Artist	Song
Grant Lee Buffalo	The Shallow End
from Jubilee (2008)
Rickie Lee Jones	Wild Girl
from Balm In Gilead (2009)
Marianne Faithfull	City of Quartz
from Before the Poison (2008)
Aimee Mann	One
from For the Love of Harry: Everybody Sings Nilsson (2008)
Sean Lennon	Parachute
from Friendly Fire (2006)
The Crystal Method	Sine Language (feat. LMFAO)
from Divided By Night (2009)
Badly Drawn Boy	River, Sea, Ocean
from About a Boy (Music from the Motion Picture Soundtrack) (2002)
Dog's Eye View	Umbrella
from Daisy (1997)
Brad Mehldau	Dropjes
from Largo (2005)
Fiona Apple, The Punch Brothers & Jon Brion	So Sleepy
from Chickens In Love (2010)
Rhett Miller	Caroline (Jon Brion Guitar Freakout) [Bonus Track]
from Rhett Miller (Deluxe Version) (2009)
Macy Gray	Caligula
from On How Life Is (1999)
Jon Brion	Overture
from Punch-Drunk Love (2007)
Wild Colonials	This Misery
from This Can't Be Life (2004)
The Nels Cline Singers & Nels Cline	Watch Over Us
from The Giant Pin (2004)
Tom Brosseau	St. Joe St.
from What I Mean to Say Is Goodbye (2005)
Marjorie Fair	Empty Room
from Self Help Serenade (2005)
Taxiride	Get Set
from Imaginate (1999)
Love Jones	Li'l Black Book
from Here's to the Losers (2008)
Matt Chamberlain	Give Me Some Water
from Matt Chamberlain (2005)
Brian Stevens	Fall Together
from Prettier Than You (2004)
Tom Freund	Cry Baby Cry
from North American Long Weekend (2002)
Sean Watkins	I'm Sorry
from Blinders On (2006)
Glen Phillips	Duck and Cover
from Winter Pays for Summer (2005)
Murray Attaway	Allegory
from DGC Rarities, Vol. 1 (2011)

Comment:

Adam Sandler's script-flipping role in Punch-Drunk Love wasn't the only reason critics fell for Paul Thomas Anderson's first film since Magnolia. The director's longtime collaborator, Jon Brion, fleshed out every frame with his sepia-toned songs — music that's as melancholic as the movie itself. And that's the thing with Brion's career: every track he touches tells a story, whether it's through creeping keys and malaise-struck melodies (Aimee Mann's "One"), speaker-caving beats and slick organ rolls (Macy Gray's "Caligula"), or mind-bending stabs at jazz (Brad Mehldau's "Dropjes") and simple but satisfying singer-songwriter fare (spellbound sessions with Sean Lennon, Rickie Lee Jones, and many, many more).

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