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2. 'Young Adult'

Jason Reitman and Diablo Cody's look at a middle-aged train wreck trying to date her now-married high school sweetheart featured the best soundtrack of alt-rock covers … well, ever. In addition to songs from Teenage Fanclub ('The Concept' factors heavily in 'Young Adult'), The Replacements, Lemonheads, Veruca Salt (remember them?) and 4 Non Blondes, composer Mateo Messinar recorded several loungey instrumental takes on classic '90s tracks such as Pearl Jam's 'Evenflow,' Beck's 'Where It's At' and Soundgarden's 'Black Hole Sun.'

Track Listing
1. When We Grow Up (Diana Ross)
2. What’s Up (4 Non Blondes)
3. Achin’ To Be (The Replacements)
4. It’s A Shame About Ray (Lemonheads)
5. Seether (Veruca Salt)
6. The Concept (Teenage Fanclub)
7. Pledge Your Allegiance (Suicidal Tendencies)
8. Feel The Pain (Dinosaur Jr.)
9. Low (Cracker)
10. Why Buddy? (Rolfe Kent)
11. Epic (Mateo Messina)
12. Even Flow (Mateo Messina)
13. Where It’s At (Mateo Messina)
14. Big Me (Mateo Messina)
15. Black Hole Sun (Mateo Messina)