Here's my Spider-Man 3 soundtrack review that'll show up in print May 10. Flaming Lips fans: Download “The Supreme Being Teaches Spider-Man How to Be in Love” ASAP (well, as soon as you read my glowing critique.)

Spider-Man 3

SOUNDTRACK

Warner Brothers/Record Collection

The new Spidey soundtrack is an alt-rock extravaganza featuring new, download-worthy recordings by the Yeah, Yeah, Yeahs (“Sealings”) Wolfmother (“Pleased to Meet You”) and The Walkmen (“Red River”) but it’s the Flaming Lips that steal the show. Their contribution is a gorgeous, tricked-out piano ballad called “The Supreme Being Teaches Spider-Man How to Be in Love.” Originally titled “Spider Man vs. Muhammad Ali,” the caringly crooned lyric finds Spidey in the ring with The Greatest of All Time, but the superhero’s real battle is with his desire to tell the world that he adores Mary Jane Watson. “I’m in love with you but I fight the urge,” sings the

Lips’ Wayne Coyne. “Muhammad Ali makes a third round surge.” Brilliant.

Track Listing

1. Signal Fire – Snow Patrol

2. Move Away – The Killers

3. Sealings – Yeah Yeah Yeahs

4. Pleased to Meet You – Wolfmother

5. Red River – The Walkmen

6. Stay Free – Black Mountain

7. Supreme Being Teaches Spider-Man How to Be in Love – The Flaming Lips

8. Scared of Myself – Simon Dawes

9. Twist – Chubby Checker

10. Sightlines – Rogue Wave

11. Summer Day

12. Falling Star – Jet

13. Portrait of a Summer Thief

14. Letter from St. Jude

15. Small Parts – The Oohlas

This article appears in Apr 25 – May 1, 2007.