Tron: Legacy (soundtrack): Difference between revisions

| name = Tron: Legacy (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

| recorded = 2008–102008–2010

| venuegenre =

| genre = * [[Film score]]

| producer =
* [[Thomas Bangalter]]

| prev_title = [[Tron (soundtrack)|Tron: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]]

'''''Tron: Legacy (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)''''' is the [[soundtrack album]] to the 2010 [[Tron: Legacy|film of the same name]], released by [[Walt Disney Records]] on December 3, 2010.<ref name="itunes1">{{cite web|url=https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/tron-legacy/id404391362 |title=iTunes - Music - TRON: Legacy by Daft Punk |publisher=[[iTunes Store|iTunes]] UK [[Apple Inc.|Apple]] |access-date=March 12, 2012}}</ref> It is the only film score by [[France|French]] music duo [[Daft Punk]].

''Tron: Legacy'' director [[Joseph Kosinski]] and music supervisor [[Jason Bentley]] approached Daft Punk and requested that the duo compose the film score.<ref>{{cite news|last=Roberts|first=Randall|url=http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/music_blog/2010/11/kcrw-to-host-preview-of-daft-punks-tron-legacy-score-on-saturday-.html|title=KCRW and Disney to host preview of Daft Punk's 'Tron: Legacy' score on Saturday|newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]]|date=November 15, 2010|access-date=November 20, 2010}}</ref><ref name="MTV">{{cite web |title='Tron Legacy' Panel Report, Fresh From San Diego Comic-Con |url=http://moviesblog.mtv.com/2009/07/23/tron-legacy-panel-report-fresh-from-san-diego-comic-con |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090725195932/http://moviesblog.mtv.com/2009/07/23/tron-legacy-panel-report-fresh-from-san-diego-comic-con/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=July 25, 2009 |publisher=[[MTV]] |date=July 23, 2009 |access-date=July 29, 2009}}</ref> When asked why he wished to work with the duo, Kosinski replied, "How could you not at least go to those guys?"<ref name="MTV" /> The film producers initially attempted to reach Daft Punk in 2007, but the duo had been unavailable due to their [[Alive 2006/2007]] tour.<ref name="holly">{{cite web|url=http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/daft-punk-pull-curtain-tron-60965|title=Daft Punk Pull Back the Curtain on 'Tron: Legacy' Soundtrack|first=Drew|last=Tewksbury|work=[[The Hollywood Reporter]]|date=December 16, 2010|access-date=April 30, 2012}}</ref> [[Thomas Bangalter]] of Daft Punk had previously produced the [[Irréversible (soundtrack)|soundtrack]] to [[Gaspar Noé]]'s 2002 film ''[[Irréversible]]''. Noé had asked Bangalter to compose the soundtrack to the film ''[[Enter the Void]]'', but Bangalter was working on ''Tron: Legacy'' at the time and instead served as sound effects director.<ref>{{cite magazine|last=Barry|first=Robert|url=http://thequietus.com/articles/05097-gaspar-no-interview-enter-the-void-soundtrack-daft-punk|title=Suddenly The Maelstrom: Gaspar Noé On The Music Of Enter The Void|magazine=The Quietus|date=October 13, 2010|access-date=June 16, 2013}}</ref>

The score of ''Tron: Legacy'' features an 85-piece orchestra, recorded at AIR Lyndhurst Studios in London.<ref name="TronDisneyStudio">{{cite web|url=http://www.waltdisneystudiosawards.com/tronlegacy/music.php |title=Disney Awards 2010: Tron Legacy |publisher=[[The Walt Disney Company]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101104035555/http://www.waltdisneystudiosawards.com/tronlegacy/music.php |archive-date=November 4, 2010 |access-date=June 16, 2013 |url-status=unfitdead }}</ref> Kosinski stated that the score is intended to be a mixture of orchestral and electronic music. Daft Punk's score was arranged and orchestrated by [[Joseph Trapanese]],<ref>{{cite web|last=Thorp|first=Debbie|url=http://culturemob.com/blog/soundtrack-review-daft-punks-classical-meets-cyberpunk-approach-to-tron-legacy|title=Daft Punk's Classical Meets Cyberpunk Approach to "Tron: Legacy"|publisher=CultureMob.com|date=November 23, 2010|access-date=November 26, 2010|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120709200700/http://culturemob.com/blog/soundtrack-review-daft-punks-classical-meets-cyberpunk-approach-to-tron-legacy|archive-date=July 9, 2012}}</ref> who stated he is a fan of Daft Punk as a duo and as solo artists. The band collaborated with him for two years on the score, from pre-production to completion. The orchestra was conducted by [[Gavin Greenaway]]. Trapanese cited the collaboration between the different genres to work out well in the end, stating: <blockquote>It seems complicated at the end of the day, but it’s actually quite simple. I was locked in a room with robots for almost two years and it was simply a lot of hard work. We were just together working throughout the whole process and there was never a point where the orchestra was not in their minds and the electronics were not in my mind. It was a continual translation between the two worlds and hopefully we put something together that will be something different because of that.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.kcrw.com/music/programs/mb/mb101129tron_legacy_soundtra|title=Tron: Legacy Soundtrack Preview|last=Bentley|first=Jason|date=November 29, 2010|publisher=[[KCRW]]|access-date=December 7, 2010}}</ref></blockquote>

