500 Days Of Summer | 
| Artist: Various Artists
Label: Warner Bros US
Category: Music
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Rating:  7 reviews
Format: Soundtrack
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Running Time: 95 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.9 x 0.4
UPC: 093624977193
EAN: 0093624977193
ASIN: B002BAODSC
Release Date: August 31, 2009
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| Tracks:
| • | Story Of Boy Meets Girl, A - Danna, Mychael & Rob Simonsen | | • | Us - Spektor, Regina | | • | There Is A Light That Never Goes Out - Smiths | | • | Bad Kids - Various Artists | | • | Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want - Smiths | | • | There Goes The Fear - Doves | | • | You Make My Dreams - Hall & Oates | | • | Sweet Disposition - Various Artists | | • | Quelqu'un M'a Dit - Various Artists | | • | Mushaboom - Feist | | • | Hero - Spektor, Regina | | • | Bookends - Simon & Garfunkel | | • | Vagabond - Wolfmother | | • | She's Got You High - Mumm-Ra | | • | Here Comes Your Man - Smith, Meaghan | | • | Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want - Various Artists |
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| Customer Reviews:
Beautiful Tunes, Beautiful Film August 10, 2009
Little Miss Left of the Middle (London)
16 out of 16 found this review helpful
This soundtrack is full of fantastic songs from an even better movie. From classics like The Smiths to new tracks from Temper Trap, this soundtrack is full of quality gems. It's a shame they missed out Patrick Swayze though! (This comment makes more sense after you've seen the movie).
I've had this CD for over a month and it still hasn't left my CD player. Definately money well spent!
Great collection of modern classics September 23, 2009
A. Moreno
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
(500) Days of Summer is a great movie and its soundtrack does justice to the story. It's one of the best soundtracks I've ever listened to. You will find very uplifting songs in it and some sad melodies that work so well together. Before entering the world of filmmaking Marc Webb directed music videos, no wonder why he came out with this compilation. Don't think about it, buy this CD!
 For a story of boy meets girl March 24, 2010
E. A Solinas (MD USA)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
When you have a quirky arty comedy movie -- especially one with romance -- it's pretty much a must to have a brilliant soundtrack.
So it's hardly surprising that "(500) Days Of Summer" has a colorful array of various songs from a pretty eclectic bunch of bands -- everything from classics to indie pop, anti-folk to galloping hard rock'n'roll. And while it adds extra dimensions to the lovable film from which it springs, it's also a pretty good selection of music in its own right.
We're ushered into the album with a soft cloud of strings and flute, and a solemn spoken monologue about the movie's plot: "This is a story of boy meets girl..." Rather appropriately, it then segues into the rippling beauty of Regina Spektor's "Us" ("They made a statue of us/and put it on a mountaintop/now tourists come and stare at us..."), a delightfully peppy song that trickles up and down the piano keys.
The songs that follow are a pretty eclectic bunch: the Smiths' hard-edged "There Is A Light That Never Goes Out" and the fast-strummed "Please, Please, Please, Let Me Get What I Want," Simon and Garfunkel's wispy folk "Bookends," and the delightful "You Make My Dreams" by Hall and Oates. And then there's Wolfmother's blazing cycling "Vagabond," the Black Lips' stringy unpolished "Bad Kids," the Temper Trap's fast-pacing shifting rocker "Sweet Disposition," Mumm-Ra's catchy Britpopper "She's Got You High," and the brilliantly sweeping, fast-moving "There Goes The Fear" by the Doves.
Then there's the pop interwoven from start to finish: the mellow acoustic "Quequ'un M'a Dit" by France's current First Lady, Feist's delightfully sprightly "Mushaboom," Meaghan Smith's quirky pianopop "Here Comes Your Man," and another song by Regine Spektor, the rambling bittersweet prettiness of "Hero." And there's a sweet little epilogue to this -- M. Ward and the movie's star Zooey Deschanel perform as She and Him (yes, that is the band name!), with a sweet and sparkling cover of "Please, Please, Please, Let Me Get What I Want." And yes, she does have a lovely voice.
The biggest flaw with the "(500) Days Of Summer" soundtrack is that it tends to leap up and down in tempo -- you go from soft and mellow to hard-as-bricks and back again in the space of one song. Oh yeah, and the Black Lips just don't fit in, since they sound kind of tinny and rough-edged compared to the other songs.
Other than that, it's a pretty delightful collection of music cobbled from various genres and time periods, until it feels like listening in on the lead characters' iPods. And while some of the songs vary wildly, all together they give a feeling of warmth and hopeful love -- and serve as a journey into the mind of a person idealistically in love, with moods swinging like a pendulum and bittersweet wistfulness.
There's a lot of guitar and piano woven through this album, especially in the indie-pop songs and the final She and Him song, but there's also a healthy dose of blazing electric guitar, blunt bass, a trickle of keyboard, and some sharp beats in "Sweet Disposition." And the vocalists are excellent as well -- some are quirky and piquant (Feist, Spektor and especially Deschanel) while others are rich and smooth (the Doves and the Smiths especially).
The music of "(500) Days Of Summer" varies wildly and bounces all over the place, yet somehow the soundtrack unifies into a warm and pleasant mingling of vibrant rock, classics and quirky pop. Certainly worth getting.
(500) Days of Summer September 27, 2009
Samuel Simpson (Leicester, UK)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This soundtracks is fabulous, start to finish. The first track is the voice over from the film, and that sets the tone entirely for the soundtrack, a mixture of optimistic songs, hopeful music, mixed with "sad" British pop music (here represented by The Smiths). It really does contain a collection of excellent songs that capture the tones set in the film prefectly. For those that don't own the majority of the songs already, I urge you to buy it, and see the film. If you alread have all these songs, you will love the film. I have listened to this disc dozens of times since seeing the film, forsaking all else. That is a testament to it's quality.
A wonderfully quirky and chilled listen October 25, 2009
New Kid in Town (UK)
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
Must say I loved the film - not groundbreaking and even a few cliches (e.g. the annoying wise kid sister) - but very enjoyable, charming, quirky and life-affirming viewing. Pretty much sums up this very eclectic soundtrack that is far 'too cool for school' for it's own good, but highly enjoyable anyways!
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