Metric Song gives us First Listen at the SCOTT PILGRIM Soundtrack
From the early test screening reviews, we know that Edgar Wright's adaptation of Scott Pilgrim vs. The World captures all the "8-bit awesomeness" of the source material, with the video-game like action sequences. With any movie, the music plays a large part in the movie experience. But with Scott Pilgrim, that is especially the case, as the music also plays a pivotal role in the story.
Our friends at JoBlo break it down:
Scott is in a band called Sex Bob-Omb with his friends Stephen Stills and Kim Pine. In the second digest, which is titled the same as the feature film, Scott gets a call from Envy Adams to open for her band, The Clash at Demonhead. In college, Envy broke Scott's heart which devastated him. The Clash at Demonhead is a fairly popular rising band. Knives Chau, groupie for Sex Bob-Omb and one time girlfriend of Scott is in love with Demonhead saying at one point that they are, "so deep". Scott is frustrated by their popularity and vows to, "destroy her [Envy's] stupid pretentious crappy art school poser band".
Another band in the comics is Sex Bob-omb's rival band, Crash and the Boys, who open up one of their shows and plays one song that is 0.4 seconds long and another that leaves the audience comatose.
Wright, with his great eye and ear for detail, has tapped some big name bands to supply the music for these fictional bands from the comic. Beck is the man behind Sex Bob-omb's tunes, Broken Social Scene supply the music for Crash and the Boys and Metric is the band behind The Clash at Demonhead.
Metric, most popular for their hit song "Help I'm Alive," have made their first Scott Pilgrim track available on their Facebook Fan Page. If you become a fan, the streaming player is activated.
The song is called "Black Sheep," and from the YouTube uploads of the song, and its alternate title "Freddy," we know that the band has been playing the song in their set since 2007. So we know the song wasn't written specifically for the Scott Pilgrim Soundtrack, but it is unknown whether or not it was recorded for it, since no studio recording has been released until now.
Check it out and tell us what you think!