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I don't usually like soundtracks.  I have a weakness for scores (I have tried so hard to get a copy of the score to the Umbrellas of Cherbourg you guys don't even know, they barely exist and I would probably settle for even the cut up versions that are out there but for some reason my indie record stores don't have a lot of 1960's French Musical soundtrack albums.  It's weird, right?) but soundtracks feel a lot like greatest hits records without actual hits.  Or like, I knew a guy who had America's greatest hits cassette and the fact that it was a cassette and not a cassingle made it a lie.  But Scott Pilgrim vs the World is a little different, in part because Edgar Wright knows how to incorporate music but also because it has songs from the fictional bands in the movie and I frankly would listen to a Sex Bob-Omb album if it existed.  I don't know why this is getting a colored Vinyl release now but maybe no one else does either, it was $10 for a reason I guess so I snapped it up.

So this is one of those pieces of media in general that I annoy people with.  So buckle in I guess.  I liked Scott Pilgrim but found it overall disappointing.  There are a lot of reasons for this and none of it is the style or tone.  I read the books long before there was a movie (by long I mean a couple of years.  It didn't really exist that long before the movies) and I know that's douchey but the books are way better.  And I found the books disappointed because it was a great concept that clearly didn't have an end in mind when it started and they dropped the ball.  The movie had to deal with that as well as it was being created when there was no end yet in sight with the comics.  But also, you just can't compress 6 large books into 2 hours.  Converting one book to one movie requires a lot get left aside and a meandering story that is more about the journey than the destination was going to suffer.  It meant I never bought the Romance at the core of the comic because a thing that took a year to develop in the original story felt like maybe it was a week in the movie and I just don't buy epic love in a week.  Or I didn't in this case and if you don't buy it the entire thing falls apart.  But I know lots of people love it and I feel bad I guess that I don't love it as much as them and that I secretly am judging each and every one of you when you tell me you love it.  Also, just life advice for a lot of guys out there, since the first volume of the comic came out I have seen countless guys talk about how they are basically Scott Pilgrim.  They seem to think this is a good thing.  I promise you, it is not.  Though I do believe that you are just like Scott Pilgrim in that you think he is someone to emulate.  He's not, he's immature, self involved, and willing to hurt others to find his own happiness and then play the victim when that happiness isn't achieved.  He is very immature and he is the bump on the road a woman has to take towards adult hood and learning what man children to avoid.  Just an FYI.  If you think you are just like Scott Pilgrim it might be time to look at your life.  This is a lot of talking without talking about the music.  I guess what it serves as a prelude to is the fact that I have a complicated relationship with the property which is Scott Pilgrim but I bought this on CD without hesitation when it came out.  Now I bought it on Vinyl without hesitation as well.  Edgar Wright can pick songs.  As well, the songs created for this are overwhelmingly perfect.  If there is a single thing about the movie I can unequivocally recommend it is the music.  It doesn't just fit well, it isn't just good music, the band sound exactly like they should.  You don't know what Crash and the Boys should sound like when you read the comics.  I had some ideas what Sex Bob-Omb should sound like.  Then I heard them in the movie and I was like, "Oh, right, that's exactly what they sound like".  It was pretty perfect and that is an amazing trick. Am I surprised people like Beck could perfectly mimic a made up Toronto band full of early 20 somethings?  No, not at all.  Do I still love that Beck and Broken Social Scene et all managed to make this whole thing fit perfectly?  Yeah, I do.  The simple truth is this is pretty disposable, there is no reason for most people to own this and I get that.  But for a certain type of person this is pretty great.  I guess I am that type of person.  I just wish they included all the original songs and skipped the songs you can get elsewhere.  But hey, colored Vinyl, right?

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