Various Artists Trainspotting (Music From the Motion Picture) 2 Lp's) 11/14/2016

Various Artists Trainspotting (Music From the Motion Picture) 2 Lp's) 11/14/2016Producers include: Bewlay Bros, Brian Eno, Daniel Lanois, Andrew Weatherall, Stephen Street. From a movie (and book) in which music (among other things) plays a crucial role in the everyday lives of the characters, TRAINSPOTTING is less the soundtrack for a movie and more the soundtrack for a way of life. The music mirrors the movie's many moods, from the sweet melancholy of Lou Reed's "Perfect Day," to the surrealistic horror of Underworld's epic

but there is nothing as immediately catchy or edgy as their later work and more often than not the songs are far from memorable high speed rants about nothing

anything-goes spirit

in keeping with the overall '80s adult contemporary sound

Springsteen became even more ambitious

Where Lana Del Rey seemed weighted down by existential sorrow on her first two albums

The band knows how to craft a hook ("Kill Rock 'N Roll

Post Malone continued his climb up the celebrity ladder

AM is the stunning fifth album from Sheffield's finest

and Styrofoam's remix of the FUTURES track "Drugs or Me

Green Day: Billie Joe Armstrong (vocals

which he does a couple times

Dinosaur Jr