20 Things You Didn't Know About Scott Pilgrim Vs The World
7. Beck Wrote The Songs For Sex Bob-omb
As a film structured around a Battle Of The Bands, Scott Pilgrim is full of music. All of the cast had to learn to play their instruments and to perform together. On top of this, the production brought in a load of talented musicians to write the actual songs that appear in the film, most prominently alt-rock icon Beck.
The seven-time Grammy winner reached for his Rhyming Becktionary to pen such garage rock numbers as Garbage Truck, Threshold and Launchpad McQuack (that's not the actual title of the song) for Sex Bob-omb to perform in the film.
In tribute to Beck's involvement in the movie, his acclaimed 1996 album Odelay can be seen when Scott and Knives are in the Sonic Boom record store. Scott takes the Clash At Demonhead album that Knives is considering buying and puts it back on the shelf in front of the Beck CD.
The Clash At Demonhead's own music was also provided by a real act, in their case Canadian indie rockers Metric.
Metric frontwoman Emily Haines is also part of the sprawling Toronto-based musical collective Broken Social Scene, the band whose Anthems For A Seventeen Year-Old Girl is used as a soundtrack for Scott's relationship with Knives. Broken Social Scene also penned the few seconds of thrash punk that makes up Crash And The Boys's on screen oeuvre, including I'm So Sad, So Very, Very Sad and We Hate You, Please Die.