Ashes to Ashes OST


Fire up the Audi Quatro, slap a cartridge in your 8-track and hit it. Alternatively buy Ashes To Asheson Amazon, groove to the groove in the comfort of your own home and invite bonnie nickers round to dance the horizontal tango to the strains of Father Benny Cake's classic - Vienna.

The lineup for this tasty bit of 80's nostalgia includes: -
  1. Introduction - Dialogue: Alex Drake

  2. David Bowie - Ashes To Ashes

  3. Visage - Fade To Grey

  4. The Human League- Love Action

  5. Duran Duran - Girls On Film

  6. Dexys Midnight Runners - Geno

  7. OMD - Souvenir

  8. The Stranglers - No More Heroes

  9. The Clash - I Fought The Law

  10. Heaven 17 - (We Don't Need This) Fascist Groove Thing

  11. Interlude - Dialogue: You're Nicked

  12. Edmund Butt - Gene Genie (Gene Hunt's theme from `Ashes To Ashes')

  13. The Passions - In Love With A German Film Star

  14. Altered Images - Happy Birthday

  15. Joe Jackson - It's Different For Girls

  16. Flying Lizards - Money

  17. The Beat - Doors Of Your Heart

  18. The Ruts - Staring At The Rude Boys

  19. The Teardrop Explodes - Reward

  20. Tenpole Tudor - Swords Of A Thousand Men

  21. Bryan Ferry - Let's Stick Together

  22. Ultravox - Vienna

  23. Edmund Butt - Title Music from `Ashes To Ashes'

  24. Epilogue: Dialogue: Fandabydozy


Shame there's no Motörhead in the lineup, Ace of Spades or Bomber would have been great additions. Still there's always the possibility for a Season 2 OST if the next series gets the green light. Ace Of Spades in particular was pretty iconic of the early 80's and is the ultimate background music for a bit of on-screen violence.

Still, it's nice to see The Stranglers in the mix, especially as my cousin drummed with them at one point.

Comments

Löst Jimmy said…
You beat me to it regarding Ace Of Spades, or even Please Don't Touch by MotorHEAD/GIRLschool an actual 1981 hit.
March 22, 2008 at 12:03 PM
George Ternent said…
Check out the Doppelgänger site, I extended this post and tried out a new theme.

If you ever decide to switch from Blogger to Wordpress sometime, let me know and I'll give you some pointers. There's a snaggletooth shaped pod out there ready and waiting.

:-)

One of the advantages of Wordpress is you can create your own pages along with the main blogging one. My test site only has a couple of Spartanly populated ones for testing purposes at the moment, but I'll build on them some time.

Copying posts from Blogger to a hosted Worpress blog is dead hard....not, you just need to press a button. It's nearly as easy as falling asleep........
March 22, 2008 at 12:22 PM
Löst Jimmy said…
Thanks for the prompt George, once I am back on my feet proper I may well seek out the Wordpress alternative. I have been thinking for a while about moving away from the black background for a while as I don't think the white text on black is always reader friendly.
Wishing you a good weekend!
March 28, 2008 at 3:46 AM
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