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Electric Stories
If you ask me what my favorite movie is, the answer is Reality Bites. I don’t even have to pause. It’s a Gen X anthem - or at least at the time it was - and starred Winona Ryder (she is Mother), Ethan Hawke, Ben Stiller, Steve Zahn, and Janeane Garofalo. If I saw it for the first time now I don’t know if I’d be as obsessed with RB, but being a young teenager who basically idolized anything Winona Ryder did (Beetlejuice, Heathers, being the muse of the cool bad boy - I should note, this was long before Johnny Depp was alleged to be a truly bad guy), it was inevitable. Just look at those disapproving/disappointed slouches.
Particularly when I was a teenager, you could say that my love language was sarcasm, so this movie had everything -
“You look like… a doily”
“There’s no secret handshake. There’s an IQ prerequisite, but there’s no secret handshake.”
“Welcome to the winter of our discontent.”
I could gush about this for hours, but we’re here to talk about the soundtrack. If you ask someone what is the most 90’s one hit wonder of all time, it’s on this soundtrack. Stay. By Lisa Loeb.
But that’s not all.
Enjoy the unrequited love song that is My Sharona, which features in the scene below.
There’s Tempted, which Lelaina and Vickie belt out of
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This is the first in a series of 1994 releases, now celebrating their 25th Anniversary. For even more 1994, check out my now defunct podcast
The 1990s was the last great decade for the movie soundtrack. File sharing affected the manner in which people consumed music, but it was particularly disruptive when an album’s unifying thread wasn’t the artist you were listening to, but the series of images that these songs were backing. Before Sean Fanning brought down the music industry they managed to squeeze out some pretty solid soundtracks. One of the ones that had a big impact on me was Reality Bites. At the time and today I had a greater affinity for Singles, both the movie and soundtrack, but Reality Bites also had its place. As it related to the soundtracks both managed to capture aspects of Generation X. Singles was a snapshot of what was happening then. The movie took place in Seattle and focused on highlighting the bands that made that part of the country the center of rock in 1992.
Reality Bites took a different path. It both celebrated and criticized the self-centered nostalgia of Gen-Xers, featuring set pieces with group sing alongs to Schoolhouse Rock songs and earnest discussions of the Brady Bunch. The soundtrack followed this lead by mixing in 1970s nostalgia
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Add It Up
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- ^Altizer, Roger (November 12, 2019). "Tony Hawk's Belowground 2 Soundtrack". Lifewire. Retrieved April 30, 2021.
- ^Murphy, Shaunna (January 8, 2016). "Watch Shawn Mendes Bring Scented, Beautiful Punishment to 'The 100'". MTV. Archived disseminate the starting on Jan 9, 2016. Retrieved June 3, 2018.