Trainspotting Soundtrack
In a perfect creative world, a film soundtrack can do
several things. It can be an integral, active part of a
film, lending to the atmosphere and moving along plot
and character development in ways that can thrill you.
It can capture a time and place and cement it in your
mind. And, when it's put together with incredible care
and musicality, a soundtrack can stand apart from the
film as an unbelievable, "must have" compilation.
Trainspotting is all of the above. Featuring music from
the highly acclaimed and controversial film of the same
name, it's a sonic melding of alternative rock
classics, hypnotic dance and techno grooves, and new,
specially-written tracks by the Britpop aristocracy.
This 14-track compilation really sets the tone for the
film.
Lust For Life -- Iggy Pop
Deep Blue Day -- Brian Eno
Trainspotting -- Primal Scream *
Atomic -- Sleeper *
Temptation New Order
Nightclubbing -- Iggy Pop
Sing -- Blur
Perfect Day -- Lou Reed
Mile End -- Pulp *
For What You Dream Of -- Bedrock featuring KYO
2.1 -- Elastica
A Final Hit -- Leftfield *
Born Slippy (Nuxx) -- Underworld
Closet Romantic -- Damon Albarn *
* = Previously Unreleased
Trainspotting, the music, will entertain, inspire,
haunt, bring back memories, move your feet and heart
and more. The movie is sure to be as controversial here
and talked about as it is in the UK, as it looks at a
group of Scottish young people, whose lives revolve
around heroin, dead end lifestyles, pipe dreams, good
and bad relationships, dysfunctional families and pop
culture. It's graphic, sometimes horrifying, sometimes
hilarious, and totally unforgettable.
Connect to EMI Records - official soundtrack web site!
Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh
Trainspotting is a jarring, fragmented ride through a
contemporary hell on earth, documented with ruthless
honesty and written with compelling energy and a
mordant wit. Mark Renton is a very sick young man.
He's sick of heroin and sick of trying to get off it. He's
also sickened by what he sees around him in the AIDS
capital of Europe, with its dead dockland area. Above all,
Renton is thoroughly sick of himself. Surrounded by
friends like the exploitative Sick Boy, the psychopathic
Begbie, the thieving, feline- obsessed Spud, the doomed
Matty and the luckless Tommy, the last thing Renton
needs is enemies, but he's finding out that the old cliché
about who your own worst enemy is can have more that a
ring of truth. Trainspotting is set in Edinburgh without
knickers, and certainly without a fur coat. There is not an
advocate or a festival performer in sight as the world of
the addict in the darker side of the city is explored with
bitter, mesmerising passion and rancid humour.
Read chapter one of Irvine Welsh's Trainspotting!
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