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Hot Fuzz (soundtrack)

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Hot Fuzz
Soundtrack album by
Various Artists
ReleasedUnited Kingdom 22 February 2007
United States 17 April 2007
GenreRock, psychedelic rock, pop, alternative rock, hard rock, Britpop, new wave, indie rock, glam rock
Length76:13
LabelIsland
ProducerOsymyso
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(2007)
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(2007)
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Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
Empire[2]

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.

Composition

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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

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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

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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

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UK/EU Release
No.TitleWriter(s)ArtistLength
1."Theme from Hot Fuzz"David ArnoldDavid Arnold2:11
2."Goody Two Shoes"Marco Pirroni and Adam AntAdam Ant3:34
3."Sgt. Rock (Is Going to Help Me)"Andy PartridgeXTC3:35
4."The Village Green Preservation Society"Ray DaviesThe Kinks2:56
5."Solid Gold Easy Action"Marc BolanT.Rex2:14
6."Baby Fratelli"The FratellisThe Fratellis3:53
7."Blockbuster!"Mike Chapman and Nicky ChinnSweet3:21
8."Dance with the Devil"Phil Dennys and Michael HayesCozy Powell3:15
9."Slippery Rock 70's"Nigel Fletcher and Robert WoodwardStavely Makepeace2:38
10."Uncle Derek" (Dialogue extract)Edgar Wright and Simon PeggSimon Pegg and Nick Frost0:31
11."Night of Fear"Roy WoodThe Move2:10
12."I Can't Control Myself"Reg PresleyThe Troggs3:02
13."Fire"Arthur Brown, Vincent Crane, Peter Ker and Michael Ivor FiresilverThe Crazy World of Arthur Brown2:47
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 RodriguezRobert Rodriguez0:35
17."Souljacker Part 1"Mark Oliver Everett, Jonathan "Butch" Norton and Adam SiegelEels3:16
18."Caught by the Fuzz"Gareth Coombes, Daniel Goffy and Michael QuinnSupergrass2:17
19."Solid Gold Easy Action"Marc BolanThe Fratellis2:16
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 SpencerJon Spencer and the Elegant Trio3:52
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 AntAdam Ant3:34
2."Sgt. Rock (Is Going to Help Me)"Andy PartridgeXTC3:35
3."The Village Green Preservation Society"Ray DaviesThe Kinks2:56
4."Baby Fratelli"The FratellisThe Fratellis3:53
5."Dance with the Devil"Phil Dennys and Michael HayesCozy Powell3:15
6."Slippery Rock 70's"Nigel Fletcher and Robert WoodwardStavely Makepeace2:38
7."I Can't Control Myself"Reg PresleyThe Troggs3:02
8."Fire"Arthur Brown, Vincent Crane, Peter Ker and Michael Ivor FiresilverThe Crazy World of Arthur Brown2:47
9."Lethal Fuzz (Osymyso Remix)"John Eric AlexanderJohn Eric Alexander2:01
10."Souljacker Part 1"Mark Oliver Everett, Jonathan "Butch" Norton and Adam SiegelEels3:16
11."Caught by the Fuzz"Gareth Coombes, Daniel Goffy and Michael QuinnSupergrass2:17
12."Solid Gold Easy Action"Marc BolanThe Fratellis2:16
13."Here Come the Fuzz"Philip Hernandez, Chris Maxwell and Jon SpencerJon Spencer and the Elegant Trio3:52
14."Hot Fuzz Suite"David ArnoldDavid Arnold23:11

Other songs in the film

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

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Phares, Heather. "Hot Fuzz - Review". AllMusic. Retrieved 15 January 2017.
  2. ^ Brown, Kat. "Review of Hot Fuzz". Empire. Retrieved 8 February 2010.
  3. ^ a b c d Phares, Heather. "Allmusic". Hot Fuzz [Cherry Tree] Review. Archived from the original on 11 November 2010. Retrieved 10 August 2007.
  4. ^ "Soundtrack Collector". Soundtrack details: Hot Fuzz. Retrieved 10 August 2007.
  5. ^ a b c Ruiz, Rafael. "SoundtrackNet". Hot Fuzz soundtrack. Retrieved 10 August 2007.
  6. ^ a b Hot Fuzz commentary (DVD). Universal Pictures.
  7. ^ Wright, Edgar (2007). Hot Fuzz: Music from the Motion Picture (Media notes). United Kingdom: Universal Island Records. 172 475-6.
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