Rumble Fish - Soundtrack

Soundtrack

Coppola envisioned a largely experimental score to complement his images. He began to devise a mainly percussive soundtrack to symbolize the idea of time running out. As Coppola worked on it, he realized that he needed help from a professional musician. He asked Stewart Copeland, then drummer of the musical group The Police, to improvise a rhythm track. Coppola soon concluded that Copeland was a far superior composer and let him take over. Copeland recorded street sounds of Tulsa and mixed them into the soundtrack with the use of a Musync, a new device at the time, that recorded film, frame by frame on videotape with the image on top, the dialogue in the middle, and the musical staves on the bottom so that it matched the images perfectly.

An edited version of the song "Don't Box Me In" a collaboration between Copeland and singer/songwriter Stan Ridgway, was released as a single and enjoyed significant radio airplay.

All songs written by Stewart Copeland, except where noted.

1. "Don't Box Me In" (Copeland, Stan Ridgway) – 4:40
2. "Tulsa Tango" – 3:42
3. "Our Mother Is Alive" – 4:16
4. "Party at Someone Else's Place" – 2:25
5. "Biff Gets Stomped by Rusty James" – 2:27
6. "Brothers on Wheels" – 4:20
7. "West Tulsa Story" – 3:59
8. "Tulsa Rags" – 1:39
9. "Father on the Stairs" – 3:01
10. "Hostile Bridge to Benny's" – 1:53
11. "Your Mother Is Not Crazy" – 2:48
12. "Personal Midget/Cain's Ballroom" – 5:55
13. "Motorboy's Fate" – 2:03