Baby Driver -the soundtrack & Hocus Pocus

Step aside Quentin ! beware Guardians of the Galax-yyy ! Here comes BABY DRIVER, the mother-F of all soundtracks, 71 songs no less ! and th gretest excuse to play all of them in the film, as the biggest plotpoint ! Baby Driver it's actually an action musical, with incidental music instead of  moviescoring from the outside (though the film has his own composer, Steven Price)

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The list of the released soundtrack as follows:

Jon Spencer Blues Explosion – ‘Bellbottoms’

Bob & Earl – ‘Harlem Shuffle’

Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers – ‘Egyptian Reggae’

Googie Rene – ‘Smokey Joe’s La La’

The Beach Boys – ‘Let’s Go Away For Awhile’

Carla Thomas – ‘B-A-B-Y’

Kashmere Stage Band – ‘Kashmere’

Dave Brubeck – ‘Unsquare Dance’

The Damned – ‘Neat Neat Neat’

The Commodores – ‘Easy (Single Version)’

T. Rex – ‘Debora’

Beck – ‘Debra’

Incredible Bongo Band – ‘Bongolia’

The Detroit Emeralds – ‘Baby Let Me Take You (in My Arms)’

Alexis Korner – ‘Early In The Morning’

David McCallum – ‘The Edge’

Martha and the Vandellas – ‘Nowhere To Run’

The Button Down Brass – ‘Tequila’

Sam & Dave – ‘When Something Is Wrong With My Baby’

Brenda Holloway – ‘Every Little Bit Hurts’

Blur – ‘Intermission’

Focus – ‘Hocus Pocus (Original Single Version)’

Golden Earring – ‘Radar Love (1973 Single Edit)’

Barry White – ‘Never, Never Gone Give Ya Up’

Young MC – ‘Know How’

Queen – ‘Brighton Rock’

Sky Ferreira – ‘Easy’

Simon & Garfunkel – ‘Baby Driver’

Kid Koala – ‘Was He Slow (Credit Roll Version)’

Danger Mouse (featuring Run The Jewels and Big Boi) – ‘Chase Me'   

                                                 

My biggest surprise and fun was to knock myself off with Hocus Pocus by Dutch band Focus (from 1971's Moving Waves aka Focus II), one of my favourite songs (and one of the best of alltime) since back in 1982/3 when i heard it for the 1st time (also one of the Free Europe Metronom show anthem)-so a song that purely expresses Freedom for me, now for the second time in a film, after the Robocop remake in 2014.
-The story of the song is told here by Focus' Tjih Van Leer on the verge of the Nike World Cup commercial which put the song on a new map in 2010. And you can see the band in its greatness. Saw it live with Jan Akkerman four times, eversince back in 1995. Yep. When i got to interview him in Brasov in 2013, I told him that I always thought this song will make a great film sequence, and yes, I saw it now. A shoot-out Heat (M.Mann) style, edited on the music and a bullet ballet, emphatic and overdramatic. Kudos, Edgar Wright !

 *I still have my own shot with Iron Maiden's cover of the song :)

Here a mega-interview with Edgar Wright about his  influences & the songs in the film !!!
and here some more and specifically he talks about this one:

"I found out about Focus from this music show that ran in England for ages called The Old Grey Whistle Test – they did a performance of that song on there that blew my mind. I'm not a big prog rock fan, but I do love fast prog – the sheer musicianship you need to play that kind of stuff that fast is impressive. I think this was a Top 10 hit in the U.S. … which is pretty unusual for an instrumental track that features yodeling. The studio wanted to cut it. I had to use my own money to pay for two extra days of shooting so we could get it – and it's my favorite bit in the film. I always thought it'd be great if you made a car chase movie, and then have one of the most explosive scenes in the movie be a foot chase. People have asked how I picked the tracks for Baby Driver, and this is a good example. If you had a dance track or a rock track that had a similar tempo all the way through, it's actually not that helpful. Whereas the reason that something like "Hocus Pocus" ends up becoming a key track in the film is because you can hear that, Ok, this is part of a running scene – it's like your best cardio track ever. But it also has these stop-start intervals in it, so you can let a scene dictate itself according to the track: Ok, here are the fast guitars, he's running. Wait, there's yodeling breakdown here, so this is where he's hiding behind a tree, catching his breath. Wait a second, we're gearing up for another guitar part – so here's where he starts running again, and in the next breakdown, he's hiding in a mall. Hold on, there's an accordion breakdown – so now he's breaking into a car. You're able to take a 1970 song like that and write a complete action sequence in 2017." (Edgar Wright)

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Go see Baby Driver on the big screen with the sound cranked at max !  It's a clasic !!!