![]() ![]() This means Peter Quill’s mixtape swerves into multiple timelines, far beyond the sexy Seventies. Gunn chose the Microsoft Zune to replace Peter Quill’s precious Sony Walkman in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3, partly because he thought it was “funny”, but mostly because the whole story had to shift to years after the events of Avengers: Endgame, when half the universe is obliterated with the snap of a finger. As with any MP3 player of its time, it could hold whole giga-bytes-meaning entire eras and whole worlds-of music. Microsoft Zune was a little-known and ill-fated digital music player launched in 2006–five years after the iPod and one year before the iPhone, which in turn would swallow the iPod in a decade’s time. Quill (or Star-Lord)’s mixtape in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3 is discovered from a Microsoft Zune that he finds at the end of GotG 2. Narratively speaking, as the only remains of lead character Peter Quill’s long-gone Earth mother, it made sense these cassette tapes were songs of the time she’d have been alive in. Worlds away from the sunny synth-laden, disco-friendly bops that populated lead character Peter Quill’s (Chris Pratt) days, became a key feature of the series, and propelled the first two Guardians of the Galaxy (GotG) mixtapes into chart-topping territory of their own.Įven more interesting: “Creep” was an anthem of the 1990s, a definite era departure from the 1970s, which the earlier GotG mixtapes focused on. Oxford alt-rock band Radiohead’s “Creep” was a strange song about, well, a stalker-type character that develops an unhealthy obsession with a member of the opposite sex, and channelled Thom Yorke’s feelings of unworthiness and self-loathing. ![]() It starts with Radiohead’s acoustic version of ‘Creep.’ And that’s just a much different tone from the beginning than the other two films.” “It doesn’t start with (Redbone’s 1974 track which also headlined the first GotG mixtape) ‘Come and Get Your Love’. Blue Sky’”, referring to the 1977 classic by Electric Light Orchestra. Quite literally, as we find, from the accompanying mixtape, released a month ago almost as a ritual, on streaming platforms.Īnnouncing its arrival, director James Gunn said in an interview: “It doesn’t start with ‘Mr. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3 opens on a note significantly darker than the previous two films in the blockbuster Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) series. ![]()
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