Starting yesterday, July 28th, a deluxe edition of the “(500) Days of Summer” soundtrack is available exclusively on ITunes. It features a whopping three additional tracks, two of which are excerpts from the film where the lead actors Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Zooey Deschanel head to a karaoke bar after work with some colleagues.
So if you’ve been dying to hear Gordon-Levitt’s drunken warbling along to The Pixies’ “Here Comes Your Man” while your iPod is on shuffle, now is your chance (it’s the exact version from the film, and he does kind of knock it out of the park, even though his character is pretty alcohol polluted. The man can sing!). Deschanel also does a karaoke rendition of the Nancy Sinatra/Lee Hazlewood song, “Sugar Town.” Full tracklist below, but these are essentially more bonus tracks as the original album also featured She & Him’s (Deschanel and M. Ward) rendition of the Smith’s classic, “Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want,” which was also basically a bonus track since it wasn’t in the original film (you can hear that version here).
Meanwhile the film, still in limited release, is earning remarkable critical raves and positive buzz. Fox Searchlight’s now practically trademarked rollout plan, which usually involves lots of press and a slow addition of screens over many weeks, could turn “(500) Days Of Summer” into the indie story of the summer.
Previously announced tracklist (that version came out July 14).
1. A Story of Boy Meets Girl – Mychael Danna and Rob Simonsen
2. Us – Regina Spektor
3. There Is A Light That Never Goes Out – The Smiths
4. Bad Kids – Black Lips
5. Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want – The Smiths
6. There Goes The Fear – Doves
7. You Make My Dreams – Hall & Oates
8. Sweet Disposition – The Temper Trap
9. Quelqu’un M’a Dit – Carla Bruni
10. Mushaboom – Feist
11. Hero – Regina Spektor
12. Bookends – Simon & Garfunkel
13. Vagabond – Wolfmother
14. She’s Got You High – Mumm-Ra
15. Here Comes Your Man – Meaghan Smith
16. Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want – She & Him
ITUNES EXCLUSIVE DIGITAL VERSION:
17. “Here Comes Your Man” – Joseph Gordon-Levitt (karaoke w/ dialog from the film intro)
18. “Sugartown” – Zooey Deschanel (karaoke version)
19. “At Last” – Kevin Michael
Here’s a version of the original Pixies song if you’ve somehow gone through life without ever hearing it. – Kevin Jagernauth
Looks funny!