Title - The Greatest Hits Soundtrack [Color 2LP]
Artist - Various
Hollywood Records and Searchlight Pictures are excited to announce the April 12th, 2024 release of The Greatest Hits (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) 2-LP color vinyl album and (Original Score Soundtrack) digital album with music and score by Academy Award® nominated composer, musician and Son Lux founding member Ryan Lott (Everything Everywhere All at Once).
The 2-LP Violet and Aqua colored vinyl album is available now and features the original song, “Never Lost,” by Grammy Award® winning artist Nelly Furtado (written by Nelly Furtado and Ryan Lott), and music from Roxy Music, Beach House, Tune-Yards, Neil Frances, Peggy Lee, and more.
The film was first available in select theaters on April 5th and then was streaming on Hulu starting April 12th, 2024.
Side A:
1. Block It Out - Performed by Ryan Lott
2. Loud Places - Performed by Jamie xx (Featuring Romy)
3. Gap in the Clouds - Performed by Yellow Days
4. Music Sounds Better with You - Performed by Neil Frances
5. Heybb! - Performed by binki
6. Powa - Performed by Tune-Yards
7. New Goodbye - Performed by Ryan Lott
The first side opens on the veritably translucent, 30-second Block It Out (Ryan Lott) and then we get the seductive Loud Places (Jamie xx featuring Romy), the emboldened soul of Gap in the Clouds (Yellow Days), the joyous funk rhythms that drive Music Sounds Better with You (Neil Frances), and then come the energetic Heybb! (binki), the acoustically-imbibed, fluctuating Powa (Tune-Yards) and closes on the shimmering Ryan Lott track New Goodbye.
Side B:
1. Feel Again - Performed by Ryan Lott
2. To Turn You On (Disco Pusher Remix)- Performed by Roxy Music
3. Running - Performed by Helado Negro
4. New Romance - Performed by Beach House
5. I’m Like a Bird - Performed by Nelly Furtado
6. Setting the Night on Fire - Performed by Ryan Lott
The flip side to the first vinyl opens on the synth-laden, 51-second dreamscape of Feel Again (Ryan Lott) and then brings us one of my own personal favorites, Roxy Music’s lush To Turn You On (Disco Pusher Remix), and the gently pulsing Running (Helado Negro), the fluid New Romance (Beach House), the side closing on the always-elegant I’m Like a Bird (Nelly Furtado) and the hauntingly ethereal Setting the Night on Fire (Ryan Lott).
Side C:
1. Don’t Push It Don’t Force It - Performed by Leon Haywood
2. Make Me Believe in You - Performed by Patti Jo
3. Ohh I Love It (Love Break) (Dimitri from Paris Dj Friendly Classic Re-Edit)- Performed by The Salsoul Orchestra
4. Feel the Music - Performed by Hifi Sean (Featuring Celeda)
5. Next to You - Performed by Locussolus (Featuring Heidi Lawden)
Putting the second vinyl on the turntable, it opens on the soulful funk grooves that drive Don’t Push It Don’t Force It (Leon Haywood) and the Northern Soul of Make Me Believe in You (Patti Jo) and then we get the all-embracing 70s soul of Ohh I Love It (Love Break) (Dimitri from Paris Dj Friendly Classic Re-Edit) (The Salsoul Orchestra), the soaring Feel the Music (Hifi Sean featuring Celeda), the side rounding out on the lushly meditative mood that drives Next to You (Locussolus featuring Heidi Lawden).
Side D:
1. Never Lost - Performed by Nelly Furtado and Ryan Lott
2. Play It on My Radio - Performed by Niki and The Dove
3. Me and My Shadow - Performed by Peggy Lee
4. Alternate World (Alternate Life) - Performed by Son Lux and Kishi Bashi
5. Too Easy to Return - Performed by Ryan Lott
6. Memories of Max - Performed by Ryan Lott
7. Silent Disco - Performed by Ryan Lott
8. Thank You So Much for This - Performed by Ryan Lott
9. New Hello - Performed by Ryan Lott
The fourth, and final side opens on the smooth R&B of Never Lost (Nelly Furtado & Ryan Lott) and the dulcet flashback groove within Play It on My Radio (Niki and The Dove), and they are in turn backed by a gentle, ethereal piano version of Me and My Shadow (Peggy Lee), an atmospheric Alternate World (Alternate Life) (Son Lux & Kishi Bashi), and then a quintet of instrumentals from Ryan Lott bring the whole recording to a magical close.
“I loved working on this film with Ned, our second together. He’s so receptive to the emotional resonances that music creates inside him and stays in tune with those frequencies. His insights allowed me to remain intuitive throughout, even when many of the things the score had to accomplish were quite technical.”
“While our protagonist experiences a different kind of metaphysical impact of music in her life than I do, it’s akin to the transporting inebriation that I’ve always felt from music. Scoring those experiences to capture that kind of heightened, altered state, weaving between and within great songs by other artists, was its own transporting experience for me.”
Ned Benson, The Greatest Hits Writer, Director, and Executive Soundtrack Album Producer, added, “I am haunted by music. It’s my partner in crime when I write or when I drive around LA. It’s the pile of records on my shelves and floor that gets me up in the morning and reminds me to live. To me, there’s no better self-medication than getting lost in a song. So, this movie, and this soundtrack, was a love letter to music and its ability to not only take us back in time, but to remind us to live in the moment.”
Official Purchase Link
www.hollywoodrecords.com
www.disneymusicemporium.com