![]() ![]() It's the only new song and it stands out in neon, as it's surrounded by songs that have been played to death and beyond. There's a little Billie Holiday, a little Nat King Cole, a bit of Simon & Garfunkel and Janis Joplin, some ironic disco via KC & the Sunshine Band, some somber sobriety with Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah," and a whole lot of Bob Dylan (whose "The Times They Are A-Changin'" opens the film, underscoring a montage telling the story's alternate history), who is then covered by Jimi Hendrix and My Chemical Romance, whose truncated cover of the epic "Desolation Row" is performed in the "style of the Sex Pistols," as requested of the band by Snyder. ![]() Snyder chooses to cherry-pick shop-worn chestnuts from every decade of the story's time line. As a comic book, Watchmen presented an alternate history of the 20th century, twisting the familiar into the surreal - a proposition that is difficult, but not impossible, to replicate as a motion picture but very hard to pull off as a soundtrack, as the accompanying album to Zack Snyder's 2009 feature film illustrates.
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