Sony Music has released the official soundtrack to the highly-anticipated Deadpool 2. The score from award-winning composer Tyler Bates (John Wick, Guardians of the Galaxy, Watchmen) is now available digitally to stream
and download. Fans can now hear the first-ever “parental guidance” tagged score album and look forward to explicit numbers such as “Holy S*** Balls” and “Make the Whole World our B****.”
Billboard says, “the score… matches the smart-ass spirit of the franchise.” In response to the rating, Bates said, “We’re thrilled to receive a ‘parental guidance’ tag on the score album!”
Bates has become not only an artisan at creating music for film, television, and video games, but an in-demand multi-instrumentalist, writer, and producer. Through the nineties, he logged 1,200-plus live shows in his bands, including Pet, released on Igloo/Atlantic Records, under the guidance of Tori Amos, before segueing into the world of film score.
He started to make waves by creating the audio backdrop for the popular Zack Snyder Dawn of the Dead reboot in 2004 followed by his soundtrack for the filmmaker’s 300.
By 2017, he worked on the most successful franchises in recent memory: Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy and John Wick. In addition to composing for Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 1 & Vol. 2 and winning a BMI Film Music Award for the first, he co-wrote and produced a fan favorite “Disco Version” of “Guardians Inferno” [feat. David Hasselhoff], performed the second installment’s score at the 2017 MOSMA Festival in Spain, and crafted the music for the Disney California Adventure attraction Guardians of the Galaxy – Mission Breakout!
Bates also handled music for the blockbuster Atomic Blonde starring Academy Award winner Charlize Theron. For the project, he also produced Health’s cover of “Blue Monday” and re-invigorated and revitalized Ministry’s “Stigmata” with Marilyn Manson for key sequences in the film. On the big screen, he can be heard in the critically acclaimed The Belko Experiment as well as Public and 24 Hours to Live, while his voice permeates NETFLIX’s The Punisher and Season 2 of The Exorcist.
Here is the Deadpool 2 (Original Motion Picture Score) tracklist:
1. X-Men Arrive
12. Ice Box
2. Fighting Dirty
13. Docking
3. Hello Super Powers
14. Make the Whole World our B****
4. Escape
15. Pity D***
5. Vanessa
16. Knock Knock
6. Weasel Interrogation
17. Let Me In
7. Holy S*** Balls
18. Maximum Effort
8. Mutant Convoy
19. The Orphanage
9. The Name is Cable
20. Cable Flashback
10. Sorry for Your Loss
21. Genuine High Grade Lead
11. You Can’t Stop this Mother F*****
22. Courage Mother F*****
After surviving a near-fatal bovine attack, a disfigured cafeteria chef (Wade Wilson) struggles to fulfill his dream of becoming Mayberry’s hottest bartender while also learning to cope with his lost sense of taste. Searching to regain his spice for life, as well as a flux capacitor, Wade must battle ninjas, the yakuza, and a pack of sexually aggressive canines, as he journeys around the world to discover the importance of family, friendship, and flavor – finding a new taste for adventure and earning the coveted coffee mug title of World’s Best Lover.
Directed David Leitch and written by Rhett Reese & Paul Wernick & Ryan Reynolds. The movie stars Ryan Reynolds, Josh Brolin, Morena Baccarin, Julian Dennison, Zazie Beetz, T.J. Miller, Brianna Hildebrand and Jack Kesy.
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