Music from Vanilla Sky explained

Music from Vanilla Sky
Type:	Soundtrack
Artist:	Various artists
Cover:	Album vanilla sky ost.jpg
Released:	4 December 2001
Recorded:	Various times
Length:	73:46 + Extra tracks
Label:	Reprise/WEA
Producer:	Danny Bramson, Cameron Crowe, Bob Ezrin, Gerry Goffin, Bob Johnston, David Kahne, Mark Kozelek, Scott Litt, Patrick McCarthy, Paul McCartney, Josh Rouse, Todd Rundgren, Michael Tighe

Music from Vanilla Sky is the soundtrack to the 2001 film Vanilla Sky. The album has been subject to critical acclaim from its reviewers, being called "a music masterpiece" by The New York Times. The eclectic taste of the soundtrack has been said to be one of the reasons the film has become a cult classic.^[1] The eponymous song from the soundtrack, written by Paul McCartney, was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song.

Additional songs

• "From Rusholme with Love" by Mint Royale
• "My Robot" by Looper
• "My Favorite Things" by John Coltrane
• "Keep On Keeping On" by Curtis Mayfield
• "Wrecking Ball" by Creeper Lagoon
• "Earthtime Tapestry" by Spacecraft
• "Indra" by Thievery Corporation
• "Loops of Fury" by The Chemical Brothers
• "Rez" by Underworld
• "Too Good to Be Strange" by Two Sandwiches Short of a Lunchbox and Andrea Parker
• "One of Us" by Joan Osborne
• "I Might Be Wrong" by Radiohead
• "Wild Honey" by U2
• "Jingle Bell Rock" by Bobby Helms
• "Western Union" by Five Americans
• "You Know You're Right" by Nirvana
  • Cameron Crowe revealed in 2020 that Courtney Love gave him the then-unreleased song to hide in his movie somewhere.^[2]
• "Heaven" by The Rolling Stones
• "Good Vibrations" by The Beach Boys
• "Summer's End" by Elmer Bernstein
• "The Healing Room" by Sinéad O'Connor
• "Njósnavélin (The Nothing Song)" by Sigur Rós.
  • The version used in the movie is from a never-released concert which took place in Denmark in 2000.^[3]
• "Doot-Doot" by Freur
• "Ladies and Gentlemen, We Are Floating in Space" by Spiritualized
• "Ágætis Byrjun" by Sigur Rós

Notes and References

1. News: Vanilla Sky awards. May 2, 2008. Variety.
2. Web site: Cameron Crowe Says He Hid Nirvana's "You Know You're Right" In Vanilla Sky A Year Before It Was Released . Stereogum . 2020-05-21 . 2021-02-11.
3. Web site: vanilla sky overload . sigur rós . 2002-07-08 . . 2018-10-14.
4. Web site: https://web.archive.org/web/20040902000408/http://www.jamshowbiz.com/JamMusicCharts/2002_alt2.html. September 2, 2004. Canada's Top 200 Alternative albums of 2002. Jam!. March 28, 2022.