![]() ![]() ![]() Rex) and Baby Driver (Simon & Garfunkel). I couldn’t help but crank up the Google Home to 70% when Wild punk rock tracks come on like Neat Neat Neat (The Damned) or when the incredible song Hocus Pocus (Focus) drops!īut you’re able to take a breath and wipe the sweat from your brow when Woodstock ‘with flowers in your hair’-like tracks play, like: Debora (T. Vandellas) and When Somethings Wrong with My Baby (Sam & Dave). the intro to Dr Dre’s Next Episode andĬlassics like B A B Y (Karla Thomas) Nowhere to Run (Martha and the La (Googie Rene) Kashmere (Kashmere Stage Band) Unsquare Dance (Dave Brubeck) Instrumental heavy tracks like Harlem Shuffle (Bob & Earl) Smokey Joe’s La Quite aptly captures the entire album, as this song alone was so eclectic! Warmed to have been: Bell Bottoms (John Spencer Blues Explosion) – This song alone And when the music is paired up with the on-screen cinematics – freakin’ brilliant! It wasn’t just a film, but it was art, a masterpiece!įor someone who was born after most of the songs original releases, it was amazing to be introduced to so many tracks which I’d never heard before! It introduced me to a whole new world of music, sending me down multi-lane freeways and virtual alleyways of Spotify recommendations, pursuing different artists and genres to widen my own appreciation of all the music on-the-run out there! But over the months it grew on me and it’s just such a great funky album to have on around the home. Perhaps at first listen, I was a little perplexed and it did take me several goes to actually listen to it cover-to-cover, as we all have short attention spans and it’s hard to devote more than 90 minutes to anything these days……. But I’d call it a well thought-out mish-mash, or a planned chaos. The first thing I’m thinking you’ll say, after listening to the album cover-to-cover (all 29 tracks- over 1 hour and 40 mins), is “Wow! That was an eclectic (perhaps random) collection of songs!”, as there isn’t one genre of music that is featured more heavily than others, but simply a mish-mash of songs that was fast then slow, up-tempo and then mellow, old and then new etc. Played a starring role in the film, I’m only going to review the album, but not In some cases, Wright had songs in mind for scenes 20 years before actually shooting the film! That’s madness! The sheer amount of time and thought which has been invested into this soundtrack is staggering, and that’s why it’s so good, baby! The uniqueness of Wright’s creation is largely due to the fact that the music drove the scenes of the film, rather than music chosen in post-production to fit a scene. Is this the grooviest and the most eclectic music album ever compiled for public consumption!? It’s like a teenager’s mix-tape from the 80s! By a show of hands, who has seen the 2017 film ‘Baby Driver’? Yeah, the title is deceiving – images of animated, over-sized, pink-skinned babies in diapers driving cars do come to mind – but the Edgar Wright film is one serious film!
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