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1. Yes, I'm Your Angel (2010 - Remaster) Yoko Ono
2. Always Judging Norah Jones
3. What Do You Like? Graham Parker (with Punch Brothers)
4. Sick Of You Lindsey Buckingham
5. Rewrite Paul Simon
6. Shining Through the Dark (Live) Ryan Adams
7. Lunch Box/Odd Sox (1993 - Remaster) Paul Mccartney
8. Brother & Sister Lindsey Buckingham (feat. Norah Jones)
9. Theme 1 (Debbie and Oliver) Jon Brion
10. Watch The Moon Come Down Graham Parker
11. Days That We Die Loudon Wainwright III
12. She Acts Like You Lindsey Buckingham
13. Dull Tool [Explicit] Fiona Apple
14. Lucky Now (Live) Ryan Adams
15. I Got You (At The End Of The Century) Wilco
16. Live And Die The Avett Brothers

PRODUCT DESCRIPTION

Original soundtrack to the 2012 motion picture featuring songs from Yoko Ono, Paul Simon, Norah Jones, Lindsey Buckingham, Paul McCartney, Graham Parker & The Rumour and many others. This Is 40 is an original comedy that expands upon the story of Pete and Debbie from the blockbuster hit Knocked Up as we see first-hand how they are dealing with their current state of life.

Multi-artist soundtrack to Judd Apatow's new movie, a sorta-sequel/spinoff of Knocked Up. Appears to contain lots of new/unreleased music. Completists, take note.

Wait till these people get a load of being 50. That's the real age when it starts to go downhill.

Yeah, we're all washed up, buddy!

are those 2 lindsay buckingham songs new?

Renny: It's 3 Buckingham tracks (one with Norah Jones). According to the liner notes, all 3 are dated 2012, so I assume they're previously unreleased.

Hopefully the music is in the movie. That's a pretty eclectic soundtrack.

Wow - if Lindsey sat on these for a thousand years, I have no hope of seeing Buckingham-Nicks in my lifetime!

Originally written to be sung a capella at the Martyrdom of St. Alphege, but held back 'til now because Buckingham knew they'd be a better fit for the Apatow movie...

thanks jim.

I hate making typos!

Days That We Die appeared on LW release last year - Older than My Old Man Now.

40? That aint nothin' - this May I will be looking for a soundtrack of This Is 60!

The other Norah Jones track ("Always Judging") also features Lindsey on guitar and backing vocals, so he has 4 appearances on the soundtrack. Of potential interest to some of us 40-plusers, Ian McLagan and Chris Stills back Ryan Adams on the two live tracks.

From Lindsey Buckingham's website:

Lindsey to Perform Guest Acoustic Set at Graham Parker & The Rumour Album Release Show

Graham Parker & The Rumour will play their first LA show together in 30+ years December 11 at The Roxy, celebrating the release of their new album Three Chords Good. Lindsey will perform a special guest acoustic set, and the show will also help celebrate the release of the ‘This Is 40’ film soundtrack (Dec. 11/Capitol Records). Graham Parker & The Rumour are featured throughout the film, which was directed by Judd Apatow and stars Paul Rudd and Leslie Mann. Parker and Buckingham both have songs on the ‘This Is 40’ soundtrack, which also features Ryan Adams, Fiona Apple, Paul McCartney, Wilco and others. Doors open at 7pm and the show starts at 8pm. Go to the Ticketweb.com for more info and details.

From Ultimate Classic Rock:

Graham Parker and the Rumour played the Roxy in Los Angeles for the first time in 30 years on Wednesday night (Dec. 12), headlining a three-act ‘This is 40‘ soundtrack release party. After shorter sets by Ryan Adams and Lindsey Buckingham, Parker’s band began a 22-song set that included songs from ‘Howlin’ Wind (1976)’ through ‘Three Chords Good‘ (2012).

