Drew Barrymore’s roller derby dramedy, “Whip It” starring Ellen Page — and an ensemble that also features Andrew Wilson, Kirsten Wiig, Eve, Alia Shawkat, Jimmy Fallon, Juliette Lewis — hits theaters this Friday (October 2).
We saw it the picture at TIFF recently and while it starts out a little uneven initially, it does make for a sweet, come-from-behind victory. And Marcia Gay Harden is really the best thing about it, playing a mother who’s wonderfully flawed and yet still likable — sort of like all mom’s lovable, but sometimes big pains in the ass.
Anywhoo, we noted a few weeks ago, the soundtrack, which came out this Tuesday, features the likes of the Go! Team, The Raveonettes, Jens Lekman, The Ramones and 19 tracks in total. But the movie itself, features a whopping 75 music cues all in all.
So we have for you two different treats. First, the three (technically two) soundtrack songs specifically-written (one remixed) for the film which include, Landon Pigg’s (who also appears in the film as the Page’s romantic) “High Times,” with the Turbo Fruits, Har Mar Superstar and Adam Green cover of ’60s sunshine pop band the Associations “Never My Love” featuring Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Flea on horns (Har Mar also has a small cameo) and the Chordettes’ classic ’50s bubblegum tune “Lollipop” as remixed by Squeak E. Clean (Spike Jonze’s brother) and Desert Eagles (Squeak E. Clean also composed the score to David O. Russell’s never-gonna-get-released political satire, “Nailed“).
And then we have the full list of every song used in “Whip It” the film. You’ll recall that Rhino Records, who put out the soundtrack is toying with the idea of putting out a second soundtrack disc and they’d have plenty of music to choose from if they can licence it all including Radiohead (“No Surprises”), The American Analog Set, several Go! Team tracks, The White Stripes, The Strokes, Eagles of Death Metal, Badly Drawn Boy, Kings of Leon, Jon Brion (three recycled score tunes from previous films) and a few cues that look like they’re original score material written by Squeak E. Clean (aka Sam Spiegel of NASA). String quartet The Section Quartet are credited with the original score, but another composer favorite of ours David Torn looks like he lent a few music cues as well. Whether they’re original or recycled remains to be seen however as much of his soundtrack instrumental cues (“The Wackness,” “Anvil”) have never been released (though one is clearly from “Lars and the Real Girl”).
All The Music Featured in “Whip It”
Kings of Leon, “Knocked Up”
Badly Drawn Boy, “About a Boy”
Rex Hobart,“Don’t Make Me Break Your Heart”
George Strait, “If You Can Do Anything Else”
W. Houston/M.G. Harden/U. Scheel, “Greatest Love of All”
Black Angels, “Manipulation”
Clap Your Hands And Say Yeah, “Blue Turning to Grey”
The Ramones, “Sheena is a Punk Rocker”
Kasabian, “Club Foot”
The Sugarhill Gang, “Apache”
Cut Chemist, “What’s the Altitude”
The White Stripes, “Icky Thump”
Animal Collective, “Summertime Clothes”
Eagles of Death Metal, “High Voltage”
Gilberto Gil, “Domingo No Parque”
Wilson Phillips, “Hold On”
Flying Lotus, “Melt”
Dead Meadow, “The Queen of All Returns”
Department of Eagles, “In Ear Park”
.38 Special, “Caught Up in You”
EPMD, “I’m Housin’”
Sam Speigel, “Once Again”
Peaches, “Boys Want to Be Her”
Kyuss, “Boo”
DJ Kool, “Let Me Clear My Throat”
Whitey, “Wrap it Up”
Goose, “Black Gloves”
Turbo Fruits and Landon, “Fun Dream Love Dream”
Turbo Fruits and Landon, “Get Up, Get Down”
Jens Lekman, “Sweet Summer Nights”
Little Joy, “Unattainable”
Eagles of Death Metal, “I’m Your Torpedo”
Dolly Parton, “Jolene”
Jimmy Dale Gilmore, “Four Walls”
American Analog Set, “Punk as Fuck”
On Camera & Landon, “Deep in the Heart of Texas”
Joel Butler, “Deep in the Heart of Texas”
Breeders, “Bang on”
Five Alarm Music, “Dillon Cadence”
Tilly and the Wall, “Pot Kettle Black”
Kaiser Chiefs, “I Predict a Riot”
Turbo Fruits and Landon, “Hightimes”
Jon Brion, “Break Up”
Extreme Music, “Di Quella Pira”
David Torn, “3M46A”
Jon Brion, “I Heart Huckabees”
Jon Brion, “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind”
Jens Lekman, “Your Arms Around Me”
Radiohead, “No Surprises”
Jens Lekman, “When I Said I wanted to Be Your Dog”
Joy Division, “Digital”
Turbo Fruits and Landon, “Hightimes”
Sam Speigel, “5M57”
MGMT, “Kids”
Sam Speigel, “Intro to the Race”
The Strokes, “Heart in a Cage”
The Ettes, “Crown of Age”
The Breeders, “Cannonball”
Does It Offend You, Yeah?, “With a Heavy Heart”
The Go Team, “The Power is On”
David Torn, “Lars and the Real Girl”
The Go Team, “Doing it Right”
Ladytron, “Ghosts”
David Torn, “Brooke and Bliss Make Up”
Apollo Sunshine, “Breeze”
Sam Spiegel, “Lollipop Remix Song”
Young MC, “Know How”
Ellen Page, “Greatest Love of All”
Lorene Scafaria, “28”
Har Mar Superstar, “Never My Love”
