The Bill & Ted Face The Music soundtrack is most excellent and sonically righteous. The featured songs drive the main storyline, as Bill and Ted meet their future selves in search of clarity about their musical careers. Bill & Ted Face The Music's soundtrack was supervised by Jonathan Leahy, who previously won a Primetime Emmy Award for his work on the Girls season 6 episode "Goodbye Tour."
Written by Chris Matheson and Ed Solomon, Bill & Ted Face The Music opens with the protagonists rocking out at their former step-mother's wedding reception. Now married, Bill Preston (Alex Winter) and Ted Logan (Keanu Reeves) have daughters who appreciate their fathers' musical tastes, as both Thea Preston (Samara Weaving) and Billie Logan (Brigette Lundy-Paine) wear headphones around their necks, and ultimately end up traveling through time just like their dads. Together, the Prestons and Logans collaborate for an epic song that could change the world, and they're joined by some musically-inclined famous friends from the past.
Bill & Ted Face The Music moves along swiftly with its 92-minute runtime but doesn't include a variety of mainstream anthems. Still, the film's musical premise and quirky comedic tone make everything feel like one big party. Here's every featured song in Bill & Ted Face The Music.
"Lost in Time" - Big Black Delta
"That Which Binds Us Through Time - The Chemical, Physical and Biological Nature of Love and the Exploration of Meaning Pt 1" - Kubilay Uner and Wyld Stallyns
"Big Red Balloon" - Alec Wigdahl
"Leave Me Alone" - Culture Wars
"Amazing Grace" - Ray Sten & Chris Hartz
"Circuits of Time" - Big Black Delta
"Those Who Rock" - Wyld Stallyns
"The Seventh Seal" - Melvin & The Mongols
"When the Saints Go Marching In" - Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah & The Preservation Hall Jazz Band
"Breaker" - Fidlar
"Darkest Night" - Poorstacy
"The Best of All Possible Worlds" - Joan of Arc and The Bonney Boys
"The Death of Us" - Cory Churko & Joshua Ray Gooch
"Rufus Lives" - Mastodon
"Strange Things Afoot" - Cold War Kids
"Story of Our Lives" - Cold War Kids
"Face the Music (The Song That Unites the Universe)" - Heavy Duty feat. Joshua Ray Gooch, Cory Churko, Wyld Stallyns, Yung Stallyns, and The World.
"Right Where You Belong" - Blame My Youth
"Beginning of the End" (Wyld Stallyns Radio Edit) - Weezer
"One Last Shred" - Leroy Miller
Bill & Ted Face The Music opens with "That Which Binds Us Through Time - The Chemical, Physical and Biological Nature of Love and the Exploration of Meaning Pt 1" - a song with a pretentious title that matches the pretentious nature of the leads' wedding reception performance. When Bill and Ted arrive in the future, they see themselves playing "Those Who Rock" on open mic night, suggesting that they haven't quite changed the world.
"When the Saints Go Marching In" plays when Thea and Billie arrive in New Orleans to recruit Louis Armstrong for their band. In the final act, "Face the Music (The Song That Unites the Universe)" scores one of the movie's biggest moments. "Story of Our Lives" kicks in during a fan-themed post-movie sequence and Bill & Ted Face The Music's credits are complemented by "Right Where You Belong."
The Bill & Ted Face The Music score was composed by Mark Isham.