Guardians of the Galaxy Soundtrack

As most of you know and have seen, I wrote a blog post a about a month ago on the fairly new movie that came out 2014 called Guardians of the Galaxy. In my personal opinion it was a pretty solid movie. It had everything I like in a movie, action, fantasy, even based of a classic comic book series, and the very occasional crude but hilarious humor. But I'm not here to tell you guys about how much I liked the movie because I've already done a post on that. I'm going to tell you about the one thing about the movie that really captured me which was the soundtrack.


When Disney released this new soundtrack called the "Awesome Mix Vol. 1" from the Guardians of the Galaxy movie, it quickly sky rocketed to the number one spot for soundtracks on iTunes. One of the obvious reasons for this was because of the movie's obvious success. But the more important reasons was because of the list of classic 80's songs found on the tape. These songs were well known by the majority of the public and loved classics that had been passed down from generation whether it be from parents or movies or events of the years.


Here is the list of songs from the album:

1. "Hooked on a Feeling" Performed by Blue Swede
2. "Go All the Way" Performed by Raspberries
3. "Spirit in the Sky"* Performed by Norman Greenbaum
4. "Moonage Daydream" Performed by David Bowie
5. "Fooled Around and Fell in Love" Performed by Elvin Bishop
6. "I'm Not in Love" Performed by 10cc
7. "I Want You Back" Performed by Jackson 5
8. "Come and Get Your Love" Performed by Redbone
9. "Cherry Bomb" Performed by The Runaways
10. "Escape (The Piña Colada Song)" Performed by Rupert Holmes
11. "O-O-H Child" Performed by The Five Stairsteps
12. "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" Performed by Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell

I found it extremely moving and really got me into the movie more that the soundtrack of songs were all actually a part of the movie on the mixed tape that Quill had received from his mother before she died that had included the many songs that her and Quill shared and loved in the little time that they had together. And on top of that, considering that I had a similar experience of sharing classic songs from the past with my parents on long car rides to see my brother was such a cherished memory to me, it made the movie and songs that even I knew all the better to enjoy.


The one song that REALLY got to me though, was right at the end where Quill finally opens the gift/new mixed tape his mother gave him right before she died. And it wasn't the revealing of the tape that got me, it was when he put it in his stereo and it started off with the first song playing "O-O-H Child". And everything finally fell into place for Quill and his life and "things are gonna get easier".