Songs that feel like Taxi Driver (1976)
The suffocating isolation and simmering rage of a deranged insomniac drifting through the neon-soaked, decaying gutters of 1970s Manhattan.
- Nightclubbing by Iggy Pop: A hypnotic, deadpan stroll through the shadows among the broken and the damned.
- Search And Destroy by The Stooges: The ultimate punk anthem for a volatile Vietnam veteran ready to snap and wage his own war.
- Walk On the Wild Side by Lou Reed: Prowls through the same nocturnal underworld of pimps, hustlers, and lost souls that Travis observes.
- Dirty Boulevard by Lou Reed: Presents a scathing, unromanticized portrait of urban squalor and forgotten lives.
- Subterranean Homesick Blues by Bob Dylan: Reflects the paranoid, fast-talking mania of a mind unraveling under urban pressure.
- Shadowplay by Joy Division: Mirrors the deep psychological void and emotional numbness of a man watching his life self-destruct.
- Ghost Town by The Specials: Evokes the eerie desolation of abandoned city streets rotting from the inside out.
- The Man Who Sold the World by David Bowie: Speaks to the profound alienation of feeling like a ghost wandering among the living.
