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FRIDAY


From the fillum starring Burt Reynolds

Saturday Night Special - Lynyrd Skynyrd

Every Breath You Take / Peter Gunn - The Police / Henry Mancini

Used brilliantly in The Sopranos

Al.

Great shout alfrae

No Ballads?

On Days Like These - Matt Munro

perfect accompaniment to smashing your Ferrari straight into a JCB ay high speed.

What could be more appropriate?

regardez youse

henri

well I suppose it's a bit obvious, but

Keep the Car Running - Arcade Fire

Wayward Child - Rory Gallagher

Start to Roll - The Rudiments

White Knuckle Ride - the Real McKenzies

FRIDAY


From the fillum starring Burt Reynolds

Stroker's Theme - Charlie Daniels Band

The Hellecasters

'The Distance' - Cake

Jump, djerive and wail / Louis Prima

Al.

#8. ... Perfect choice Gaie, however we need the GIO jury to think likewise ...

'White Knuckle Ride'. ~~ The Real McKenzies' please ...

Bryan,

see if you can track this down - Dragons - Caravan Palace -seems to catch the mayhem of a car chase perfectly - surprised if not been used before for something.Definately worth checking out - with debt of gratitude to Mary- Doll who first turned me on to electro -swing.

regardez youse

henri

'Kick out the Jams' --- MC5 (or another for K. Gelly's 'Bleeper Bliss' night')
'Highway Star' -- Deep Purple
'Breakin' the Law' -- Judas Priest

What a great opportunity for:

"Dont Stop Me Now" - Queen

and

"Atomic" - Blondie

Springsteen. Dont Look Back

perfect

Run Run Away - Slade

DC

Jump Street - Boz Scaggs
Machine gun - the Commodores
Heroes/Jean Genie - Bowie
Take it easy - Eagles
So are you to me - Eastmountainsouth
American dirt - Matthew Ryan
Roll away the stone - Mott the Hoople
Let's think about living - Teddy Thompson
Into the fire - Thirteen Senses
Listen to your love - Mona
Heaven never seemed so close - Kill It Kid
Black duck blues - The Young Republic
When I am through wwith you - the VLA


Joe
Linlithgow

Club Foot - Kasabian
Block Rocking Beats - Chemical Brothers
Shatter - Feeder

#5
Was that norrie holding up the bypass again?

Great shout joe for machine gun. Huge seconds.

The wolves / Ben Howard
Idles along at the start till our hero realises he is being followed. Puts his foot down song speeds up. He throws the car all over the city unable to shake off his pursuer. Through the open air market straight through the fruit and veg stall, still cant shake him off down the sidewalk takes out a few alfresco tables from the local coffee shop but he is still being tailed turns left then right diwn the alleyway where there is a proverbial stack of cardboard boxes and yes hes right through them out the other side and he gets away. Sigh of relief, mop of the brow, song slows right back down again. Yheres not a mark on his car.

Best car chase (and probably one of the slowest)

Duel. Spielbergs first feature.

AC/DC - Rock n Roll JCB oops soorry I meant Rock n Roll Train

#23

....unlike his underwear

#24

Best Car Chase II - Ronin.

Hang on, we'd better stop here, otherwise we'll have the PM coming in with a double A4 list of the Greatest Car Chase Sequences Ever.

- Ronin

#5. Agree with Henri H - one of Quincy Jones's track from the Italian Job:
On Days Like These - Matt Munro or the music from the Turin car chase

"Our Lady of Blessed Acceleration, don't fail me now" ... Any of the chase scenes from the Blues Brothers - can't turn you loose

The opening theme to either The Professionals or The Sweeney

Tom Robinson Band - "wish I had a grey cortina" ...
Twin exhaust and rusty bumper
Chewing gum at traffic light
Stop at red but leave on amber
Grey Cortina outa sight

My understanding of this theme is songs that havent been used for chase scenes but could be.

I could be wrong though....

Roll On Down the Highway / Bachman Turner Overdrive
Run Run Run / Jo Jo Gunne
Blowin' Free / Wisbone Ash
Tulane / Steve Gibbons Band
Hollywood Nights / Bob Seger

And a couple of wild cards
Hi Ho Silver (here come the Lone Ranger) / Jim Diamond
Red Staggerwing / Mark Knopfler and Emmylou

Personally I was always rooting for the double dealing do-badders, wonder if they ever won?



Al.

Our hero and his girlfriend are making a run for it in her car, they vare being chased but they have almost made it when, just as they reach the darkened underpass, a double decker bus veers across and....

There Is A Light That Never Goes Out - The Smiths

Was it not a mysterious fiat uno that got in the way?

Roxy Music 'Trash' 148bpm the perfect pace for a car chase.

J.O'B.

who said car chases always have to be screechy screechy the wrong way up a one way street with bumpy bumpy and smokey smokey on the sidewalk with torn limbs and tears?.............not me, sir.

what about the more languid free flowing open highways type with an exestential freedom of the soul being chased by your past or by some redneck in a 4-wheel drive pick-up who'd popped into the store for some grain for the cattle back on the ranch?.....

well, recently catching a snippet of this film, i had forgotten just how nasty and violent it was..................

