![]() Let’s go ahead and push play on the old Walkman, and see what’s really behind the music. The soundtrack, very swiftly and very thoroughly, changed my life.īut to say that Boyle’s use of source music simply turns the film into a giant music video is a huge mistake Boyle’s choices of music have a deeper significance. But it also introduced me to those artists that I really should have already known about, including Iggy Pop, Lou Reed, Brian Eno, and New Order. Through them, Britpop became my new teenage angst. It’s become so much a part of our lives, so intricately woven into the fabric of our present day as well as our memories, that separating it is almost an impossibility.Īs Boyle explains, “pop music refreshes us, it completes us, it renews us.” And to be honest, while Trainspotting as a movie was a huge part of my life when it finally came out on VHS, I knew it as a soundtrack first.Īnd what a soundtrack. Through it, I was introduced to my new favorite bands in 1996. Blur. It’s in our earbuds, it’s in the grocery store, it’s in the hospital elevator-there’s no escaping its pulse. As Boyle has stated, we all live life inside of MTV now. ![]() ![]() Boyle has often been accused of choosing style over substance, and of turning a subject as heartbreaking and sorrowful as heroin addiction into a two-hour music video. But Boyle wouldn’t see much wrong with that. The music of Danny Boyle’s Trainspotting has since become as iconic as the film itself.
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