V/A - Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels

PROPER

Format: 2XLP

Genre: Film Score / Soundtrack / Video Game

Condition: New

Release Date: July 28, 2023

Release Discogs: discogs.com/release/28212949

Catalog number: UMCLP064

Barcode: 0805520240642

Format: 2XLP
€34,19
€56,99
€34,19

Tracklist

  1. 1 Junior Murvin - Police and Thieves
  2. 2 Theme - 18 With a Bullet
  3. 3 Dusty Springfield - Spooky
  4. 4 John James Murphy - the Game
  5. 5 Victor McGuire & Lenny McLean & P.H. Moriarity - Muppets
  6. 6 Robbie Williams - Man Machine
  7. 7 E-Z Rollers - Walk This Land
  8. 8 Lenny McLean - Blaspheming Barry
  9. 9 The Stooges - I Wanna Be Your Dog
  10. 10 Dexter Fletcher & Jason Flemyng & Dexter Fletcher - It's Kos
  11. 11 The Castaways - Liar Liar
  12. 12 Frank Harper & Steve Sweeney - I've Been Shot
  13. 13 Stretch - Why Did You Do It
  14. 14 Dexter Fletcher & Dexter Fletcher & Nick Moran - Guns 4 Show
  15. 15 Evil Superstars - Oh Girl
  16. 16 John James Murphy & Vas Blackwood - If the Milk Turns Sour
  17. 17 John James Murphy - Zorba the Greek
  18. 18 John James Murphy & Vas Blackwood - I'll Kill Ya
  19. 19 James Brown - the Payback
  20. 20 The Stone Roses - Fools Gold
  21. 21 Vinnie Jones - It's Been Emotional
  22. 22 Pete Wingfield - Eighteen With a Bullet

Info

Originally released on Island Records in September 1998, the soundtrack to the box-office smash film, written and directed by Guy Ritchie, quickly became a must-own album, and is frequently cited as one of the best movie soundtracks of all time.

Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels redefined the British gangster film and established Guy Ritchie as one of the greatest directing and writing talents of his generation. Using a frenetic mixture of filmic styles, humour, violence, breakdown of the fourth wall, narration, and vast amounts of swearing, it is hard to imagine a time when this film and its influence was not around. It made a star of the-then unknown Jason Statham, and, amazingly, hard man footballer Vinnie Jones, who as Big Chris, had several scene-stealing moments.

Taking his cue from Quentin Tarantino, who had been meticulously curating his film soundtracks since the early 90s, Ritchie made the music to his film tell its own story, complete with memorable snatches of dialogue between many of the tracks. It offers a beautifully eclectic selection of songs from the preceding three decades, plus then-current artists providing some of their best material, such as Hundred Mile High City by Ocean Colour Scene or E-Z Rollers' drum'n'bass masterpiece Walk This Land. Of the heritage tracks, Dusty Springfield sings her sultry take on Spooky; James Brown appears twice with The Boss and The Payback; The Stooges with I Wanna Be Your Dog, and two versions of Pete Wingfield's masterful one-hit-wonder 18 With A Bullet; in its 1975 original and a contemporary cover by Lewis Taylor and Carleen Anderson. And this is only half of it.

For lovers of soundtrack albums that create their own unmistakable universe, Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels is a must-have.