Punch-Drunk Love (soundtrack)

Infobox Album |
Name = Punch-Drunk Love
Type = Soundtrack
Artist = Jon Brion


Background = gainsboro
Released = November 5, 2002
Recorded =
Genre = Soundtrack
Length = 44:08
Label = Nonesuch Records
Producer = Jon Brion
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|4.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:8e6fmpmk9f6o link] |
Last album = "Meaningless"
(2001)
This album = "Punch-Drunk Love"
(2002)
Next album = "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind"
(2003)

"Punch-Drunk Love" is the 2002 soundtrack album featuring music composed by Jon Brion for the film of the same name. The album includes the song "He Needs Me" from the 1980 Robert Altman movie "Popeye". The soundtrack received an enthusiastic review from classical music critic Greg Sandow. [http://newmusicbox.org/article.nmbx?id=1925]

Brion provides main vocals (in addition to playing most of the instruments) in the song "Here We Go".

Track listing

All tracks composed by Jon Brion except where otherwise noted.
#"Overture" – 2:09
#"Tabla" – 2:59
#"Punch-Drunk Melody" – 1:43
#"Hands and Feet" – 3:42
#"Le Petit Chateau" – 1:36
#"Alleyway" – 0:55
#"Punchy Tack Piano" – 1:25
#"He Needs Me" – 3:31
#*original composition by Harry Nilsson, original vocals by Shelley Duvall, remix and additional composition by Jon Brion and Jonathan Karp
#"Waikiki" – 3:56
#*performed by Ladies K, original composition by Andy Kummings
#"Moana Chimes" – 3:03
#*original composition by Johnny Noble and M.K. Moke
#"Hospital" – 1:21
#"Danny (Lonely Blue Boy)" – 2:13
#*performed by Conway Twitty, original composition by Ben Weisman and Fred Wise
#"Healthy Choice" – 2:10
#"Third Floor Hallway" – 3:23
#"Blossoms & Blood" – 2:05
#"Here We Go" – 4:47
#"He Really Needs Me" – 3:10

Trivia

* This is the second soundtrack that Brion has created to feature a song composed by Harry Nilsson ("He Needs Me"). A cover version of the Nilsson song "One" was performed by Aimee Mann and recorded for "Magnolia," another Paul Thomas Anderson movie.
* "Blossoms & Blood" is the title of a featurette Anderson created that features alternate takes and deleted scenes from the film. The featurette is on a special edition of the DVD.
* Anderson created a music video for the song "Here We Go" that focuses on a scene cut from "Punch-Drunk Love" in which Barry cries in his office and then goes to Lena's apartment to take her out on a date.
* "Punchy Tack Piano" and "Hands and Feet" are featured on the website for the Largo nightclub where Brion plays every Friday night. [http://www.largo-la.com The website] includes a live version of "Here We Go" performed by Brion and Anderson's music video for the song.
* The theme Barry fingers on the harmonium that becomes magnified as the films "love theme" is highly reminiscent of fragments heard in the score from Jean-Pierre Melville's "Bob Le Flambeur" (listen for the xylophone riff a few minutes in). Jon Brion also scored Anderson's "Hard Eight", which was influenced by Melvilles film.