Paramount Music will release the first-ever official score album for the 1999 political satire Election co-written and directed by Alexander Payne and starring Matthew Broderick and Reese Witherspoon. The album features the film’s original score composed by Rolfe Kent (Sideways, Up in the Air, About Schmidt, Wedding Crashers, Mean Girls, Downsizing, Freaky Friday), including alternate and unused cues. The soundtrack will be released digitally this Friday, February 17 and will be available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music services. Sire Records has previously released the 1999 original soundtrack album featuring the songs from the movie and a track from Kent’s score. Election is now available on VOD, Blu-ray and DVD.
Here’s the track list of the album:
1. Election (Main Titles) (1:55)
2. Tracy’s Table / Teaching Piano (2:23)
3. Tracy Flick / Darkroom (0:50)
4. Maui is for Lovers / In Love (unused) (0:48)
5. Tracy on Mr. M (1:29)
6. Tracy Gets Harmonious and Productive / Jim Thinks… “Paul!” (2:00)
7. Tracy Kills (0:42)
8. Didn’t Bother Me At All (1:03)
9. Sometimes I Sit (0:35)
10. Hot Tub / Tammy Runs for President (1:26)
11. Fill Me Up (0:51)
12. Tracy and the New Software / Tracy Drives Her Dead Body (2:08)
13. Jim and Linda Tango (0:39)
14. Jim Thinks, Tracy Bubbles (0:54)
15. Pop Quiz Everybody / Jim’s Pathetic Call from Motel (1:35)
16. Jim Leaves Motel Alone / Prayers (3:11)
17. Cupcakes / Voting / Big Box (2:35)
18. Not Now Paul (1:09)
19. Tracy Spies (2:37)
20. Fanfare (0:25)
21. Announcing Results / Discovered / Jim’s Downfall (2:09)
22. Alleluya (0:37)
23. Tracy Finishes School / What Happens to a Man… ? (1:01)
24. Jim in D.C. (1:08)
25. Jim Runs (unused) (0:34)
26. God Whispers to Constatine (1:51)
27. Tracy’s Table (alternate with castanet) (0:32)
28. Prayers (alternate guitar) (2:34)
29. Discovered (alternate with hits) (0:40)
30. Tracy Kills The Poster (long version) (0:54)