Suicide Songs: The Soundtrack for The Suicide Squad Movie

[Guts]

You forgot Black Sabbath's Paranoid! And for some reason on the album we get the Panic at the Disco cover of BoRhap while in the movie it's Queen's original.

I think the movie relied waaaaay too much on the songs but it worked in some scenes.

And the movie used the original version of You Don't Own me by Lesley Gore.
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[LoganGambit87]

i'm addicted to Kehlani - Gangsta

 

[Mr. Wayne]

i'm addicted to Kehlani - Gangsta

Yeah I've found myself playing it a lot too. She's a pretty talented young lady.

 

[Blitzkrieg]

Suicide Squad Soundtrack is on track to top Billboard 200 chart.

http://comicbook.com/dc/2016/08/12/suicide-squad-soundtrack-is-on-track-to-top-billboard-200-chart/

It looks like the Suicide Squad's reach with fans is going beyond making it the number one movie in theaters; it's also looking like it'll hit number one on the Billboard charts. The soundtrack for the film is on track for a 130,00-140,000 total this week, after being released last week alongside the film. The chart will be released on Sunday, most likely showing this at #1.

If it does take the top spot, it would be the first soundtrack to hit #1 in about a year, since Disney's Descendants, a TV movie soundtrack that opened at #1 on August 22, 2015. The last big-screen soundtrack to be tops was Pitch Perfect 2 on May 30, 2015.

 

[Daywalker89]

i'm addicted to Kehlani - Gangsta

It worked in that acid bath scene. I can't even imagine what else they could of used. Think a lot of people didn't like it due to the songs hip hop elements.

 

[Darkness Falls]

also addicted to Gangsta

 

[Slick]

It's grown on me.

 

[AnneFan]

I'm finally listening to Price's soundtrack. And I'm enjoying it. The DCEU has delivered on the visuals and with their soundtracks. I've had a quick skim, and these stick out so far:

Task Force X
Harley and Joker
Arkham Asylum
The Worst of the Worst

 

[morningmimosa]

Yeah I've found myself playing it a lot too. She's a pretty talented young lady.

Kehlani is definitly one of the best female rnb singers right now.
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[FunkMiller]

I do like the Twenty One Pilots song.

And Suicide Squad would have been at least 85% a better movie if they'd used this version of I Started A Joke:

https://youtu.be/JKDo6g4CCeU

...because Faith No More really were just the best, people. The absolute best.

 

[Blitzkrieg]

Squad songs: Talking music with Suicide Squad composer Steven Price.

http://www.dccomics.com/blog/2016/08/18/squad-songs-talking-music-with-suicide-squad-composer-steven-price?sf33733146=1

Was Suicide Squad the first comic book movie you’d scored, or have you done others prior to this?

It was indeed my first superhero score, so it was an exciting challenge. I read and loved a lot of comics when I was a kid, so the idea of working on a movie with some of these characters was something that was always in the back of my mind… I was always hoping I’d get the opportunity.

Do you have a favorite super hero score? Did you look to any prior scores as influences here, or did you try to approach this fresh?

When it comes to favourites, obviously the classics are still as exciting now as they ever were. Things such as John Williams’ original Superman theme, for example. For this film though, the director David Ayer had such a singular vision that I found my job was to really try to merge my music with these very specific visuals and characters, and not to carry too much baggage with me from the intimidating canon of superhero music.

Suicide Squad is about a team of super-villains, but for the most part the score sounds really motivating and inspiring. Was that deliberate? Would you call the Squad members heroes?

The key to the score for me came out of an early conversation with David. He described all of the villains who become the Suicide Squad as essentially outsiders… they've all been doing their own variety of bad things, but have never really had anywhere they truly fit in. The Squad is the first home they have ever really had, and, working together, they become more than the sum of their parts. So musically, there was a journey there, and I felt that journey allowed them to earn the more heroic music that features towards the end of the movie. Most of the major characters have their own themes, and they combine in various ways as the relationships develop. It was a lot of fun to work out.

The songs that accompany moments between the Joker and Harley Quinn really stood out to me because they’re unnerving, but there’s also a real tenderness under them. Was that hard to achieve? How do you go about blending such disparate themes?

Writing for Harley and the Joker was one of my favourite bits of the project. The performances of Margot Robbie and Jared Leto were so vivid and interesting that they let me really go for this feeling of unsettling, doomed romance. Their music goes from really small, tense plucks on a really tightly wound string to full on operatic outbursts, and the performances meant you could switch between the extremes in the blink of an eye.

The movie’s primary theme, “Task Force X,” seems to utilize a lot of rock elements. Did you know that rock would be a big part of the Suicide Squad soundtrack going in?

Although I read an early version of the script very early on in the process, it was when I went to Toronto to see some early footage that the sound of the score started to form in my mind. The world that David and his collaborators were building had such a reality to it that it seemed crazy to try to stick with purely traditional orchestral instruments. The score couldn’t be neat and tidy. I ended up fusing all manner of things, attempting to let the rough edges show like the characters themselves, and that combination gradually became the sound of Suicide Squad. There was a lot of experimentation along the way, and in the end the music featured not only the orchestral players, but also guitars, synths, drums, duduks, marxophones, and a team of whistlers!

