Last month Jason Reitman (he recently directed a little indie flick called “Juno,” you might have heard of it) sat down with KCRW’s Jason Bentley to discuss how the “creative process is influenced by music” (cue chinstoke) Mid-way through the interview Bentley mentioned “Juno” and how its soundtrack has become a hit unto itself. Reitman commented on this by saying that the music of “Juno” was not originally meant to be from the now incredibly popular The Moldy Peaches but from the indie group Yo La Tengo.
“We started to realize there was this rebirth of lo-fi music that had the same energy as punk music, but nowhere as angry. The first band we discovered was Yo La Tengo and so I started to think that was the sound of the film.” Congratulations Yo La Tengo, you guys were going to be the next mainstream indie group to hit the big time until… “One day Ellen Page was in my office and I said, “Who do you think Juno would listen to”, and she said The Moldy Peaches, she jumped on my computer and downloaded, “Anyone Else But You.”We guess that’s a Hoboken-like, “Thanks for nothing Ellen Page.”
Reitman did right this wrong a bit with Juno B-Sides: Almost Adopted Songs, which featured YLT’s “You Can Have It All,” but, umm, we don’t recall them being on Babba Wabba and or “The View” (you know how badly Ira wanted that?)
Shit guys, that hurts, sorry your chance at comprising 95% of the soundtrack on the most popular movie of the century was blown. Better luck next time? PS, don’t feel too bad for Yo La Tengo, they got the gig to score “Superbad” director Greg Mottola’s next film, “Adventureland,” coming out in spring 2009.
