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It Felt Like a Kiss - Music

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Adam Curtis|15:14 UK time, Thursday, 23 July 2009

This is a list of the music in the film It Felt Like a Kiss and the show.

Oh What a Dream - Ruth Brown

Camille - From Le Mepris soundtrack - Georges Delerue

Let the Four Winds Blow - Fats Domino

Stealing Fat - From Fight Club soundtrack - Dust Brothers

On the Rebound - Floyd Cramer

What Does a Woman Do? - Doris Day

Monkey 23 - The Kills

Baja - The Astronauts

Do-Wah-Diddy - The Exciters

Just One Look - Doris Troy

Monkey on Your Back - Clinic

I'll Be Your Mirror - Velvet Underground

Parlez-Moi d'Amour - Lucienne Boyer

Pink Shoe Laces - Dodie Stevens

Slap in The Face - from The Gadfly - Shostakovich

Easier Said Tan Done - The Essex

He Hit Me (and It Felt Like a Kiss) - The Crystals

The Locomotion - Little Eva

In Dreams - Roy Orbison

End of the World - Skeeter Davis

Cha-Cha - from Symphonic Dances from West Side Story - Leonard Bernstein

Meeting Scene - from Symphonic Dances from West Side Story

Who's That Guy? - The Kolettes

The Madison Time, Pt 1 - Ray Bryant Combo

All Tomorrow's Parties - The Velvet Underground

Love Minus Zero/No Limit - Bob Dylan

Cry To Me - Solomon Burke

Freak Freak - The Bug

Moonlight - Four Sea Interludes (From Peter Grimes) - Benjamin Britten

Who Is Tyler Durden? - Fight Club soundtrack - Dust Brothers

I Still Miss Someone - Johnny Cash

Wouldn't It Be Nice? - Beach Boys

Sister Ray - The Velvet Underground

Have You Seen Her? - The Chi-Lites

River Deep Mountain High - Ike and Tina Turner

Is That All There Is? - Peggy Lee

Krautrock - Faust

Dawn - Four Sea Interludes (From Peter Grimes) - Benjamin Britten

Comments

  • Comment number 1.

    for those of you who spotify:-



    spotify:user:winxamitosis:playlist:2zzbV8UW23WTlzMcRoJ07n



    A couple of tracks are missing and there are a couple of alternative versions in place of exact tracks.

    Enjoy.

  • Comment number 2.

    Mr. Curtis, if you're reading this: thank you!



    The effort and man-hours that must have been expended in creating It Felt Like A Kiss is probably a staggering total. Well, for a totally immersive experience it was all worth it.



    I was not alive during the period detailed, but I came away with some of the feelings of myopia and violence, renewal and chaos, significance and retail-triviality, that must have pervaded the era.



    Thank you for allowing me to experience the benthic tensions of the time, in a manner unique, and entirely worthy.

  • Comment number 3.

    I noticed Papa was a Rolling Stone by The Temptations follows 'Wouldn't It Be Nice'... or should I keep quiet!

  • Comment number 4.

    want the music, daddyo

    and loved Charlie Brooker's love letter in the Guardian



    will there be a DVD and CD?

    I am half way up a mountain and have no TV nor nothin'

    not so much a comment, more a begging letter

  • Comment number 5.

    The Temptations - Papa Was A Rolling Stone

  • Comment number 6.

    Here Ad, as i recline in my Romford bijou apartment, i wonder ...whats the shortest poem in the orld ...i`m pissed........ADAM ADD EM....Mailer said that...do you know abot "western nile disease" & the swimming pools of california the beginnings of the credit crunch.....stop loooking out & sneering at Westfield, Finsbury Park as we talk is turning into the bronx....its so easy to keep pointing the digit ....naughty america.......a little relevance would be appreciated....i`m obviouslly very cool................terry

    LOVE IS LIKE ANTHRAX................i know robert kee

  • Comment number 7.

    By the way ...I CANT WAIT FOR YOU TO USE EXCERPTS FROM "DIGBY THE BIGGEST DOG IN THE WORLD" INTERCEPTED WITN SIR KEITH JOSEPHS..IS THAT WHAT MY TAX MONEY FUNDED UNIVERSITIES FOR ?..STEINBECK MONSTERS...YOU ARE GREAT THOUGH....DORIS TROY & FAUST.HOW VERY HANWAY STRRET..LOVE YOU TERRY....I`M STILL PISSED

  • Comment number 8.

    This comment was removed because the moderators found it broke the house rules. Explain.

  • Comment number 9.

    Hey Adam I love your work. I just finished a cut up collage and thought you might appreciate the message.



    https://paradox.rambisyouth.com

  • Comment number 10.

    Adam, I would just like to say that your work remains of a wonderful standard.



    The music was glorious, weird and as typically spot-on as ever.



    Recently, I heard an interview you gave in which you say bloggers are 'bullies'.



    I know what you mean; but there is some stuff out there that, in my humble opinion, is actually pretty good and adds to your work in a small way.



    Astonishingly, there are parts of the BBC that ban posters from adding urls. More genius from the BBC there. I shan;t be too critical as they also produce some great work.



    Anyway, I would urge you to check this out:

    https://85consultancy.blogspot.com/



    It is a blog all about the underlying faultlines which compromise the media as well as just offering some random reflections and analysis.













  • Comment number 11.

    I loved this so much.



    msymons - thanks for the spotify uri - great.



    One tiny thing, could you please change the River Deep Mountain High to this one:

    spotify:track:4psjgB5e5HIuUeSVbEUY64



    So, so much better, and definitely the one used in the show. I was left haunted by that song as I left the show and walked the streets of Manchester. Incredible.