CommentingIn onan interview regarding the ''Tron: Legacy'' score, [[Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo]] commentednoted that "Synths are a very low level of artificial intelligence, whereas you have a [[Stradivarius]] that will live for a thousand years. We knew from the start that there was no way we were going to do this film score with two synthesizers and a drum machine."<ref name="holly" /> Daft Punk cited [[Wendy Carlos]], the composer of the original ''[[Tron]]'' film, as inspiration for the soundtrack as well as [[Max Steiner]], [[Bernard Herrmann]], [[John Carpenter]], [[Vangelis]], [[Philip Glass]], and [[Maurice Jarre]] as inspirations for the soundtrack.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/music_blog/2010/12/daft-punks-legacy-act.html |title=Daft Punk's 'Legacy' act |newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]] |date=December 6, 2010 |access-date=December 9, 2010}}</ref><ref name="Factmag">{{cite web|url=http://www.factmag.com/2010/11/18/daft-punk-tell-all-about-tron-legacy/|title=Daft Punk tell all about Tron: Legacy|publisher=FactMag.com|date=November 18, 2010|access-date=June 16, 2013}}</ref> De Homem-Christo also stated that ''Tron'' was a strong influence on him as a child. "Maybe I only saw it two or three times in my entire life, but the feel of it is strong even now, that I think the imprint of the first [film] will not be erased by the new one. It has a real visionary quality to it."<ref name="Factmag" /> Bangalter recalled that he had composed heroic themes for the protagonists, while de Homem-Christo had written the darker musical cues.<ref name="Telerama">{{cite web |lastlast1=Perron |firstfirst1=Erwan, and |last2=Gancel, |first2=Alice |title=Daft Punk, interview-fleuve pour la sortie de ''Random Access Memories''|language=fr|url=http://www.telerama.fr/musique/daft-punk-l-interview-fleuve,97155.php|work=[[Telerama]]|publisher=PopMatters.com, Telerama.fr|date=April 7, 2013|access-date=April 7, 2013}}</ref> De Homem-Christo concluded that ''Tron: Legacy'' "was cut to the music. Usually, composers come in at the end when everything is done."<ref name="DazedConfused">''[[Dazed & Confused (magazine)|Dazed & Confused]]'' volume 2, issue 92 (December 2010).</ref>

The song "Computerized" featuring [[Jay-Z]] surfaced online yearsin 2014, almost a half decade after the film was released. It tells a cautionary tale about relying too much on technology, with a robotic voice singing "''Everyone will be computerized''" in the chorus. Jay-Z takes on the role of a [[Luddite]] in the lyrics, complaining about holding conversations over text messages and having a "''broken heart on the email''" and "''an iTouch but I can't feel''". Later, he raps: "''Somebody tell me what's real / I don't know how I feel''."<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/daft-punk-jay-z-team-up-for-previously-unreleased-computerized-20140310|title=Daft Punk–Jay Z Collab Surfaces|work=Rolling Stone|access-date=2017-11-05}}</ref> "Computerized" was originally intended to be a single to appear in and promote ''Tron: Legacy'', but was discarded after concerns of the lyrical content being too grounded to fit the fantastical setting of the film. ThePortions instrumentalof wasthe insteadscore usedappear in the filmsong's scoreinstrumentation.<ref>[{{Cite magazine |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/daft-punk-jay-z-team-up-for-previously-unreleased-computerized-204739/ |title=Daft Punk–Jay Z Collab Surfaces |magazine=Rolling Stone |date=March 10, 2014 |first1=Kory |last1=Grow |access-date=March 6, 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite web| url=https://ohmy.disney.com/insider/2016/09/09/computerized-daft-punk/ |title=Computerized: The Never-Before-Told Story of How Disney Got Daft Punk For TRON: Legacy]. |website=Oh My Disney.com. Retrieved|publisher=Disney onCompany November|access-date=March 106, 20172024 |date=September 6, 2016 |first1=Drew |last1=Taylor |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161122075000/https://ohmy.disney.com/insider/2016/09/09/computerized-daft-punk/ |archive-date=November 22, 2016}}</ref>

