10 "Drive Soundtrack" Style Songs...

Some nice fan art posters to start off...

I've found myself a little obsessed with the music from what is still my favourite movie of the year (unless you count Black Swan which didn't reach UK cinemas til January). The soundtrack of Drive has an 80s-style theme, but all the actual songs are modern. I think the style they adopt might be linked to moves by bands like Crystal Castles to make use of videogame sounds in their music and I'm also reminded of the recent trend to do 8-bit versions of songs (as seen in another recent soundtrack).

In this post I'm going to look at several bands or artists I've come across either from the soundtrack or from searching for similar sounding music. If you loved the Drive soundtrack as much as I did, you might want to check this out...

1. Electric Youth

Anyway, possibly the best example of a song made to sound 80s on the Drive soundtrack is "A Real Hero" by College featuring Electric Youth:

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Having done a bit of digging, I'm inclined to believe that it is Electric Youth, not College, who are the real secret to this song's success. Oddly one of their own songs sounds even more 80s than the one featured on the Drive OST:

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( For more songs from Kavinsky, Desire, Crystal Castles, Tesla Boy, Anoraak, Flashworx, Ladytron and Daft Punk, continue reading under the cut! )