A Little Known Fact

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Something you may not know about me: I love movie soundtracks. Seriously I love them. Soundtracks are how I've gotten most of the tunes in my music collection. In my teenage years I used to listen to the soundtracks for Dick and Charlie's Angels all the time. Both of these albums contained numerous 70s hits, some still popular today and some more obscure. Donnie Darko was the movie that launched my LOVE for all 80s music, especially anything new wave. The montage set to Tears For Fears' "Head Over Heels" introducing most of the main characters is possibly one of my favorite movie scenes of all time. You can check it out here!!

GAH. That was awesome!!

Okay moving on.

Last year's The World's End (you may remember me gushing about that film here) had an excellent soundtrack jam-packed with new wave 80s and 90s songs both Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg remembered from their college years. Apparently they listened to said songs while they were writing the film's screenplay. This is a genius idea, and it's something that I've started doing while writing my coming-of-age flick.

2014 has been a great year for movie soundtracks! This summer's huge gamble/most successful movie Guardians of the Galaxy takes the cake for best soundtrack of the year. Its jumble of 60s/70s tunes is probably more obscure than both Dick and Charlie's Angels combined, and you know what? I love listening to new music! Granted I did already know at least 4 songs on the album, but others have quickly become personal favorites.

A couple of other little known flicks released independently have also flown through my radar. John Carney, director of Once, released his second feature film called Begin Again. Sure it's basically Once with bigger stars and a bigger budget, but it still has a lot of heart and an awesome soundtrack. Who knew Keira Knightley could sing? I sure didn't. Her cover of "Lost Stars" (also sung by Adam Levine in the film) is beautiful and a must listen right now.

A more obscure film is God Help The Girl. It just had an extremely limited release this past week. It's written and directed by indie band Belle & Sebastian's frontman Stuart Murdoch. The film is based off Murdoch's 2009 musical project also titled "God Help The Girl". Apparently the film is a straight up musical, and it looks adorable. Kind of like That Thing You Do but with even more music. Oh! The soundtrack... right. I haven't listened to the whole thing, but the title track is pretty awesome. I can't stop listening to it.

Oh, and while we're on the topic of indie movies, I cannot wait to see Bill Hader and Kristen Wiig flex their acting muscles in The Skeleton Twins. The trailer already has me both in tears and stitches. Their lip-synch to Jefferson Starship's "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now" will probably be one of my favorite scenes of the year. That is not even an understatement. I cannot wait to watch that scene!!

I could keep going on and on about even more movie soundtracks that you should all check out, but I'll stop there. I hope this has at least peaked your interest, and you'll look into some of these movies and the AMAZING music that comes along with them. 

So. There ya go. That's a little known fact that now... YOU KNOOOW!!!