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Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World (Original Score Composed By Nigel Godrich) [+Digital Booklet]

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Should you purchase this score? Well, it's excellent. But is it right for *you*? Here's a handy guide! Some questions:

1 -- Do you like the movie?
2 -- Do you like Radiohead?
3 -- Do you like the movie's soundtrack?
4 -- Do you feel bad that the movie only made $10M on opening weekend despite a budget (production and advertising) of >$100M?

If you answered "Yes" to any two of the above, you will be very happy with this score and you will consider your money well spent.

A good part of what makes Scott Pilgrim vs. The World awesome is its music. This score is driving me insane with its awesomeness.

I had bought the Scott Pilgrim Soundtrack and was very disappointed that there were lots of missing tracks... only to be told that there was a separate score with all the songs I wanted! This CD is totally fantastic, I love it. It has a lot of the fight scene music which is GREAT! I suggest getting the soundtrack, the score, and the video game sound track. I have all 3 and they all kick ass. And of course, buy the movie! I have it on blueray. Go Scott Pilgrim!

You know how some soundtrack albums leave important tracks off, or music for an important scene, or they don't have the short little musical number that only lasts for 45 seconds, but you love it anyways, or the music you'd never think to put on a soundtrack? Yeah, well Scott Pilgrim doesn't have that problem. At all. At some 37 tracks and over an hour, if there's a piece of music in the film Scott Pilgrim, or even a piece of dialogue that goes with a piece of music, or anything of the sort, it's on one of their soundtracks.

Everything from the Bass Battle, to Patel's weird musical number, to the 8-Bit Universal Theme heard at the beginning of the movie, to the various pieces of score found throughout the movie. If they left anything out of these soundtracks, I'd be very surprised. As a result, with this wide-ranging selection of music, mostly composed by Radiohead's Nigel Godrich, Scott Pilgrim will certainly be the most original score you hear all year. It'll also be the one that sounds like it could pass for some electronic music album. This mostly comes from the fact that good portions of the album sound like a Chill album with portions of dialogue from the movie mixed in for good measure. You never know exactly what you're going to get from track to track. One minute you could be lulled into some romantic sleep, and the next you could feel like you're in the middle of some drugged-out video game.

Overall, the unexpectedness of it all is all part of the charm of the album. It won't any awards, but it will give you a break from the usual scores you're used to hearing. I wouldn't call it great exactly. It's just different in a very positive manner.