Rob Price
Gutbrain Records
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2026 April 20 • Monday

The 905th Soundtrack of the Week is John Beal's music for Zero to Sixty.

The first track has a very brief but jaunty "First Artists Logo" immediately followed by a swinging, reggae-ish "Love at First Flight" tune that features saxophone and electric guitar and is a lot of fun.

"Soup's On" is one of a handful of pieces that play with genre comventions. This one starts with very recognizable "menace" music, throws in som Pink Panther-like flutes and then does some jump cut cartoon music segments, speeding through several different moods.

Wah-wah guitar and a funky beat set up the groove for "Gotta Get Some Loving", a really groovy number with great horn playing.

Electric bass guitar walking up the neck kicks off "Gloria's Escape/Finch On The Fly/Finch's Follies". There's a lot of room to breathe even when the guitar and drums come in. Then synth and bass clarinet change the feel to something more suspenseful while Brazilian percussion and piano add some other flavors. It careens between Man with the Golden Armesque blaring percussion and slightly woozy funk disco synth and wailing trombones.

Then we get a love theme, flutes and textural electric guitar in "Just For You/I Wonder/Sunday's Funday". The horns come in at the end for a restrained, bluesy section.

Bits of the last two cues are repurposed for "Where The Hell Am I?/Creepers Jeepers", which also borrows from Henry Mancini and Burt Bacharach.

The main theme gets mutated for "Java Jive", altering the melody a bit and giving it some gospel piano chords.

"Can You Rock and Roll?" is a straight-up instrumental rock piece with distorted guitar and lots of guitars soloing. It's great.

The sad trombones come back for the late-night jazzy "There's Time For You", followed by the sunny sounds of "A Little Disco in the Morning".

Heavy honkytonk piano and acoustic slide guitar bring some different elements to the heavy "Nooners", a down-home sort of blues cue.

Some kind of tension/suspense scene is successfully conveyed by the long tones and percussion of "Caught in the Act" while the love theme gets explored in greater depth in "The Three of Us".

"By Hook Or By Crook/Mike's Misery/Wigging Out" combines the rock band with the swinging horns for a cool tune that segues into a sparse bluesy saxophone feature.

Some slick guitar playing, very fluid and tasteful, opens "Bridge/Sal and The Boys/You Love Me, You Love Me", which also has some generic "Italian" music and some nice romantic moments.

Some great solo drums get "Bruisin' Cruisin'" started, another cue that combines the rock band with swinging horns and has some interesting unexpected turns in the rhythm and harmonic movement.

A very short but beautiful piece called "End of Olivia" comes next, just a bit of melodic playing with some minor chords and acoustic guitar. And then there's "And Now the News (Source Bumpers)", presumably for a new bulletin that's in the world of the movie. Mostly synth, it sounds like what you'd expect to hear.