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The Singles soundtrack, without a fucking doubt.

singles is one of the worst movies ever made.

it's shit. those are a lot of good songs and whatever but singles is a rom-com tricked up....it's shit. nothing is dumber than cameron crowe trying to define his generation for you.


where's Tad? Green River? screaming trees (before Chris Cornell made them suck?)

a lot of us liked black sabbath with dio even before "Seattle" and didn't need to be taught about it. singles sucks.

No doubt the movie was crap. I suppose the soundtrack, if you're a fan of the Grunge, is outstanding. But the greatest ever created? Obviously S&M is trolling for an argument. I won't argue it but for people with slightly more eclectic musical taste than Grunge and teenage angst there are probably others that come up to at least the same level of "greatness".

A few that I can think of off the top of my head:

Amadeus
Oh Brother Where Art Thou
Round Midnight
Superfly
Gladiator
The Sound of Music (not really my cup of tea, but WTH)
Eddie and the Cruisers (a personal favorite)

I never said the movie was any good. The soundtrack, on the other hand, was epic.

The greatness of Curtis Mayfield cannot be denied.

King Crimson wrote:nothing is dumber than cameron crowe trying to define his generation for you.

How dare you?

As a U&Ler all up in the grunge scene (good time to be an early/mid 20's Northwesterner), I really needed an outsider to tell me about the U&L grunge scene.

where's Tad? Green River? screaming trees

They should have paid tribute to the Deep 6... 3 of which were pretty awesome -- Soundgarden, Melvins, and Green River (bodies were still turning up in the Green River when thatwas made, which predated the movie by at least 5(?) years).

Gruntruck anyone?

Singles was a pretty great soundtrack, but it's marred by the two Paul Westerburg songs. (Honestly, I can't even remember how the second one goes, but "Dyslexic Heart" was just godawful.) "Drown" is worth the price of the soundtrack by itself.

Hard to rank any soundtrack above Purple Rain. Judgment Night had its moments. Helmet/House of Pain, Del/Dinosaur Jr., De La Soul/Teenage Fanclub, the two Cypress Hill songs with Sonic Youth and Pearl Jam, Slayer & Ice-T doing Discharge...

MiketheangrydrunkenCUfan wrote:Hard to rank any soundtrack above Purple Rain.

Absofuckingloutely. Some off the top of the head honorable mentions for me:

A Clockwork Orange
Obscured By Clouds (Music from the film La Valle) by Pink Floyd
American Graffiti
Juice
SLC Punk!
Superfly
Shaft
A Hard Days Night

MiketheangrydrunkenCUfan wrote:Singles was a pretty great soundtrack, but it's marred by the two Paul Westerburg songs. (Honestly, I can't even remember how the second one goes, but "Dyslexic Heart" was just godawful.) "Drown" is worth the price of the soundtrack by itself.

The other song was "Waiting for Somebody," and god damn it, I happen to like both those songs. Drown was good too, obviously.

Screw_Michigan wrote:

MiketheangrydrunkenCUfan wrote:Singles was a pretty great soundtrack, but it's marred by the two Paul Westerburg songs. (Honestly, I can't even remember how the second one goes, but "Dyslexic Heart" was just godawful.) "Drown" is worth the price of the soundtrack by itself.

The other song was "Waiting for Somebody," and god damn it, I happen to like both those songs. Drown was good too, obviously.

I don't know man. Maybe it's just 'cause I was never into the Replacements, but that "na-nanana-na-nana-nanana" refrain made me want to punch babies...

MiketheangrydrunkenCUfan wrote: Hard to rank any soundtrack above Purple Rain.

the premise of the movie was pretty deece, the acting was really pedestrian (except for morris day), but the soundtrack was as good as it gets

Purple Rain
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runners-up

Mikey wrote: Oh Brother Where Art Thou

a great soundtrack to a pretty good movie...

Ennio Morricone gets the nod for fairly much everything. Sounds weird, but 'Dr. No' is a great 18 track album from traditional James Bond theme to calypso and some decent mood tracks that someone like George Martin never seemed to get right. Is there anyone, anywhere that's actually listened to Yellow Submarine, side B?

