Rob Price
Gutbrain Records
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2024 December 30 • Monday

The 837th Soundtrack of the Week, and the last one of 2024, is Serge Franklin's music for the 1985 Jean-Paul Belmondo movie Hold-Up.

It starts out with the extremely eighties song "Hold-Up" sung by Rena Scott ("Love is a hold-up").

Then there's "Liza's Road", a breezy, sunny piece with lots of flute and harmonica and occasionally frisky electric bass.

The title song's structure is used for "Quick Change" but this is a slow and textural instrumental number that encroaches on Tangerine Dream territory.

I'm not sure what "Dépanneuse-Rock" is but it sounds like it would be good for an aerobics class.

Then there's a country rock vocal number called "Running Wild". It's got a shuffle beat and slide guitar and lyrics like "Running wild, rolling free / Running loose 'cross this big country". What more do you want?

"Funky Lasky" is pretty funky in a very electro/synth way. I like it.

The next cue, "Grimm Circus", seems to be diegetic cicrus music and sounds like what you'd expect.

Following it is "Motel Blues", which has the harmonica as the main voice and is a very light-hearted sounding blues.

Things get more intense with "Cascade", which has higher energy and a thicker, louder sound. It's a pretty driving instrumental, with electric instruments and synth over rocking drums.

Acoustic guitar leads off "In Bank", contrasting nicely with electronic instruments and a laidback drum part.

Then there's an instrumental version of "Running Wild", a solo blues piano of the title theme and then a straight instrumnetal version of same.