The Pogues - Junk Theme

[@dreamofmermaids]

I saw Sid and Nancy when it first came out in "86" became my favorite movie and soundtrack!!!!

[@ronaldlatwis8714]

One of my favorite tracks from the movie was an excellent ensemble of artists I grew to love The movie was excellent the story disturbing and tragic! Still seeing a chubby Courtney Love in a scene and Gary Oldman before he was mainstream was the best! What a excellent time to be alive w real art in movie and music 😢❤❤

[@robertonapoletano8248]

i was listening to this music shooting heroin in my neck 10 years ago.....thanks to God now i'm out from the darkness and i live in the light of a normal life.....but i see after many times this sound , and i listened to it again .....it's strange....that nightmare return in my head again!

[@hiliterature]

Muscle memory is a strange beast indeed, strangest and most mystical of all when it comes to the power of music

[@bookreaderson]

I just found this song after hearings it on the movie.

[@Satyr14]

Just watched Sid & Nancy again; first saw it in the theater when it came out in '86. They don't make movies like this anymore. Such a powerful movie, it stays with you, it haunts you and keeps haunting you. Just like this track. It's a dark, repetitive poem. Ex-junkie here, this film (and this song) is like being a dope fiend. It's an ugly, horrific descent into Dante's Inferno, yet all you want is more. Why do I, clean for so many years, after living in hell, and now with a good life- why do I want it still??? Anyway, the Pogues are amazing, this track is ethereal and beautiful.

[@ЕремаЕремушка]

+++++

[@TheRamonesFreak]

Sid and Nancy introduced me to this awesome instrumental. love love love love love 😍😍😍😍😍😍😍 . Still obsessed years later

[@465marko]

There's an extra melody/instrumental line in the movie version that doesn't seem to be on any of these versions on youtube.

[@465marko]

And two years later, I just watched the movie again, came back for the exact same reason and forgot I left this comment two years earlier..... jesus christ

[@frankyjaefelix6514]

my pops used to play this over and over when I was a kid growing up back in the 90s hence I grew up in love with sid and Nancy everything I wanted to be was sid!!

[@davidhartley9115]

Love it so Irish. And those drums 😍

[@michaelnovick9109]

I just had my morning fix down fixing to feel a little better

[@saintinquisition2538]

a few comments on several videos of this song on youtube about people telling how they used to shoot heroin to this song back in the day but managed to break free just to think how many people didn't. how many people didn't return from the heroin madness, they can't tell us their stories anymore. to be straightforward, just imagine how many people fucking died listening to this song. it's unbelievable how a stupid song for a movie that played there for like how many, thirty seconds or something, like this, could be a plain reflection of the whole world with the eyes of a junkie. As for me, for some reason I find myself listening to this song on repeat everywhere I go now and again. Hits like a firetruck every single time. I played this while sober and while high and while tripping balls, what can I say it was the best and the worst experience. Once had a terribly bad trip because it gave me a panic attack, but it was the moment when I realized that this song is about everything. Every moment of life is Junk if you happen to have a certain amount of detachment from life. TheN Junk will gladly take you to every layer of hell.. It's like no other song in the world, it seems like it's listenable literally forever. And the more I listen to it, the more I realize how much is going on there, actually so many instruments are playing all at the same time but always following their own pattern and eventually all coming together as a theme for life which is doomed, yet how emotionally empty this song is. And all of the instruments repeat throughout the song, the only one that doesn't is the Velvet's like alt. That's the only thing that is sort of alive in this song, and it delivers the impression of movement..... Just tried to come up with some more metaphorical description of this song but failed inevitably. This song is not words, no images, no abstraction, it has no colour scheme. It is energy inside a person forever cut off from the light of life. As soon as you might think it's going to be alright one day, there is constantly that low downbeat E on bass to hit you like hammer on the head and remind you that it isn't. This fucking song is like a drug all in itself. I like it very much but it leaves me with some kind of dissatisfaction, so I play it again. Then again, then again. And I don't notice how everything becomes so unbearably depressing. That's what this song does. Whenever I feel good I avoid this song at any cost, refrain from touching it with a 20 feet pole, because this is no way to live.

[@mellm.s.3675]

Takes me back home... aye Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@blackcabbageoo]

GREAT theme! love it

[@johnnyw8444]

Here on inn the heroin i shoot up and died to this on repeat narcon open my eyes went to buy more ...crazy

[@andreiapires4026]

Arrepiada!

[@Trent5281]

Great track..although always makes me want to get out it lol

[@Trent5281]

*out of it*

[@mikijapajapa]

nice

[@persephone6896]

Oh god amazing. Makes you feel like getting high.

[@alfredsenteno327]

you too huh?

[@davidkirke7698]

Me three

[@bookreaderson]

Agree

[@sassygirl4728]

On life

[@jfgaynor]

Anybody know what instrument it is that kicks in around 1:12?

[@davidhartley9115]

Think it’s accordion

[@davidhartley9115]

Electric one

[@davidhartley9115]

No no deffo electric violin

[@TheAuralab]

💚

[@querelle1235]

ésta es mi canción

[@PutrefactionRecords]

Sid & Nancy

[@North_Sea]

Still enjoying the needle in my leg

[@grexagenda615]

Grek 14

[@josephwood2692]

You can tell that MacGowan didn't give a shit about this soundtrack. Lulz. There's no melody to speak of, apart from the Love theme that they re-recorded more times than was necessary.