Ways in which popular E4 teen comedy-drama Skins has made music better - let us list them

1) If it weren't for the Skins soundtracks, there wouldn't be any Broadcast songs on Spotify.

2) Lil Wayne threatened in 2004 to leave music unless "A suitable replacement for As If" made it to television

3) It provides a handy catch-all moniker - "you know, Skins music/bands" to summarise stuff you wish to avoid

4) Only television programme ever to use Laura Cantrell as incidental music (that I can remember, admittedly).

5) Brief bump in downloads of Sunflower by Low after Chris hospital 'death' scene

6) Skunk Anansie reunion put on ice after lead singer's name deemed "too embarassing even for us"

7) Whenever its mentioned, it always makes me think of the scene in About A Boy where he walks along singing Mystikal, so then I want to listen to anything with a pen and pixel cover and forget Skins exists.

8) You know that bit in the US version of The Office where Jim and Pam listen to Jim's iPod together in the car park and you're thinking "Oh, this is quite touching" and it turns out they're actually listening to "Sing" by Travis? The bit in Skins where Crystal Castles give Sid a nervous breakdown is definitely better than that.

9) Also that episode where Jal gets on stage and nicks some singer's hat will hopefully discourage the wearing of trilbys onstage by members of shit indie bands. It might not necessarily discourage the formation of shit indie bands themselves, but it's a start.

Is the theme tune Broadcast? Wow.

10) Sad ageing indie pervs across the nation realise that sounding like Libertines/Razorlight is no longer the best way to get young girls to have sex with them.

xpost - No, but they're on the soundtrack albums. I have no idea what the theme tune itself is.

11) Skins has yet to feature trendy teacher Andrew Lincoln riding his bicycle to work to the accompaniment of the recorder bit from "The Boy With The Arab Strap".

12) Really, Teachers was much worse.

13) There's that scene when they're all raving to Original Nuttah by UK Apache & Shy FX which let's face it is much much better than Pendulum.

14) At least none of the characters started their own band.

Teachers Series 4 Soundtrack:

1. Don't Come Knocking - The Datsuns
2. What A Waster - The Libertines
3. I'm Shaking - Rooney
4. Just Like Bruce Lee - Killcity
5. You Look So Young - The Jayhawks
6. Celebrity Sanctum - Dogs Die In Hot Cars
7. Misread - Kings Of Convenience
8. Evil Eye - Ash
9. Together's Better - Haven
10. Changes Are No Good - The Stills
11. You And Me Against The World - Her Majesty
12. Seems Fine - The Concretes
13. You Were Always The One - The Cribs
14. Oh My Corazon - Tim Burgess
15. The Day It All Went Wrong - Gisli
16. Estranged - The Belles
17. Magic Carpet - Unisex
18. Whatever Happened To Corey Haim? - The Thrills
19. Long Time Coming - The Delays
20. Stacy's Mom - Fountains Of Wayne

To be fair, tho, the series 2 soundtrack has "Kit & Holly" by Echoboy on, which is still pretty great. Sandwiches it between Feeder and Turin Brakes, though.

The musical content does actually sound quite good (Original Nuttah and Laura Cantrell pretty much represents one month of my entire, admittedly very repetitive music listening last year), but I still hate Skins for all its bullshit youth propaganda. Give me a teenager standing forlornly at a rainy bus stop wondering whether the last bus is going to turn up, or hanging round a street drinking viborg watching the tvs in the rental shop, or sitting in their bedroom staring dully out of the window and give me AN HOUR OF IT EVERY WEEK. With Original Nuttah and Laura Cantrell.

Wasn't one of the characters wearing a Fall t-shirt in an early episode?

um, if it wasn't for Skins, The Gossip would have no hits.

Yeah, such a publicity shy, PR-less woman as Beth Ditto would have really struggled for coverage.

that teachers soundtrack is surprisingly inoffensive

er yeah right mark (dom otm xpost)

skins episodes usually have the most contrived endings. im not sure i ever buy half the shit that they play/listen to either.

No, but they're on the soundtrack albums. I have no idea what the theme tune itself is.

whatever it is it's even gayer than the Queer As Folk title theme

"hanging round a street drinking viborg watching the tvs in the rental shop"

TV rental shop? Is this supposed to be set in the 80s?

The Skins soundtrack CD:

1. Skins Theme Tune - Fat Segal
2. Standing In The Way of Control - Gossip
3. Positive Tension - Bloc Party
4. Date With The Night - Yeah Yeah Yeahs
5. Prince Charming - Adam & The Ants
6. Dart For My Sweetheart - Archie Bronson Outfit
7. Kelly Brown - The Earlies
8. Mongrel... Meets His Maker - DJ Shadow
9. Hell Is Around The Corner - Tricky
10. Colourful - Skream
11. It's All Over - Broken Family Band
12. Witness (1 Hope) - Roots Manuva
13. No Pun Intended - The Hives
14. Totally Wired - The Fall
15. May You Never - John Martyn
16. Aht Uh Mi Hed - Shuggie Otis
17. Hammer Without A Master - Broadcast
18. You Look Great When I'm Fucked Up - The Brian Jonestown Massacre
19. Wild World - Sid

Pretty certain there's another volume on Spotify, but Amazon doesn't list that for some reason.

would watch 80s Skins

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wow. that has some good stuff.

no born ruffians??

no does it offend you yeah?

