![]() ![]() Just as Jack White’s music dominates season 1 of Peaky Blinders, season 2 belongs to PJ Harvey. ![]() Just another standard day for the family. Royal Blood supply the soundtrack to Arthur enjoying a breakfast of cocaine and whiskey in his bar, The Garrison, before being confronted by a gun-toting, grieving mother. The most troubled member of the Shelby clan, plagued by hellish memories of World War I, Arthur Shelby’s dependence on drink and drugs is a constant worry for his family. In the opening episode of series two, it’s employed for the lingering minutes Thomas Shelby hides in the shadows of a steelworks, before popping a bullet in the head of one Eamonn Duggan, under instruction from the IRA.īearing the influence of their friends Queens of the Stone Age, this cut from the Monkeys’ 2013 album AM plays over a ‘the story so far’ recap montage at the opening of an episode which sees the Shelby family extend their operations into London. ![]() White’s version was originally recorded for a tribute album commissioned by Q magazine, and later appeared on the soundtrack to The Great Gatsby, but it’s never sounded more powerful than here, introduced as Thomas Shelby types out the words “I learned long ago to hate my enemies, but I’ve never loved one before….” on a letter to his duplicitous girlfriend Grace.īeloved of maudlin Irish drunks, though written by an English lawyer, Danny Boy is perhaps one of the most cloying, overly sentimental songs ever written, but when covered by Johnny Cash on his final studio album, 2002’s American IV: The Man Comes Around, it acquired a new-found dignity and gravitas. Jack White pretty much owns season one of Peaky Blinders, with multiple tracks from The White Stripes and The Raconteurs scattered through the series, but arguably his most affecting contribution is his cover of Love Is Blindness, a cover of the closing track on U2’s Achtung Baby album. Tom Waits’ haunting Time, recorded for 1985’s Rain Dogs album, offers an almost unbearably poignant background to the scene, not least with the lyric “It’s raining hammers, it’s raining nails, it’s true, there’s nothing left for him down here.” When a visit from the Shelby’s long estranged father ends in betrayal, his eldest boy Arthur is so distraught that he attempts to hang himself in a backstreet boxing ring. ![]()
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