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| Mickey |
Posted - 07/23/2010 : 06:56:18
I wanted to see if there was a pre-existing soundtrack thread I could bump but search wasn't working out so hot for me.
Anyway, Frank is on the Scott Pilgrim soundtrack
http://pitchfork.com/news/39213-beck-broken-social-scene-play-fake-bands-on-iscott-pilgrimi-soundtrack/
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Scott Pilgrim Vs. the World soundtrack:
01 Sex Bob-Omb: "We Are Sex Bob-Omb"
02 Plumtree: "Scott Pilgrim"
03 Frank Black: "I Heard Ramona Sing"
04 Beachwood Sparks: "By Your Side"
05 Black Lips: "O Katrina!"
06 Crash and the Boys: "I'm So Sad, So Very, Very Sad"
07 Crash and the Boys: "We Hate You Please Die"
08 Sex Bob-Omb: "Garbage Truck"
09 T. Rex: "Teenage Dream"
10 The Bluetones: "Sleazy Bed Track"
11 Blood Red Shoes: "It's Getting Boring by the Sea"
12 Metric: "Black Sheep"
13 Sex Bob-Omb: "Threshold"
14 Broken Social Scene: "Anthems for a Seventeen-Year-Old Girl"
15 The Rolling Stones: "Under My Thumb"
16 Beck: "Ramona (Acoustic)"
17 Beck: "Ramona"
18 Sex Bob-Omb: "Summertime"
19 Brian LeBarton: "Threshold 8 Bit"
By the way, the band Sex Bob-Omb that is all over the soundtrack is the fictional band in the movie, all their songs were written by Beck.
-Mickey |
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| Nate in the PDX |
Posted - 04/26/2011 : 20:00:58
Just saw this movie as well, having waited until it bobbed up to the top of my Netflix queue, and enough time had passed that I'd forgotten about "Ramona" until it played... very well placed, very well done, made me smile. Like most of the elements in the movie.
Had it been a slightly different sort of movie, they could've dropped in "Come on (P)ilgrim, you know he loves you...." As it was, though, it was just fine. |
| pot |
Posted - 01/30/2011 : 13:41:34
I just watched it. Loved it. Funniest film I've seen for like three thousand days or something, maybe more. It's a laugh a minute all the way through. Amazing special effects.
Not to keen on the soundtrack, apart from the FB song of course.
There is a whole world of much better indie music out there to be found though thankfully.
This is about the 4th or 5th really likeable film I've seen with Michael Cera as the typecast high school geek. I expect since he looks like he wont do very well in the growing a beard stakes that he will carry on being able to play this role fora few more years, and who know what he might do after this. I think he is one to look out for, might do well for himself and land a few nice roles in the future..
i think everyone was great in it. Having a director that knows what he is doing always helps though. Whoever it was who directed it= great job! The most original film I have seen since I don't know what.
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| Sam |
Posted - 01/24/2011 : 00:24:46
Grotesque - i believe Mark E Smith had something to say on this subject.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89ms1VqJ0sY
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| Grotesque |
Posted - 01/23/2011 : 07:59:39
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Originally posted by trobrianders
One thing I didn't get about the movie was why have an object of love that was such a non-entity. This Ramona had zero personality. Compared to say High Fidelity where the g/f was funny, smart, sexy, unpredictable, great attitude to relationships etc.
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What I didnt get AT ALL was this central idea of fighting the ex boyfriends, how it was brought and shown. I know it's supposed to be really happening but it just doesnt work... It might be something you can get into when you read a comic, because modern comics are always between reality and awake dreams (see for example how Jimmy Corrigan keeps imagining things that you actually see happening) but in a movie it's really hard to make cos everything seems so real. Movie are under the tiranny of realism, and you have to be very smart to escape from that. Woody Allen sometimes managed that (for example Stardust Memories is full of that kind of awake dreams). |
| trobrianders |
Posted - 01/23/2011 : 00:26:50
One thing I didn't get about the movie was why have an object of love that was such a non-entity. This Ramona had zero personality. Compared to say High Fidelity where the g/f was funny, smart, sexy, unpredictable, great attitude to relationships etc.
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| Grotesque |
Posted - 01/22/2011 : 10:17:06
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Originally posted by trobrianders
Please answer Denis' criticism. That you try to speak from too high a place, that from too high a place you cannot actually see anything.
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Ed is the hoo hoo
Well yeah ok he's certainly right, but it was just a quick reaction the day I saw that movie, like cell phone poetry or something not to take too seriously. I actually already forgot that movie, when I try to remember it I see "Kick Ass"!
