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James Montgomery of MTV.com reports that, Warner Brothers is planning to release two soundtracks for Superman Returns, prior to the film's June 30th premiere.

As expected, there will be both a "song" album, and a "score" album tie in.

Montgomery tells us what we can look forward to as far as the song album is concerned:

...Sound of Superman [is], an album featuring contributions from a host of Warped Tour faves. Jack's Mannequin, The Academy Is... and the The Receiving End Of Sirens are among the artists contributing songs to the album, which, in keeping with the spirit of most "inspired by" soundtracks, features a mix of new tunes and covers. Jack's Mannequin donate a new song, the piano-driven "Meet Me at My Window"; while TAI and the Receiving End went the covers route (both do versions of songs called "Superman," by '60s garage rockers The Clique and Stereophonics, respectively).

Click here to read more about the song album...

UPDATE 3-30-06: Here is the initial track list for "Sound of Superman" from Billboard.com

"Wish I Could Fly Like Superman" (the Kinks), the Sun
"Save Me," Maxeen CM8ShowAd ("Middle");
"Superman" (the Clique), the Academy Is...
"Meet Me at My Window,"Jack's Mannequin
"Sunshine Superman" (Donovan), the Films
"The Rescue," American Hi-Fi
"Waitin' For a Superman" (Flaming Lips), Nightmare Of You
"It's So Easy," Plain White T's
"My Hero" (Foo Fighters), Paramore
"Superman" (Stereophonics), The Receiving End Of Sirens

End Update

When I jumped over to composer John Ottman's official website for news on the score--this is what I found out:

March 26th, 2006 - Rhino Records will be releasing John's score to Superman Returns on June 27, 2006. Mark your calendars! John starts recording the score in two weeks...

The song album, also from Rhino Records, will hit stores on May 23rd 2006.

When I think of Superman...punk rock doesn't instantly spring to mind as a musical statement for the character. But hey, music for movies has changed quite a bit, since John Williams composed the score for the first film, in the 70's hasn't it? As for the score itself-- Ottman will be using elements of Williams' original themes for the new film.

I look forward to hearing how both albums turn out...