13 Going on 30 [Soundtrack]

Various Artists (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 20, 2004)
• Original Release Date: April 23, 2004
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Soundtrack
• Label: Hollywood Records
• ASIN: B0001XAR1I
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (65 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #91,023 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Head Over Heels

2. Jessie's Girl

3. Burning Down the House

4. Mad About You

5. I Wanna Dance With Somebody - Whitney Houston

6. What I Like About You - Lillix

7. Ice Ice Baby

8. Crazy For You - Madonna

9. Vienna - Billy Joel

10. Why Can't I? - Liz Phair

11. Tainted Love - Soft Cell

12. Love Is A Battlefield - Pat Benatar

13. Will I Ever Make It Home - Ingram Hill

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

20 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Soundtrack, July 5, 2004

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This review is from: 13 Going on 30 (Audio CD)

I love '80s music, so after I saw the movie, I knew I had to buy this soundtrack. It is one of the rare soundtracks filled with songs that were actually in the movie rather than thrown on there just to drive CD sales. It is a great blend of '80s music and music that is popular today. There is a song on here for every mood, so there isn't a good reason why someone shouldn't like it. Yes, it is disappointing "Thriller" wasn't on here, but the rest of the songs more than make up for that.

If you have a wide variety of musical tastes, then you should get this soundtrack. Like the movie, it will make you feel good about yourself.

19 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars By the way . . ., May 17, 2005

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Abby "Panda" (Portland, OR USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: 13 Going on 30 (Audio CD)

No one seems to have mentioned yet, but I adored the song that was playing when Jenna was shopping at Chanel and had the green masque on. It's called "Good Day" by Luce.

31 of 40 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars If you liked the music here are most of the movie's songs, April 25, 2004

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Lawrance M. Bernabo (The Zenith City, Duluth, Minnesota) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: 13 Going on 30 (Audio CD)

Listening to the soundtrack for "13 Going on 30" only confirms for me that this script was kicking around Hollywood for a couple of years (they were originally thinking of doing it with Renee Zellwegger). In this film young Jenna turns 13 in the year 1987 and then ends up as Jennifer Garner in the year 2004. But look at when these songs came out: "Head Over Heels" by the Go-Go's is from their under appreciated 1984 "Talk Show" album, Rick Springfield's big hit "Jessie's Girl" came out in 1981, "Burning Down the House" by the Talking Heads in 1984, Madonna's "Crazy For You" is from 1985, Belinda Carlisle's "Mad About You" is from her first solo album in 1986, and Soft Cell's "Tainted Love" is from 1982.

The two most important songs in the movie are Michael Jackson's "Thriller" from 1982 (you knew better than to expect it to show up on this album) and Pat Benatar's "Love is a Battlefield" from 1983. There actually is one song from 1987, Whitney Houston's "I Wanna Dance With Somebody," but everything else is earlier. The difference is such that the original Jenna, when this script was first written, made it to high school by the time it was filmed and took place in 1987 instead of three or four years earlier. Yes, "Ice Ice Baby" is from 1990, but, hey, it is not Jenna's song in the movie, so there are no problems there in terms of my working hypothesis.

Anyhow, this soundtrack does a good job of having all the songs that are featured prominently in the movie except one, the aforementioned "Thriller." So if you need to stop off to pick up this soundtrack on the way home from seeing the movie because being teased by hearing the songs in the movie brought the '80s back to you in a rush, then you are not going to be disappointed. This is not a bad little collection of songs from that decade, even with Vanilla Ice thrown into the mix, but the chief attraction will be those who liked the movie and memorized the choreography for "Love is a Battlefield."