Trainspotting Various Artists (Geffen)
by Damon Fries
Normally, I don't like movie soundtrack albums which are
merely band compilations for the films' label, the songs rarely having
any relevance to the film or any cohesiveness as an album, but Trainspotting
definitely veers away from that mold.
This soundtrack conveys the mood of the
characters in the film, swaying from the recklessness of their hoodlum
antics (Iggy Pop's "Lust For Life" and "Nightclubbing") to their drug-induced
world of escapism (Brian Eno's "Deep Blue Day" and Underworld's "Born
Slippy").
Trainspotting's soundtrack is able to present
several different genres of music together and make it work. Britpop groups
Elastica, Pulp, Sleeper and Blur (as well as Blur's Damon Albarns' solo
offering, "Closet Romantic") stand up well with the more dreamy, ambient
offerings of Primal Scream and Brian Eno. Sprinkled
amidst the contemporary artsists are older offerings from Lou Reed ("Perfect
Day") and New Order ("Temptation").
This is one of the best band soundtracks
to come along in a while, as it seems the song choices were made with
the film in mind, rather than the usual random offerings from American
film soundtracks. A hip soundtrack that accompanies a hip movie.
|