The Judd Apatow comedy stars Paul Rudd as a music executive trying to save a tanking record by Parker, who appears as himself in the movie, while dealing with the struggles and well-known troubles (along with a few joys) of turning 40. The musician has two songs on the soundtrack, including ‘Watch the Moon Come Down’ from ‘Stick to Me’ and ‘What Do You Like,’ a song he recorded with the Punch Brothers. A review at Hitfix.com lists those as amongst the highlights from his set, along with ‘Nobody Hurts You’ and ‘Protection.’ All five original members of the Rumour have been with him on the recent reunion tour.

Buckingham played four songs but none of the three that appear on the soundtrack. Hitfix gives his set — which included ‘Shut Us Down’ and ”Go Insane’ — high regards, but Billboard points out that he struggled to get into the venue. Unable to find a back door entrance, he lined up with concertgoers at the box office and sold his plight to the attendant who eventually let him in.

The Avett Brothers, Wilco, Paul Simon, Yoko Ono and Paul McCartney also have songs on the ‘This is 40′ soundtrack, which was released this week in advance of the movie which is out on Dec. 21.

From the Hollywood Reporter:

Graham Parker Draws Capacity Crowd, Lindsey Buckingham, Ryan Adams to L.A. Show (Concert Review)
11:17 AM PST 12/13/2012 by Chris Willman

The singer's reunion with his beloved late-'70s band was not just a rumor spread in Judd Apatow's "This Is 40," as the crew played the packed Roxy for the first time in 33 years.

The least credible moment of Judd Apatow’s new comedy This Is 40 comes when Graham Parker & the Rumour stage an L.A. reunion concert after 30-plus years and only about a hundred fairly passive fans show up. The lie was put to that by Tuesday night’s actual reunion gig at the Roxy, which couldn’t have less resembled the shambolic filmic premonition, particularly in its status as the month’s toughest ticket.

True, the deck was stacked by the fact that Parker’s opening acts were Lindsey Buckingham and Ryan Adams -- making for arguably the most potent triple bill the storied venue had ever hosted, not to mention an overcrowded marquee that surely prompted plenty of near-disastrous double-takes on Sunset Boulevard. But even if the show hadn’t been billed as a This Is 40 release party, the promise of Parker reuniting with the bandmates of his late-'70s salad days would have been the draw of the season for rock fans of a certain age -- even if that age would be better suited toward a soundtrack for This Is 50-ish.

The Apatow film makes a big point out of being deprecating toward Parker as well as celebrating him, with plenty of old-age jokes directed by unsympathetic younger characters toward the 62-year-old singer whose career Paul Rudd’s character is trying to resurrect. (Yes, the day has arrived when “gout” gags are directed at your new-wave heroes.) Not just Parker but all the Rumour members indeed returned to the Roxy as gray-hairs -- except for bare-headed bassist Andrew Bodnar -- but the flame still burned as red as it did when the combo last played the club on the Squeezing Out Sparks tour of 1979, when Parker was wrongly but understandably seen as competing with Elvis Costello for pre-eminent Angry Sneering Young Brit status.

"The promise of Parker reuniting with the bandmates of his late '70s salad days would have been the draw of the season for rock fans of a certain age — even if that age would be better suited toward a soundtrack for 'This is 50-ish.'"

Although rightly regarded as one of the great albums of the late '70s, Squeezing Out Sparks was a bit of a blip for Parker, whose influences before and after veered more toward Van Morrison than anything quite as punkish as that album’s sound indicated. But that’s the material fans were most hankering to hear from this crew -- and they wisely saved all those sparkplugs for the Roxy climax, even if the deliberately more subdued first stretch of the set might’ve had a few audience members wondering if they still had it in ‘em.

Of 22 songs played, six came from the band’s new reunion album, Three Chords Good, while 16 dated to the 1976-80 period when the Rumour was backing Parker. That left only one number from the 32 intervening years, a “mid-period” whose material Parker joked was “a mystery” to his old mates. (That was a bit of an exaggeration, since two Rumour members had played on the album that produced “Get Started, Start a Fire,” the lone track that Parker brought out from his so-called solo years.)

