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Thursday, August 21, 2003

"well he puts his cigar out in your face just for kicks, and his bedroom window is made outta bricks..."
-Maggie's Farm

damn the Rage Against the Machine version of that song fucking smokes.
i've been staring out my bedroom window and downloading songs again and i got bored and decided to get all versions of that song. so far found 5. the Grateful Dead version is a typical noodling snoozefest.

then i got even more bored and, since it's been on cable all week, i decided to make some Donnie Darko soundtracks. yep, i be a fan. here's me at Halloween last October. i even tried to do his blank stare and tard voice when he talked to Frank. and i carried around a filthy stuffed rabbit.

thing is, they only sell the score and not the soundtrack so i started to download all the tunes from the movie. but apparently there's some controversy about what was in the movie's first cut (also saw the HUGE Watership Down influence acknowledged) because they realized they couldn't afford THOSE songs and went with the current version. so i put those on there too as alternates. they're listed as "tangent universe" songs. that's right. who's the fuckin' doorknob? (raising my hand) then i started finding all these different versions of those songs, so those had to be on there too. THEN i didn't want to put the cheese-metal song "Proud To Be Loud" by Keel (?) on it because you know the only reason they played that was because they needed an 80's "party" song to open that scene and it didn't really mean anything like the rest of the songs. so i replaced it with the cheese-metal song i always heard at my high school parties. then i moved shit around to sound better when you spin it. so here's the soundtrack i'll be burning. anyone want one i'll hook you up:

Donnie Darko (aka "Watership Dork")

1.) The Killing Moon - Echo & the Bunnymen
2.) Mad World - Tears For Fears (original version because clearly this inspired a lot of the flick)
3.) Never Tear Us Apart - (tangent) according to director, this was the opening song at the first screenings, until they realized they couldn't afford the rights to it. the lyrics fit better but i can't imagine anything except Killing Moon starting the movie.
4.) Head Over Heels - Tears For Fears
5.) Notorious - Duran Duran
6.) West End Girls - Pet Shop Boys (tangent) this was the song used for Sparkle Motions' scene but again it was too expensive. this is what they're actually dancing too. Notorious fits pretty good with their movements though.
7.) In The Still Of The Night - Whitesnake (tangent) this is where "Proud to be Loud" would be but i've inserted the song that reminds me of MY high school parties. "my heart beatin heavy, tellin' me you wanna have mo- or -or!"
8.) Everybody Wants to Rule The World - Tears For Fears (tangent) this was originally supposed to be the slo-mo high school hallway song but again money was an issue. what up with his Tears for Fears obsession? and i was ashamed of my Asia collection?
9.) Love Will Tear Us Apart - Joy Division
10.) Just Like Heaven - The Cure (tangent?) this one i'm not sure of. some websites claim that this song was played over the party/sex scene at the Toronto film festival but then changed later.
11.) Under The Milky Way - The Church
12.) Mad World - Gary Jules remake
13.) Shout 2000 - Disturbed (i thought this would be funny since this director was so far up Tears For Fears' sphinct. this ham-fisted remake signals the end of the legit soundtrack and the beginning of the remixes and cover versions.
14.) The Killing Moon (allnight version) - Echo & the Bunnymen (do they mean dance "all night" or ride around on your bike with your spooky imaginary rabbit "all night?")
15.) Mad World (12" remix) - Tears For Fears
16.) The Killing Moon - Pavement
17.) Mad World (remix) - Gary Jules (this was a tough call. apparently they tarted up an already perfect remake with some drums and synth noises. it reminds me of that "In The Air Tonight" remix abomination that was out in the 90's.
it robbed it of it's power. i've included it for obsessive compulsive reasons only.
18.) Shout 2000 (nu-metal mix) - now this is a complete horrorshow. The Disturbed version of Shout combined with a medley of DMX, Limp Bisquick, that overplayed Butterfly song, Linkin Park and some other jockrockers. it's an obscene meathead compilation like if "We Are The World" was done by Korn. and i love the piece of shit.
19.) Mad World - Finch (this was a strange find. i like the Finch cd and was happy to discover this little acoustic throwaway version to tack on the end.

there you go. the never-before-seen official unofficial Donnie Darko soundtrack. i should get paid for the research i did on this bitch.

::: david - 10:44 PM [+] :::
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