Once upon time, when the word MP3 sounded like a character from a "Star Wars" , the movie soundtrack was a staple of the music industry.
It is impossible not to think of Prince's "Purple Rain" movie without the soundtrack and the same goes for Bee Gee's "Saturday Night Fever", Issac Haye's "Shaft", "Footloose" and John Hughe's "Pretty in Pink", "St. Elmo's Fire" and "Breakfast Club".
The reasons these songs were successful were because you could place a song with a specific scene or scenes in a movie.
If you take Public Enemy's "Fight The Power" out of Spike Lee's "Do The Right Thing", the film would still be good, but something would be missing because PE's song played a major role in the film and in a lot of ways, Fight The Power was a character itself.
However sometime after the Whitney Huston's soundtracks for "Waiting to Exhale" and "The Bodyguard", the soundtrack died because record companies became greedy and stuffed throwaway songs that nothing to do with the movie onto soundtracks or it would have only a few songs that was featured in the film.
By the end of the 90's, the soundtrack was dead.
Hello Project X!
Just Like John Travolta walking down the street with the Bee Gee's "Staying Alive", the 2 Live Crew's “We Want Some Pu**y” set the tone for the 2012 hit film.
What followed was a dizzying array of Hip Hop classics by AMG, Trick Daddy and Dead Prez mixed with booty shaking dance tracks by Yeah Yeah Yeahs, KId Cudi and Lil Jon
The amazing thing is that I can't buy the "Project X" soundtrack on Amazon.
Are you serious?
The only Project X movie soundtrack on Amazon was one featuring Matthew Broderick back in his "Ferris Bueller" days, (I know he's older now, but what to that guy, he was so cool back in the day)
There is a "Project X" soundtrack on Itunes, but there are only 13 songs!?!?
If I was Todd Phillips, I will be calling people from Music Space or the Now series and cut a deal with them and Target to put a double album soundtrack out ASAP!
Believe me, I'm sure people will buy it.
In the meantime, thanks to Indie Wire, here is the song list from "Project X".
Just remember if you are going to have a party using these songs, watch out if one of your decorations is a Santa gnome.
"Project X" Playlist
“We Want Some Pu**y” - 2 Live Crew
“When I'm Gone” - Wiz Khalifa
“O.N.E.” - Yeasayer
“I'm A Thug” - Trick Daddy'
TRICK DADDY - I'M A THUG by hushhush112
“Trouble On My Mind” - Pusha T featuring Tyler, The Creator
“B**ch Better Have My Money” - AMG
“FnG” - SB and PC
“You’re Beautiful” - James Blunt
“You Think I Ain't Worth A Dollar But I Feel Like A Millionaire” - Queens Of The Stone Age
“Dressed In Dresden” - The Hundred In The Hands
“Psychic City (Classixx Remix)” - YACHT
“Beamer, Benz, Or Bentley” - Lloyd Banks featuring Juelz Santana
“W.T.P.” (White Trash Party) - Eminem
“Candy” - Far East Movement featuring Pitbull
“Blow Up” - J Cole
“Push It” - Salt-N-Pepa
“Hands High” - Bang On!
“Paging Stereophonic” - Bassnectar
“In A Hood Near You” - Suni Clay
"My Girls” - Animal Collective
“Ray Ban Vision” - A-Trak
“Hip Hop” - Dead Prez
“Avatar" - DJ Replay
“City Boy (KKS Remix)” - White Arrows“Le Disko (Boys Noize Fire Mix)” - Shiny Toy Guns
"Nasty" - Nas
“Marina Do Bairro” - Bonde Do Role
“Pursuit of Happiness (Steve Aoki Remix)” - Kid Cudi
“Over (Hyper Crush Remix)” - Drake
“Bump N’ Grind” - R. Kelly
R. Kelly - Bump N' Grind (Official Music Video) by kellstv
“Turn Around” - Soul P
"Outta Your Mind" - Lil Jon
“Final Step” - Daniel Lenz
"Free Falling" - The Bangerz
“Heads Will Roll (A-Trak Remix)” - Yeah Yeah Yeahs
“Despicable Dogs (Washed Out Remix)” - Small Black
"Cheap And Cheerful (Sebastian Remix)" - The Kills
“Pretty Girls (Benny Benassi Remix)” - Wale featuring Gucci Mane and Weensey Of Backyard Band
"H.A.M." - Kanye West and JAY-Z
“Rhino Jockey” - Amon Tobin
“Battery” - Metallica
“She Just Likes To Fight” - Four Tet
“The Next Episode” -Dr. Dre featuring Snoop Dogg
“Intro” - The xx
“Daft Punk Is Playing At My House” - LCD Soundsystem
“Fight Music” - D-12
"We Just Made It" - SB
You can hear all of the songs here
Bonus: Dr. Dre's Still Dre is featured in the Neighborhood Watch Trailer (Ben Stiller, Vince Vaughn and Jonah Hill)
What's your favorite soundtracks of all time?
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