Here's a guide to every song featured on the official soundtrack release of The Wolf Of Wall Street. Following his breakthrough with 1973 gangster classic Mean Streets, Martin Scorsese quickly carved out a name as one of cinema's greatest auteurs. He's rarely paused from breath over the decades, and his filmography features titles like Taxi Driver, The King Of Comedy, Goodfellas and his most recent film The Irishman. Even his documentary works are acclaimed, including Century Of Cinema.
In 2013 Scorsese directed The Wolf Of Wall Street, a biopic of New York stockbroker Jordan Belfort. Leonardo DiCaprio played Belfort with the film depicting his rise to the top, his corrupt business practices and hedonistic lifestyle. The movie received some controversy for "glamorizing" the lifestyle of Belfort and his cohorts, though given where the story ends up for these characters, it's plain the film isn't any kind of endorsement. In addition to DiCaprio receiving praise for his work, the performances of Margot Robbie and Matthew McConaughey also earned raves.
Of course, it wouldn't be a Martin Scorsese movie without a killer soundtrack, and The Wolf Of Wall Street is no exception. Here's a guide to the tracks from its official soundtrack.
- Mercy, Mercy, Mercy! - Cannonball Adderley & Bill Evans
- Dust My Broom - Elmore James
- Bang! Bang! - Joe Cuba
- Movin' Out (Anthony's Song) - Billy Joel
- C'est Si Bon - Eartha Kitt
- Goldfinger - Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings
- Pretty Thing - Bo Diddley
- Moonlight In Vermont - Ahmad Jamal
- Smokestack Lightning - Howlin' Wolf
- Hey Leroy, Your Mama's Callin' You - The Jimmy Castor Bunch
- Double Dutch - Malcolm McLaren
- Never Say Never - Romeo Void
- Meth Lab Zoso Sticker - 7Horse
- Road Runner - Bo Diddley
- Mrs. Robinson - The Lemonheads
- Cast Your Fate To the Wind - Allen Toussaint
It's a fine selection, but it barely scratches the surface of the amount of music that was actually featured in The Wolf Of Wall Street. Over 60 songs were used in the 2013 movie, with the likes of "Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick" by Ian Dury & The Blockheads, Cypress Hill's "Insane In The Brain," "Cloudburst" by Lambert Hendricks & Ross and John Lee Hooker's "Boom Boom" are among the many tracks that didn't make it on to the official soundtrack release.
Martin Scorcese will be keeping busy in the years ahead, as he's set to reteam with Leonardo DiCaprio for the first time since The Wolf Of Wall Street and Robert De Niro for historical crime thriller Killers Of the Flower Moon. Scorsese and DiCaprio are also attached to produce Hulu's The Devil In The White City, which is based on an incredible true story. The show will adapt the book by Erik Larson, and Scorsese was once set to helm a film version that would have starred DiCaprio.