Fast Food Nation: Music from and Inspired by the Motion Picture [SOUNDTRACK]

Original Soundtrack (Artist)

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 14, 2006)
• Original Release Date: November 14, 2006
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Soundtrack
• Label: Park the Van Records
• ASIN: B000J103SO
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
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• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #347,022 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Track Listings

1. Mickey's Big One - Friends of Dean Martinez

2. Emigre - Friends of Dean Martinez

3. Tio - Secretary Bird

4. Don Loope - Nortec Collective

5. Perdido Orta Vez - Friends of Dean Martinez

6. Debonair - Robbers on High Street

7. Dimly Lit Day - Friends of Dean Martinez

8. Respira - La Sinfonia\

9. Was It You - Spoon

10. Cahuenga - Friends of Dean Martinez

11. Moon Woman II - Elvis Perkins

12. No Matter What Shape (Your Stomach Is In)

13. Place in the Sun - Friends of Dean Martinez

14. Somewhere Over the Waves - Friends of Dean Martinez

15. Worst Trip - Dr. Dog

16. Seven Songs - The Capitol Years

17. Me So Hungy - Monsieur Leroc, Radioinactive

Editorial Reviews

Product Description

"The most essential political film from an American director since Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11." - NEW YORK TIMES

"Richard Linklater's stunning double feature at Cannes this year - A Scanner Darkly and Fast Food Nation - represented not the international super-sizing of this always prolific and political American director so much as the ideal opportunity for his audience to engage in another Linklaterian game of comparative pop." - VILLAGE VOICE

Park the Van Records is pleased to announce the release of the official soundtrack to the motion picture Fast Food Nation!

Distributed in North America by Fox Searchlight & directed by indie darling Richard Linklater (Dazed and Confused), Fast Food Nation is based on material from the muckraking book of the same name written by Eric Schlossser. The New York Times bestseller, published in 2001, was an incendiary nonfiction exploration of the industry, and the film version casts a critical eye on fast food in the United States through the destinies of three characters: a marketing executive of a fast food chain, an employee of the same chain, and an illegal immigrant working at the slaughterhouse. Fast Food Nation dissolves the saccharine-coated facade of the fast food industry and exposes its scathing impact on not only our diet, but also our landscape, economy, workforce, and culture.

The film boasts an impressive ensemble cast that includes Greg Kinnear, Patricia Arquette, Bobby Cannavale, Luis Guzman, Ethan Hawke, Ashley Johnson, Kris Kristofferson, Avril Lavigne, Esai Morales, Catalina Sandino Moreno, Lou Taylor Pucci, Ana Claudia Talancon, and Wilmer Valderrama.

After premiering at the Cannes Film Festival on May 19, the film is scheduled for release in November 2006. The soundtrack, featuring music from and inspired by the motion picture, features luminaries such as Spoon, Nortec Collective, La Sinfonia, Elvis Perkins, Robbers on High Street, and more. The most grisly scene in the film is accompanied by the music of Friends of Dean Martinez, who recorded the score and thereby contributed to what could be perhaps the most dramatic combination of music and film in this century.