Dr_Phibes wrote:Is there anyone, anywhere that's actually listened to Yellow Submarine, side B?

Whenever George Martin wasn't balls deep in Paul McCartney, Paul would be known to throw on side B of Submarine.
And then he would think of new and terrible directions to take the Beatles in.

for the time period, i'd rate Pump up the Volume as a soundtrack over Singles. though i do like AIC's Would? a lot. and most of Dirt to be honest.

if only for Rollins (who is a moron and about 8% as smart as he thinks he is) with Bad Brains doing Kick out the Jams.

Harder They Come is also a great ST. Help!.

love Dins coming with the U&L "outsider" smack. lol. Dins authentic worldview is pretty scary real about those Washington bands from Portland.

[insert obligatory Dandy Warhols joke here]

BSmack wrote:Absofuckingloutely. Some off the top of the head honorable mentions for me:

A Clockwork Orange

gotta distinguish between soundtrack and score. although it is difficult for some. like Flash Gordon. great shit there. and The Graduate. songs for the soundtrack and variations on those same songs for the score.


Although I won't dedicate my brain to arranging these, I will say #1 is Purple Rain.

Others I didn't see mentioned.
Nashville
Repo Man
The Harder They Come
Saturday Night Fever is damned good. And I fully expect mockery from that statement.
Pump Up the Volume is pretty good.
Grosse Point Blanke
Hi-Fidelity... but I don't know what songs in the movie were left off the soundtrack.
Rushmore. That soundtrack is genius.

Car Wash

BSmack wrote:A Clockwork Orange

Greatest intro ever

King Crimson wrote:love Dins coming with the U&L "outsider" smack. lol. Dins authentic worldview is pretty scary real about those Washington bands from Portland.

If you knew what you were talking about, you'd realize you were stupid.

Let's see, "house bands" (the "house band" palyed at least monday nights, sometime fridays) at the Satyricon in Portland in the late 80's/early 90's included Nirvana.

Other frequent appearances:

Soundgarden
Mudhoney
MLB
Hole

And a bunch of others that escape me.

You don't understand the incestuous nature of the music of the two cities "out on the island."

Bizzarofelice wrote:
gotta distinguish between soundtrack and score. although it is difficult for some. like Flash Gordon. great shit there. and The Graduate. songs for the soundtrack and variations on those same songs for the score.

Incorporate both, then you've got a decent soundtrack or else it's 'Prince is shit and I like the Star Wars theme' or the other way round. Cobbling together whatever the top ten is or was doesn't seem impressive.

'Assemblage of music accompanying a motion picture that flirts with pop culture' is the way forward.

i never liked mother love bone nor hole

Hole blows choad.

Hole is as much fun as a load to the face.

How can anyone not like Mother Love Bone?

Stardog Champion is a classic.

BSmack wrote:A Clockwork Orange

stanley kubrick was either a genius or a lunatic....without a doubt, one of the weirdest movies I've ever seen....I noticed in a DVD that I watched the other day, Warner Bros. is promoting the 40th anniversary of Clockwork's release

Dinsdale wrote:How can anyone not like Mother Love Bone?

it's easy....

I don't know too much about MLB other that what I read about them and saw in PJ20, but Andy Wood seemed just so fucking strange compared to what Jeff Ament and Stone Gossard ended up becoming. It's like Wood was their version of David Copperdale.

the sound track to Easy Rider was pretty great

Dinsdale wrote:

King Crimson wrote:love Dins coming with the U&L "outsider" smack. lol. Dins authentic worldview is pretty scary real about those Washington bands from Portland.

If you knew what you were talking about, you'd realize you were stupid.

Let's see, "house bands" (the "house band" palyed at least monday nights, sometime fridays) at the Satyricon in Portland in the late 80's/early 90's included Nirvana.

Other frequent appearances:

Soundgarden
Mudhoney
MLB
Hole

And a bunch of others that escape me.

You don't understand the incestuous nature of the music of the two cities "out on the island."

whoo! tough noise.

whatever you say Dins. i saw a lot of those bands in SF and in Denver. and no WAY would i include Hole there. like i post before, Green River, Screaming Trees....not just the TV bands you are trying to pimp as proof of something. i bought Ultramega OK on vinyl. Buzz Factory on purple vinyl. the Fluid Roadmouth. Tad: God's Balls. if you want to go Sub-Pop honking.

