Hot Fuzz (soundtrack)

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Hot Fuzz
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Soundtrack album by
Various Artists
Released Flag of the United Kingdom.svg 22 February 2007
Flag of the United States.svg 17 April 2007
Genre Rock, psychedelic rock, pop, alternative rock, hard rock, Britpop, new wave, indie rock, glam rock
Length76:13
Label Island
Producer Osymyso
Edgar Wright film soundtrack chronology
Hot Fuzz
(2007)
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
(2010)
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(2006)
Hot Fuzz
(2007)
Amazing Grace
(2007)
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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.

Contents

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 the film's 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

UK/EU Release
No.TitleWriter(s)ArtistLength
1."Theme from Hot Fuzz" David Arnold David Arnold2:11
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 Fratellis3:53
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 ReedmanTubthumper2:20
15."Lethal Fuzz (Osymyso Remix)" (Samples music used in trailers for Lethal Weapon . [5] )John Eric AlexanderJohn Eric Alexander2:01
16."Avenging Angel" Robert Rodriguez Robert Rodriguez0:35
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 PeggSimon Pegg and Nick Frost0:16
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 ArnoldDavid Arnold23:11
USA/Canada Release
No.TitleWriter(s)ArtistLength
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 Fratellis3:53
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 AlexanderJohn Eric Alexander2:01
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 ArnoldDavid Arnold23:11

Other songs in the film

Songs featured in the film but not included on either soundtrack release include:

See also

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