Awaydays Soundtrack CD
Awaydays.
2009, Optimum Releasing.
Various/David Alan Hughes.
Universal, CD, 2009, 5318892.
Rating: 
Based on his novel, Kevin Sampson’s screenplay about a disaffected youth’s initiation into a group of football thugs, may not be the most original of ideas (see the generally inferior ‘Football Factory’, ‘Green Street’ etc.) but its focus on identity, whether through the eyes of the sexually ambiguous Elvis, new joiner Carty or the fashion conscious casuals culture they inhabit, gives this film a slight twist. The soundtrack album mirrors the film with a collection of cult cuts from the late 1970s, many of which aren’t half bad, including lesser known songs by Ultravox (‘Young Savage’), Elvis Costello (‘Night Rally’) and Teardrop Explodes (‘Sleeping Gas - Zoo Version’). The score, composed by David Alan Hughes which works perfectly within the film also stands its own on the album, sandwiched between songs by Magazine and Echo And The Bunnymen. But the endless dialogue slows the pace, reminding us that while it may be an entertaining blast from the past, ‘Awaydays’ just ain’t that original, even if the music puts up a good fight to say otherwise.
Track Listing:
1. Young Savage (Ultravox!).
2. Carty And Elvis In Eric’s
3. All That Jazz (The Rascals).
4. Nag Nag Nag (Cabaret Voltaire).
5. Sunrise.
6. Liverpool 1979.
7. The Light Pours Out Of Me (Joy Division).
8. When We Go To Berlin.
9. Slow Motion (Ultravox!).
10. Wool Stomp.
11. 10:15 Saturday Night (The Cure).
12. Insight (Joy Division).
13. Come See The Stars.
14. Elvis’s Dub.
15. Carty Deflated.
16. Carty’s Revenge.
17. Going Up (Echo And The Bunnymen).
18. Carty’s Last Awayday.
19. Just For A Moment (Ultravox!).
20. Where Were You? (The Mekons).
21. When You’re Young (The Jam).
22. Night Rally (elvis Costello And The Attractions).
23. The World (Dalek I)
24. Sleeping Gas (The Teardrop Explodes).
25. Electricity (OMD).
26. Being Boiled (Fast Version) (Human League).
27. I Am The Fly (Wire).
28. Damaged Goods (Gang Of Four).
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