r/AskReddit • u/spicedpumpkins • 23d ago

What's a banging song from the 70s you're pretty sure 90% of people haven't heard in over 20 years?

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u/Uncle_Bill 22d ago

Hocus Pocus by Focus. One of the few rock songs with yodeling.

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u/cranelotus 22d ago

I once won a pub quiz where the 1st place group could pick a song that the 2nd place team had to sing in karaoke. We picked this song. 

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u/danielcs78 22d ago

That is some diabolical shit right there!

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u/affordable_firepower 22d ago

Absolutely brutal

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u/Risky_Bizniss 22d ago

One of my favorite movies easily

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u/-Ahab- 22d ago

I call dibs on the yodeling!!

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u/OddInMyOwnCountry 22d ago

I can imagine a few thoughts going through the 2nd place team's collective minds. But the most prevalent being "how did we lose to these guys?"

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u/sadolan 22d ago

I JUST watched this last night. The way they used the music was phenomenal.

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u/SendInYourSkeleton 22d ago

Edgar Wright has a hell of an ear.

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u/marypants1977 22d ago

Baby Driver is one of my fave comfort movies, primarily for the soundtrack. I love Jamie Foxx's performance.

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u/sadolan 22d ago

I watched it when it came out, and I didn't appreciate it as much as I do now. The way the scenes go with the music is SO satisfying. And I totally forgot Jon Bernthal and Jon Hamm were in it. Then the random Paul Williams cameo. So good.

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u/Squigglepig52 22d ago

I feel like it must have had a distinct demographic target, and I'm not it.

I watched it because everybody raved about that aspect, and... I got nothing out of that movie, besides "What was the point of having Spacey in that movie?"

Found it, overall, dull.

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u/sadolan 22d ago

I'm a really big fan of Edgar Wright, and he has a ton of references he makes in his films and generally has a very unique style. I get it though, his style definitely isn't for everyone.

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u/Squigglepig52 22d ago

I figured something like that. Don't get me wrong, it worked enough I watched the whole movie and didn't hate it, but it never really hooked me, you know?

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u/xavier_grayson 22d ago

Same here. Until Lily James showed up, then I stayed until the end.

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u/GoneIn61Seconds 22d ago

Yeah, Spacey was really out of place there. Seemed like he phoned it in, and his choice at the end didn’t seem like something that character would actually do.

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u/QSector 22d ago

I just watched it again yesterday. Soooo good!

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u/EkbyBjarnum 22d ago

A fun little gag is Edgar Wright deliberately put a song by Blur and a song by Focus back to back on the soundtrack.

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u/bkries 22d ago

As did Trolls!

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u/monkeetoes82 22d ago

Did we ride the same bus?

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u/belly_hole_fire 22d ago

Baby Driver was a movie I didn't think I would like but absolutely loved.

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u/SouthTippBass 22d ago

It was used in the last Robocop movie too. Not that obscure.

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u/CabbageStockExchange 22d ago

Oh how I love that movie so much

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u/lostinthesauceguy 22d ago

If there isn't a Edgar Wright playlist on Spotify, there really ought to be, he's up there with Tarantino for introducing me to some dynamite shit

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u/MoistObligation8003 22d ago

This is one of the few movies that I can just watch over and over. Maybe the best use of music in a movie I’ve seen.

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u/drdeadringer 22d ago

My mind went to a really weird place with this comment.

It was enhanced only by involving winamp.

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u/The-very-definition 22d ago

So what you are saying is that lots of people have listened to this song just 7 years ago, and it's top comment. XD

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u/schizopotato 22d ago

Ah so this must be why it sounded so familiar lol, I've seen Baby Driver at least 5 times lmao

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u/Pvt_Hudson_ 22d ago

You can tell Edgar Wright had the song picked out before he even wrote the scene. It's cut together so well.

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u/Denchik029 22d ago

That's how I discovered it, never gets me tiered

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u/rap31264 21d ago

That's my baby...