A deluxe edition of the album was made available from the official ''Tron: Legacy'' soundtrack website that includes a poster of Daft Punk as they appear in the film.<ref name="TronSoundtrack">[http://tronsoundtrack.com/ Official website of Tron Legacy's soundtrack] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111025051720/http://tronsoundtrack.com/ |date=2011-10-25 }}. Retrieved September 27, 2010.</ref> In regions outside the United States, a two-disc special edition featuring the bonus tracks "ENCOM Part I", "ENCOM Part II", "Round One", "Castor", and "Reflections" was made available for a limited time.<ref name="special" /> As a pre-order bonus for the album on the [[iTunes Store]], "Derezzed" was released as a single on December 8, 2010. The iTunes Store release of the album includes two bonus tracks: "Father and Son" and "Outlands, Pt. II".<ref name="itunesbonus" /> The [[Amazon MP3]] Download version of the album includes the bonus track "Sea of Simulation".<ref name="Amazonmp3" /> The Nokia [[Ovi (Nokia)|Ovi]] Music Store release of the album includes the bonus track "Sunrise Prelude".<ref name="ovi" /> The Complete Edition includes all bonus tracks in addition to the standard edition tracks. The songs "[[Separate Ways (Worlds Apart)]]" by [[Journey (band)|Journey]] and "[[Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)]]" by [[Eurythmics]] are featured in the film, but absent from the soundtrack album.

{{AlbumMusic ratings

| rev4Score = (7/10)<ref name="Clash magazine">{{cite magazine|first=Matthew|last=Bennett|title=Daft Punk Tron: Legacy|url=http://www.clashmusic.com/reviews/daft-punk-tron-legacy|magazine=[[Clash (magazine)|Clash]]|date=December 8, 2010|access-date=December 8, 2010}}</ref>

| rev6Score = B<ref name="EW">{{cite magazine|last=Vozick-Levinson |first=Simon|url=http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20446248,00.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101205081805/http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20446248,00.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=December 5, 2010 |title=TRON: Legacy (2010) - Daft Punk |magazine=[[Entertainment Weekly]] |date=December 1, 2010 |access-date=December 9, 2010}}</ref>

| rev8Score = (8/10)<ref name="NME">{{cite magazine|first=Dan|last=Martin|title=Album Review: Daft Punk, 'Tron Legacy Soundtrack' (Virgin)|url=http://www.nme.com/reviews/daft-punk/11742|magazine=[[NME|New Musical Express]]|date=November 29, 2010|access-date=December 3, 2010}}</ref>

| rev9 = ''[[Pitchfork Media(website)|Pitchfork]]''

| rev9Score = (5.5/10)<ref name="Pitchfork Media">{{cite web|first=Ryan|last=Dombal|title=Tron: Legacy OST|url=http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/14938-tron-legacy-ost/|work=[[Pitchfork Media]]|date=December 10, 2010|access-date=December 11, 2010}}</ref>

| rev12Score = (7/10)<ref name="SPIN">{{cite magazine|first=Barry|last=Walters|title=Daft Punk, 'Tron: Legacy Original Motion Picture Soundtrack' (Disney)|url=http://www.spin.com/reviews/daft-punk-tron-legacy-original-motion-picture-soundtrack-disney|magazine=[[Spin (magazine)|SPIN]]|date=December 10, 2010|access-date=June 16, 2013}}</ref>