I have to see mr Fox. Really dont like anything by wes anderson (i still have to see Rasta Rocket, uuuh... no! what was his first movie before Rushmore?) but it's not something I enjoy, not digging something. The one in india with the train and the brothers is especially "arty-ficial" and boring. Anyway the good thing about Pilgrim is that it made me listen to the orange album again. And then Honeycomb, wich is a very good one too (i mention that because somehow I think that's a record Black "really" wanted to do, not like "Uh, got to get back to rock", wich he did pretty well but loosing a bit of his legendary "I do my thing" attitude). |
| Mickey |
Posted - 01/21/2011 : 07:11:14
I'd say Sea Change is infinitely better than Guero. Every song on Guero sounds like one of those throw away bonus "new" songs that bands slap on greatest hits records. Also, Modern Guilt is fantastic.
-Mickey |
| darwin |
Posted - 01/20/2011 : 09:18:48
quote:
Originally posted by Grotesque
It's just that the stuff between MV and guero is awfull
There's one album between MV and Guero. That's Sea Change. I actually like that album a lot in the right moments. |
| Sam |
Posted - 01/19/2011 : 23:58:25
Nice lively debate here guys, havent seen a thread provoke debate in a while here, seems quiet lately. Where is everybody?
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| trobrianders |
Posted - 01/19/2011 : 23:45:53
Please answer Denis' criticism. That you try to speak from too high a place, that from too high a place you cannot actually see anything.
Where it's true that American youth are under this ridiculous, mindless, self-imposed pressure to appear cool you can take pity on them. That's fine for you. For my part I can enjoy a movie like Scott Pilgrim, not because it's cool but because it's silly.
I didn't like The Clash or their pale imitators. So what? I still like The Fall. So what? Fantastic Mr Fox wasn't "fake" to me, it was cool. So what?
It's never served any useful purpose to impose definitions of what is cool and what isn't. That's truer than it's ever been.
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| Grotesque |
Posted - 01/19/2011 : 05:30:17
I actually like midnight vultures.
It's Beck's "Feline".
And you're right, I have to listen to Guero.
It's just that the stuff between MV and guero is awfull and I got off the train (as I did with the Stranglers after Feline). Thing I never had to do with Fb (hope Nonstoperotik is NOT his midnight vulures!) |
| Jose Jones |
Posted - 01/19/2011 : 01:57:26
guys guys guys, beck's midnight vultures, guero, and modern guilt are ALL wonderful. now let's bake cookies and watch Fantastic Mr. Fox (which i actually am watching right now).
and U2 are poopy.
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| Sam |
Posted - 01/19/2011 : 01:15:43
"I really think Placebo and U2 are super boring and as a rock fan I like to say it as much as I can. Iggy Pop Yeah. Placebo No. That's quite simple.
Is that Beck doing the music? Poor guy, he fell even deeper than I thought. I really liked him untill midnight vultures."
Hey Grotesque, i cannot comment on the movie as i havent seen it, it doesnt look like something i would be into really. I also agree on U2 (newer stuff) and placebo. Very dull, however i have to pull you on the Beck comment. Get a hold of the record Guero. It is a blinding record.
I thought Beck lost his mojo until i heard that. Beck still rules, who knew?? Me thats who. |
| Grotesque |
Posted - 01/18/2011 : 02:07:30
Yes, to me it's like the death of indie cinema because it has nothing to do with indie cinema. Tarantino and South Park (and a couple of other things, I could go back to Jean-Luc Godard!) made that post modern stuff mainstream. Now you have Wes Anderson, Gus Van Sant, all that kind of fake "ART" cinema, and the blockbusters like pilgrim are fake indies cinema. That's how the system works, it uses the so-called subversion and makes it a part of the main thing a few years later.
Dont worry that's just what I felt when I saw the movie, I dont think I have THE truth. It's not generalization it's a personal feeling.
I really think Placebo and U2 are super boring and as a rock fan I like to say it as much as I can. Iggy Pop Yeah. Placebo No. That's quite simple.
Is that Beck doing the music? Poor guy, he fell even deeper than I thought. I really liked him untill midnight vultures.
Vilainde, I like doing that kind of theory but you don't have to take it to seriously. Just trow away all your placebo records and say 3 our father frank black and you'll be allright. And ahem, how do they make that smiling little bugger? Ah here it is... |
| trobrianders |
Posted - 01/15/2011 : 03:19:36
BF's indie cred is probably no match for Mark E Smith's. So what? Who'd want to be a purist. I like feeling dirty.