'ballad of easy rider'......the byrds (to confound the orthodoxy that car chases only happen in built-up confined cities)

cheers frae the dale

'Get Out Of Denver' - Bob Seger or Dave Edmunds

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Adam,

I don't recall any music playing during the classic car chase in Bullitt

Would a musical soundtrack have improved the scene in any way?


My favourite movie car chase is the one filmed in Las Vegas for the fillum shtarring Shir Sean, Diamondsh are Forever


>8-D

In case the car chases you to a disco

Do you Wanna Funk / Sylvester
Keep It Comin Love / KC & the Sunshine Band
Born to be Alive / Patrick Hernandez
Spank / Jimmy Bo Horne
Searching / Luther Vandross

would aw work......

Al.

#37

4' 33" - John Cage

#37
Bullitt would certainly feature in afore-mentioned Greatest Ever List, as to whether music would make it any better -mebbes aye mebbes no.


Thon DAF chase was pretty naff though, IMHO (as opposed to OHMSS).

And just in case the theme shifts a little bit:


"Smash It Up" - The Damned

The Race - Yello

Don't know if this has ever been used as car chase music but if it hasn't, it should have been.

#33

Uno, pull over, blanked it

(I'm just a bird in the sky.........)

From the Cat People Soundtrack:

Giorgio Moroder -Pauls Theme (Jogging Chase)

'Speed King' ~~ Deep Purple

'Run like Hell' ~~ Pink Floyd

Midnight Rider - Gregg Allman from 20th Century Masters: Millennium Collection

Royksopp's Night Out - Royksopp

Beloved - Thievery Corporation Remix of Anouska Shankar Versions album

Lemon Tree - Thievery Corporation Remix of Herb Alpert Versions album

Lucifer - Alan Parsons Project

Great Expectations - The Gaslight Anthem

On the subject of remixes Fever or Peter Gunn - Sarah Vaughan fro the fabulous Verve remix albums.

I've put these up as I don't necessarily agree that fast records necessarily make for a better car chase....

regardez youse

henri

Jerry Harrison - Rev It Up

Primal Scream - Accelerator

Depeche Mode - Behind The Wheel

re; #various, car chases

Friedken movie, To Live and Die in L.A. had a top car chase.

Despite having a really 80s OST director didn't put any music to the chase.

Al.

Did anyone watch Scotland's Greatest Album? I commend the impeccable taste shown by those who voted. All the blog favourites were present including two from The Twins Who Must Not Be Named ☺

The best car chase ever is The French Connection. Sounds like another chance to request:

Blur featuring Françoise Hardy - To The End (La Comédie)

I recorded the series and only saw the first of the shows last night. Amazed to see that Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep made it into the 70s fifteen. I was really surprised to hear that this is one of fewer than 30 singles to have sold more than 10 million copies world wide. Nae accounting for taste.

Actually, I think that would be a great car chase track and commend it to the house. Pity I won't hear it though since I will be out tonight. I therefore dedicate it to Scotch.

DC

From the Scotland's Greatest Album website, the hitherto unknown:

Stealers Wheel – Stuck in the Middle of You

Oh and ...

Faster - Janelle Monae once you get into the album, The ArchAndroid, it's quite addictive.

regardez youse

henri

* The Pink Fairies - Do It
* Spinal Tap - Tonight I'm Gonna Rock You Tonight
* The Traveling Wilburys - End of the Line
* U2 - Bad
* Rascal Flatts - Life Is a Highway
* Sheryl Crow - Real Gone (these 2 both from the Cars OST)
* The Primitives - Crash
* Led Zep - Immigrant Song (going for the 3rd Zep play this week)
* Eric Johnson - Cliffs of Dover - instrumental but give it a spin!
* The Alarm - Blaze of Glory (Am I thinking of the Thelma & Louise ending..?)
* The Rutles - Living in Hope
* Lenny Kravitz - Fly Away
* The Hooters - Satellite

and for the ironic and dreamlike soundtracks:
* The Saw Doctors - Galway and Mayo
* Its Immaterial - Driving along the M62
* The Crew Cuts - Life Could Be a Dream (Sh-boom)
* Pink Floyd - Us and Them
* Peter Gabriel - We Do What We're Told (Milgram's 37)

oh ye man i could definitely picture a car race through the ny upstate backwaters by the lakes........
from a much underplayed underrated seldom heard but great despite all of that.............

'goddess on a highway'.........................mercury rev (brrrm brrrrrrrrrm)

cheers frae the dale

UP AROUND THE BEND from COSMO'S FACTORY by CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL

Scoob in Turra - the only tune for me - Apollo 440 - stop the rock - TUNE!

My car chase song;
Hold on Tight, - Electric Light Orchestra. (There's a surprise!)

Ian
Gartcosh

#40

Adam,

Are you suggesting my judgement was impaired by the presence of Jill St. John?

Has to be Ballad of Lucy Jordon by Marianne Faithful from the film Thelma and Louise in that glorious Tunderbird