Unlike most soundtrack albums A Clockwork Orange OST assumes a mystique of its own, befitting the relentless cinematic onslaught that Kubrick aspired to create.

The highly stylised and choreographed violent scenes, so integral to the movie, would not be the same without the chilling juxtaposition of classical masterpieces and electonic blasts.

Walter Carlos' appropriation of Henry Purcell's 'The Funeral Of Queen Mary' for the title score is the sound of Olde England strangled by industrial conformity and mental and moral crisis.

Amidst the lush chaos there is Erika Eigen's 'I Want to Marry a Lighthouse Keeper' and the timeless Gene Kelly standard 'Singing in the Rain'. Clockwork Orange aficionados will no doubt know that in the movie this song leaves a sick, giddy feeling in the stomach. I won't over-elaborate and spoil the impact, as the rest of you can check it out on Paddy's Day when it receives its first ever legal Irish release.

38 years after its original publication and 28 after being committed to celluloid, A Clockwork Orange still reads, views, and for these purposes, sounds, as highly entertaining, deeply disturbing and profoundly thought-provoking as it ever did. As little Alex would say: "Horrorshow!"