This guide currently identifies 11 songs heard in Breakdown: 1975 (2025), with scene details and placement information where available.
Breakdown: 1975 soundtrack songs
- Love To Love You BabyDonna SummerScene / details
Plays during the opening sequence and a montage of New Year's 1975 celebrations.
- Bird SongThe Holy Modal RoundersScene / details
Plays during a segment discussing "New Hollywood" and the success of counter-culture films like Easy Rider.
- Psycho KillerTalking HeadsScene / details
Plays during a discussion about social isolation in America and the character Travis Bickle in Taxi Driver.
- Theme From ShaftIsaac HayesScene / details
Plays during a section focused on the success of Blaxploitation films and their impact on the film industry.
- I'm Feeling Good About America (Gerald Ford)Oscar BrandScene / details
A campaign-style song playing during a segment about President Gerald Ford and public efforts to restore trust in the presidency.
- BreakdownTom Petty and the HeartbreakersScene / details
Plays during a montage examining the "American nightmare" and the disillusionment of the era.
- Jocko HomoDEVOScene / details
Performed by the band Devo; plays during a segment about the rise of computers and technology as a source of both progress and oppression.
- Love Will Keep Us TogetherCaptain & TennilleScene / details
Plays during a discussion about the shift from political television like All in the Family to nostalgia-driven shows like Happy Days.
- You're The Top - (From "Anything Goes")Cole PorterScene / details
A Cole Porter musical number starring Burt Reynolds, used to illustrate the era's focus on lighter, nostalgic entertainment.
- Why Can't We Be Friends?WarScene / details
End credits.
- Assault on Precinct 13John CarpenterScene / details
Rising street crime drove audiences toward self-defense and vigilante "revenge-amatics". Films like Death Wish turned Charles Bronson into an aspirational hero for an angry, paranoid public.