On the 500 Days of Summer soundtrack, the sound of unrequited love is oh so beautiful.
This generation's cinematic ballad for the broken-hearted sees Joseph Gordon-Levitt endlessly pursuing every hipster's crush, Zooey Deschanel. The movie's soundtrack couldn't be more gorgeously heart-wrenching either.
Of course, the master of pop sorrow, Morrissey, shows up on two classic Smiths tracks "Please, Please, Please, Let Me Get What I Want" and "There Is a Light That Never Goes Out." Somber modern fare like Doves' "There Goes the Fear" sits alongside Morrissey and Simon & Garfunkel's warm "Bookends" comfortably. Regina Spektor adds some unique levity—but the true highlight is when Deschanel busts out her own rendition of "Please, Please, Please…" for She & Him's album closer.
Getting your heart broken never felt so good.
—Rick Florino
08.18.09
(500) Days of Summer
07/14/2009 | Sire / London/rhino
(500) Days of Summer Review
(500) Days of Summer Track Listing
Credits of (500) Days of Summer
- Richard McGonagle
- Narrator
- Ron Simonsen
- Producer
- Johnny Marr
- Producer
- John Oates
- Performer
- John Porter
- Producer
- Gordon Raphael
- Producer
- Brad Haehnel
- Engineer, Mixing
- Martin "Max" Heyes
- Producer
- Adam Siegel
- Engineer, Mixing
- Jim Abbiss
- Producer
- Mike Piersante
- Engineer, Mixing
- M. Ward
- Producer
- Aaron Espinoza
- Assistant Engineer
- Patrick Spain
- Assistant Engineer
- Ellen Ginsburg
- Music Clearance
- Regina Spektor
- Producer
- Andrea "Rabbit" von Foerster
- Music Supervisor
- Lori Feldman
- A&R
- Amy Driscoll
- Music Supervisor
- Doves
- Producer
- Daryl Hall
- Performer
- Craig Aaronson
- A&R
- Alan Bezozi
- Producer
- Louis Bertignac
- Producer
- T Bone Burnett
- Producer
- Mychael Danna
- Producer
- David Kahne
- Producer, Engineer, Mixing
- Robert Kraft
- Executive in Charge of Music











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