Top Ten Soundtracks I Want

Whip It
Movie Summary: Small town outcast joins big city roller derby team.
Music Feel: Punk girl bands and dreamy acoustic indie bands
Three Repeat Worthy Songs:

1. "Boys Wanna Be Her" Peaches
2. "Dead Sound" The Raveonettes
3. "Your Arms Around Me" Jens Lekman

Scott Pilgrim
Movie Summary: Toronto bassist must battle his new girlfriend's seven deadly exes.
Music Feel: Bass heavy garage bands
Three Repeat Worthy Songs:

1. "Black Sheep" Metric
2. "Garbage Truck" Sex Bob-Omb
3. "Threshold" Sex Bob-Omb

Love Actually
Movie Summary: British love stories intertwined at Christmastime.
Music Feel: Love and Christmas songs, duh
Three Repeat Worthy Songs:

1. "Here With Me" Dido
2. "Turn Me On" Norah Jones
3. "God Only Knows" The Beach Boys

Juno
Movie Summary: Teenage girl gets pregnant, says hip things, and gives the baby up for adoption
Music Feel: Probably the definition of indie.
Three Repeat Worthy Songs:

1. "Anyone Else But You" The Moldy Peaches
2. "All I Want is You" Boris Louis Polisar
3. "Sea of Love" Cat Power

The Wedding Singer
Movie Summary: A wedding singer is left at the alter, then falls in love with a catering waitress who is engaged.
Music Feel: Lots of 80's deliciousness
Three Repeat Worthy Songs:

1. "Grow Old With You" Adam Sandler
2. "You Make My Dreams" Hall and Oates
3. "China Girl" David Bowie

Reality Bites
Movie Summary: Recent college graduates are drifting along.
Music Feel: Early 90's pop
Three Repeat Worthy Songs:

1. "Stay (I Missed You)" Lisa Loeb & Nine Stories
2. "Spin the Bottle" Juliana Hatfield
3. "My Sharona" The Knack

(500) Days of Summer
Movie Summary: Story of a relationship told through jumps back and forth in time
Music Feel: 2009 Indie
Three Repeat Worthy Songs:

1. "Quelqu'un m'a dit" Carla Bruni
2. "Us" Regina Spektor
3. "Here Comes Your Man" Meaghan Smith

Pirate Radio
Movie Summary: In the 1960's, rock music was banned in Britain. One radio station found away around the law
Music Feel: Rock!
Three Repeat Worthy Songs:

1. "All Day and All of the Night" The Kinks
2. "My Generation" The Who
3. "Elenore" The Turtles

Spider-Man 2
Movie Summary: Spider-Man battles Doc Ock
Music Feel: Super hero epic story-telling sort of feel
Three Repeat Worthy Songs:

1. "Vindicated" Dashboard Confessional
2. "Hold On" Jet
3. "Gifts and Curses" Yellowcard

The Last Kiss
Movie Summary: When a guy's girlfriend gets pregnant, he is forced to grow up and royally screws it up along the way.
Music Feel: I think a radio would call it "modern" music.
Three Repeat Worthy Songs:

1. "Chocolate" Snow Patrol
2. "Hide and Seek" Imogen Heap
3. "Reason Why" Rachel Yamagata