The Wicked Die Young is a music album that was released in 2017 as a companion piece to the movie The Neon Demon directed by Nicolas Winding Refn.The Wicked Die Young is a music album that was released in 2017 as a companion piece to the movie The Neon Demon directed by Nicolas Winding Refnhttps://www.allmusic.com/album/nicolas-winding-refn-presents-the-wicked-die-young-mw0003028871https://musicbrainz.org/release-group/0074be47-b028-4835-bb0e-987230c3c1e5 Winding Refn gave a number of interviews about the album, telling Elizabeth Aubrey “The fourteen tracks on this compilation represent the various ideas I had while preparing The Neon Demon. Each song represents a specific emotion…since I wanted my film to be both a horror film and a melodrama with camp, glitter and vulgarity, as well as a comedy and of course a little science fiction, all these various tracks made me able to step into a parallel world to tell the story.”https://drownedinsound.com/in_depth/4151016-film-should-become-like-music-uncontrollable---dis-meets-nicolas-winding-refn In an interview with FACT in 2015, Refn explained why integrating music into moving image is so important for him. "Even when I shoot films I play music on set, in between takes", he said. "It helps you convey emotion better for actors - and brings people to a place of being that helps their performance."https://www.factmag.com/2015/06/29/nicolas-winding-refn-drive-interview/
The album contains exclusive tracks from Drive artists Electric Youth as well as the Neon Demon composer (and long-time score of other Nicolas Winding Refn films) Martinez, plus Refn's nephew, Julian Winding, who also had an electronic number on the soundtrack. The Wicked Die Young also has a number of works from Suicide, Giorgio Moroder, Pino Donaggio, Lynsey de Paul, Dionne Warwick and Sparks, among others.https://soundtracktracklist.com/release/the-wicked-die-young-soundtrack/
Track listing A1 Electric Youth – "Good Blood" A2 Lynsey De Paul – "Won't Somebody Dance With Me" A3 Suicide – "Cheree" A4 999 – "Homicide" A5 The Heartbreakers – "Pirate Love" B1 Dionne Warwick – "Theme From Valley Of The Dolls" B2 Tommy Seebach – "Bubble Sex" B3 Amanda Lear – "Follow Me" C1 Giorgio Moroder – "Knights In White Satin" C2 Sparks – "The Number One Song in Heaven" C3 Cliff Martinez – "Becoming" D1 Pino Donaggio – "Dressed To Kill: The Shower" D2 Claudio Gizzi – "End Of A Myth" D3 Julian Winding – "When You Want To Hurt Someone"
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