Get out your cassette players because the original score for Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 Coming soon on cassette and vinyl, according to ComicBook. Music has been an integral part of the franchise’s success and popularity from the very beginning - who can forget Peter Quill’s opening dance scene on Redbone”Come and Get Your Love” in Volume. 1 or the way he ends the trilogy beautifully in Volume. 3?

James Gunn, who wrote and directed the franchise, beautifully wove musical moments into the script, highlighting key moments for the Guardians on their journeys. He then takes a step forward playing the numbers during filming so the actors can enter the Guardians’ world and their free space. Talking about the music used inVolume 3 Gunn said in a press release, “I was never really sure until I did the first screenings and people responded so well to it.” It further reveals, “I kept changing the music that was supposed to be in the script. I knew we had a Zune so I knew it wasn’t going to happen.” While previous films had 70s hits, for the latest installment, Gunn decided to include a few more decades, saying:

“I could listen to all the music from the 70s, like in the first two films. I could move on and just do the 80s or I could just do the 90s because there’s a lot of good space British pop in the 90s. In the end, I decided that I would mix different genres of music and hope they wouldn’t conflict with each other.”

Sean Gunn, Pom Klementieff, Chris Pratt, Dave Bautista and Karen Gillan as Kraglin, Mantis, Star-Lord, Drax and Nebula along with Cosmo and Groot in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3

Guardians’ music defines Peter’s emotional arc

Along with the emotional thread of the characters, the music in guardians films always come from a diegetic source, i.e. the source is set in the world of storytelling, for the first feature it was Peter’s Walkman. Chris Pratt explains: “The first Awesome Mix was what Peter Quill’s mother gave him and he took it into space. It was the music that defined who he was.” In the second film, he says that it was “a film she left for him, which he never opened, fearing that it would be the last thing he would ever see of her. But finally he opens it up and that gives us the soundtrack for the second movie.” For the new feature, the actor says all of the music comes from the “Zune” that Yondu gave Peter Quill. This music goes from the 70s to bands like Beastie Boys And radiohead And I don’t believe anymore”.

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 Original score now out on vinyl and out on cassette on July 7th.