There haven’t been a ton of soundtracks this year so far that fall into our raison d’etre (“that sweet spot where movies and music meet”™), but the Judd Apatow-produced, David Gordon Green-directed stoner comedy, “Pineapple Express,” finally has some musical reprieve for us.
Due August 5 on Lakeshore records, the 15 track disc features the much-touted return of Huey Lewis And The News, ala “The Power Of Love” from Back To The Future, doing their updated, cheesy take on the title track. It’s good fun. The rest of the disc, is naturally filled, with stoner delights from Cypress Hill, Peter Tosh, Public Enemy and tracks by Eddy Grant and friggin’ Moondog of all people! (how obscurist is that!?). The disc also has two cuts of Graeme Revell’s score, a gentle Spiritualized track (they like to get high in the sun, right?) and a sermonizing Bone Thugs & Harmony song.
Oh and those sad that M.I.A’s “Paper Planes” ain’t featured on the disc, take some solace in knowing it isn’t featured in the movie at all and in the trailer. Alas.
After the tracklist, we’ve got an exclusive audio peak of Lewis’ “Pineapple Express,” in full. Sample lyric: We got trouble, we got to get out of here. I’ve got you, you’ve got me. We are as high as we can be. That’s all right. How did we get into this mess? Pineapple Express!”
“Pineapple Express” soundtrack tracklisting.
01. Pineapple Express – Huey Lewis And The News
02. Electric Avenue – Eddy Grant
03. Dr. Greenthumb – Cypress Hill
04. Lost At Birth – Public Enemy
05. Poison – Bell Biv Devoe
06. Wanted Dread Or Alive – Peter Tosh
07. Don’t Look Around – Mountain
o8. Pineapple Chase (aka The Reprise of The Phoenix – Graeme Revell
09. Bird’s Lament – Moondog & The London Saxophonic
10. Coconut Girl – Brother Nolan
11. Hiilawe – Arthur Lyman
12. Tha Crossroads – Bone Thugs & Harmony
13. Pineapple Fight (aka The Nemesis Proclaimed) – Graeme Revell
14. I Didn’t Mean To Hurt You – Spiritualized
15. Woke Up Laughing – Robert Palmer
What’s in the movie not featured on the soundtrack? Our ‘Pineapple’ film preview denotes a few cuts, plus David Gordon Green said basketball star/rap moonlighter Shaq would have a track in the movie. “The soundtrack is so amazing,” Green told Filmschool rejects. “It is. I mean, there’s Bone Thugs-n-Harmony. It is pretty wonderful and eclectic, very 80s influenced [mix]. There is a Shaquille O’Neal rap song in it. There is a little something for everybody. And it will all end with the Huey Lewis theme song at the end. I can’t even think about it without smiling. It gets stuck in your head for days.”
Updates made to this piece as the tracklist that was delivered was incomplete.
