Songs that feel like Peaky Blinders (2013)
Smoke-choked, soot-stained ambition: a traumatised post-war family of outlaws claws up from the Birmingham slums with swagger, menace and buried grief.
- Red Right Hand by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: The show's signature theme: a sinister, tolling ballad of a dark, lurking figure.
- Lazarus by David Bowie: Haunted, defiant and elegiac, echoing Tommy's survivor's guilt.
- Everything You’ve Come To Expect by The Last Shadow Puppets: Sleek, dangerous swagger with a cinematic edge.
- Black Betty by Ram Jam: Raw stomping rock energy that hits like a brawl in a betting yard.
- Do I Wanna Know? by Arctic Monkeys: Slow, heavy, sultry menace from a Sheffield band with a northern grit.
- Reptilia by The Strokes: Nervy, driving tension like a deal about to go wrong.
- Gotta Get Away by The Black Keys: Gritty blues-rock with a stomp and a cocky outlaw attitude.
- Dance Me to the End of Love by Leonard Cohen: Smoky, tender and fatalistic, matching the show's doomed romances.
- Song To The Siren by This Mortal Coil: Ethereal, haunted beauty like the ghosts of the war and lost loves.
- The Mercy Seat by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Biblical guilt and a doomed man's reckoning, building to a dark crescendo.
