10 Best Nostalgic Mixtape Movie Soundtracks

Choice cuts: Toots And The Maytals - "54-46 Was My Number", The Specials - "Do The Dog", Soft Cell - "Tainted Love"

Director Shane Meadows has always combined a love of music with his Midlands-set kitchen sink dramas, directing documentaries and mockumentaries with the likes of The Stone Roses and Arctic Monkeys in between films like Dead Man's Shoes. His masterpiece, however, brings those two influences together.

This Is England tells a coming-of-age story against the backdrop of skinheads in an anonymous Midlands town in 1983. There's a clash, for both control of skinhead culture and the soul of troubled protagonist Shaun, between traditional skinheads, whose culture drew on a love of Jamaican and West Indian culture and music, and the newer breed of far-right, white nationalists.

This tight focus on a particular time, place and subculture lends itself perfectly to a mixtape soundtrack and, because of that love of Caribbean sounds, that mixtape is a storming mix of the popular music of the day with classic Jamaican ska, rocksteady and reggae and the two-tone tunes of the Midlands's own legendary The Specials.

The way that such subcultures are defined by music and fashion would go onto influence the changing sounds of Meadows's sequel TV series, with the mod-revival aesthetic of follow-up This Is England '86 bringing The Jam and The Style Council, and the emergence of acid punk and neo-psychedelia during the period of finale This Is England '90 prompting a soundtrack full of Meadows-fave The Stone Roses. Every one is worth a listen as much as a watch.