ARTIST: VA
TITLE: American Teen
LABEL: Columbia
GENRE: Indie
BITRATE: 197kbps avg
PLAYTIME: 0h 54m total
RELEASE DATE: 2008-07-15
RIP DATE: 2008-07-17
Track List
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1. Black Kids - I'm Not Gonna 3:38
Teach Your Boyfriend How to
Dance with You
2. The Ting Tings - Great DJ 3:23
3. Sunny Day Sets Fire - Lack of 4:12
View (Edit)
4. Frou Frou - Breathe In (Jason 4:23
Bentley Remix)
5. Patrick Watson - The Great 3:09
Escape
6. Cat Stevens - Trouble 2:47
7. John Paul Young - Love is in 3:30
The Air
8. Ryan Lindsey - Let's Go Out 2:11
9. Does It Offend You, Yeah? - 3:27
Dawn of the Dead
10. Luna Halo - Kings and Queens 3:21
11. Blackalicious - Your Move 3:56
12. The Unicorns - Sea Ghost 3:41
13. The New Pornographers - 4:17
Adventures in Solitude
14. Nyles Lannon - Train 3:05
15. M.G.M.T. - Kids 5:03
Release Notes:
Columbia Records to Release 'AMERICAN TEEN' Motion Picture Soundtrack Based on
Sundance-Winning Documentary
Soundtrack in stores July 15; Film opens July 25
LOS ANGELES, June 17 /PRNewswire/ -- AMERICAN TEEN MUSIC FROM THE MOTION
PICTURE is more than just a motion picture soundtrack, it is the soundtrack of
five young adults as they embark on one of the most sacred and significant
years of their lives.
Film critics are already raving about the 2008 Sundance hit documentary
AMERICAN TEEN, the touching, candid and hilarious look at five real students
during their senior year in small-town Warsaw, Indiana. Directed by
Academy-Award nominated Nanette Burstein, AMERICAN TEEN chronicles the lives
of five completely different teenagers, from the popular girl to the socially
awkward "geek," examining the cliques they belong to, the questions they
ponder and the trials and tribulations they face preparing for adulthood in
the new millennium.
Through it all, the one constant is the music. The eclectic soundtrack
features some of today's hottest up-and-coming acts (The Ting Tings, Black
Kids, MGMT, and Does It Offend You, Yeah?), timeless classics including John
Paul Young's "Love Is In The Air" and Cat Stevens' "Trouble," and a steady mix
of the teenager's favorite bands culled directly from their iPods during
filming.
"When I approached the music for this movie, I wanted the musical choices
to be inspired by the playlists of the featured teenagers. So throughout the
year of filming, I would download as much music as I could from their iPods. I
think the sum really captures the emotions that these five seniors experienced
throughout their final year of high school," says director Nanette Burstein.
Critics agree, those emotions connect throughout AMERICAN TEEN.
Entertainment Weekly calls the film "sensationally engrossing. A heady,
eye-opening pleasure," and Vanity Fair hails, "AMERICAN TEEN is the great
Hughes movie that Hughes never made." Other accolades include "Undeniably
entertaining" (Variety), "A riveting and resonant drama" (Elle) and "AMERICAN
TEEN is a modern day 'THE BREAKFAST CLUB' that will make you stand up and
cheer." (E! Entertainment Television).
The soundtrack's SUNNY DAY SETS FIRE will perform at the Los Angeles Film
Festival's premiere of AMERICAN TEEN on June 25 at the Ford Amphitheater. Many
of the soundtrack's artists will be performing together in August, when MGMT,
The Ting Tings, Black Kids and Does It Offend You, Yeah? entertain tens of
thousands of fans at Lollapalooza, in Chicago.
AMERICAN TEEN opens in select theaters July 25 and nationwide in August,
and is being released by Paramount Vantage, the specialty film division of
Paramount Pictures Corporation and a unit of Viacom. AMERICAN TEEN MUSIC FROM
THE MOTION PICTURE is being released by Columbia Records on July 15.