The soundtrack to ''
The Royal Tenenbaums
''The Royal Tenenbaums'' is a 2001 American comedy-drama film directed by Wes Anderson and co-written with Owen Wilson. It stars Danny Glover, Gene Hackman, Anjelica Huston, Bill Murray, Gwyneth Paltrow, Ben Stiller, Luke Wilson, and Owen Wilson. ...
'' features a score composed by
Mark Mothersbaugh
Mark Allen Mothersbaugh (; born May 18, 1950) is an American composer, singer, and multi-instrumentalist. He came to prominence in the late 1970s as co-founder, lead singer and keyboardist of the new wave band Devo, whose " Whip It" was a top 2 ...
. Also featured are a variety of rock songs from the 1960s through 1990s.
There have been two soundtrack album releases for ''The Royal Tenenbaums''. The first, in 2001, omitted some songs; notably,
Paul Simon
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's "
Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard
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Lyrical subject
The song is about two boys ("Me a ...
,"
Van Morrison
Sir George Ivan Morrison (born 31 August 1945), known professionally as Van Morrison, is a Northern Irish singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist whose recording career spans seven decades. He has won two Grammy Awards.
As a teenager in t ...
's "
Everyone,"
John Lennon
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's "
Look at Me," the
Mutato Muzika
Mutato Muzika is an American music production company established and owned by Devo co-founder and lead singer Mark Mothersbaugh in 1989. The name is a portmanteau of the words ''mutant'' and ''potato'', a nod to Mothersbaugh's longstanding fascina ...
Orchestra's version of
the Beatles
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' "
Hey Jude
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," two tracks by
the Rolling Stones
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("
She Smiled Sweetly
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" and "
Ruby Tuesday"), and
Erik Satie
Eric Alfred Leslie Satie (, ; ; 17 May 18661 July 1925), who signed his name Erik Satie after 1884, was a French composer and pianist. He was the son of a French father and a British mother. He studied at the Paris Conservatoire, but was an und ...
's "
Gymnopédie no. 1".
In 2002, the soundtrack was re-released with three songs not found on the 2001 release, but the two songs by the Rolling Stones were not included,
because, while the band allows their music to be used in films, they rarely allow the songs to appear on soundtracks. The Van Morrison track, which served as the closing credits song, was also still missing. Additionally, the "Lindbergh Palace Hotel Suite," credited as original music by Mark Mothersbaugh on the 2001 release, was retitled on the 2002 soundtrack release as "Sonata for Cello and Piano in F Minor," performed by the Mutato Muzika Orchestra. The adapted sonata was originally written by the
Romania
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n composer
George Enescu
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Biog ...
(although it has been erroneously credited to the
French
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composer
Maurice Ravel
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; the confusion might come from the fact that the two composers were friends and attended the same composition classes).
Releases
2001 soundtrack release
2002 soundtrack re-release
2001 Oscar promo
A promotional CD featuring Mothersbaugh's score for the film was released in 2001 in correspondence with the Academy Awards. It was available in limited quantity.
# "The Royal Tenenbaums"
# "The Lindbergh"
# "Margot Returns Home"
# "I'm Dying"
# "Something's Brewing"
# "Look at That Ol' Grizzly Bear"
# "Mothersbaugh's Canon"
# "Raleigh and Margot"
# "You're True Blue, Ethyl"
# "Heavy Duty"
# "How Can I Help"
# "To Be a Tenenbaum"
# "It's a Divorce"
# "Chas Chases Eli"
# "I Need Help"
# "Rooftop Talk"
# "Lindburgh"
# "End Credits"
References
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Comedy-drama film soundtracks
2001 soundtrack albums