Your Very Own Donnie Darko Soundtrack
In honour of our most righteous film of the year

Everyone who saw Donnie Darko said ‘ace film, ace soundtrack’. And that soundtrack will never be released because of copy write issues, things to do with people in suits and money. Bastards. What is available is the original music from the film, and though beautiful and haunting as it is, it’s not exactly what we wanted. So, we’re just going to have to make our own, right?
For that we need the soundtrack listing, courtesy of the
Internet Movie Data Base:

• "The Killing Moon"
Written by Will Sergeant, Ian McCulloch, Les Pattinson and Pete De Freitas
Performed by Echo & The Bunnymen
Courtesy of Sire Records/Warner Music U.K. Ltd.
By arrangement with Warner Special Products

• "Lucid Memory"
Written and Performed by Sam Bauer and Ged Bauer

• "Head over Heels"
Written by Curt Smith and Roland Orzabal
Performed by Tears For Fears
Courtesy of Mercury Records Limited
Under license from Universal Music Enterprises

• "Lucid Assembly"
Written and Performed by Ged Bauer and Mike Bauer

• "Ave Maria"
Written by Giulio Caccino and Paul Pritchard
Courtesy of Associated Production Music LLC

• "For Whom the Bell Tolls"
Written by Steve Baker and Carmen Daye
Courtesy of Associated Production Music LLC

• "Show Me"
Written by Quito Colayco and Tony Hertz
Courtesy of Associated Production Music LLC

• "Notorious"
Written by Simon LeBon, Nick Rhodes and John Taylor
Performed by Duran Duran
Courtesy of Capitol Records
Under license from EMI-Capitol Music Special Markets

• "Proud To Be Loud"
Written by Marc Ferrari
Performed by The Dead Green Mummies
Courtesy of Marc Ferrari / Master Source

• "Love Will Tear Us Apart"
Written and Performed by Joy Division
Courtesy of Warner Music U.K. Ltd.
By arrangement with Warner Special Products

• "Under the Milky Way"
Written by Steven Kilbey and Karin Jansson
Performed by The Church
Courtesy of Arista Records, Inc.
Courtesy of Festival Mushroom Records Pty Ltd.

• "Mad World"
Written by Roland Orzabal
Performed by Gary Jules and Michael Andrews

I’ve found that not all these tracks can be found on your common as garden mushrooms MP3 downloaderthing. There was no, although I searched long and hard, a track called ‘Proud To Be Loud’ by The Dead Green Mummies. But the original is by a band called Keel, which you can find.

Also digging around on IMDB I found out that ‘Never Tear Us Apart’ was the original choice for the opening sequence of the movie, and that Pet Shop Boy’s ‘West End Girls’ was meant to be used for Sparkle Motion’s dance routine. Apparently the rights to both songs were too expensive and were never used.

So here’s my recommended tracklisting. Download, burn, listen and feel all dark and moody.

1. ‘The Killing Moon’ – Echo & The Bunnymen
2. ‘Head Over Heels’ – Tears For Fears
3. ‘Notorius’ – Duran Duran
4. ‘West End Girls’ – Pet Shop Boys
5. ‘Proud To Be Loud’ – Keel
6. ‘Love Will Tear Us Apart’ – Joy Division
7. ‘Under The Milky Way’ – The Church
8. ‘Mad World’ – Gary Jules
9. ‘Mad World’ – Tears For Fears
10.  ‘Never Tear Us Apart’ - INXS




words: rachel.
the proper soundtrack
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