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The Music of Donnie Darko There are many movies that represent the very distinct style of the 80’s. Few do it in such an artistic and realistic way as Donnie Darko. The movie’s intricate and thought provoking plot contains an array of songs that directly connect the audience back to the 80’s. As a movie just released in 2001, the movie looks back to a disillusioned and disappointing year of 1986. Songs such as “The Killing Moon”,” Head Over Heels”, and “Notorious” may be quite obscure to the average member of generation X, but the music is critical in creating the eerie atmosphere of the story and is a catalyst for the sardonic views the of the 80’s. Bands as obscure as Echo and the Bunnymen, Tears for Fears, and Duran Duran, lost in the perpetual machine that is the American Music Industry, are recruited here to evoke the spirit of the decade as well as impose a bitterly sarcastic view of this pre-generation X era. For a movie about imaginary monsters, worm-holes, and time travel, one would expect to hear throughout the film tripped out sonic manipulations of some current Pop techno artist or an involving instrumental of a famous composer. Despite the bizarre description, the movie becomes an increasingly