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Disaffection, joylessness and despair virtually seep from every track of Awaydays, the hard-hitting film adaptation of Kevin Sampson's brutalist tale of football hooliganism and reaching adulthood in England's north west in 1979.
And how dreary, bleak and nihilistic the end of the 1970s was: post punk, pre New Romantics, with unemployment racing towards three million and the mean-spirited political convulsion of Thatcherism on the brink of declaring that society didn't exist. Churning away beneath the surface of Sampson's debut novel was a pinpoint accurate soundtrack that threw grim, grey light on a world slowly consumed by its own solipsistic avarice and aggression.
Interspersed with dialogue lifted from the film, the soundtrack seethes with inchoate discontent. The dark centre of gravity is undoubtedly Joy Division's Insight, ''Guess your dreams always end / They don't rise up, just descend / But I don't care anymore / I've lost the will to want more''. But adding their own thrashing adrenaline charge to proceedings are Ultravox's Young Savage (''Condemned to be a stranger / Subway dweller, dead-end danger''); Magazine's The Light Pours Out Of Me and bedsit land's very own poet laureates, Echo And The Bunnymen, with Going Up.
Contributions from the likes of The Jam, Elvis Costello, The Teardrop Explodes, Cabaret Voltaire, OMD and Gang Of Four add their own authentic amalgam of deracinated disdain and disenchantment.
As soundtracks go, this one squats menacingly in the shadows, glowering out at the world it inhabits to offer a harsh but honest commentary of its own. --Michael Quinn
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My Quadrophenia,
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This review is from: Awaydays - Original Soundtrack (Audio CD)
I always loved Quadrophenia as I identified so much with Jimmy's plight. The only problem was it was not my era. Along comes Awaydays and this is me. The film had its flaws but the soundtrack is almost perfection (perhaps room could have been made for an extra Ultravox track, 'The Wild, the beuatiful and the damned' but that is being picky. Watch the film (don't let Carty's accent put you off) then listen to the soundtrack, it is spot on.
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Look at the tracks and see for yourself!,
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This review is from: Awaydays - Original Soundtrack (Audio CD)
An amazing combination of songs, hilights include Magazine's The Light Pours Out Of Me and Ultravox's Young Savage (both of which will bring to mind their fantastic scenes in the film for anyone who has seen it). Also this soundtrack is loyal to the North West 1979 setting of the film (except the score and The Rascals cover but its a great cover too so lets forgive them!) Not a bad track on it! Boss la.
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OLD School CASUAL Footy Flick Unlike the others.,
By TZ2000Rocker "GO MENTAL UNITED" (Lost Angeles(We've a new stadium!)) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Awaydays - Original Soundtrack (Audio CD)
This is an excellent flick. I just recently read the book as well. Although the THICK Scottish Brogh was a bit difficult at times (especially for the Misus'), this film is differnt than the other Footy Hooli related flix out there. Perhaps it is the grey arty film Noir feel, or perhaps its the soundtrack. I never thought I'd hear UltraVox on the soundtrack of a hooli flick. Dispite all these oddities however,it does seem to work quite well. This is a rememberable film, and I do recomend it.
By the way, where can I get one of those cagouls? TZ
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