There have been a handful of hummable sci-fi tunes over the decades-think “Daisy” from 2001: A Space Odyssey, or Close Encounters of the Third Kind’s five-note interplanetary ditty-but none have endured quite like this scuz-swing dive-bar bop, a cacophony of doop-daats and wank-wahs that sounds like an outer-space traffic jam. The Cantina Band, "Cantina Band" ( A New Hope, 1977) Alas, not every Jedi knight got to hear the Ewoks celebrate as originally intended: In later versions of the film, "Yub Nub" was replaced by a smooth-soul snoozer that’ll make you wonder if someone on Endor had suddenly started bumping Lionel Richie’s "All Night Long" in the background.ġ. Ron Hubbard’s yearbook quote), "Yub Nub" is as goofily carefree as the Ewoks themselves, and the woodwind melody made it one of the easiest-to-remember elementary-school playground hits of the mid-’80s. But while the translated-from-Ewokese lyrics are pure new-age nonsense (“The power showed us the light/and now we all live free” could have been L. Harrison Ford once derided Jedi’s Ewok-engorged finale as a "teddy bear picnic," possibly due to this stomping, woodsy, overly upbeat anthem, which sounds a bit like Up for People attempting to cover Led Zeppelin III. The Ewoks, "Yub Nub" ( Return of the Jedi, 1983) Sy Snootles and the Max Rebo Band, "Lapti Nek" ( Return of the Jedi, 1983)īefore becoming the Rancor's snack, one of Jabba’s palace-entertainers strutted around to this legit funky synth-rock scorcher, which is one of the few times the Star Wars universe threatens to get naughty, with a frozen-in-carbonite groove that would make even Dirty Mind-era Prince sweat a little bit (we’re still awaiting his response track, "U Make Me Sy").Ģ. We're still a little disappointed they didn't have that giant dude with the tusks bogling in the background.ģ. By the time the group is seated with Maz at a table and she's giving Finn the super-spectacle lie-detector once-over, the music has switched to "Dobra Doompa," a more modern-feeling number with a dancehall drum pattern and a bouncing bass line. "Jabba Flow," which is playing as the Han/Chewie/Rey/Finn/BB-8 fearsome fivesome enter the bar, is a loping ska number with some indistinct chanting. Abrams and Lin-Manuel, and performed by the two as "Shag Kava"-that are essentially a crash course in reggae history. Maz Kanata's cantina features two tunes-both co-written by J.J. Shag Kava, "Jabba Flow"/"Dobra Doompa" ( Star Wars: The Force Awakens, 2015) Though the song’s official title is up for debate, what’s undeniable about this funky instrumental-heard as Jabba’s gang cruises out to the Pit of Carkoon, eager to execute our Rebel pals-is its chug-a-long, happily Sarlaccadaisical vibe.Ĥ. The Max Rebo Band, "Galactic Dance Blast,"
Sy Snootles and the Max Rebo Band, "Jedi Rocks" ( Return of the Jedi: Special Edition, 1997)ĥ.
#Star wars the force awakens song update
It's a list that includes everything from Ewok chants to Gungan dins, so we took the release of Force as an opportunity to update our ranking of the saga's best space jams.ĩ. The Force tunes-courtesy of Hamilton creator-composer Lin-Manuel Miranda-are the latest entry in the franchise's ever-expanding canon ofdiegetic music (i.e., music the characters themselves can hear). But when the franchise’s characters do get a break, they kick back by listening to some of the galaxy's best music-from musicians who are usually, much like their Earthbound equivalents, a bunch of tight-pantsed, bar-dwelling alien weirdos: Think the Cantina Band, Sy Snootles and the Max Rebo Band, or those scallywags who rock out in Maz Kanata’s castle in the newly released The Force Awakens. After all, there are Vaders to vanquish, Death Stars to dispose of, and large swaths of dense, dippy dialogue to unspool with a straight face. There’s not much chill-time in the Star Wars universe.
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