They are two of the most anticipated movie soundtracks in some time, and the track listings for both have been revealed today (with much thanks to The Playlist). In one corner, we have Wes Anderson's The Fantastic Mr. Fox, available for purchase November 3rd. Not surprisingly, it's a 25-track monster from the master curator of melancholy musical curios and modern pop antiquities.
Burl "Big Daddy" Ives is the most represented, with three songs in total -- including the nursery rhyme hoedown, "Fooba Wooba John" (performed here by the Kidsongs.com army; beware their evil choir leader in the world's largest valedictory hat). The Beach Boys are also in attendance with the original version of "Heroes and Villains" from the unfinished SMiLE (found it here), and Anderson perennial The Rolling Stones make an appearance with Beggars Banquet classic, "Street Fighting Man." Jarvis Cocker recorded an original, too -- "Fantastic Mr. Fox AKA Petey's Song."
Too ancient? Too esoteric? Well, then, perhaps you'd prefer the challenger.
New Moon's soundtrack appears to have come hipster pre-approved -- it's almost on a par with latter The O.C. compilations, and almost certain to be just the musical gateway to getting your human girlfriend to round the werewolf bases with you. And unlike Fox, this soundtrack's songs were recorded specifically for the film. In addition to the Death Cab For Cutie single "Meet Me on the Equinox" (that almost reads like a parody of what a Death Cab For Cutie single commissioned for a Twilight soundtrack would sound like), we have "Hearing Damage" from Thom Yorke (which doesn't appear on his new single), The Killlers' "White Demon Love Song," and new tracks from Lykke Li, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Sea Wolf, Hurricane Bells, Anya Marina, Editors. It's out October 20th.
So which will it be? Or will it be none -- until Tron Legacy's magnum opus from Daft Punk rolls around in late 2010?
The complete track listings:
New Moon
- DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE -- MEET ME ON THE EQUINOX
- BAND OF SKULLS -- FRIENDS
- THOM YORKE -- HEARING DAMAGE
- LYKKE LI -- POSSIBILITY
- THE KILLERS -- A WHITE DEMON LOVE SONG
- ANYA MARINA -- SATELLITE HEART
- MUSE -- I BELONG TO YOU (NEW MOON)
- BON IVER & ST. VINCENT -- ROSYLN
- BLACK REBEL MOTORCYCLE CLUB -- DONE ALL WRONG
- HURRICANE BELLS -- MONSTERS
- SEA WOLF -- THE VIOLET HOUR
- OK GO -- SHOOTING THE MOON
- GRIZZLY BEAR -- SLOW LIFE
- EDITORS -- NO SOUND BUT THE WIND
- ALEXANDRE DESPLAT -- NEW MOON (THE MEADOW)
The Fantastic Mr. Fox
1. "American Empirical Pictures"*
2. "The Ballad of Davy Crockett" - The Wellingtons
3. "Mr. Fox in the Fields"*
4. "Heroes and Villains" - The Beach Boys
5. "Fooba Wooba John" - Burl Ives
6. "Boggis, Bunce, and Bean"*
7. "Jimmy Squirrel and Co."*
8. "Love" - Nancy Adams
9. "Buckeye Jim" - Burl Ives
10. "High-Speed French Train"*
11. "Whack-Bat Majorette"*
12. "The Grey Goose" - Burl Ives
13. "Bean's Secret Cider Cellar"*
14. "Une Petite Île" - Georges Delerue
15. "Street Fighting Man" - The Rolling Stones
16. "Fantastic Mr. Fox AKA Petey's Song" - Jarvis Cocker
17. "Night and Day" - Art Tatum
18. "Kristofferson's Theme"*
19. "Just Another Dead Rat in a Garbage Pail (behind a Chinese Restaurant)"*
20. "Le Grand Choral" - Georges Delerue
21. "Great Harrowsford Square"*
22. "Stunt Expo 2004"*
23. "Canis Lupus"*
24. "Ol' Man River" - The Beach Boys
25. "Let Her Dance" - Bobby Fuller Four