“Chris Pratt listened to the first album hundreds of times. Blue Sky” yet again while supervising the film’s sound mix. “The weird thing is, I’ve never gotten sick of a Guardians song,” says Gunn, fresh from hearing “Mr. Gunn himself has had to listen to the movies’ songs over and over – but he doesn’t mind. And falling in love with an alien is right up there in Meredith Quill’s alley. She’s a very quirky, young girl who fell in love with, you know, as it ends up, an alien. “If it’s something that’s thought of as goofy and pop, she likes it. “She’s a music lover, but she’s completely not elitist,” he says. The songs have always been a way of representing Peter Quill’s mom, Meredith, in the movies, and Gunn has a pretty good sense of her. “One of the most exciting things,” he says, “was knowing I would be making bands that may have been forgotten suddenly be a topic of conversation.” There are, again, plenty of deep cuts on hand, and Gunn (who once played in a band of his own, the Icons) relished the chance to expose the likes of Jay and the Americans’ “Come a Little Bit Closer” – or a true obscurity like 1976’s “Wham Bam Shang-A-Lang,” by one-hit-wonder Silver – to the Marvel-loving masses.
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