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7.07.11 # Soundtrack # 50 Comments
The Crazy, Stupid, Love soundtrack. Although few would argue with the assertion that love can indeed be characterised as both ‘crazy’ and ‘stupid’ (er, assuming we’re talking about the libidinous variety, rather than the love one might feel for a treasured family pet – say, a cute li’l wabbit. Aw), the soundtrack to the forthcoming movie with a title constituted of those three words is not so much daft lunatic, instead being more of a safe ‘n’ steady affair.
Directed by the I Love You Phillip Morris pairing of Glenn Ficarra and John Requa, Crazy, Stupid, Love on first inspection appears to be an odd couple bromance, with Steve Carrell as the middle-aged sad sack being giving pick-up tips by Ryan Gosling’s smooth-talking slickster. However the trailer indicates that the dramatic element of the story is at least as prevalent as the humorous one, and the soundtrack provides a further hint of this, with it lacking the knockabout, retro-irony numbers which have come to characterise the tie-in albums of contemporary comedy flicks.
Most of the 12 chosen tracks (all oldies, no newies) are fairly mellow affairs, with the combined effect harking back to the chill-out boom (if that isn’t too much of an oxymoron) of the late ‘90s/early ‘00s. Indeed, from the Fleet Foxes-lite of the Acorn, with their acoustic guitars and post-ironic spirituality, to the piano hook of Gram Rabbit’s Lost in Place, to the Middle East’s Blood (already heard on at least one film soundtrack this year: It’s Kind of a Funny Story, starring Zach Galifianakis), it’s largely the kind of good taste languor that might be put on the stereo during a dinner party. Just after dessert. Just before the cheese and cyanide.
There are a few vacillations in tempo, mind, with DC duo Thievery Corporation contributing both the brassy, bassy groove of The Numbers Games¸ complete with rootsy vocal from fellow Washingtonite, Chuck Brown, and The Heart’s a Lonely Hunter, an older and percussively funky number featuring the ever-familiar tones of David Byrne. Meanwhile, the late Doris Troy matches and perhaps surpasses Brown in terms of soulful vocals (Just One Look), while Say Hi’s Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh (yes, really) provides a brief but welcome burst of higher-octane oddness.
The Crazy, Stupid, Love soundtrack is out on 26 July. The movie is out three days later in the US and on 23 September in the UK.
You can download the Crazy Stupid Love soundtrack as mp3s here
Crazy, Stupid, Love Soundtrack (Songs) – Track List
1. The Numbers Game – Thievery Corporation
2. Almanac – The Acorn
3. Lost in Place – Gram Rabbit
4. The Heart’s a Lonely Hunter – Thievery Corporation & David Byrne
5. Black is the Color of My True Love’s Hair (Jaffa remix) – Nina Simone
6. Animal (Mark Ronson remix) – Miike Snow
7. Ooh La La – Goldfrapp
8. Just One Look – Doris Troy
9. Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh – Say Hi
10. On the Sly – The Bamboos
11. I Need Your Love – Marilin Medina, Martin Medina & Jason Ruder
12. Blood – The Middle East
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Anybody know the song thats playing when he truth about Steve carell comes out and he’s standing in the rain .
Does anyone know the song that is played when Jacob is walking in the slowmotion to Hannah to give her a drink (at Jacob’s living room)?
does anyone knows the name of the song that played at the end of the whole movie after blood by middle east???
That’s Tenuousness by Andrew Bird.
When Emma enters the bar when Ryan Gosling is hitting the blondie and then Emma kisses him… Girl singing with electric guitar in the background. Great late night song
the song that plays after the parent teacher night when cal was in the rain?????
What’s the song when the boy jumps on his bike to take the flowers to Jessica’s house?
Does anyone know the song that played while Hannah and Jacob were in bed talking?
plez help,when steve falls out of the tree at night in his yard, what is the name of that song
What is the song when: the kid sits in stairs at school and deletes Jessica’s name?? It’s so cool and sad at the same time
Jr, it is “Revenge” by Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse.
Does anyone know the background song during the final bar scene, where Cal calls the bartender a “cocktail servant”? It’s a really chill house song.
who knows the name of instrumental lead in before the graduation starts in crazy stupid love? The song before the the speakers begin?
What is the song when Hannah leaves the boyfriend in the bar and goes to find Ryan Gosling through the rain to take her home?
what is the name of the song that plays in the background when jacob tells cal that he will help him get his manhood back
Whats the name of the song being played at the night club scene when they (first start approaching woman) the Amy Girl. it has a piano beat to it.
thank you
What is the name of the violin song right after Hannah’s and Jacob’s scene in the bed?
There is a song (instrumental) when Hannah kisses Jacob goodnight, that begins with acoustic guitar and trails into violin… Anyone know this song?
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