A few months ago, I read the ultimate graphic novel, Alan Moore’s Watchmen. It is indeed an amazingly good book. I don’t normally cross over other media into this music based blog, but Watchmen is a story I read and can see it cinematically as well as imagining a great soundtrack to accompany it. I’ve seen the film yet, read first though as I thought it would be sacrilege to see it before i had read the novel. Although good, I have to admit that I was disappointed by it as a whole. It misses out major parts of the novel, but it is visually an impressive like-for-like copy. I even wrote notation on what i liked and what I didn’t, the dislikes out weigh the likes by a strong margin.
The soundtrack though, was one of the best things about the film, it had some inspired choices, including Hendrix. But, here is an alternative soundtrack formed from ideas when I first read the novel. I’ve compiled a short playlist to go with each of the 12 chapters of Watchmen.
Chapter 1
The Futureheads – He Knows
Chapter 2
Joy Division – Dead Souls
Chapter 3
Blondie – Heart of Glass
Chapter 4
Arcade Fire – My Body Is A Cage
Chapter 5
Radiohead – Karma Police
Chapter 6
Thom Yorke – Skip Divided
Chapter 7
The Strokes – What Ever Happened?
Chapter 8
Fleet Foxes – Heard Them Stirring
Chapter 9
The Cribs – Ancient History
Chapter 10
AC/DC – Back in Black
Chapter 11
Elle Milano – This Is How It Ends
Chapter 12
Echo & The Bunnymen – The Killing Moon
Listen and you’ll hopefully enjoy.
