Nonesuch Releases Soundtrack to Richard Linklater’s Boyhood on July 7
‘It took Richard Linklater a painstaking 12 years to film the ultimate coming-of-age tale Boyhood. And it took film critics about 12 minutes to wipe their teary eyes and call it a masterpiece … There has simply never been anything like this film. This is the kind of film you see and say, ‘I may never see anything like this again.’
—Logan Hill, Rolling Stone
Nonesuch Records releases the soundtrack to Boyhood—a film written, directed, and co-produced by Richard Linklater—on July 7, 2014; the movie, which is being distributed by Universal Pictures, opens in UK cinemas on July 11. The film received tremendous critical acclaim when it was shown at the Sundance Film Festival; Linklater also won the Founder’s Directing Award at the San Francisco International Film Festival and Best Director at the Berlin International Film Festival. Shot over 12 years with the same cast, Boyhood is a groundbreaking story of growing up as seen through the eyes of a child named Mason (a breakthrough performance by Ellar Coltrane), who literally grows up on screen before the viewers’ eyes.
The film’s soundtrack spans the story’s 12 years, with songs ranging from the year 2000 (Coldplay’s ‘Yellow’ and The Hives’ ‘Hate to Say I Told You So’) to 2013 (Yo La Tengo’s ‘I’ll Be Around’). The album also includes the classic ‘Band on the Run’, by Paul McCartney and Wings (from the 2010 re-mastered album of the same name) and the debut of a new song written by Jeff Tweedy and performed by the father/son duo Tweedy—‘Summer Noon’. A full track listing is on the next two pages. The Boyhood soundtrack album was produced by Richard Linklater and Randall Poster and is available to pre-order at nonesuch.com.
Starring Ethan Hawke and Patricia Arquette as Mason’s parents and newcomer Lorelei Linklater as his sister Samantha, Boyhood charts the rocky terrain of childhood like no other film has before. Snapshots of adolescence from road trips and family dinners to birthdays and graduations and all the moments in between become transcendent. Boyhood is both a nostalgic time capsule of the recent past and an ode to growing up and parenting. Cathleen Sutherland produced the film with Linklater.
Before Slacker, an experimental narrative revolving around 24 hours in the lives of 100 characters, garnered acclaim in 1991, Richard Linklater had made many shorts and completed a Super 8 feature, It’s Impossible to Learn to Plow by Reading Books (1988).
Linklater’s additional credits include the 1970s cult hit Dazed and Confused (1993); Before Sunrise (1995), for which Linklater won the Berlin Film Festival Silver Bear Award for Best Director; Suburbia (1997); The Newton Boys (1998), a western/gangster film set in the 1920s; the animated feature Waking Life (2001); the real-time drama Tape (2001); the hit comedy School of Rock (2003); $5.15 an Hour (2003, HBO), Before Sunset (2004) which earned him an Academy Award nomination; Bad News Bears (2005); A Scanner Darkly (2006); Fast Food Nation (2006); Inning by Inning: A Portrait of a Coach (2008); Me and Orson Welles (2009); Bernie (2012); Up to Speed (2012, Hulu); Before Midnight (2013); and Boyhood (2014).
Linklater also serves as the Artistic Director for the Austin Film Society, which he founded in 1985 to showcase films from around the world that were not typically shown in Austin. Now one of the nation’s top film organizations, The Austin Film Society shows more than 200 films a year, has educational programs, and has given out more than $1,500,000 in grants to Texas filmmakers since 1996.
BOYHOOD
Music from the Motion Picture
Written and Directed by
Richard Linklater
1. SUMMER NOON
Written by Jeff Tweedy
Performed by Tweedy
Published by Words Ampersand Music (BMI), admin. by BMG Rights Management (US) LLC
è 2014 dBpm Records, Inc.
Courtesy of dBpm Records, Inc.
2. YELLOW
Written by Guy Rupert Berryman, Jonathan Mark Buckland, William Champion, Christopher Martin
Performed by Coldplay
Published by Universal Music–MGB Songs obo Universal Music Publishing MGB Lt.
è 2000 Parlophone Records Ltd.