During the 110-minute show, Parker did just enough comic reminiscing to make you believe he could have added some decent improv to This Is 40. He recalled the band’s earliest shows at the club circa 1976-77, one of which had a manager knocking him off his feet with some well-intended Maui Wowee, only to be told as he stumbled onstage that luminaries including Diana Ross and Joe Cocker were in the audience. “Who was here?” Parker asked the crowd. When there was only the tiniest smatter of whooping, he quipped: “That’s good. Young people.”
He also made light of his '80s work, which found him enjoying greater commercial success even as his critical support went slightly south. “As we all know, the '80s were the best period for music. … Even I had half a haircut. And even Bruce Springsteen danced like this,” he added, swaying his arms from side to side in a devastating parody of the Boss’ “Dancing in the Dark” moves.

He had a better evaluation of the new Three Chords Good: “It’s very, very good.” Parker’s right there, though the material improved onstage, where Bob Andrews’ organ didn’t dominate the mix quite so much as it does on record and the twin-guitar interplay of Brinsley Schwarz and Martin Belmont were brought further to the forefront. They added some electric punch to the poppy “What Do You Like,” a This Is 40 soundtrack exclusive that Parker performs with the Punch Brothers on the recording. And the set really found its stride four songs in with the new “Coathangers,” which had all the muscle of the Sparks material (and which, with its pro-choice theme, might have been intended as a counterpart to the similarly abortion-themed “You Can’t Be Too Strong,” an encore).

The early stretches of the show made a good case the validity of Parker’s pub-rock days and currently more prominent Americana influences. But the crowd was there to indulge in the pre-Nirvana nirvana of Squeezing Out Sparks, and the band delivered at the end with a stretch of six songs from that album (interrupted only “Stupefaction,” from The Up Escalator, the 1980 LP that followed), all sounding as fresh as the day they were birthed. Three decades is too long to go without hearing Belmont and Schwarz in tandem, or the Bodnar/Andrew Goulding rhythm section (also famous for providing the bottom end on Costello’s “Watching the Detectives”).

The sweetness of much of Parker’s current material -- like the lovely sing-along “Stop Cryin’ About the Rain” or R&B-ballad flavor of the single “Long Emotional Ride” -- make it clear that fans were wrong to expect the seeming sneer he had in 1979 to remain fixed in place. But, particularly in a set that also made room for his tenderer or more soulful sides, the Sparks stuff was a lovely scowl to go back to.

The show opened with a brief intro from Apatow, who remarked upon the unlikeliness of the triple bill he’d put together and remarked, “This probably shouldn’t even be happening.” Adams’ appearance was a quickie, consisting three of his prettiest acoustic ballads, including the one that puts a capper on This Is 40, though his hunched, seated status ensured most of the packed crowd only saw tufts of hair from atop his head.

Buckingham stood at full alert for his six-song set, which included not just his 40 contributions but “Go Insane” and a couple of his more intense contributions to the Fleetwood Mac canon, packing about three hours’ worth of a normal mortal’s finger-picking into a half-hour. His set would have stolen any other show, and it made many of us wish that, instead of going out on another Mac tour next year, he were going out on another solo jaunt -- one that everyone present would be smart enough to catch this time.

Set List:
Fool’s Gold
Three Chords Good
Hotel Chambermaid
Coathangers
What Do You Like
Get Started, Start a Fire
Stop Cryin’ About the Rain
Long Emotional Ride
Howlin’ Wind
Live in Shadows
A Lie Gets Halfway ‘Round the World
Watch the Moon Come Down
Discovering Japan
Nobody Hurts You
Protection
Stupefaction
Local Girls

Encore 1:
You Can’t Be Too Strong
Passion is No Ordinary Word

Encore 2:
Don’t Ask Me Questions
Soul Shoes
I Want You Back

From Billboard:

Graham Parker and the Rumour, Lindsey Buckingham Perform at 'This is 40' Soundtrack Party
by Phil Gallo, L.A. | December 12, 2012 9:57 EST

While Ryan Adams was taking a seat onstage to start the "This is 40" soundtrack record release concert, the scene at the box office outside Los Angeles' Roxy Theatre may as well have been a scene from another Judd Apatow film.

