Trainspotting: Music From The Motion Picture [SOUNDTRACK]

Trainspotting (Related Recordings), Various Artists - Soundtracks - 1996

Product Details

• Audio CD (July 9, 1996)
• Original Release Date: July 9, 1996
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Soundtrack
• Label: Capitol
• ASIN: B000002U3P
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (31 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #6,469 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Track Listings

1. Lust for Life - Iggy Pop

2. Deep Blue Day - Brian Eno

3. Trainspotting - Primal Scream

4. Atomic - Sleeper

5. Temptation - New Order

6. Nightclubbing - Iggy Pop

7. Sing - Blur

8. Perfect Day - Lou Reed

9. Mile End - Pulp

10. For What You Dream Of [Full On Renaissance Mix] - Bedrock, KYO

11. 2:1 - Elastica

12. Final Hit - Leftfield

13. Born Slippy - Underworld

14. Closet Romantic - Damon Albarn

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

The first of two Trainspotting discs is a prime example of the contemporary rock soundtrack, functioning as a useful keepsake of the 1996 British film smash and as a cohesive, eclectic listen in its own right. Iggy Pop's booming, Bowie-produced 1977 anthem "Lust for Life" sets the boisterously ambivalent mood for a transatlantic, trans-generational cross-section of alt-rock. New Order's seminal 1982 dance hit "Temptation" and Lou Reed's hauntingly bittersweet 1972 tune "Perfect Day" shares space with tracks by such esteemed mid-1990s Brit-popsters as Blur (whose frontman Damon Albarn also contributes a solo number), Pulp, Elastica, and Sleeper. Elsewhere, the album dips into dance rhythms (Underworld, Bedrock featuring KYO) and ambient grooves (Brian Eno Leftfield, and Primal Scream's ten-and-a-half-minute title song) without breaking the spell. --Scott Schinder

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars all time favourite.....and it grows on you, October 23, 1999

By	za_janice (Cape Town - South Africa) - See all my reviews

When I first got this I only liked Iggy Pop's "Lust..." and Underworld's "Born Slippy" (rave/techno whatever)..then I discovered Deep Blue Day {really sounds like a deep blue day), Primal Scream's "Trainspotting" (slow, sleepy), "A Final Hit" (very sleepy and sexual), and Blur's "Sing". I actually fell in love with all the songs and played it over and over and over...it's very eclectic there's all types of music on the CD. the tracks that will never grow on me are Albarn's "Closet Romantic" and Iggy's "Nightclubbing".... A Final Hit is the most beautiful and sensual piece of music i have ever heard. A Perfect Day and 2:1 are also really brilliant. You have to be in the party mood for the others though, they're really 'poppy' for want of a better word. It will definitely grow on you, I mean at first I hated "For What You Dream Of" now I LOVE it, it's so weird.....

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Better than the movie...?, April 10, 2004

By	Henry Platte (Boston, MA) - See all my reviews

When I started listening to this, it had been a year or so since I had seen the movie (which I liked), and I couldn't remember which scenes correponded to which tracks. Therefore I enjoyed it as a completley seperate work of art. When I re-watched the movie recently, I was almost dissapointed; the music actually seemed weakened in the context of the scenes. Don't get me wrong, Trainspotting is excellent, but the soundtrack stands indepedently and possibly even above it as a pop-culture watermark.

It's been observed that there's a lot of variance in the music, but I do think it's held together by a certain theme, a depiction of a way of life - squalor (Mile End, 2:1), desperatley sincere attempts to find some happiness or amusement (Lust For Life, Atomic, For What You Dream Of), an underlying and understandable sense of desperation (Sing and Perfect Day, the only songs which I thought perfectly matched their respective scenes in the movie), made bearable by the occasional glimpse of real, innocent sweetness (Temptation).

Taken seperatley, the songs are again very strong; there are great commerical hits like 'Temptation' and 'Born Slippy,' and more obscure but excellent tracks like 'Sing,' which I don't think can be found on any other album, but which I think is one of Blur's best songs, ever. The instrumental tracks are also good, particularly 'Trainspotting' itself.

12 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of the best soundtracks in modern music, November 6, 2001

By	Erica Anderson (Minneapolis, MN) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

I consider the soundtrack to the movie "Trainspotting" one of the most definitive soundtrack in modern music. There is an eclectic mix of artists and bands that ranges from alternative to techno, mixing old songs with new songs. This soundtrack couldn't have started off on a better note than with Iggy Pop's classic "Lust For Life", both a film and commercial favorite. The thunderous beats and Iggy's raw vocals mixes nicely together and makes the listener get up and dance. "Nightclubbing", another Iggy Pop song, is excellent. A bit monotonous at times but I just love how deep Iggy's voice gets on this song. It has a trip hop influence in the song, long before the term trip hop was defined. Sleeper's cover of the Blondie classic "Atomic" is excellent without a doubt. Catchy and darn right fun to listen to. I almost love this version more than the original and I love Blondie's music to death. I think my very personal favorite track off the soundtrack has to be New Order's "Temptation". Elastica's "2:1" is awesome. That is probably my all time favorite Elastica song. It's short and sweet. The timing of the beats in the song and Justine Frischman's vocals is what blows my mind away. And of course there is Underworld's "Born Slippy", the song that put this soundtrack on the map as well as for the band. That song and Leftfield's "A Final Hit" are just classic techno music. What I love most about this cd is how it eclectic it is and that the artists and bands put on the album are/were both established and new. You don't see established artists and new artists on the same album very often. The film industry should use the "Trainspotting" soundtrack as an architect to how soundtracks should be, as art and not another form of crass commercialism.