At [[Metacritic]], which assigns a [[Standard score|normalized]] rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the ''Tron: Legacy'' soundtrack received an [[weighted mean|average]] score of 71, based on 27 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews".<ref name="Metacritic">{{cite web |url=http://www.metacritic.com/music/tron-legacy |title=Tron: Legacy - Daft Punk |website=[[Metacritic]] |date=December 7, 2010|access-date=June 17, 2013}}</ref> A review in [[AllMusic]] commented on the blend of electronic and orchestral music, specifically noting that in "The Son of Flynn" the "[[arpeggio]]s and strings are so tightly knit that they finish each others' [[phrase (music)|phrases]]".<ref name="Allmusic" /> ''[[The A.V. Club]]'' observed the "synergistic dream" of Daft Punk's robotic personae with the film's science fiction aesthetic, further stating that the album "is neither groundbreaking experiment nor crucial entry in the duo's catalog, but it’sit's an adeptly realized, tonally complementary companion" to the film.<ref name="AVclub" /> Similarly, a ''[[Clash (magazine)|Clash]]'' review remarked: "As a stand-alone album, what [[Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo]] and [[Thomas Bangalter]] have created won't sate the disco heads screaming for more club material, however as an accomplished score it can only make a legendary film yet more cherished.<ref name="Clash magazine" />

The soundtrack debuted at number 10 on the ''Billboard'' 200 albums chart with sales of 71,000 copies.<ref name="Billboard1">{{cite magazine|first=Keith|last=Caulfield|title=Boyle's 'Gift' Keeps Giving on Billboard 200, 'Tron' Hits Top 10|url=http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/949240/boyles-gift-keeps-giving-on-billboard-200-tron-hits-top-10|magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]|access-date=5 January 2011}}</ref> This marked the duo's first top 10 album/soundtrack in the United States.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=http://consequenceofsound.net/2010/12/15/daft-punk-score-first-top-10-album|title=Daft Punk score first Top 10 album|magazine=Consequence of Sound}}</ref> In its second week, the soundtrack dropped to number 33 on the ''Billboard'' 200. It managed to sell an additional 67,000 copies in its third week of release, coming in at number 27 on the ''Billboard'' 200.<ref name="Billboard2">{{cite magazine|first=Keith|last=Caulfield|title=Taylor Swift Still Tops Billboard 200, Holiday Albums Tumble|url=http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/473778/taylor-swift-still-tops-billboard-200-holiday-albums-tumble|magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]|access-date=5 January 2011}}</ref> In its fourth week, the soundtrack rose to a new peak position of number 6 on the ''Billboard'' 200 selling an additional 54,000 copies.<ref name="Billboard2" /> In its fifth week, the album reached a new peak of number 4 by selling 34,000 copies.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/473677/taylor-swifts-speak-now-takes-no-1-in-record-low-sales-week|title=Taylor Swift's 'Speak Now' Takes No. 1 in Record-Low Sales Week|author=Keith Caulfield|magazine=Billboard}}</ref> As of November 17, 2011, ''Tron: Legacy'' was awarded with a gold certification for 500,000 units sold.<ref>[https://www.riaa.com/goldandplatinumdata.php?content_selector=gold-platinum-searchable-database RIAA Gold and Platinum Search for Tron: Legacy] [[Recording Industry Association of America|RIAA]] Retrieved on December 22, 2011.</ref> On ItJanuary has sold 58810,000 copies2023 asit ofwas Maycertified 2013.<ref>{{citeplatinum webwith |over url=http://music.yahoo.com/blogs/chart-watch/week-ending-may-26-2013-albums-daft-punk-145934615.html1 |million title=Weekunits Ending May 26, 2013sold.<ref Albums: Daft Punk Gets Lucky | publishername=Yahoo | work=Chart Watch | date=May 29, 2013 | access"us-date=May 29, 2013 | author=Paul Grein }}<platinum-cert"/ref>

* [[Sean Bailey]]&nbsp;– executive producer

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! scope="row"| US Top Dance/Electronic Albums (''Billboard'')<ref>{{cite webmagazine|url=https://www.billboard.com/charts/year-end/2011/dance-electronic-albums|title=Top Dance/Electronic Albums – Year-End 2011|workmagazine=Billboard|access-date=February 26, 2021}}</ref>

! scope="row"| US Soundtrack Albums (''Billboard'')<ref>{{cite webmagazine|url=https://www.billboard.com/charts/year-end/2011/top-soundtracks-albums|title=Soundtracks – Year-End 2011|workmagazine=Billboard|access-date=February 26, 2021}}</ref>

! scope="row"| US Top Dance/Electronic Albums (''Billboard'')<ref>{{cite webmagazine|url=https://www.billboard.com/charts/year-end/2012/dance-electronic-albums|title=Top Dance/Electronic Albums – Year-End 2012|workmagazine=Billboard|access-date=February 26, 2021}}</ref>

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