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Battleship Potemkin is a 2005 album of electronic and orchestral music written by Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe of Pet Shop Boys, to accompany the 1925 silent film Battleship Potemkin by Sergei Eisenstein. It is performed by Tennant, Lowe and the Dresdner Sinfoniker, conducted by Jonathan Stockhammer, with orchestrations by Torsten Rasch.

They wrote the music in the order it would be heard, using a DVD of the film as a guide. From the beginning they resolved to combine electronic music and strings; the lyrics of the three vocal pieces within it were largely inspired by the film's original subtitles, though one – "After All (The Odessa Staircase) " – was also prompted by the role in London of Trafalgar Square as a home of political dissent.

Tennant and Lowe decided to ask Torsten Rasch to orchestrate the work after hearing his song cycle Mein Herz brennt, a record based on the music of the rock group Rammstein which has sold over two million copies worldwide. Torsten Rasch's orchestrations were recorded by the Dresdner Sinfoniker, conducted by Jonathan Stockhammer, in Berlin during July 2004.

01 "Comrades!" 3:52
02 Men And Maggots 4:57
03 Our Daily Bread 0:52
04 Drama In The Harbour 9:00
05 Nyet 6:14
06 To The Shore 3:12
07 Odessa 6:50
08 No Time For Tears 4:32
09 To The Battleship 4:34
10 After All (The Odessa Staircase) 7:23
11 Stormy Meetings 1:31
12 Night Falls 5:55
13 Full Steam Ahead 1:50
14 The Squadron 4:24
15 For Freedom 3:17