![]() ![]() 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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