Here’s every song featured on the WALL-E soundtrack. Pixar’s ninth feature film WALL-E came out in 2008 with Finding Nemo director Andrew Stanton at the helm. The 29th century-set animation tells the tale of its titular character, the last operational trash compactor robot left on Earth following the mass evacuation of humankind to several giant starships centuries earlier, after excessive consumerism and environmental ruin left the planet a wasteland. When fellow robot EVE arrives to assess the planet for habitability, WALL-E embarks on a journey to prove Earth’s viability and falls in love with EVA along the way.
WALL-E was a big hit with critics who praised the movie for its environmentally conscious and anti-consumerist message. It also scooped Best Animated Feature at the Oscars, Golden Globe Awards and the BAFTAs and grossed over half a billion dollars worldwide. Today – thirteen Pixar movies later – WALL-E is still hailed as one of the animation studio’s best films.
Part of what makes WALL-E such a magical movie is how it manages to convey so much emotion from its robot protagonist despite his minimal dialogue. That’s helped along by a brilliant soundtrack featuring pre-existing songs, a track penned specifically for the movie by Peter Gabriel and an original score composed by Thomas Newman – who previously worked with Andrew Stanton on Finding Nemo and is Pixar favorite Randy Newman’s cousin – that combines orchestral and electronic elements to set the tone. Read on for a complete list of every song on WALL-E’s soundtrack.
- Put On Your Sunday Clothes – Michael Crawford
- 2815 A.D.
- WALL-E
- The Spaceship
- EVE
- Thrust
- Bubble Wrap
- La Vie En Rose – Louis Armstrong
- Eye Surgery
- Worry Wait
- First Date
- EVE Retrieve
- The Axiom
- BNL
- Foreign Contaminant
- Repair Ward
- 72 Degrees and Sunny
- Typing Bot
- Septuacentennial
- Gopher
- WALL-E’s Pod Adventure
- Define Dancing
- No Splashing No Diving
- All That Love’s About
- M-O
- Directive A-113
- Mutiny!
- Fixing WALL-E
- Rogue Robots
- March of the Gels
- Tilt
- The Holo-Detector
- Hyperjump
- Desperate EVE
- Static
- It Only Takes a Moment – Michael Crawford
- Down to Earth (feat. The Soweto Gospel Choir) – Peter Gabriel
- Horizon 12.2
The songs “Put On Your Sunday Clothes” and “It Only Takes A Moment” performed by Michael Crawford are from the 1969 movie adaptation of musical Hello, Dolly! – a videotape of which WALL-E watches in the film. A couple of classical pieces – Johann Strauss II’s “The Blue Danube” and Richard Strauss’ “Also Sprach Zarathustra” – can be heard but unfortunately aren’t included on the WALL-E soundtrack. Those pieces are a nod to Stanley Kubrick’s sci-fi epic 2001: A Space Odyssey which was a major influence on the animation.
Prog rock legend Peter Gabriel’s song “Down To Earth” was co-written with Thomas Newman and played over the end credits of WALL-E. A melody from “Down To Earth” features in the composition “Define Dancing”, which went on to win Best Instrumental Arrangement at the 2009 Grammy Awards. Gabriel and Newman also took home the Grammy for Best Song Written for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media for “Down To Earth.” The WALL-E soundtrack was nominated for Best Original Score at the Academy Awards but lost out to Slumdog Millionaire.
