Boogie down with daddy now…
Three of David Bowie’s finest songs have been used for the soundtrack of Lisa Cholodenko‘s Sundance Film Festival hit, the upcoming The Kids Are All Right, with two of those tracks making it to the soundtrack CD.
The film stars Annette Bening and Julianne Moore as a same sex couple whose sperm bank children, Mia Wasikowska and Josh Hutcherson, decide to search for their biological father, played by Mark Ruffalo.
Here’s a bit from an interview with Liza Richardson, Music Supervisor for The Kids Are All Right…
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Defining character, in fact, may be the principal role that songs play in The Kids Are All Right. In addition to the specific choices for the mothers, Richardson looked for music, old and new, that would define Ruffalo?s biological father character as well as their two children. ?David Bowie represents Mark Ruffalo?s character,? says Richardson. ?I made a package deal for three Bowie songs ? ?Win,? ?Panic in Detroit,? and ?Black Country Rock.? Mia Wasikowska?s Joni character ?has really cool taste,? says Richardson ? ?Deerhoof and Fever Ray.?
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This is the full tracklisting…
01 – MGMT – The Youth
02 – David Bowie – Black Country Rock
03 – Tame Impala – Sundown Syndrome
04 – Fever Ray – When I Grow Up
05 – Leon Russell – Out In The Woods
06 – Deerhoof – Milk Man
07 – X – The New World
08 – Uh Huh Her – Same High
09 – David Bowie – Win
10 – Quadron – Slippin’
11 – Joni Mitchell – All I Want
12 – CSS – Knife
13 – Geology ft. Yukimi Nagano – Blues Alley
14 – Gabor Szabo – Galatea’s Guitar
15 – Betty Wright – Good Lovin’
16 – Deerhoof – Blue Cash
17 – Little Dragon – Fortune
The soundtrack will be available digitally on July 6th ahead of the film’s theatrical release in the US on July 9th. The CD will be available the following month on August 3rd.
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Two more recent film soundtracks that included a Bowie song are Bus Palladium and Hot Tub Time Machine.
Bus Palladium features Rock ‘N Roll Suicide and Hot Tub Time Machine has Modern Love.