THE WORLD'S END Soundtrack Out August 20 From ABKCO
ABKCO Records will release THE WORLD'S END - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack on Tuesday August 20th, available both on CD and through digital retail outlets. Famous for his musical choices, director/screenwriter Edgar Wright has curated a soundtrack that both propels the film's action forward and focuses the characters' 20-year history together. Primal Scream's "Loaded" is something of a theme for the action in THE WORLD'S END, and is featured along with high-profile tracks from Blur, The Soup Dragons, Pulp, Suede, Teenage Fanclub, Stone Roses, Sisters of Mercy (whose t-shirt Simon Pegg's character Gary King wears throughout the film) - and even The Doors' iconic take on Brecht and Weill's "Alabama Song (Whisky Bar)." Wright notes, "My new film with Simon Pegg revolves around a man that wants his teens to go on forever. I think many can sympathize with that. This is as much a soundtrack to our school and college days as it is to the film. When I listen to songs from my teens it triggers all sorts of sights, sounds, and abstract memories of the radio and the television, of watching vinyl spin and of making endless compilation tapes. When Simon Pegg and myself wrote the screenplay for the film, we listened to a 300-strong playlist of songs, mainly from 1988 to 1993. Big pop hits, groundbreaking dance smashes, and all the indie gold of our youth. We never, ever tired of them. It powered our writing as much as it powers Gary's quest." For the full playlist and more, see the official press release.
ABKCO Records will release THE WORLD'S END - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack on Tuesday August 20th, available both on CD and through digital retail outlets. Famous for his musical choices, director/screenwriter Edgar Wright has curated a soundtrack that both propels the film's action forward and focuses the characters' 20-year history together. Primal Scream's "Loaded" is something of a theme for the action in THE WORLD'S END, and is featured along with high-profile tracks from Blur, The Soup Dragons, Pulp, Suede, Teenage Fanclub, Stone Roses, Sisters of Mercy (whose t-shirt Simon Pegg's character Gary King wears throughout the film) - and even The Doors' iconic take on Brecht and Weill's "Alabama Song (Whisky Bar)." Wright notes, "My new film with Simon Pegg revolves around a man that wants his teens to go on forever. I think many can sympathize with that. This is as much a soundtrack to our school and college days as it is to the film. When I listen to songs from my teens it triggers all sorts of sights, sounds, and abstract memories of the radio and the television, of watching vinyl spin and of making endless compilation tapes. When Simon Pegg and myself wrote the screenplay for the film, we listened to a 300-strong playlist of songs, mainly from 1988 to 1993. Big pop hits, groundbreaking dance smashes, and all the indie gold of our youth. We never, ever tired of them. It powered our writing as much as it powers Gary's quest." For the full playlist and more, see the official press release.