Amazon.com has just recently released the track listing for Up: The Soundtrack composed by Michael Giacchino. Each of the 26 tracks (53 minutes of music) are preview-able on the page and will be available for digital download on May 26th, no word yet on the physical soundtrack.
Warning: The titles of the songs, listed below, could be considered spoilerific, after the list I’ll be discussing some details you may or may not have caught in the names:
01. Up With Titles
02. We’re In the Club Now
03. Married Life
04. Carl Goes Up
05. 52 Chachki Pickup
06. Paradise Found
07. Walkin’ the House
08. Three Dog Dash
09. Kevin Beak’n
10. Canine Conundrum
11. The Nickel Tour
12. The Explorer Motel
13. Escape from Muntz Mountain
14. Giving Muntz the Bird
15. Stuff We Did
16. Memories Can Weigh You Down
17. The Small Mailman Returns
18. He’s Got the Bird
19. Seizing the Spirit of Adventure
20. It’s Just a House
21. The Ellie Badge
22. Up With End Credits
23. The Spirit of Adventure
24. Carl’s Maiden Voyage
25. Muntz’s Dark Reverie
26. Meet Kevin in the Jungle
Notes: Notice the track "Up With End Credits." Michael Giacchino is known to play around with the word "credits" in such tracks as "The Incredits" from The Incredibles and "End Creditouilles" from Ratatouille. Also notice Three Dog Dash, "dash" is another word Michael uses frequently in his soundtracks. Remember "100 Rat Dash" from Ratatouille and "100 Mile Dash" from The Incredibles. Don’t forget, "Memories Can Weigh You Down", this is the first track titled revealed and I highly recommend you give this magnificent track a listen! Speaking of titles, many of them like "Escape from Muntz Mountain" and "Giving Muntz the Bird" are funny puns. Get it? Another thing I noticed is that some of the tracks (24-26) aren’t music, but sound effects! Last but not least, check out, "The Spirit of Adventure", a new song from the movie!
(Thanks, Elikrotupos)
Anything else you noticed on the soundtrack, will you be purchasing this gem?
Last modified: May 18, 2009
Of course I’ll be buying the soundtrack, after I’ve seen the movie in a few months, though. Beautiful cover.
Regardless of the possible spoiler content, this will end up nudged in-between my other Pixar CDs before the twenty-ninth of May.
I love the recurring theme (which is, I presume, Ellie’s theme) throughout, as well as the 30s/40s style flair present in several corners of the soundtrack.
This particular composition of Mr. Giacchino’s reminds me more of his work on “The Incredibles” than anything, especially in the anxious and upbeat tracks. “Up with End Credits”, on the other hand, may just end up as my favorite of any Pixar credits score — it positively reeks of nostalgia and brings up memories of old records and dance floors….
The only truly spoilen-laden track on the list (for me, anyway) is number twenty. I think I really do know about 80-90% of the movie now.
(Oh, and the last three tracks are ear candy for you sound effects geeks.)
Thanks for this information, Elikrotupos and martini!
Someone on The Pixar Blog says that it won’t be having a hard copy release because there isn’t enough demand. Shame.
And yeah, track 20 was sort of a spoiler to me, because I wasn’t sure exactly what kind of emotions would be piqued by the scene.
Bryko614 – Are you serious?! You mean there won’t be any CD of it? That’s preposterous….
Pfff. Now I guess I’ll have to purchase an iPod Shuffle or something just so as I can listen to it on the go. There’s times when I despise how the world has changed.
Mitch- If worse comes to worse and there is no physical CD, you can always purchase it on iTunes and burn it onto a CD.
Mitch, buy it in iTunes like martini833 said and then burn it to a CD. iTunes music is all now DRM free so you can do with it what you like, and no pants required for purchasing 😛
Yeah, I know I could just burn it, but it’s not the same as holding an original CD in your own two hands and flipping through the pages of the soundtrack list booklet….
Thanks for the assistance, though, guys! 🙂
bawpcwpn – Ha! “No pants…”
In the trailer there’s a guitar song, who play that song?
I want a physical CD! Digital download is never near the same audio quality as a CD. And amazon has in house cheep CD manufacturing, why not just go threw them??