Listen: James Gunn Reveals 'Awesome Mix Volume 0' From 'Guardians Of The Galaxy'

Awesome Mix Volume 1 did quite well for the Guardians of the Galaxy. Not only did it inspire the team on screen, it inspired tons of sales off screen, becoming the first soundtrack filled only with catalog songs to hit #1 on the Billboard charts. Volume 2 popped on quickly at the end of the film, too. But what is the Awesome Mix Volume 0? Director James Gunn revealed the playlist on his Facebook. It's an eclectic mix of high-energy songs that were used in the Boot of Jemiah bar scenes on Nowhere to keep the extras hyped up.

Below, listen to all the songs from the Guardians of the Galaxy Awesome Mix Volume 0.

The Awesome Mix Volume 0 playlist came from James Gunn's Facebook. Here is it.

1. Never Wanted to Dance – Mindless Self Indulgence

2. Party Hard – Andrew W.K.

3. The Way It Was – Aceyalone (feat Bionik)

4. I Like It, I Love It – Lyrics Born

5. Let's Dance to Joy Division – The Wombats

6. Start Wearing Purple – Gogol Bordello

7. Ben Vereen – Pigeon John

8. Teenagers – My Chemical Romance

9. Black Fist – Juskwam and Lyrikill

10. Timebomb – The Old 97's

And the explanation:

As many of you know, music is an extremely important part of Guardians of the Galaxy. I chose the songs on Awesome Mix ahead of time, and even included them in the script. Where possible, the songs were played live on set – when you see the gang walking down the hall to Cherry Bomb, they were actually walking down the hall to Cherry Bomb. Likewise, the score byTyler Bates was written largely before we started shooting, and we blared that sucker on set so the actors and cameras would all move in unison.

On lighter days, our master soundman Simon Hayes would also play music on set between takes to keep people's energy up. He did this while shooting the credit sequence in the Temple of Morag, and he also did it for the Boot of Jemiah, so we could keep the extras hyped and alive and feeling like they were in a bar atmosphere. Being that these were night shoots, it helped to keep people awake as well! Simon took requests for the credit scene, but for the Boot of Jemiah he asked me to put together an AWESOME playlist of high energy party tunes. So I did, featuring some of my favorite tunes. My assistant Simon Hatt (50% of British people are named Simon) just found this list and sent it to me. So I thought I'd share it with you in case you wanted to make your own BOOT OF JEMIAH PLAYLIST – or, as known from now on, Awesome Mix Volume Zero.

Head to the next page to listen to all the songs on the Awesome Mix Volume 0