Best Song Soundtrack: Garbage Truck
Best Song Score : Katayanagi Twins vs. Sex Bob-Omb
Soundtrack Track List:
1. We Are Sex Bob-Omb
2. Scott Pilgrim
3. I Heard Ramona Sing
4. By Your Side
5. O Katrina!
6. I'm So Sad, So Very, Very Sad
7. We Hate You Please Die
8. Garbage Truck
9. Teenage Dream
10. Sleazy Bed Track
11. It's Getting Boring by the Sea
12. Black Sheep
13. Threshold
14. Anthems for a Seventeen-Year-Old Girl
15. Under My Thumb
16. Ramona (Acoustic Version)
17. Ramona
18. Summertime
19. Threshold (8 Bit)
Score Track List: Oh, just go check Wikipedia before this gets ridiculous
Technically this is two albums but who cares. Scott Pilgrim was a fantastic and fun movie, and a large part of that had to do the movie’s score and soundtrack. Both fit perfectly in context but the test of a good soundtrack is how well it works out of the frames of the movie. This is a test that both pass exemplary.
Now lets take a quick look at the score first. It was primarily written and arranged by Nigel Godrich, an extremely talented producer/engineer who has worked with Radiohead, Pavement, Paul McCartney, and R.E.M. Each piece is a complete composition, a strength that many movie scores fall short on. But each track here portrays a mood that flows into the next. My favorite in this department are “Love Me Some Walking” “The Vegan” and “Bass Battle”. But even if you don’t like scores there are a couple of essentials even for you. “Slick (Patel’s Song)” is complete fun combining a Middle Eastern style of sitars and strings with some great 16-bit video game runs sprinkled through out. Another essential is the great electronica vs. punk “Katayanagi Twins vs. Sex Bob-Omb”, which is the best version of the song “Threshold” on both albums (and trust me there are a LOT of different versions).
The Soundtrack while having even more highlights does also have the misfortune of having some songs that just don’t work out of the movie. Both versions of “Ramona” just aren’t worth my time and bore me without the visuals to help them along. It also doesn’t help that they have the song Beck was emulating earlier on the album. “Teenage Dream” is one of T. Rex’s best with the mid-tempo and light tone with a slight reverb to everything to make this fantastic echo. And I hate to break it to Beck but he is no Marc Bolan and “Ramona” just plods along with an acoustic tone you have heard a thousand times before.
So Beck may have fallen short on his performance on the album, but his writing is extremely strong. If you see the name Sex Bob-Omb listed as the artist it is a must listen. Every one of them is a dirty, riff driven, garage rock standouts. Out of all of them “Garbage Truck” is my personal favorite followed by “Summertime”. “Threshold” is great in any form but I feel the “original” is actually the weakest (as I said the best version is on the score, but the soundtrack also has an 8-bit version).
As for none Sex-Bob-Omb songs we get the fantastic New Wave song “Black Sheep” from Metric. Then there are the two classic rock interruptions (the aforementioned “Teenage Dream” and the Rolling Stones “Under My Thumb”) that break the flow just as I am getting sick of the very hipster feel.
The fact that such great albums as these merely take the number 10 spot just shows what a great year for music 2010 has been. So tune in next time as we climb the ladder towards #1.
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