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Friday, May 4 2012, 6AM
"Down to the River to Pray" is a traditional English folk song. Krauss' version and the entire O Brother, Where Art Thou? soundtrack were instrumental in bringing bluegrass and traditional folk music back into the mainstream.
Wreckless Eric was born in East Sussex, England and is best known for this 1977 single.
"Everybody's Got to Learn Sometime" was written by James Warren and first performed by the pop band The Korgis.
Brothers David Robbins and Tim Robbins assisted Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan in writing this track.
This documentary follows a group of Cuban musicians, brought together by Ry Cooder, as they record an album and then perform a concert in the United States. www.buenavistasocialclub.com
Mother Love Bone formed in Seattle in 1988; frontman Andrew Wood died just days before the scheduled release of the band's debut album, Apple.
Pump Up the Volume also featured the Beastie Boys' "The Scenario," which never appeared in any official release.
Nicki Minaj's Kanye West produced "Blazin" samples this track.
Tarantino realized this would be a good song for the torture scene and even used it during auditions for the film. Read more about his favorite soundtrack picks: www.rollingstone.com.
"Misirlou" is a popular Greek song, performed in a variety of styles. The song was rearranged as a solo instrumental guitar piece by Dick Dale in 1962. Dale's father and uncles were Lebanese-American musicians and Dalesaw his uncle play "Misirlou" on one string of the oud.
"L'Arena" plays as the bride (Uma Thurman) busts out of her coffin.
Hootenanny was recorded in Roseville, Minnesota; the liner notes describe it as "a warehouse in some godawful suburb north of Mpls." The track was featured in 1989's "Say Anything..."
www.youtube.com Director Cameron Crowe originally chose Billy Idol’s “To Be a Lover” for the scene.
"Born Slippy NUXX" was originally released only as a B-side of a single and did not appear on their album Second Toughest.
"The Imperial March" was premiered three weeks before the opening of the film during the composer John Williams' first concert as official conductor-in-residence of the Boston Pops Orchestra.
The track title comes from the main character's name, Axel Foley (Eddie Murphy).
24 Hour Party People is a British film about Manchester's music community from 1976 to 1992, specifically the scene at Factory Records.
In Purple Rain Prince plays an aspiring and talented Minneapolis musician. Prince himself is from Minneapolis.
Faith No More emerged in San Francisco. After the group disbanded, keyboardist Roddy Bottum formed Imperial Teen.
The soundtrack also featured tracks from The Clash, Echo & the Bunnymen, The Specials, The Jam, The Cure and Siouxsie and the Banshees.
Weissberg and Mandell were musicians from New York City, but their musical inspiration was the folk sound coming out of Appalachia.
Check out Soul Jazz Records' compilation Can You Dig It?, which chronicles "Black Action Films" like Superfly. www.souljazzrecords.co.uk
"Just Like Honey" was featured during the film's closing scene: www.youtube.com
The band took their name from the two detectives Thomson and Thompson in the comic strip, The Adventures of Tintin.
The soundtrack features other punk rock artists like The Plugz, the Circle Jerks, Suicidal Tendencies and Iggy Pop.
Suicidal Tendencies formed in Venice in the early 80's, after taking a hiatus the band is touring this summer. www.suicidaltendencies.com
In The Graduate Benjamin Braddock has an affair with a the older married woman, Mrs. Robinson.
In Do the Right Thing, Radio Raheem blasts Public Enemy's "Fight the Power" from his boombox wherever he goes. The track begins with the lines "1989, the number, another summer."
This track is featured on "Can You Dig It? The Music and Politics of Black Action Films 1968-1975." The black action films of the early 1970s gave Hollywood its first African-American cinema. Films like ‘Shaft’ and ‘Super Fly’ were coined by the NAACP as Blaxploitation.
The soundtrack for Sexy Beast is strewn with dialogue and sounds from the movie.
Vanilla Sky features no original score but rather tracks from well known artists like R.E.M., Radiohead, Paul McCartney, Bob Dylan and The Chemical Brothers.
Cohen's "Everybody Knows" and "If It Be Your Will" were featured in the 1990 film Pump Up the Volume.
The Crow was based on the 1989 comic book of the same name by James O'Barr. O'Barr was influenced by The Cure and Joy Division; he reprinted lyrics to the song "The Hanging Garden" by The Cure and some chapters are named after Joy Division songs, "Atmosphere" and "Atrocity Exhibition."
In addition to Scream 3, this track was featured in Dumb and Dumber, Hellboy and The X-Files television series.
The title is taken from the horror film star Bela Lugosi, who played the title character in the 1931 film Dracula.
"Abraham's Daughter" emerged after frontman Win Butler and Régine Chassagne met Burnett in October at Neil Young's Bridge School Benefit.
May the Fourth be with you.
This track by Australia's The Church was in the soundtrack for the movie Donnie Darko.
In the Name of the Father is a 1993 film based on the lives of the Guildford Four, four people falsely convicted of the IRA’s Guildford pub bombings.
Used in the last scene in High Fidelity....for all you music friends out there...thanks for listening!