Of course, by the box office and the reviews, perhaps I just missed something. I saw Easy A just before it, as part of a double feature, so maybe I was too up to be properly down.

Either way, here’s the complete list of songs from The Town with notes on the scenes they were in and downloads for them.

• First song at the bar – 99 Bottles – Slaine
• Talking to Krista (Blake Lively) at the bar – Whatcha Say – Jason Derulo
• Bust into the apartment with ski masks – Get Paid – Rhaphael Tarpley
• Surveillance – Run It – Slaine and Statik Selektah
• End credits – Jolene – Ray LaMontagne
• Original music – Original music for The Town – Harry Gregson-Williams and David Buckley

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

All 24 Songs from the Eat Pray Love Soundtrack

The complete list of all 24 songs from the Eat Pray Love soundtrack, including videos and downloads for them is below. I have to admit, it’s a far better mix of music than I would have expected, ranging from M.I.A. and Marvin Gaye to Josh Rouse, Aphex Twin and a couple songs each from Eddie Vedder and Neil Young.

Vedder’s duet with Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan on The Long Road is one of my favorite of his songs ever recorded – and that’s a long list. Better Days is a new song for the movie. Not to be overshadowed, Neil Young’s Harvest Moon and Heart of Gold are both brilliant examples of how is hauntingly broken voice tells a tale all its own.

There’s also a number of Indian and Brazilian songs, including Kaliyugayaradana by U Srinivas as well as Samba Da Bencao by Bebel Gilberto.

The soundtrack to Eat Pray Love seems to run the gamut from eat, pray and love to dance, party and back again. The soundtrack album for Eat Pray Love has a pretty good representation of the music from the movie, containing 14 of the songs from the film. All 14 of these songs and the missing 10 are listed below.

Here’s the complete list of songs from Eat Pray Love, with videos and downloads for them. If you happen to remember which scenes the songs were in, please post a comment below and I will update the list with the info.

• Tarantella Americana – Vito DiSalvo
• Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin) – Sly & The Family Stone
• Parallel Stripes – Aphex Twin
• Celebration – Kool & The Gang
• Dreams – Fleetwood Mac
• Boyz – M.I.A.
• Last Tango In Paris Score – Gato Barbieri
• Midnight Blue – Kenny Burrell
• Got To Give It Up (Pt. 1) – Marvin Gaye
• Samba Da Bencao – Bebel Gilberto
• Wave – Joao Gilberto
• ‘S Wonderful – Joao Gilberto [link to the version by Four Giants of Swing]
• Der Holle Rache Kocht In Meinem Herzen from Die Zauberflote (The Magic Flute) – Sumi Jo and Wiener Philharmoniker
• Rain Forest – Jun Miyake
• Dadima’s Heart – Kito Rodriguez, Michael Tyabji and Rosa Tyabji
• Flight Attendant – Josh Rouse
• Kaliyugavaradana – U Srinivas
• Rehana’s Shakti – Michael Tyabji
• Granny and Boompa’s Love – Michael Tyabji
• Dhanyavad – Michael Tyabji
• The Long Road – Eddie Vedder and Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
• Better Days – Eddie Vedder
• Harvest Moon – Neil Young
• Heart of Gold – Neil Young

Original music for Eat Pray Love – Dario Marianelli

All 7 Songs from The Expendables Soundtrack

The Expendables soundtrack has seven songs, one for each eighties action star that kicks some serious ass in this movie. The soundtrack album only has the score from Brian Tyler, but you can find all eight songs from The Expendables here. There aren’t any real surprises here. It’s good old southern rock at its best, with a couple songs from CCR, one from Thin Lizzy, as well as tunes from Georgia Satellites and Mountain.

Sure the critics will hate this movie, but a movie like this isn’t made for them – it’s made for you and me. Yep, that’s right, This Land is Your Land, and this movie is our movie – kickin’ ass and taking a bunch of marquee names.

Here’s the complete list of songs from The Expendables. I’ll try to add notes on the scenes that the songs were in as quickly as I can. I have a bit of a back up on movies this weekend, plus as much as this movie makes we want to stand up and scream “wolverines” at the big screen, my daughter comes first. Enjoy the tunes in the meantime.

• Castille – David Bradnum
• Hacienda Grande – Michael Alan Levine
• Mississippi Queen – Mountain
• Keep On Chooglin’ – Creedence Clearwater Revival
• The Boys Are Back In Town – Thin Lizzy
• Born On The Bayou – Creedence Clearwater Revival
• Keep Your Hands To Yourself – Georgia Satellites

Original music for The Expendables – Brian Tyler

All 50 Songs from the Step Up 3D Soundtrack

There are 50 songs on the Step Up 3D soundtrack. Only 16 songs are on the soundtrack album, but you can find the downloads, videos and scenes for the vast majority of the songs from the movie here. I had a bit of difficulty placing some of the songs (those 3D credits made it difficult to make out the details) but I’m pretty sure this is the most complete list around. With your help, we can fill in the rest of the blanks.

