At first, a tougher call than you might think. I mean, who on Earth would record songs called The English Patient, The Unbearable Lightness Of Being or Three Colors: Blue (or Red or White, for that matter)?
Thankfully, there were plenty of other selections to encompass her debut, 1983's Liberty Belle right up to this year's Fire, the latest film by Claire Denis and one that is unlikely to be screening at my nearest cinemas which are currently dominated by Tom effing Cruise.
Perfect timing, with Kate Bush securing her first UK #1 in ages with Running Up That Hill, that her debut single gets a look in here, still as stunning now as when I heard it as a 7 year old. This is followed by Vanessa Contenay-Quiñones, better known in the 1990s as Espiritu, with the only French language song in this selection. A bit of cheat here as Juliette Binoche starred in 2005's singular Caché, but I'm pretending that it was so good that I watched it twice...
Juliette is mentioned in the Earthling song 1st Transmission, which also provides today's post title. In a nice touch, the album version and remixes by Plunderphonics and Portishead name check a different location, taking in Ilford, Bombay, Stokes Croft in Bristol and, in the version featured here, stopping off at Woodstock.
Diamond Hoo Ha Men and The Magnetic North are both aliases/side projects for other artists. The former are better known as two thirds of Supergrass and this grungier version popped up on the Bad Blood single in 2008. The Magnetic North are a trio comprising Erland Cooper, Hannah Peel and Simon Tong, remixed here to atmospheric effect by White Label, another trio including Steve Aungle, who worked with the late Billy MacKenzie and has done much to keep his musical legacy alive.
Quite an eclectic selection again, which includes arguably Binoche's career nadir Damage - the Yo La Tengo song is much better - and several songs that I could easily imagine being used in a film soundtrack, assuming they haven't already. This one's a keeper.
1) Chocolat: Cornershop (1997)
2) Liberty Belle (Remix By Mario Caldato Jr): Super Furry Animals (2004)
3) Wuthering Heights (Album Version): Kate Bush (1978)
4) Cache Cache: Vanessa Contenay-Quiñones (2020)
5) 1st Transmission (Acoustlick) (Remix By Plunderphonics): Earthling (1994)
6) Bad Blood (DHHM Version): Diamond Hoo Ha Men (2008)
7) Let The Sunshine In (Recorded Live @ Maida Vale Studios For Lamacq Live On Radio 1, 4th October 2002) (Cover of The 5th Dimension): Badly Drawn Boy (2002)
8) High Life (White Label Remix By Steve Aungle, Anth Brown & Tom Doyle): The Magnetic North (2017)
9) Rendez-Vu (Album Version): Basement Jaxx (1999)
10) Fire: Black Pumas (2018)
11) Damage: Yo La Tengo (1997)
12) Paris: The Anchoress (2021)
1978: The Kick Inside: 3
1994: 1st Transmission EP: 5
1997: I Can Hear The Heart Beating As One: 11
1997: When I Was Born For The 7th Time: 1
1999: Remedy: 9
2002: All Possibilities EP: 7
2004: Phantom Phorce: 2
2008: Bad Blood EP (by Supergrass): 6
2017: Borrowed Voices (by White Label): 8
2018: Black Pumas: 10
2020: Voodoo Girl: 4
2021: The Art Of Losing: 12
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