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Pirates of Silicon Valley soundtrack

On 14 May 2005 with 21 comments

Last thursday, I watched Pirates of Silicon Valley, a quite interesting film about the beginning of the personal computer age, with the rise and fall of Apple and Microsoft. Of course, the film is situated in the seventies and eighties of the 20th century, so some cool music is featured on the soundtrack. Unfortunately, after an hour search on the internet, I couldn’t find any soundtrack listing of this film. So I decided to make one myself… With the help of the credits of the film and the iTunes Music Store I found all the featured songs of this film. I created my own, very special ‘Pirates of Silicon Valley’ playlist in iTunes, with the following contents:

  1. The Moody Blues - Question
  2. Creedence Clearwater Revival - I Put a Spell on You
  3. The Moody Blues - Isn’t Life Strange
  4. The Guess Who - No Time
  5. Iron Butterfly - In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida
  6. The Police - Synchronicity 1
  7. KC & The Sunshine Band - Get Down Tonight
  8. James Gang - Collage
  9. The Moody Blues - Gemini Dream
  10. Tears for Fears - Everybody Wants to Rule the World
  11. Talking Heads - Burning Down the House

I hope some people find any use of this soundtrack listing, because it is a quite cool collection of songs :)


21 Comments

I found this while googling overheard lyrics in order to match ‘No Time’ to Pirates of Silicon Valley and I think perhaps you should add the first movement of the Bach Double to your soundtrack - the violin concerto to which Jobs trips off his face on acid:) ‘Concerto for two violins in D Minor’, to be precise…

Thanks for compiling this anyway - I’d had trouble placing Synchronicity 1 until I found my answer on here!

Posted by Bren on 30 July 2005 @ 7am

Thanks for the listing! I was looking for this soundtrack anywhere but couldn’t find.

Posted by Maja on 30 December 2005 @ 4pm

That list is great. Many thanks for the violin concerto though Bren. I bought all the CD’s a while ago and made my own Soundtrack CD but moved house a number of times and its all gone. I will do the itunes thing tonight when I get home.

Posted by Mike on 8 February 2006 @ 6am

Which one is the piano bit when Jobs invites Gates to the office and accuses him of stealing the code?

Posted by Dylan on 1 March 2006 @ 9am

You forgot the song played as the Apple folk are entering the Xerox PARC to see their new GUI… and I have been searching like mad for this song.

Posted by Antonio on 12 March 2006 @ 2am

Yeah, I know not every single song of this film is featured in this list, but I did write down every song that was mentioned in the credits. So an official soundtrack album for this film (if it existed) would probably also only contain the aformentioned songs.

I’d like to search further for the remaining songs, but sadly I do not have this film anymore…

Posted by bas on 12 March 2006 @ 11am

Yeah, I’m surprised the song I mentioned wasn’t in the credits, considering how much of it they used. It had to be about 90 second or so.

Posted by Antonio on 14 March 2006 @ 3am

On second inquiry, it is on nthere!

It’s Gemini Dream. Go figure; it sounds completely different from anything else The Moody Blues have ever done :-P

Posted by Antonio on 14 March 2006 @ 6pm

Would you mind hosting the playlist on some website like http://www.storeandserve.com , I can’t seem to find these songs. Maybe I’m just not looking in the right places.

Posted by Derek on 5 September 2006 @ 4am

Hey, please let me know the name of the song that plays at the beginning of the movie and when Jobs tells Bill he is stealing.

Posted by Josh on 22 July 2008 @ 5am

Hey, please let me know the name of the song that Jobs tells Bill he is stealing.

Posted by Misael on 15 June 2009 @ 1am

Hey, Thanks for this playlist ! I didn’t hope to find it so easily ! Great songs anyway …

Posted by fleury on 19 June 2009 @ 10pm

thanku you r awesome

Posted by posv on 14 July 2009 @ 12am

I seem to remember an ELO song in there, too? I forget which one. Anyone remember the name of the song?

Posted by RUSirius on 1 August 2009 @ 7pm

I am also interested in the composer and name of the song used during the Steve Jobs yelling at Bill Gates scene, where he yells “your stealing from us” there is classical music playing in the background, I would like to get information on it but have been yet to find any as of yet.

Any ideas of the maker/name of that song in particular?

Posted by Cosmo on 5 September 2009 @ 7am

I’ve one question, maybe little too hard but I’m waiting for your guesses: when Steve is talking to Arlene in Oregons AllOne Commune and he came up with the name Lisa there is a song - do you have any idea who’s the author and title?

Posted by Edward on 13 December 2009 @ 8pm

i couldnt find “name of the song that plays at the beginning of the movie” too.

pff what is it ?

Posted by gio on 3 January 2010 @ 7pm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYn3lkwe49g

This one ? At the end, when Woz is in the scool, the same as when he is back by lisa… That one i don’t now but i love it ant hope someone find it !

Posted by le hollandais volant on 19 January 2010 @ 9pm

Please someone knows the song in the “bulldozer scene” with bill gates destroy Allen’s car? I can’t find it up for a month! thanks

Posted by chirart on 16 June 2010 @ 2am

please let me know the name of the song when Steve came to meet his daughter when she was sitting outside the house and playing something…….

Posted by Badar on 18 June 2010 @ 6pm

Thanks a lot to you Muziek !!!

Posted by Yan on 1 July 2010 @ 6am


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