"a bunch of others that escape me"....

that's great argumentation about your real thing. why don't you keep to anecdotes about the Dandies. and unfortunately for you, as i say, lot of us didn't need your scene to like Black Sabbath. it was cool to see it done that way at the time after hair metal.....but get over yourself. Mother Love Bone was the band you could throw in before MTV? Pretty off-road shit. Mudhoney, really? best you can do? nice try.

Singles is still a rom-com and Cameron Crowe telling you about the past is the same as thinking about the internal squabs of the Kardashian sisters.

back on topic: the other night i saw Walker, directed by Alex Cox.

Cox directed Repo Man and Sid and Nancy and got money from Universal. he made Walker, which is an unabashed, hilarious spaghetti western, Peckinpah critique of US involvement in Central America in the 80's. it ended his career. basically. he did a Q and A at CU's International Film Series after....really great guy. Buddies with Joe Strummer (who did the soundtrack).

pretty cool.

Strummer soundtrack is pretty cool. not nearly as cool as the Buena Vista Coffee House soundie.......but cool.

This isn't bad:

Soundtrack to Almost Famous


1. "America" Paul Simon Simon & Garfunkel 3:37
2. "Sparks" Pete Townshend The Who 3:48
3. "It Wouldn't Have Made Any Difference" Rundgren Todd Rundgren 3:51
4. "I've Seen All Good People: Your Move" Jon Anderson Yes 3:33
5. "Feel Flows" Carl Wilson, Jack Rieley The Beach Boys 4:44
6. "Fever Dog" Nancy Wilson Stillwater 3:10
7. "Every Picture Tells a Story" Stewart, Ron Wood Rod Stewart 5:55
8. "Mr. Farmer" Sky Saxon The Seeds 2:51
9. "One Way Out (Live)" Elmore James, Marshall Sehorn, Sonny Boy Williamson II The Allman Brothers Band 4:59
10. "Simple Man" Gary Rossington, Ronnie Van Zant Lynyrd Skynyrd 5:56
11. "That's the Way" Jimmy Page, Robert Plant Led Zeppelin 5:37
12. "Tiny Dancer" John, Bernie Taupin Elton John 6:15
13. "Lucky Trumble" Wilson Nancy Wilson 2:42
14. "I'm Waiting for the Man" (from Live Santa Monica '72) Lou Reed David Bowie 5:43
15. "The Wind" Stevens Cat Stevens 1:40
16. "Slip Away" William Armstrong, Marcus Lewis Daniel, Wilbur Terrell Clarence Carter 2:32
17. "Something in the Air" John Keen Thunderclap Newman 3:54

Yeah Jim, but that soundtrack isn't as fukkin legendary as the Singles soundtrack, which was all mostly b-side material. I guess that's the difference between the bad ass District and you pansy waist-APs located up 95.

BTW, when is the last time the Iggles won the Super Bowl?

Screw_Michigan wrote:Yeah Jim, but that soundtrack isn't as fukkin legendary as the Singles soundtrack, which was all mostly b-side material. I guess that's the difference between the bad ass District and you pansy waist-APs located up 95.

Wait, you're in DC?

BTW, when is the last time the Iggles won the Super Bowl?

Don't tard up the music forum.

jiminphilly wrote: Don't tard up the music forum.

Gee, thanks Jim.

Where were you a few years ago with this gem?

The one GUARANTEED fucking way to put any Philly sports fan in their place is to ask about the Iggles and Super Bowls.

Says dude whose adopted team hasn't won shit since before you had pubes?

Yeah, and?

"And" Philly teams have.

Feeling dumb yet?

You should.

Can you read? We're talking about the Eagles here.

[quote="Screw_Michigan"]Yeah Jim, but that soundtrack isn't as fukkin legendary as the Singles/quote]

I was into a lot of the bands on that soundtrack. in fact it was the only reason I saw the movie.

1. the movie is turrible
2. most of the songs on the soundtrack are turrible

Bizzarofelice wrote:2. most of the songs on the soundtrack are turrible

Heretic.