3. HATE TO SAY I TOLD YOU SO
Written by Randy Fitzsimmons
Performed by The Hives
Published by Songs and Stories Publishing, admin. by Imagem Music
è 2000 Burning Heart Records/Epitaph Europe BV, Warner Bros. Records
4. COULD WE
Written By Chan M. Marshall
Performed by Cat Power
Published by Doorman Music / Mattitude Music
è 2006 Matador Records
Courtesy of Matador Records
5. DO YOU REALIZE??
Written by Wayne Coyne, Steven Drozd, Michael Ivins, Dave Fridmann
Performed by The Flaming Lips
Published by EMI Blackwood Music Inc. obo itself and Lovely Sorts of Death Music (BMI)
è 2002 Warner Bros. Records
6. CRAZY
Written by Brian Burton, Thomas Callaway, Gian Piero Reverberi, Gianfranco Reverberi
Performed by Gnarls Barkley
Published by Chrysalis Music Ltd (PRS), admin. by BMG Rights Management (US) LLC / Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp. (BMI) obo Warner/Chappell Music Publishing Ltd / Universal Music-Careers obo Soundcast Music
è 2006 Warner Music UK/Atlantic Recording Corp.
7. ONE (BLAKE’S GOT A NEW FACE)
Written By Ezra Koenig, Rostam Batmanglij, Christopher Tomson
Performed by Vampire Weekend
Published by Vampire Weekend Music (ASCAP)
è 2008 XL Recordings Ltd.
Courtesy of XL Recordings Ltd., by arrangement with Beggars Group Media Limited
8. HATE IT HERE
Written by Nels Cline, John Stirratt, Glenn Kotche, Mikael Jorgensen, Pat Sansone, Jeff Tweedy
Performed by Wilco
Published by Nebsonic Music / Poeyfarre Music / Pear Blossom Music / Jorgenstormusic / These Four Songs / Words Ampersand Music (BMI), admin. by BMG Rights Management (US) LLC
è 2007 Nonesuch Records
9. GOOD GIRLS GO BAD
Written by Kara Elizabeth DioGuardi, Jacob Kasher Hindlin, Kevin Rudolf, Gabe Saporta
Performed by Cobra Starship (feat. Leighton Meester)
Published by Sunshine Terrace Music/BMG Bumblebee, admin. by BMG Rights Management (US) LLC / Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp. (BMI) obo itself and Lion Aire Publishing / Sony/ATV Tunes LLC / Kevinthecity Publishing / J. Kasher Music / EMI April Music Inc. obo itself and Blast Beat Music
è 2009 Atlantic Recording Corp/Fueled by Ramen
Leighton Meester appears courtesy of Universal Republic Records under license from Universal Music Enterprises
10. BEYOND THE HORIZON
Written by Bob Dylan, Hugh Williams, James Kennedy
Performed by Bob Dylan
Published by Special Rider Music / Shapiro Bernstein & Co., Inc. (ASCAP) / Beinstock Publishing Company (ASCAP) obo Redwood Music Ltd. (PRS)
è 2006 Columbia Records
Courtesy of Columbia Records, by arrangement with Sony Music Licensing
11. BAND ON THE RUN
Written by Paul McCartney & Linda McCartney
Performed by Paul McCartney & Wings
Published by MPL Communications, Inc.
è 2010 MPL Communications, Inc.
Courtesy of MPL Communications, Inc.
12. SHE’S LONG GONE
Written by Dan Auerbach & Patrick Carney
Performed by The Black Keys
Published by McMoore McLesst Publishing (BMI), admin. by Wixen Music Publishing
è 2010 Nonesuch Records
13. SOMEBODY THAT I USED TO KNOW
Written by Walter Andre De Backer, Luiz Bonfa
Performed by Gotye (feat. Kimbra)
Published by OP Shop Songs Pty Ltd., admin. by Kobalt Music Publishing America, Inc. / Unichappell Music Inc. (BMI)
è 2011 Samples ‘n’ Seconds Records
Courtesy of Republic Records under license from Universal Music Enterprises
14. I’LL BE AROUND
Written by Georgia Hubley, Ira Kaplan, James McNew
Performed by Yo La Tengo
Published by Roshashauna Music / Excellent Classical Songs
è 2013 Matador Records
Courtesy of Matador Records
15. HERO
Written by Joe Keefe
Performed by Family of the Year
Published by Peermusic III, LTD. (BMI) obo Joseph Keefe Music
è 2012 Nettwerk Records
Courtesy of FOTY, LLC under exclusive license to Nettwerk Productions, Ltd.
16. DEEP BLUE
Written by Win Butler, William Butler, Regine Chassagne, Jeremy Gara, Tim Kingsbury, Richard Parry
Performed by Arcade Fire
Published by EMI April Music Inc. obo EMI Music Publishing Ltd.
è 2010 Merge Records
Courtesy of Merge Records, by arrangement with Bank Robber Music
Soundtrack Album Produced by Richard Linklater & Randall Poster
Co-Produced by Meghan Currier
Mastered by Adam Ayan at Gateway Mastering Studios, Portland, ME
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