![]() While the official soundtrack only gives a taste of what’s in the film, taking a look at the full selection of music used, “Inglorious Basterds” is practically a primer on spaghetti western scores. Regardless of what you thought about the film, Quentin Tarantino has always had a keen ear and a discographers’ mind for soundtracks, and with “Inglourious Basterds” he once again proved adept at finding the right cuts to fit his WWII fantasy. Velvet Underground – “Pale Blue Eyes” from “Adventureland”Ģ. Plus the use of INXS’s tempo-driving “Don’t Change” in the credits was pretty damn bad ass. From the warm and fuzzy melt-your-heart use of Crowded House (“Don’t Dream It’s Over”), the opening volume blasts of The Replacements (“Basterds of The Young) and Husker Du (“Don’t Want to Know if You are Lonely”), to the sweet sad longing of the Velvet Underground (“Pale Blue Eyes”) and even better, taking a pretty-played out song like The Cure’s “Just Like Heaven” and imbuing it with a rush of romantic excitement like you’re hearing it for the first time. ![]() The film is full of genuinely great moments. That said, on to the good stuff from last year.Īn ’80s mixtape in the wrong hands is probably one of the more egregious aural tortures we can think of, but in the hands of Greg Mottola, like his movie, it’s an understated and finely tuned thing - a phonic loveletter to his characters and a very personal coming-of-age heartbreak tale. At least there were very few of those lame musical tie-in soundtracks that had bloody nothing to do with the movie. Then again, we’ve got two films that have both their scores and soundtracks in their respective top 10s. ![]() Waah, regardless, 2009 was a pretty good year for soundtracks and scores and arguably a much better one than 2008 which was overall, pretty bland and uninspired when it came to the use of music in film. This is our last 2009 feature for the year, and if you’re peeved about us discussing 2009 in the last week of January 2010, welcome to the party, but man did these exhaustive features take a long time to put together. But god, we take on comprehensive assignments and then for better or worse finish them. ![]() Are you sick of 2009? Well, you know what? We at The Playlist definitely are. ![]()
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