Music / Mark Mothersbaugh

Mark Allen Mothersbaugh (born May 18, 1950) is an American musician, best known for being one of the co-founders of Devo. Besides that, he has a very prolific run as a composer, writing the scores for various television shows (Rugrats, Beakman's World, Sliders), films (Happy Gilmore, Rushmore, The LEGO Movie), video games (The Sims 2, also known for producing the soundtrack to the Crash Bandicoot and Jak and Daxter series), and even commercials (the jingle in the "Get a Mac"/"I'm a Mac and I'm a PC" ads). He's effectively part of Wes Anderson's Production Posse, scoring his first four movies, and is also Phil Lord & Chris Miller's go-to composer.

He also has a great interest in drawing and painting, with him ending up hosting the drawing segment "Mark's Magic Pictures", on Yo Gabba Gabba!. He art tours regularly, including a show of the hand-painted postcards he sent to friends and family during his years on tour, a series of antique photos mirror-imaged to create the titular "beautiful mutants", and a series of paintings turned into rugs.

Mothersbaugh earned an Academy Award nomination for The LEGO Movie for Best Song ("Everything Is Awesome").

Body of work as composer:

Film:

• Revenge of the Nerds II: Nerds in Paradise (1987)
• It's Pat! (1994)
• Happy Gilmore (1996)
• Bottle Rocket (1996)
• The Last Supper (1996)
• Dead Man on Campus (1998)
• Rushmore (1998)
• Halloweentown (1998)
• Can of Worms (1999)
• Drop Dead Gorgeous (1999)
• The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle (2000)
• Rugrats in Paris (2000)
• Sugar & Spice (2001)
• Halloweentown II: Kalabar's Revenge (2001)
• The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)
• Sorority Boys (2002)
• Rugrats Go Wild! (2003)
• Good Boy! (2003)
• Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen (2004)
• Envy (2004)
• The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004)
• Lords of Dogtown (2005)
• The Ringer (2005)
• Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist (2008)
• Fanboys (2009)
• Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (2009)
• Ramona and Beezus (2010)
• Happiness Is a Warm Blanket, Charlie Brown (2011)
• Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked (2011)
• 21 Jump Street (2012)
• Safe (2012)
• What to Expect When You're Expecting (2012)
• Hotel Transylvania (2012)
• Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 (2013)
• Last Vegas (2013)
• The LEGO Movie (2014)
• 22 Jump Street (2014)
• Pitch Perfect 2 (2015)
• Vacation (2015)
• Regular Show: The Movie (2015)
• Hotel Transylvania 2 (2015)
• Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip (2015)
• Pee-wee's Big Holiday (2016)
• The LEGO Ninjago Movie (2017)
• Thor: Ragnarok (2017)
• Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation (2018)
• Holmes & Watson (2018)
• The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part (2019)
• The Willoughbys (2020)
• The Mitchells vs. the Machines (2021)
• Hotel Transylvania: Transformania (2022)
• Cocaine Bear (2023)
• The Magician’s Elephant (2023)

TV Series:

• Adventures in Wonderland
• All Grown Up!
• Blue Mountain State
• Bordertown
• The Carrie Diaries
• Clifford the Big Red Dog
• Close Enough (alongside John Enroth and Albert Fox)
• Disenchantment
• Enlightened
• Grosse Pointe
• Hou$e of Lie$
• The Last Man on Earth
• Liquid Television (theme song, plus the "Bobby and Billy" segments)
• Pee-wee's Playhouse
• People of Earth
• Our Flag Means Death
• Regular Show (alongside John Enroth and Albert Fox)
• Rugrats
• Shaggy & Scooby-Doo Get A Clue!
• Summer Camp Island (alongside John Enroth, Albert Fox, and Seo Kim)
• Super Mario World
• Tiger King (alongside John Enroth, Albert Fox, and Robert Mothersbaugh)
• What We Do in the Shadows (2019)

Video Games:

• Crash Bandicoot (1996)
• Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back (1997)
• Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped (1998)
• Crash Team Racing (1999)
• Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy (2001)
• Jak II: Renegade (2003)
• Jak 3 (2004)
• The Sims 2 (2004)
• MySims (2007)
• The Simpsons Game (2007)
• Boom Blox (2008)
• MySims Kingdom (2008)
• Skate 3 (2010)
• Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart (2021)

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