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Baby driver soundtrack in order reddit3/28/2024 New York City rock legend Jon Spencer famously wrote the song “ Here Comes the Fuzz” for Wright’s earlier film Hot Fuzz, but an earlier hit with his namesake band was also hugely inspirational on Baby Driver, not just because Wright considers it “ pretty much the greatest opening track of any rock album ever.” “Bellbottoms” The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion (from the album Orange) “Maybe if there’s a sequel, I’ll put the Kiss song in there,” he jokes.) (What Wright wasn’t aware of was a Kiss song, also called “ Baby Driver,” which he kept being asked about when people heard the title of his movie. ‘Baby Driver,’ maybe I heard again and said, ‘Oh, that’s the perfect title for my movie-it’s about a young getaway driver!’ I always thought it should end on that.” I had the idea that I wanted to do a diegetic action-musical in that all the music in the film is happening in the scene. “There’s lots of things in this movie that were not suppressed things, but things that were bubbling away, but it wasn’t like I heard the song and came up with the movie. The movie is not based on the lyrics of that song, but there is that element of the character being sort of folklore-y in terms of this is somebody that tales are told of the ‘Baby Driver.’ It’s something that gave me that kind of vibe of being a character of some renown, like kind of infamous, this fast drier that’s known to the police but known by name.” “It’s one of those tracks where I was always curious about the lyrics of it. So I knew that album VERY well, and I used to really like that track.” They had a Motown ‘Chartbusters’ album, some Genesis albums, some Peter Gabriel albums, classical music and Bridge Over Troubled Water. They had one Stones album–the first one–and then they had a bunch of Beatles albums, but they did not have Revolver, which was kind of funny to me. My parents had a box of 20 records, and that was it. “I think ‘Baby Driver’ is the B-Side of ‘The Boxer.’ I knew it because probably my first experiences with music was my parents’ record collection. We decided to single out a few of the tracks from the movie and soundtrack to delve deeper into the musical mind of Edgar Wright, learning how some of the songs and ideas were gestating in his head for many years. Many of the harder to find tracks, even on CD, came from those compilations, because “you get things you wouldn’t get anywhere else.” I buy a lot of music and a lot of compilations, and I’m always interested in hearing random things I wouldn’t normally, but all of the things in the movie existed in my iTunes before the movie.” I’m always looking for other things in the same vein. “I buy a lot of music, and I usually go looking for things tangentially of stuff I’ve already gotten. “You end up looking within your own library,” he told Den of Geek, during a sit-down earlier this week. He works with “music consultant” Kirsten Lane (whom he’s been working with since Shaun of the Dead) to clear the rights to use those tunes in the movie, rather than the traditional way of having a Music Supervisor who recommends and finds songs to use. Reportedly, Wright has 34,367 tracks in his iTunes library, from which he picked all the music to use in the movie himself. When Baby meets waitress Debora (Lily James) in a diner, he’s immediately smitten and decides he wants to run away with her after completing “one last job.” (Of course, that’s not what happens.) Ansel Elgort plays “Baby,” a getaway driver used for a series of elaborate heists and bank robberies masterminded by his handler Doc (Kevin Spacey), with a varied and motley team of criminals, played by Jon Benthal, Jamie Foxx, Jon Hamm and others.
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