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Donnie Darko: Music from the Original Motion Picture Score is a soundtrack album by American musician Michael Andrews, released in April 2002 on Enjoy and Everloving Records. It contains music from the 2001 science fiction psychological thriller film Donnie Darko, written and directed by Richard Kelly.
Listen to all 15 songs from the Donnie Darko soundtrack, playlist, ost and score.
- Donnie Darko Soundtrack
- Never Tear Us Apart by Inxs
- Head Over Heels by Tears For Fears
- Under The Milky Way by The Church
- Lucid Memory by Sam Bauer and Gerard Bauer
- Lucid Assembly by by Gerard Bauer and Mike Bauer
- Ave Maria by Vladimir Vavilov and Paul Pritchard
- For Whom The Bell Tolls by Steve Baker and Carmen Daye
- Show Me (Part 1) by Quito Colayco and Tony Hertz
- Notorious by Duran Duran
While the film's score was released in 2002, this track listing below is based on the 2004 re-release for the director's cut, which incorporated the many 1980s classics that featured in the psychological thriller. The director's cut is infamous for altering the soundtrack by controversially removing and replacing a few songs, but thankfully the mus...
A controversial one here - director Richard Kelly had originally planned to use Never Tear Us Apart by INXS in the opening scene where Donnie wakes up on the mountain and cycles home, but financial constraints led him to use The Killing Moon by Echo & the Bunnymen instead. Following the film's surprise later success and cult following, Kelly was ab...
Tears for Fears of course sang the original version of Mad World, which is famously covered at the end of the film, but the English pop-rock band can still be heard in both cuts with another one of their '80s hits. Head Over Heels plays during the lengthy - but very stylish - sequence where Donnie first arrives at school, and Richard Kelly has stat...
Australian rock band The Church's 1988 hit Under the Milky Way plays at the party after Donnie and Gretchen return from his bedroom, in a trippy sequence where Donnie sees people travelling through time through those transparent tube blobs. However this song was replaced by The Killing Moon by Echo & the Bunnymen in the director's cut, and Under th...
Not actually a classic '80s song this one, but an instrumental that plays during Jim Cunningham's promotional video. Listen on YouTube
Again, this is a brief instrumental heard during Jim Cunningham's seminar on fear. Listen on YouTube
A change of pace from the 1980s rock, Ave Maria is a classical piece first composed by Vladimir Vavilov in 1970. This rendition of the aria plays during a rather hypnotic scene where the time travelling transparent tubes guide Donnie to the gun in his parents' room. Listen on YouTube
This haunting track plays during one of the most iconic parts of Donnie Darko - and all of film - when Donnie and Gretchen are watching The Evil Dead in the cinema and Frank appears. It plays as Frank removes his mask for the first time and again during the end credits - causing many to associate the song with the theme of death. Listen on YouTube
Another departure from the soundtrack's '80s rock theme, Show Me (Part 1) is the song Cherita is dancing to at the talent show while being heckled. However it won't be long before the '80s nostalgia returns - the next act at the talent show, Sparkle Motion, are dancing to a Duran Duran classic. Listen on YouTube
Don't doubt your commitment to Sparkle Motion by not knowing their backing tracks - Duran Duran's 1986 hit Notorious is the song playing while Donnie's sister Samantha performs with her dance troupe. However, it was not Kelly's first choice for the scene - he originally planned to use Pet Shop Boys' number one hit West End Girls before having to re...
Jan 9, 2024 · As Donnie Darko turns 20, we look at how the music sets the dark mood of Richard Kelly's dark cult psychological thriller with a mix of New Wave classics and haunting Piano compositions.
- Never Tear Us Apart – INXS. The lead singer of INXS, Michael Hutchence, wrote this song’s lyrics about an instant connection between two love interests when “(t)two worlds collided” that will last forever.
- Head Over Heels – Tears for Fears. ‘Head Over Heels’ begins playing as the students leave the school bus. The track takes a darker, possessive turn toward the end, making it suited to the dark film.
- Under the Milky Way – The Church. Audiences can hear this when Donnie and Gretchen kiss at the party. It was one of The Church’s biggest hits. The haunting track talks about laying “under the milky way” abstractly and reflectively.
- Lucid Memory – Sam Bauer & Ged Bauer. This is a short instrumental score from the Donnie Darko soundtrack. It has an unsettling sound and a modern electronic edge fit for the film’s era.
Jan 19, 2021 · The soundtrack for 'Donnie Darko,' which debuted at Sundance 20 years ago, mines '80s pop for beauty and dread and romanticism. From its opening scene set to Echo & The Bunnymen's "The Killing...
DONNIE DARKO SOUNDTRACK [ORDERED] | COMPLETE · Playlist · 31 songs · 46 likes
