“…Choose washing machines, cars, compact disk players…”
The long awaited sequel to Danny Boyle’s 1996 classic ‘Trainspotting’ is upon us, and with ‘T2’ comes an accompanying soundtrack, that in our opinion could rival the much loved original.
11 years is a long time in music, here’s how the new soundtrack compares to the original;
1996:
2017:
- ‘Lust For Life’ – Iggy Pop (The Prodigy Remix)
- ‘Shotgun Mouthwash’ -High Contrast
- ‘Silk’ – Wolf Alice
- ‘Get up’ – Young Fathers
- ‘Relax’ – Frankie Goes To Hollywood
- ‘Eventually But (Spud’s Letter To Gail)’ – Underworld, Ewen Bremner
- ‘Only God Knows’ – Young Fathers
- ‘Dad’s Best Friend’ – The Rubberbandits
- ‘Dreaming’ – Blondie
- ‘Radio Ga Ga’ – Queen
- ‘It’s Like That’ – Run-DMC vs Jason Nevins
- ‘(White Man) In Hammersmith Palais’ – The Clash
- ‘Rain Or Shine’ – Young Fathers
- ‘Whitest Boy On The Beach’ – Fat White Family
- ‘Slow Slippy’ – Underworld
The ‘T2’ soundtrack embodies the its predecessor with the inclusion of Iggy Pop and Underworld, as well as featuring three tracks from upcoming Scottish hip-hop trio Young Fathers.
Here’s some a couple of our favorite tracks from both soundtracks to get you just as excited as we are for T2! Let us know which are your favorites!
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