Trainspotting Soundtrack Poll.nuxx

Worst soundtrack of the era = Shooting Fish

really, really want to vote 'mile end'. actually i will do so. without compunction.

i don't think much of the contemporary cuts by pulp, damon, elastica etc on this tbh. pretty meh all round. seems nowhere near as zeitgeisty as people say imho. the use of 'sing' by blur though was a very good call. seems no one liked that track until it was on here. even blur started playing it live again after this.

No recollection of primal scream track, or elastica, or leftfield, or albarn. Gonna hit the tubes for some memory jogging.

Temptation vs Born Slippy. Going for the latter for zeitgeist value.

now i'd probably go 'nightclubbing', but then definitely underworld

xxp now i recall them all.

Gonna go 'Sing' as it's been randomly in my head these last few days.

Would have gone Dark Train but it's not on the soundtrack album. Went for the Bedrock track instead as Born Slippy has suffered from over exposure and For What You Dream Of still sounds awesome in that first Renaissance Mix album

Check the soundtrack vol2 for Dark Train. And other.

I heard "Deep blue day" on some advert recently, and remembered how KLF weren't quite so groundbreaking as they pretended to be.

"Born Slippy" was me and Mrs V's wedding dance so this is a no-brainer

'Sing'. Always liked this song.

"Born Slippy" was me and Mrs V's wedding dance so this is a no-brainer

― Nulty By Nature (Noodle Vague), Friday, March 4, 2011 12:19 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark

awesome

It was nearly "Choose Life" from vol2

"Sing" is one of my favorite songs ever.

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Born Slippy is my vote. Not that it's my favorite song off this but it sort of defined the movie.

Temptation is my favorite.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aiwd4pAxis0

I vote for "Deep Blue Day" which absolutely smokes all other Eno I've heard.

(I predict Elastica will be last)

I find in general I can't listen to too much Brian Eno in one go, but in small doses or on compilations his music can really hit the spot. That track was used brilliantly in that film, so it's Eno for me (despite, as others have said, actually liking other individual tracks more)

Goes without saying that this was basically Britpop's equivalent to grunge's Singles.

I'm going to ignore the classics and go for "Sing" by Blur. There, I said it.

ya well it's just about the only good song on it

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"Sing" is lovely, thought I'm purposely ignoring the OG ringers (New Order, Iggy etc.).

Tbf "Atomic" is a good song

sure 90s ppl will hate but those are some of my least favourite underworld, new order, iggy pop and lou reed songs

eno is great tho

sing is one of the better blur songs

the title track is the shittest thing off of vanishing point too iirc

it's kind of meh but soundtracks are supposed to be, usually

how you going to front on 'nightclubbing'

"Lust for Life" = great song, overplayed
"Nightclubbing" = prime Ig, fucking monster tune
Underworld = okay they have many better but this is still a bomb
Lou Reed = dece song, hella overplayed even before the Radio 2 verzh
New Order = haven't given a fuck about these since 1991

"Atomic" wd walk it for me if it was the proper version and not those fuckwits

nightclubbing is good, schaffel 4eva but lust for life is basically destroyed by appropriation as tv producers' LAD anthem of choice for 15 years

remembered how KLF weren't quite so groundbreaking as they pretended to be.

how did they pretend to be?

title track re-recorded for Vanishing Point iirc, unless I'm conflating with The Acid House

voted Temptation though I have no idea what version is in this, never seen the movie or heard the soundtrack

It's the version off Substance.

I hadn't heard the original version of Atomic back then, so that was my favorite song on this soundtrack. Actually, I think I still like this version more than the original.

Gotta vote "NUXX" as it defined the movie and really overshadows everything else on there, I agree they have better, which I would say is definitely due to UW being such a great band more than any weakness in the song.

But reading this got me thinking about soundtrack albums in general. Have there been any really big soundtrack albums since? I loved the 90's style of movie soundtracks like Snatch or Go where it almost seems like the director really just tried to make one awesome mixtape. I mean, the Trainspotting soundtrack was really a big deal at the time. I even had the poster for it.

these movies still exist, it's just that they are unambiguously straight-up garbage like the "Twilight" films

No way is Sleeper's "Atomic" even close to topping the original, but not even second-stringers like them could fuck up that riff and that vocal melody.

I read somewhere that Eno made a killing off this soundtrack.

Course he did.

And underworld, and Sleeper, and etc.

these movies still exist, it's just that they are unambiguously straight-up garbage like the "Twilight" films

I'll take your word for it, I mean the good-to-great "alternative" movies that can hit big and make someone a star - Underworld have this to thank for half their fanbase, I don't know if a movie could have that kind of power today

Oh it can, it's just no-one knows when.

"Mile End" Pulp

this is good too btw

I vote "Mile End", coincidentally. Danny Boyle has his faults, but he certainly knows how to use music and sound design effectively. Can we do the "Lock, Stock..." soundtrack next for the lols?

Actually, Danny Boyle....

I remember getting "The Acid House" out, after having read the book which was great, and seeing "Screenplay by Irvine Welsh", and for some reason thinking "uh-oh"...

It seemed he mostly picked the most unlikeable parts of the book, and pretty much kept it exactly as-was. In the end, we had to turn it off, it was pretty much unremitting.

So, Screenwriting from a source not your own is clearly an art.

John Hodge being the screenwriter, etc.

Yeah I nearly walked out of the cinema while watching that, only stopped by being there for a friend's birthday.

I love "Sing" and am voting for it, but never listened to anything else by Blur because all my Blur-listening friends said it was a one-off and not really representative of their style or sound. Should I have checked for myself?

Well, 95% of their stuff is unrepresentative.

The 5% left can maybe be bracketed in the "oy oy apples and chairs" Parklife template.

YPYM, YTYC

BTW not to derail too much but does anyone else believe that Trainspotting is the best drug movie of its time? I always thought Blow was too hamfisted and long, while Requiem was powerful but kind of dishonest. Trainspotting was the only one that really dealt with both the positive and negative sides of drugs and didn't make the subjects look depraved or stupid. Great movie

"oy oy apples and chairs" is way more than 5% of blur's output. Even their other half decent slow ones - "The Universal", "To the End" ... - have more of a tendency to melodrama than "Sing".

Sing is also used beautifully in the movie - it just floods that sequence with melancholy. A lot of the songs are employed with a tongue-in-cheek caperish quality but that one gets to the fact (more subtly than Perfect Day) that these people are in a dreadful, depressing rut.

Drugstore Cowboy is much better, I think

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well i'm glad, but my feelings are still hurt from all the people that voted against

All is as it should be :)

"Atomic" is a better song than Sleeper should have ever been allowed to cover.

lol