Knocked Up: The Greatest Soundtrack They’re Not Releasing

  How many movies do you leave thinking, man, I should really buy the soundtrack to that film?  Sure, I liked it and all, and a DVD would be nice, but right now, I’d like to roll around in my car, on the train, at my place, and just listen to the music from that movie?  It doesn’t happen often, and yet when you roll into a Best Buy or a Sam Goody, there’s an entire section devoted to the soundtracks of many films, some great but most shitty.  So imagine my surprise when I went to pick up the Knocked Up soundtrack, and found only the original music written for and inspired by the movie for sale.  I’m sure, Loudon Wainwright III is a brilliant songwriter and all, but where is my “Shame on a Nigga” by the Wu-Tang clan?  Why don’t they just feature Wainwright’s songs on an album with Sublime’s “Santeria” and the B-52’s “Rock Lobster?

• “We Are Nowhere And It’s Now” – Bright Eyes (feat. Emmylou Harris)
• “All Night” – Damien Marley
• “Rock Lobster” – The B-52’s
• “Police On My Back” – The Clash
• “The Biggest Part of Me” – Ambrosia
• “Smile” – Lily Allen
• “Girl” – Beck
• “King without a Crown” – Matisyahu
• “Toxic” – Britney Spears
• “Santeria” – Sublime
• “Tropicana” – Ratatat
• “Shimmy Shimmy Ya” – Ol’ Dirty Bastard
• “Love Plus One” – Haircut 100
• “Rock You Like a Hurricane” – Scorpions
• “Reminiscing” – Little River Band
• “Ashamed” – Tommy Lee
• “Swing” – Savage
• “Shame On A Nigga” – Wu-Tang Clan (used in the film’s trailer)
• “End of the Line” – Traveling Wilburys (used in the film’s trailer)

 Personally, I blame the record companies.  They’ve been dipping their greedy little hands into everyone’s pockets and jamming their noses into everyone’s business for the past six or seven years; so much so that they’re only crippling themselves.  I don’t want to hit LIMEWIRE and download the songs piecemeal, I want to walk into a store and buy them all in one pretty little package, and I can’t.  Because Movie Companies don’t want to pay twice to use the music in the movie, as well as the soundtrack, and the record company people don’t want to throw any of the profit to the Movie Company to license the film’s name for the soundtrack.  So neither corporation will create or profit from the sale of said soundtrack.  Nobody’s getting screwed here but the consumer. 

Knocked Up is going to dominate at the box office and make the Movie Company a shitload of money, and artists like Britney, Sublime, Wu-Tang, and the rest will continue to sell their albums; the only loser is the person who just wants to hear the fucking songs all in a row, on one CD, or in one directory on his iPod.  I asked for it and they didn’t have it.  I wanted to pay for it, and it wasn’t being sold, so who’s going to be the bad guy when I make it myself from downloaded music?  ME.  Not until I actually try to supply a demand, will the Record Companies get off their ass and start complaining about what I’m doing to them. 

Shame on a Nigga, indeed.

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~ by chrismcdevitt on June 8, 2007.