THE RUM DIARY

The film stars Johnny Depp, Aaron Eckhart, Michael Rispoli, Amber Heard, and a hilarious Giovanni Ribisi, and is directed by Bruce Robinson, making his return to the cinema 19 years after his last feature Jennifer Eight, and a full 24 years since his acclaimed debut, Withnail & I. The Jennifer Eight connection also allowed Robinson to reunite with his composer on that film, Christopher Young, although the two scores could not be more different: whereas Jennifer Eight was all about icy sensuality and tension, The Rum Diary is a light, breezy, upbeat jazz score which allows Young to return to a genre which he clearly loves, but is only occasionally allowed to explore. Young has a great jazz pedigree, through scores like Rounders, The Big Kahuna, Bandits and Wonder Boys, but the score The Rum Diary most resembles is actually The Man Who Knew Too Little, albeit without the overt slapstick overtones of that excellent 1997 score.

1. Volare (Nel Blu Di Pinto Di Blu) (Dean Martin)
2. Rum Diary
3. Suckfish and Snake
4. Mother of Balls
5. Chenault
6. Flagged Me Smiling
7. Pink Jelly Remains
8. Rockin' on Rooster (With My Dead Monkey's Mother)
9. Sweat Bee
10. Cock-Of-The-Rock
11. Black Note Blues
12. My Car the Cockroach
13. Neon Popsicles
14. Hefti-Tefti
15. He Must Be a Sadist
16. Puerto Rican Piss-Off
17. Whacking a Salesman
18. The Biggest Crook in New Jersey
19. Desperate Drunks and Postcard Loons
20. The Mermaid Song (Instrumental) (Johnny Depp)
21. What About El Monstruo? (JD Band)
22. Roll Out the Roosters (JD Band)
23. Kemp in the Village (Johnny Depp and JJ Holiday)
24. The Mermaid Song (Patti Smith)