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| Mickey |
Posted - 01/14/2011 : 08:37:50
will do.
-Mickey |
| vilainde |
Posted - 01/13/2011 : 10:34:03
Don't pay attention Mickey, it's just one more lame-ass post by Grotesque - king of bloated theories and bullshit generalizations. Just do as everyone and ignore the guy.
Denis
"Can you hear me? I aint got shit to say." |
| Mickey |
Posted - 01/13/2011 : 08:06:02
Grotesque, did you even see the movie? You're making kind of huge generalizations without backing them up at all. How is this the death of indie cinema? It has nothing to do with indie cinema at all. It kind of seems like you just wanted to take a jab at Placebo. The "teenage" band (they're actually supposed to be in their mid 20s) was not supposed to be very good, they're supposed to be a kind of generic, uninteresting garage band and I think Beck did a pretty good job with that. The kind of band that we all know or knew someone in or were in ourselves.
-Mickey |
| Carl |
Posted - 01/11/2011 : 10:27:03
Just watched this today... thought it was very funny, visually quite creative too. Nice use of Ramona... Pixies also get namechecked. |
| Grotesque |
Posted - 12/22/2010 : 06:08:00
Bad movie.
The death of indy rock.
The death of indy cinema.
Probably a good check for Frank Black, but I have a feeling he's like surrounded by fake indie rock since he played with placebo. Where could he find the inspiration to get back to rock if there are no good bands? The music the teenage band play in that movie is typical of that high energy stupid and vain stuff, and I'm afraid the success of the pixies reunion has something to do with that fake rock'n'roll wave.
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| Carl |
Posted - 09/04/2010 : 07:04:21
Really?! I've seen several trailers, must have missed it! |
| StupidMe |
Posted - 09/02/2010 : 11:55:50
the song is also in the trailer, fyi |
| Mickey |
Posted - 08/27/2010 : 10:49:35
I see. But O'malley said he'd never heard it. I guess it's really not important at all, but I'd be interested in knowing who chose it.
-Mickey |
| Ziggy |
Posted - 08/27/2010 : 07:02:39
In the playlists. |
| Mickey |
Posted - 08/27/2010 : 06:44:00
hmmmm. I wonder what the truth is. I know the song isn't mentioned in the books.
-Mickey |
| Carl |
Posted - 08/27/2010 : 03:08:34
"Bryan (Lee O' Malley, SP creator) created a playlist for every book. This Frank Black song featured in one of those, but it's also a favourite of mine." - Edgar Wright in Empire magazine. |
| matto |
Posted - 08/24/2010 : 05:09:17
http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/14577-scott-pilgrim-vs-the-world-ost/
sminki pinki |
| Mickey |
Posted - 08/18/2010 : 19:03:24
the song plays at a very pivotal part of the film and it was actually kind of chilling in a good way (though I am a fan boy of both Frank and the graphic novel the movie is based on, so I am biased). An interesting note, as someone mentioned above the female lead's name is Ramona, and the song plays when the Scott Pilgrim character kind of falls in love with her and yet it only plays instrumental parts of the song. Kind of a nod to those in the know, I guess. fits the scene beautifully none the less.
-Mickey |
| Arm Arm Arm |
Posted - 08/18/2010 : 05:10:19
I plan on reading the graphic novels so I may wait to see the movie. |
| theonecontender |
Posted - 08/17/2010 : 09:27:57
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Originally posted by joe FITZ of molly BANG
whoa, does the beck "ramona" song have anything to do the fb one?
I don't think so. The love interest is called Ramona, so I'm guessing Frank lucked out on this paycheck. Not that I Heard Romona Sing is not a stellar track, but the title definitely played a part in its selection.
1c |
| joe FITZ of molly BANG |
Posted - 08/17/2010 : 05:02:51
whoa, does the beck "ramona" song have anything to do the fb one?
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| theonecontender |
Posted - 08/16/2010 : 02:37:12
Here's what the comic book writer says about its inclusion:
Frank Black: “I Heard Ramona Sing”
I actually had never heard the first Frank Black solo album when Edgar [the director] sent me this track, although I was a huge fan of “Teenager of the Year” and some of Black’s later countryish stuff (“Show Me Your Tears” in particular). So this is an Edgar pick.
source: http://radiomaru.com/ |
| Carl |
Posted - 07/26/2010 : 02:27:57
Excellent!
Spinner - Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack). |