Do you have a favorite Squad member?

I enjoyed writing for all of the Squad members, but I particularly loved working with Deadshot and Diablo. With Deadshot, his theme needed to work for everything from his yearning for his daughter to the moments when he’s showing the Squad just how remarkably skilled he is, so that was a big challenge to do. And I loved Diablo… his whole backstory lent a real weight and soul to the story.

And finally, Suicide Squad has a really bright and loud color scheme. What colors would you use to describe your score?

When I was playing demos of the score cues to David, the phrase that would come up most often would be “more neon!” Basically the score always needed some extreme layer to make it fit into this world that the filmmakers were creating. So, to answer your question, I would describe the score as a whole wide range of colours, but definitely neon!

 

[hellblazer103]

I do like the Twenty One Pilots song.

And Suicide Squad would have been at least 85% a better movie if they'd used this version of I Started A Joke:

https://youtu.be/JKDo6g4CCeU

...because Faith No More really were just the best, people. The absolute best.

This guy knows what's up . Mike Patton's music in general suits The Joker so well.

 

[Golgo-13]

Anyone know the name of the song played at the strip club when Harley was pole dancing / Joker talking to Common's character?

 

[Guts]

That was Purple Lamborghini by Rick Ross and Skrillex. Minus the lyrics.
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[Greens]

I liked it much better without the vocals. lol

 

[Golgo-13]

That was Purple Lamborghini by Rick Ross and Skrillex. Minus the lyrics.
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Thanks!

 

[MydnightPhoenix]

I was surprised.to hear the soundtrack is doing ad good ad the movie. With dealing with CBMs I never hear talk about the music bit for this movie I did.
I personally like "You Don't Own Me" then "Gangsta" and I guess "I Started A Joke" that was used in the comic con trailer.

 

[Blitzkrieg]

Suicide Squad soundtrack holds No. 1 spot for second week.

On the heels of the news that Suicide Squad topped the box office for a third consecutive weekend, the soundtrack for DC’s latest superhero film has notched a second straight week atop Billboard’s albums chart. Suicide Squad: The Album earned 93,000 equivalent album units for the week ending Aug. 18, which was enough to make it the first soundtrack since 2014’s Guardians of the Galaxy to spend more than a week at No. 1 on the Billboard 200.

But Suicide Squad: The Album has bragging rights over Guardians of the Galaxy, because the latter didn’t debut at No. 1 — before it, a film’s soundtrack hadn’t done that for more than a decade. The last one to accomplish that feat was the accompanying set for Bad Boys II, which spent its first four weeks atop the chart in 2003. However, despite its strong start, Suicide Squad: The Album still has a long way to go in the pantheon of smash soundtracks; in 2014, Frozen’s soundtrack held the top spot for 13 weeks.

 

[Slushy]

The soundtrack was excellent. It's a shame

The Animals – "The House of the Rising Sun"
Lesley Gore – "You Don't Own Me"
The Rolling Stones – "Sympathy for the Devil"
Rick James – "Super Freak"
AC/DC – "Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap"
Kanye West – "Black Skinhead"
Rae Sremmurd featuring Bobo Swae – "Over Here"
Black Sabbath – "Paranoid"
The White Stripes – "Seven Nation Army"
Norman Greenbaum – "Spirit in the Sky"
K7 – "Come Baby Come"
Etta James – "I'd Rather Go Blind"
Henryk Górecki – "Symphony No. 3 (Górecki)"
Queen – "Bohemian Rhapsody"
Sweet – "The Ballroom Blitz" (trailers only)

were not included.

 

[terry78]

This reminds me of soundtracks that came out back in the 90s for movies, where it was just a bunch of different genres of hip hop, rock, etc. the soundtrack for Small Soldiers straight up banged.

 

[Blitzkrieg]

https://www.instagram.com/p/BKongtCD0yj/

'Suicide Squad' the album manages the riaa gold certification.
Kevin Weaver of Atlantic records announced on his instagram account that the album (soundtrack) of the suicide squad managed the riaa gold certification.
The certification of awards from the recording industry association of America, based on the number of albums, singles and videos, it sells through the retail markets and other auxiliary markets.
Kevin Weaver posted that 'suicide squad the album' is the only album released in 2016 which has received gold certification and succeeded in only six weeks.

 

[Blitzkrieg]

‘Suicide Squad’ Collector’s Edition soundtrack details:

http://filmmusicreporter.com/2016/09/22/suicide-squad-collectors-edition-soundtrack-details/

Atlantic Records will release a new soundtrack album for the superhero movie Suicide Squad. The Collector’s Edition album features the songs included on the original soundtrack, as well as the tracks Super Freaks by Rick James, Spirit in the Sky by Norman Greenbaum and I’d Rather Go Blind by Etta James. The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, September 23.

 

[Luke234]

I found the music to be very distracting.

 

[Micromind]

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Ah ! So, another thing that "fans" disliked is loved by the general audience, who would have thought !

This movie is a fighter. It continues to defy norms.

 

[Flint Marko]

Wait, fans disliked the soundtrack...?