It’s a ridiculously good dance mix. The movie starts with N.A.S.A., breaks into Estelle, takes a rare wrong turn with Jay-Z, but then returns with K’Naan and T-Pain. The rest of the movie is chalk full of beats, from Static Revenger, Soulja Boy, Flo Rida and Wale to Timbaland, T.I., Madcon, Busta and Rye Rye, not to mention a couple tunes from Get Cool and back up from MIA, Pitbull, Petey Pablo and even Gaga.

They weren’t messing around when the music producers pulled together this collection. I wish they would have included more in the Step Up 3D soundtrack album, but you can find the downloads for most of the rest of them below. There are about 10 songs that I could not place at all, and about a dozen that I could not match with a specific scene (particularly during the World Jam finals). They kind of blended / and I kind of got distracted. But I guess that means I was just enjoying the movie too much to remember to write it all down.

Apologies for how long it took me to get the post up. It took me about 8-10 hours of eyestrain and Google to try to piece together as much of the soundtrack as I could.

Without further adieu, here’s the (mostly) complete list of songs from Step Up 3D. If you have insights on the missing songs or scenes, please post your ideas into the comments below and I will update the post with your info. Or if you want to go totally gaga on the list, print screen and take it with you when you see the movie for the second time. You know you want to . Who needs dialogue anyway? It’s all about the dancing. And in 3D, that’s one hell of a ride.

• First dance off in the park with Moose – Whachadoin? – NASA
• Luke tells Moose, “I Got You” – I Can Be a Freak – Estelle
• In Luke’s car driving through NYC at night – Empire State of Mind – Jay-Z
• Luke brings Moose to the Vault, welcome to my house – ABC’s – K’Naan
• In the Vault club – Take Your Shirt Off – T-pain
• Club – Tetris – Electrixx
• Natalie dancing in the club – I Like That – Static Revenger and Richard Vission featuring Luciana
• Sleeping – (unknown song) – (unknown artist)
• Natalie warming up – Joyride – Tania Doko
• Training/parkour on the rooftop – Up (Remix) – Jesse McCartney
• (unknown scene) – (unknown song) – (unknown artist)
• Practice – Fancy Footwork – Chromeo
• First jam battle site – Swing – Savage featuring Soulja Boy
• First dance with the chalk dust – Move (If You Wanna) – Mims
• Dance response – Tear Da Roof Off – Busta Rhymes
• Madd Chadd (robot dance) – Pinball – Akira Kiteshi [thx @LJ for the update]
• (unknown scene) – Already Taken – Trey Songz
• Walking with the giant 7-11 cups – My Own Step (Theme From Step Up 3D) – Roscoe Dash and T-pain
• Kiss – This Girl – Laza Morgan
• Round 2 battle against Asian team – Beggin’ – Madcon
• Karaoke – Hit Me With Your Best Shot – Eddie Schwartz [link to original by Pat Benatar]
• Natalie’s fancy birthday party – Concerto for 2 Violins, Strings and Continuo in D Minor – Jim Long
• Tango – Bust Your Windows – Jazmine Sullivan
• Background music during Halloween call – (unknown song) – (unknown artist)
• (unknown scene) – Who U R – Jessie J
• Walking alone, ‘the pirates are done’ – (unknown song) – (unknown artist)
• (unknown scene) – No Te Quiero – Sophia Del Carmen featuring Pitbull
• Dancing to the ice cream truck music – I Won’t Dance – Fred Astaire
• Coffee shop – Superman – Joe Brooks
• Missing crew and new dancers – Who Dat – J Cole
• Jukebox dancing and practice – Club Can’t Handle Me – Flo Rida
• World Jam finals – Chillin’ – Wale featuring Lady Gaga
• (unknown scene) – Tommy’s Theme – (unknown artist)
• (unknown scene) – One – (unknown artist)
• Pirates’ Second song – Ease Off the Liquor – Timbaland [thx @Mr.Greene for the update]
• Samurai’s first song – Let Me C It – Get Cool featuring Petey Pablo
• Samurai’s second song – Here I Come – The Roots [thx @jen for the update]
• Pirates third song – Ghettomusick – Outkast    [thx @beth and @unknowntheartist for the update]
• (unknown scene) – Bang – Rye Rye featuring MIA
• (unknown scene) – Work the Middle – Ericka June
• (unknown scene) – This Instant – Sophia Fresh
• Lights – Crush the Floor – Fly Stylz?
• Lights during World Jam – Move Shake Drop (Remix) – DJ Laz featuring Flo Rida and Casely [thx @tori for the update]
• Last song with the lights – Shooting Star (Party Rock Mix) – David Rush
• Win the World Jam – Got Your Back – T.I.
• Film clip, ask for a double major – Congratulations – Blue October [thx @ashley for the update]
• Train station – What We Are Made Of – Scott Mallone
• (unknown scene) – Irresistible – Wisin Y Yandel
• End credits song – Shawty Got Moves – Get Cool
• Second end credits song – Drivin’ Me Wild – Common

