What better way to celebrate the first Bill & Ted film in 29 years then with a band that took the Nineties by storm?
“My head is spinning, it’s the beginning of the end,” Weezer frontman Rivers Cuomo sings in the hook of just-released song “Beginning of the End.” The band whipped up the new tune for the third installment of the franchise – fitting title Bill & Ted Face the Music – which United Artists Releasing will release on August 28th. Record label 10K Projects will drop the soundtrack on the same day.
Actors Alex Winter and Keanu Reeves first became time-traveling heroes as the beloved offshoot Bill S. Preston Esq. and Ted Theodore Logan at the 1989 release of cult classic The wonderful adventure of Bill & Ted. The sequel, Bogus Journey by Bill & Ted, arrived in 1991. In Face the Music, visitors of the future task the duo with creating a song that will save the world and life as we know it. Famous musicians – including Dave Grohl, Kid Cudi and Arcade Fire’s Win Butler – perform on the go.
Weezer is just one of a few notable names on the track’s list, featuring the likes of Cold War Kids, Lamb of God, and Mastodon, as well as Wild Stallins – Winter and Reeves’ fictional band from the film franchise. Weezer also gave Billy Joel a writing credit for “Beginning of the End,” which borrows from Joel’s “The Longest Time.” During an online interview, Cuomo explained that it was “just a clearing thing.” He pointed out that this kind of credit has become commonplace in recent years, before adding, ‘I do not think Billy Joel has written a song since the 1990s. ‘
Bill & Ted Face the Music, the Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Track List
1. “Lost in Time” – Great Black Delta
2. “Big Red Balloon” – Alec Wigdahl
3. “Beginning of the End (Edit Wild Stallins)” – Weezer
4. “Story of our lives” – Cold War children
5. “Rufus lives” – Mastodon
6. “Circuits of Time” – Great Black Delta
7. “Darkest Night” – POORSTACY
8. “The death of us” – Lamb of God
9. “Breaker” – FIDLAR
10. “Leave Me Alone” – Culture Wars
11. “Right where you belong” – Blame My Youth
12. “Face the Music” – Wyld Stallyns (feat. Animals As Leaders, Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah)
13. “That which binds us through time: the chemical, physical and biological nature of love; an exploration of the meaning of meaning, part 1 ”- Wild Stallins