Lindsay Buckingham, scheduled to go on after Adams, was a bit frantic while laughing, telling the box office attendant, "My name is Lindsey. I'm scheduled to play tonight but I can't seem to get in." Fortunately, she was able to open a side door for the Fleetwood Mac guitarist to enter the Sunset Blvd. club in time for his 8:30 p.m. performance.

The party was an outgrowth of the Los Angeles date for Graham Parker and the Rumour on their reunion tour, which began Nov. 24 in Tarrytown, N.Y., and wraps Dec. 19 in St. Paul, Minn. Parker and the Rumour play a key role in "This is 40," a comedy that finds its drama in familial confrontation and its humor in sex, kids and the struggles of the modern music industry.

Adams and Buckingham, introduced by the film's composer and producer of the soundtrack's new tracks, Jon Brion, performed solo acoustic. Adams reprised the song he performs on camera in the film, "Lucky Now," plus "My Winding Wheel" and "Everybody Knows"; Buckingham added two Fleetwood Mac songs, "Never Going Back Again" and "Big Love" to his selections from the film, "Sick of You" and "She Acts Like You."

Apatow, clicking photos on his iPhone from the club's VIP section during their sets, praised Buckingham for his patience and gentle demeanor. "He wrote five songs for the movie and three were used," Apatow told Billboard.com, who handed the soundtrack rights to Capitol Records because "they were the most enthusiastic" about the project.

From the stage, Buckingham had his compliments for Judd, Brion and music supervisor Jonathan Karp, three people he did not know until a couple of years ago. "I hope I suggested a few things," he joked, "for them not to do."

Ultimately, this was Parker and the Rumour's show, a return to a building they performed in in 1977; memories are a bit cloudy. Parker remembers having lost his voice - he was a shouter back in the punk era - and being pretty stoned when his manager informed him that Diana Ross, Van Morrison and Joe Cocker were in the audience. He seemed to have no recollection of how that show went.

31 years after they last performed together, Parker and the Rumour have settled into a groove where the musicianship is masterful, the pacing measured so he can deliver a string of show-stoppers toward the end. It's a reminder of how difficult a sell smart music was in the late 1970s when it defied easy categorization.

Parker and the Rumour's new album, "Three Chords Good," is more in tune with Parker solo efforts such as "Mona Lisa's Sister" and "Struck By Lightning" than the intensity driven "Howlin' Wind" or the landmark "Squeezing Our Sparks."

"Hotel Chambermaid" conveys the tenor of the Rumor in their '75-'80 heyday with an added dose of finesse; "Howlin' Wind" felt downright grown-up with its reggae flavor enhanced and Bob Andrews adding jazz flourishes on keyboards; and "Watch the Moon Come Down," a 1977 track featured in the film, is richer in harmonies and smoother in the texture, bringing out a commonality with the Band that was nowhere in evidence 35 years ago. An exquisitely performed "Get Started. Start a Fire." from 1988 reminds you that this guy could never seem to catch a break; it's as catchy melodically today as it was nearly a quarter-century ago.

Parker's wit remained intact as he introduced "Long Emotional Ride" as their new single, which he figured meant it can be "stolen individually rather than in a bundle." An easy-going song, it was one of a few songs in the middle of the set that allowed him to get his vocals lined up for the big finish of their most famous songs: "Discovering Japan," "Nobody Hurts You," "Protection," "Stupefaction" and "Local Girls" before an encore of "You Can't Be Too Strong," "Passion is No Ordinary Word," "Don't Ask Me Questions," Soul Shoes" and the Jackson Five cover "I Want You Back."

The actors who portray the two guys who run the indie label in "This is 40," Paul Rudd and Chris O'Dowd, were in attendance and got a different view of the reaction Parker receives in the film. Parker's audience, many of them as gray and bald as the band itself, remains fervidly passionate.