Monsters University (soundtrack)

Monsters University is the soundtrack album for the 2013 Disney/Pixar animated film of the same name. It was released through Walt Disney Records on June 18, 2013, three days before the movie, and composed by Randy Newman. It is his seventh collaboration with Pixar as composer.^[1]^[2]

The songs "Main Title", "Rise and Shine", and "The Scare Games" feature the drum line from the Blue Devils group "BD Entertainment". The recordings for the percussion tracks were done at Skywalker Ranch,^[3] and were written by Blue Devils Percussion Caption Head Scott Johnson.^[4]

The songs "Island", by Mastodon, and "Gospel", by MarchFourth Marching Band, are featured during the film but do not appear on the soundtrack. The song "Party Hard" by Andrew W.K. is featured prominently in the teaser trailers but did not appear on the soundtrack or in the film.

Additionally, much of the drum line percussion music was performed by BD Entertainment,^[5] a division of BD Performing Arts, which also manages the World Champion Blue Devils Drum & Bugle Corps.

Track listing

All music are composed by Randy Newman, except where noted.

Main Title (Score)
Young Michael (Score)
First Day at MU (Score)
Dean Hardscrabble (Score)
Sulley (Score)
Scare Pig (Score)
Wasted Potential (Score)
Oozma Kappa (Score)
Stinging Glow Urchin (Score)
Field Trip (Score)
Rise and Shine (Score)
The Library (Score)
Roar - Performed by Axwell & Sebastian Ingrosso of Swedish House Mafia
The Scare Games (Score)
Did You Do This? (Score)
Human World (Score)
The Big Scare (Score)
Goodbyes (Score)
Mike and Sulley (Score)
Monsters University

Little Mike

Where's Mike?

Don't Call Me Karen

The Scarers/Down In Front

First Scare (Part 1)

First Scare (Part 2)

Main Title

Off to College

You Could Totally Die

Young Randall

To Do List

Waiting My Whole Life

To Scare Class

Hardscrabble

Properly Inspired

Sulley

Scare Pig

Mike Rides The Pig

Determined

Focus

You're Taking This Well

Kicked Out

Scare Games Opening

Oozma Kappa

Sulley Sting

Dream Journal

Initiation

Now We're Rolling

Sewers

The Starting Line

Urchin

Back in the Race

Unnoticed

Squishy Sting

Squishy Did It!

Trophy Room

Kari

Look Like Us

Oozma is Oozma

Field Trip

The Big Leagues

Can't Go Back to Jail

Rise and Shine

But is He Scary?

Great, But Bigger

Opening Ceremony

Unleash the Beast

Misfits

Mike is Up

You Rule

Betrayal

Red Light

The Real Test

You Look Funny

Camp Human A

Camp Human B

I Failed, Too

Can't Get Back

Scaring the Rangers

Home, How?

Goodbyes

The Best Scare

The Mail Room

Credits

Original Score Composed and Conducted by Randy Newman
Executive Music Producer: Chris Montan
Music Supervisor: Tom MacDougall
Original Score Produced by Randy Newman and David Boucher
Score Orchestrations by Jonathan Sacks, J.A.C. Redford, Dan Higgins, Jeremy Lamb and Randy Newman
Music Editor: Bruno Coon
Score Recorded and Mixed by David Boucher
Music Production Director: Andrew Page
Music Business Affairs: Bernardo Silva
Musk Production Coordinator: Ashley Chafin
Executive Music Assistant: Jill Heffley
Music Production Assistant: Jimmy Tsai
Assistant Music Editor: Brenda Heins
Score Contracted by Sandy DeCrescent and Gina Zimmitti
Music Preparation by JoAnn Kane Music Service
Score Recorded at Sony Pictures Scoring Stage
Score Mixed at Warner Brothers Eastwood Scoring Stage
Mastered by Bob Ludwig at Gateway Mastering
Featuring Performances by The Blue Devils
Post Production Supervisor: Paul Cichocki
Art Direction and Design: Steve Gerdes

"Roar"

Written and Produced by Axwell & Sebastian Ingrosso
All Instrumentation/Programming/Percussion Performed by Axwell & Sebastian Ingrosso of Swedish House Mafia