Skins soundtrack >>>>> Teachers soundtrack, mostly because one has dubstep and the other has The Thrills.

was Teachers the first UK show to do this shit?

Dubstep very much the The Thrills of the late 2000s, tbh

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was Teachers the first UK show to do this shit?

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Our Friends In The North?

Although that wasn't just Exciting Modern Music, it was 30 years worth of ish

I see your Our Friends In The North and raise you one Heartbeat.

Oh and probably some shit with Jimmy Nail in it from the early 90s as well.

Spaced soundtrack:

1. "Warm Up Music"
2. Theme of Luxury - Fantastic Plastic Machine
3. Count Five or Six - Cornelius
4. Beat Goes On - The All I Seeing 1
5. "We're A Couple"
6. Gritty Shaker - David Holmes
7. Smash It - Fuzz Townshend
8. There Must Be An Angle - Fantastic Plastic Machine
9. "Its Over"
10. Homespin Return-High Llamas
11. "We're Gonna Get Our Dog Back"
12. Absurd-Fluke
13. More Bits and Pieces - Coldcut
14. Morse - Nightmares On Wax
15. "If We Have It, They Will Come"
16. Bobby Dazzler - Songs of Silence
17. Delta Sun Bottleneck Stomp - Mercury Rev
18. "Disco Fudge"
19. Synths and Strings - Yomanda
20. Test Card - Fuzz Townsend
21. "This Party Is Rubbish"
22. King of Rock and Roll - Prefab Sprout
23. S'ill Vous Plait-Fantastic Plastic Machine
24. "Fake Sex Noises"

^ my jams

Amazon.co.uk Review
It has often been noted what a plum role Quantum Leap's Sam Beckett was since Scott Bakula got to play just about every kind of character there is--for both men and women! It was also an amazing series for a composer to work on, with plenty of episodes requiring song adaptations and stylistic pastiche. But someone necessarily had to make tough decisions about what could and couldn't fit on one disc representing five years of music. This album is pretty comprehensive, though, featuring essential highlights such as the "Medley from Man of La Mancha", where Bakula's singing talent is put to best use, and "Alphabet Rap" where Dean Stockwell's isn't (and is all the funnier). Ray Bunch plays in the western, horror and political thriller genres here with suites from "The Last Gunfighter", "Blood Moon" and "Leaping On A String" (a fine John Williams nod). After showing this much flexibility you're left wanting more. But what you get instead is a 12-minute interview with Bakula, the only thing that mars this otherwise excellent soundtrack. --Paul Tonks

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6. Gritty Shaker - David Holmes

^^ most influential track of all time imo

I am re-listening to "Smash It!" now. I had forgotten quite how fond I am of it.

That Spaced soundtrack still gets played in my local barbers whenever they're trying to convey a funky-but-respectable image.

shame it's missing Fader Gladiator 'Battle Of The Planets'

There aren't enough people in their early 30s still putting on Mr Scruff and Kruder & Dorfmeister albums in the background, I'm sure we can all agree.

Trigger Happy TV was another one to have a flotilla of soundtrack albums, and they're a bit up and down, but nothing like as much as the soundtrack CD for one of Dom Joly's other series, World Shut Your Mouth (I can't even remember if that was on BBC Three or what - I presume it was, and I vaguely remember it, like, happening, but I have no recollection of any of the details) -

1. Julian Cope - World Shut Your Mouth
2. Snow Patrol - How To Be Dead
3. Bronski Beat - Small Town Boy
4. Minuteman - Gave You All The Blame
5. Furniture - Brilliant Mind
6. The Velvet Underground - Pale Blue Eyes
7. Mazzy Star - Into Dust
8. Prefab Sprout - Cars & Girls
9. Tricky - Abbaon Fat Track
10. Alex Parks - Beautiful
11. The Cure - Lullaby
12. Lloyd Cole & Commotions - Are You Ready To Be Heartbroken
13. Black Sabbath - Changes
14. Public Image Ltd - Rise
15. Scott Walker - My Death
16. The Beloved - The Sun Rising
17. The Proclaimers - Sunshine Over Leith

(Obviously the last one should be "Sunshine On Leith", but I'm C&p'ing and couldn't quite be bothered correcting)

o_O @ that

Admittedly, I can imagine a lot of that being used to soundtrack a man in a dog suit having his knackers stamped on by a man in a different colour dog suit. But still.

shame it's missing Fader Gladiator 'Battle Of The Planets'

I always liked the fact that they used dubiously legit tracks on the soundtrack of the episodes.

As a bootleggy star-wars / noise mash up is almost the most spaced thing ever.

and comparing Skins to Teachers is like comparing the old grey whistle test to the tube.

10/10 for use of Amo Bishop Roden in emo/mongy scene yesterday.

Plus some Electrelane!

worst episode ever. though effy in that oversized vest made me feel ashamed to be an adult