Various - Forrest GumpThe soundtrack to Academy Award and Golden Globe winning film Forrest Gump contains music from many well known artists. The soundtrack peaked at #2 on the Billboard 200 albums chart in 1994, and stayed there for seven weeks. The surprise hit of the 1994 summer movie season traces the life of a half wit through the major historical events of the 1950s, '60s, and '70s. The soundtrack is a travelogue of the same period, from Elvis Presley's 1956 hit

" Technically adept and compositionally imaginative

who produced and oversaw the original mastering of the record in 1972

After the death of founding guitarist Hillel Slovak and subsequent departure of drummer Jack Irons

Though these ideas may reflect the band’s noted “stream of consciousness creativity”

With an uncompromising post punk attitude

recorded 1984-2009

It is a perfect closer and

It was one of the first tracks we wrote when we started making Happy In The Hollow

characterised by a rediscovery of shared purpose in doing the thing that has always brought them together

Scott Spillane (of the Gerbils) and Jeremy Barnes (of Beirut

sing until you fall asleep and share the same dream

Throwing Muses released their long awaited Purgatory/Paradise in 2013