Hot Fuzz (soundtrack)
Hot Fuzz: Music from the Motion Picture is the soundtrack album to the 2007 British crime-comedy film, Hot Fuzz. The album was released on 19 February 2007 in the United Kingdom, and on 17 April 2007 in the United States and Canada. The UK release contains 22 tracks, and the US/Canada release has 14. In 2023 La La Land Records release a 2 disc expanded edition of the complete film score.
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| Soundtrack album by Various Artists | ||||
| Released |  22 February 2007 17 April 2007 | |||
| Genre | Rock, psychedelic rock, pop, alternative rock, hard rock, Britpop, new wave, indie rock, glam rock | |||
| Length | 76:13 | |||
| Label | Island | |||
| Producer | Osymyso | |||
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [1] |
| Empire | [2] |
Composition
The film's score is by British film composer David Arnold, who has scored the James Bond film series since 1997. Among Arnold's works featured on the soundtrack album is the "Hot Fuzz Suite", which is a compilation of excerpts from the score.[3]
Other music from the film is a mix of 1960s and 1970s British rock (The Kinks, T.Rex, The Move, Sweet, The Troggs, Arthur Brown, Cozy Powell), new wave (Adam Ant, XTC) and indie UK and American rock (The Fratellis, Eels, Jon Spencer).[3][4]
Dialogue by Simon Pegg, Nick Frost and various other cast members is interwoven into the music itself, rather than being on separate tracks.[5]
Themes
The song selection also includes some police-themed titles, including Supergrass' "Caught by the Fuzz" as well as "Here Come the Fuzz", which was specially composed for the film by The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion.[3][6] The film score also references and parodies the scores from action films, with the song "Lethal Fuzz", containing samples of the music used in promotional trailers from the first four films of the Lethal Weapon series.[5]
Credits
American film director Robert Rodriguez contributed to the film's score, and is acknowledged in the UK album's liner notes. The liner notes also credit music supervisor Nick Angel (the person who Simon Pegg's character is named after) and film director Edgar Wright as executive producers, while British mashup and breakbeat DJ Osymyso (Mark Nicholson) is credited as producer. Kathy Nelson is listed as Executive producer in charge of music at Universal Pictures:[7] Osymyso had previously worked with Pegg and Wright on their previous film, Shaun of the Dead.
Track listings
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Artist | Length |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Theme from Hot Fuzz" | David Arnold | David Arnold | 2:11 |
| 2. | "Goody Two Shoes" | Marco Pirroni and Adam Ant | Adam Ant | 3:34 |
| 3. | "Sgt. Rock (Is Going to Help Me)" | Andy Partridge | XTC | 3:35 |
| 4. | "The Village Green Preservation Society" | Ray Davies | The Kinks | 2:56 |
| 5. | "Solid Gold Easy Action" | Marc Bolan | T.Rex | 2:14 |
| 6. | "Baby Fratelli" | The Fratellis | The Fratellis | 3:53 |
| 7. | "Blockbuster!" | Mike Chapman and Nicky Chinn | Sweet | 3:21 |
| 8. | "Dance with the Devil" | Phil Dennys and Michael Hayes | Cozy Powell | 3:15 |
| 9. | "Slippery Rock 70's" | Nigel Fletcher and Robert Woodward | Stavely Makepeace | 2:38 |
| 10. | "Uncle Derek" (Dialogue extract) | Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg | Simon Pegg and Nick Frost | 0:31 |
| 11. | "Night of Fear" | Roy Wood | The Move | 2:10 |
| 12. | "I Can't Control Myself" | Reg Presley | The Troggs | 3:02 |
| 13. | "Fire" | Arthur Brown, Vincent Crane, Peter Ker and Michael Ivor Firesilver | The Crazy World of Arthur Brown | 2:47 |
| 14. | "Kick Out the Jams" | Jeff Jarratt and Don Reedman | Tubthumper | 2:20 |
