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The 40-Year-Old Virgin

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The 40 Year-Old Virigin Soundtrack is one of the best combinations of B-Side hits from the 70s and early 80s Pop and Broadway. The sountrack is all the better for not having the standard 70s hits that we've already heard in a dozen movies and commercials. It's brilliant, fun and totally enjoyable.

The Good
If you haven't seen the movie, that's okay. Just looking at the titles of some of the songs included on the soundtrack is sure to elicit a snicker out of you. You can just imagine where songs like "Virgin Man" (Robinson), "Just Got Lucky" (JoBoxers), "Score" (Workman), and "I Got Ants in My Pants" (Brown) fit into the movie. Although, if you're forty years old (or so) today, a lot of these songs may just remind you of your first time. "Heat of the Moment" (Asia) is one of those songs that really defined the early eighties with its synthesizers and harmonious vocals melodies. "I Ran" (Seagulls) is another one of those songs that you'll never shake from that era.

I'm sure that at a lot of proms and weddings circa 1985 people were slow dancing (and possibly getting lucky) to "Never Surrender" (Hart). Thanks to a Starburst commercial, "Hello" (Richie) seems to be making a comeback. For all the parody it gets, it's a great ballad. If you only get this soundtrack for just one song, get it for "Theme From Greatest American Hero (Believe It Or Not)" (Scarbury). There's just something about the cheesy, over-the-top, `I'm on top of the world' anthem that stays with you for years (though you're afraid to admit it).

The Bad
You can live without the cast recordings of "Aquarius" and "The First Time". As with most soundtracks, you really need to see the movie first.

The Verdict
The 40 Year Old Virgin Soundtrack scores (couldn't resist) with a diverse sampling of music that will recall your younger and more awkward years.

The soundtrack is a good mix of familiar and forgotton late-seventies and early-eighties music. For those who remember those days, this is a nice trip down memory lane. For others who don't, probably not. But if you see the movie first, then the cd becomes a lot better (even funnier, as you remember the scenes in the movie they were playing during). Well worth looking for.

ps- The song Andy kareokes to in his house is called "Word Up" and it was by the r&b band Cameo, and it was a Top 10 hit for them in 1986.

got this album for one song only" believe or not" but the album is ok for making your love of your life happy, so if you want it get this album your love will love you forever..

Theres a song thats played when he gets pissed and takes off on his bike from her house after the fight. It's got some wicked guitaring and im hoping someone might know what it is.

Me and my wife spent many hours in the net searching some musics we listened a lot in 80's. One day, watching the movie "The 40 year-old virgin", surprise! Some of our dreams became true! I found "I ran (so far away)" and my wife, after many years, heard the theme from "Greatest American Hero". Both songs were very popular in Brazil between teenagers. Immediately we went to surf in the internet and begin looking for the soundtrack, and it is exactly what we were waiting for!!! But not only because those songs made us remember those 80's: these are real good music, and we believe they don't belong to a specific date.
That's why we love them.
Thank you, mr. Apatow!
P.S.: "Hello" will never be the same song after this movie...

the song that was playing while andy & beth were "dancing" is Red Light Special by TLC (on the crazysexycool album)

sick movie!! i loved it. Does anyone know the song that was playing when andy and beth were at beth's appartment "dancing" ??

Yo Dog-
The song you're asking about is "J.O.D.D." by Trick Daddy.
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does any body know the name of that song they played when all of the guys entered this club with women kissing and taking shots on their body?