Update: The free tracks are up and pre-orders for the album on CD, BluRay Audio or Vinyl are now available here. The soundtrack tracklisting is after the jump.
With David Fincher’s highly anticipated “The Social Network” only a weeks away from its premiere at the New York Film Festival, and two weeks from it’s bow in theaters on October 1st, the film has been picking up some tremendous steam. Early reviews have been effusive in their praise and it looks likely to be a major player in this year’s awards season.
In what will certainly help keep the momentum going, it has been announced that Trent Reznor will make five songs from the score he penned with Atticus Ross available for free sometime today on his Null Co. website. It’s not the first time Reznor has made some of his work available for free and it seems to be a strategy that works well for the artist and his fans. We can’t wait to hear it.
But it looks like it’s not just Reznor and Ross’ work we’re going to be hearing in the film. Roger Friedman reports that The Beatles’ “Baby, You’re A Rich Man” will be featured in the film as well. Beatles tracks are notoriously difficult and expensive to license (Paramount/Dreamworks paid $1.5 million for “Fool On A Hill” in “Dinner For Schmucks” earlier this year) but this time around, costs were apparently a bit more reasonable as Sony are the publishers of the Lennon-McCartney song catalog as well. Go, corporate synergy!
No word yet on the other songs in the film but we’ll keep you posted. “The Social Network” score by Reznor will be officially released on September 28th.
“The Social Network” Official Score Tracklist
1. Hand Covers Bruise
2. In Motion
3. A Familiar Taste
4. It Catches Up With You
5. Intriguing Possibilities
6. Painted Sun In Abstract
7. 3:14 Every Night
8. Pieces Form the Whole
9. Carbon Prevails
10. Eventually We Find Our Way
11. Penetration
12. In The Hall of the Mountain King
13. On We March
14. Magnetic
15. Almost Home
16. Hand Covers Bruise, Reprise
17. Complication with Optimistic Outcome
18. The Gentle Hum of Anxiety
19. Soft Trees Break the Fall
Listen: “Hand Covers Bruise”