Original music for Step Up 3D – Bear McCreary

All 26 Songs from The Other Guys Soundtrack

There are 26 songs on The Other Guys soundtrack but they did not release an album for the movie. However, you can find all 26 songs, plus the video and downloads from The Other Guys here. It’s an interesting mix, including three songs from TLC (Creep, No Scrubs and Waterfalls). That alone is worth it. Damn they were good in their day, before tragedy set in.

The rest of the soundtrack for The Other Guys is far from tragic, but it is downright eclectic. I love Goldfrapp and was pleasantly surprised to find Ooh La La in th movie. There’s soundtrack staple the Black Eyed Peas and Wyclef Jean (who strangely enough announced that he is running for president of Haiti this week). There’s also some Rage Against the Machine and The White Stripes as well as Mamas and the Papas and Donovan.

Want ballads? We have Against All Odds by Phil Collins. What about some hip hop? How ’bout Swizz Beatz. Feeling like a little taste of a different era? We’ve got Big Girls Don’t Cry. Twenty six songs and something for everyone. That’s about the only theme I could find in the mix. Maybe we should just boil it down describing the music from The Other Guys to a soundtrack mixed with songs designed to entertain in waining weeks of summer, like the movie itself.

Here’s the complete list of songs from The Other Guys, with links to most of the songs from the movie. Update: I’ve added notes for the scenes that each of the songs were in.

• Opening chase scene – We Trying To Stay Alive – Wyclef Jean
• Explosion / press conference – Top Down – Swizz Beatz
• Humming while doing paperwork – Theme From S.W.A.T. – Barry DeVorzon
• Humming and smiling – Jeannie – Buddy Kaye and Hugo Montenegro (theme from I Dream of Jeannie)
• Hero cops chase after the wrecking ball – My Hero – Foo Fighters
• Funeral – The Minstrel Boy – The Pipes & Drums of the Emerald Society
• Funeral reception – Bad Boys – Ian Lewis
• Hoitz puts CD in the car – Let The Dragon Loose – Gorgon Thunder
• Gamble changes the music – Reminiscing – Little River Band
• Adobe Premiere profile of David Ershon – Lendl Global Jingle – Chris Henchy, Erica Weis, Adam McKay and Orr Ravhon
• Singing at the Irish Pub – Ugly Sunday – The Seamus Brothers
• Background music at the bar? – Smoke Road – Steve Carter and Jared Kahn
• Dance class – Ballet Classique – Orr Ravhon and Erica Weis
• Jersey Boys – Big Girls Don’t Cry – The Jersey Boys (link to original by Four Seasons)
• Captain tells them “don’t go chasing waterfalls” – Waterfalls – TLC
• Gamble’s wife sings to him – Pimps Don’t Cry – Jon Brion, Adam McKay, Will Farrell, Erica Weis
• Go out drinking / funky still pictures – Imma Be – Black Eyed Peas
• Hoitz smashes his computer – I Don’t Have The Heart – The Hit Crew (originally performed by James Ingram)
• Traffic duty – Season Of The Witch – Donovan
• Talking under the bed – Against All Odds (Take A Look At Me Now) – Phil Collins
• At Bed Bath & Beyond, captain says “I don’t want know scrubs” – No Scrubs – Kevin Briggs, Kandi L. Burruss and Tameka Cottle (originally performed by TLC)
• Captain says “You’ve Got to Creep, Creep” – Creep – Dallas Austin (originally performed by TLC)
• Fire fight in the office with Ershon – Icky Thump – The White Stripes
• Lovescene – Ooh La La – Goldfrapp
• Gamble says “I brought some music” for the final car chase – Monday, Monday – The Mamas and the Papas
• Wrap up and wedding – Waterfalls – TLC
• End credits – Maggie’s Farm – Rage Against the Machine
• Second end credits song – Pimps Don’t Cry – Cee-Lo Green