| 15. | "Lethal Fuzz (Osymyso Remix)" (Samples music used in trailers for Lethal Weapon.[5]) | John Eric Alexander | John Eric Alexander | 2:01 |
| 16. | "Avenging Angel" | Robert Rodriguez | Robert Rodriguez | 0:35 |
| 17. | "Souljacker Part 1" | Mark Oliver Everett, Jonathan "Butch" Norton and Adam Siegel | Eels | 3:16 |
| 18. | "Caught by the Fuzz" | Gareth Coombes, Daniel Goffy and Michael Quinn | Supergrass | 2:17 |
| 19. | "Solid Gold Easy Action" | Marc Bolan | The Fratellis | 2:16 |
| 20. | "What did you think of that?" (Dialogue extract) | Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg | Simon Pegg and Nick Frost | 0:16 |
| 21. | "Here Come the Fuzz" | Philip Hernandez, Chris Maxwell and Jon Spencer | Jon Spencer and the Elegant Trio | 3:52 |
| 22. | "Hot Fuzz Suite" (Compilation of excerpts from the score.[3]) | David Arnold | David Arnold | 23:11 |
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Artist | Length |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Goody Two Shoes" | Marco Pirroni and Adam Ant | Adam Ant | 3:34 |
| 2. | "Sgt. Rock (Is Going to Help Me)" | Andy Partridge | XTC | 3:35 |
| 3. | "The Village Green Preservation Society" | Ray Davies | The Kinks | 2:56 |
| 4. | "Baby Fratelli" | The Fratellis | The Fratellis | 3:53 |
| 5. | "Dance with the Devil" | Phil Dennys and Michael Hayes | Cozy Powell | 3:15 |
| 6. | "Slippery Rock 70's" | Nigel Fletcher and Robert Woodward | Stavely Makepeace | 2:38 |
| 7. | "I Can't Control Myself" | Reg Presley | The Troggs | 3:02 |
| 8. | "Fire" | Arthur Brown, Vincent Crane, Peter Ker and Michael Ivor Firesilver | The Crazy World of Arthur Brown | 2:47 |
| 9. | "Lethal Fuzz (Osymyso Remix)" | John Eric Alexander | John Eric Alexander | 2:01 |
| 10. | "Souljacker Part 1" | Mark Oliver Everett, Jonathan "Butch" Norton and Adam Siegel | Eels | 3:16 |
| 11. | "Caught by the Fuzz" | Gareth Coombes, Daniel Goffy and Michael Quinn | Supergrass | 2:17 |
| 12. | "Solid Gold Easy Action" | Marc Bolan | The Fratellis | 2:16 |
| 13. | "Here Come the Fuzz" | Philip Hernandez, Chris Maxwell and Jon Spencer | Jon Spencer and the Elegant Trio | 3:52 |
| 14. | "Hot Fuzz Suite" | David Arnold | David Arnold | 23:11 |
Other songs in the film
Songs featured in the film but not included on either soundtrack release include:
- "Down On Bond Street" – Tommy McCook & the Super Sonics
- "Foot Chase" – Mark Isham (from Point Break)
- "Happy Birthday" – Jim Broadbent, Olivia Colman, Kevin Eldon, Karl Johnson, Simon Pegg & Edgar Wright
- "Heston Services" – Robert Rodriguez and Carl Thiel
- "Hostage Situation" – Trevor Rabin (from Bad Boys II)
- "Lethal Weapon 3 Trailer Score" – John Eric Alexander
- "Lovefool" – Dick Breeze, Emma Dance, David Goodall, Diane Leach, Tim Lee, George Marsh, Lucy Punch, David Threlfall, Bernard Usher, Clive Weatherley & Jonathan Whitehead
- "Nostalgia" – Frank Comstock
- "Romeo and Juliet" by Dire Straits. In his DVD commentary, director Edgar Wright notes the irony of having to pay Dire Straits to use the song after he had poked fun at the band in his previous film, Shaun of the Dead.[6]
- "Village Green" by The Kinks.
See also
References
- Phares, Heather. "Hot Fuzz - Review". AllMusic. Retrieved 15 January 2017.
- Brown, Kat. "Review of Hot Fuzz". Empire. Retrieved 8 February 2010.
- Phares, Heather. "Allmusic". Hot Fuzz [Cherry Tree] Review. Archived from the original on 11 November 2010. Retrieved 10 August 2007.
- "Soundtrack Collector". Soundtrack details: Hot Fuzz. Retrieved 10 August 2007.
- Ruiz, Rafael. "SoundtrackNet". Hot Fuzz soundtrack. Retrieved 10 August 2007.
- Hot Fuzz commentary (DVD). Universal Pictures.
- Wright, Edgar (2007). Hot Fuzz: Music from the Motion Picture (Media notes). United Kingdom: Universal Island Records. 172 475-6.
External links
- Hot Fuzz at IMDb
- Hot Fuzz at Metacritic