Soundtracks that sum up the 90s

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Soundtrack to Singles
Soundtrack to Clerks
Soundtrack to The Crow
Soundtrack to Judgement Night
Soundtrack to The Craft
Soundtrack to Trainspotting

Each do a nifty job of encapsulating the vibe of a certain years sound. Yes? No! Maybe so...
Discuss.

― Lord Custos, Thursday, 7 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Okay, mystery bonus question time.
Name the most appropriate decade summing up soundtrack for the 80s (I mean, besides Pretty in Pink); the 70s (I mean, besides Saturday Night Fever) and the 60s (I mean, besides Hard Days Night)
You may begin your attack run.....nnnnnow!

― Lord Custos, Thursday, 7 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

add 'spawn' soundtrack

― , Thursday, 7 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Lost Highway soundtrack for the 90s, as it captures the most long lived of the alternative artists at or right after their career apexes. Plus Lou Reed.

60s soundtrack is the score to Hiroshima, Mon Amour.

70s soundtrack is Boogie Nights.

80s soundtrack is Transformers: The Movie.

― Sterling Clover, Thursday, 7 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

80s soundtrack is Transformers: The Movie.

Ha Ha! Kudos to Sterling for picking something the Great and Power Canon refuses to touch.

By the way, apropos of nothing...are you the one who was debating "Madness Method vs Method Method?" I have a new twist on that debate.

― Lord Custos, Thursday, 7 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Soundtrack to "Pi" at the end of the decade.

― Gage-o, Thursday, 7 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Yes, and the orig. thread is here.

― Sterling Clover, Thursday, 7 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Soundtracks for the Blind

― Andy K, Thursday, 7 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Sadly, the soundtrack to Swingers should definitely be included.

― Yancey, Thursday, 7 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"Lost Highway soundtrack for the 90s, as it captures the most long lived of the alternative artists at or right after their career apexes" = RAMMSTEIN and DAVID BOWIE? I think not.

I'm not sure how much I like Eno's soundtrack for Heat, but I definitely think it summed up the 90s. Expensive, featureless, and moody.

― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 7 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Tracer: Are you TRYING to be daft today? Nine Inch Nails and The Smashing Pumpkins, not to mention Manson. Okay... so.. maybe better to explain this as capturing 1997-8's brief infatuation with gothtronica.

Early 90s soundtrack would be New Jack City.

― Sterling Clover, Thursday, 7 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Soundtracks for the Blind

Heh heh heh. Quite right.

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 7 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

friday! and romeo must die.

― ethan, Thursday, 7 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Pulp Fiction. Romeo + Juliet.

― Mickey Black Eyes, Thursday, 7 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"Until the End of the World" -- hey, I even reviewed it at Allmusic.

― Tim DiGravina, Thursday, 7 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Labyrinth!!

― A Nairn, Thursday, 7 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Natural Born Killers

― bnw, Thursday, 7 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Reality Bites?

― Prude, Friday, 8 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

the soundtrack to The Craft features that UNBELIEVABLY LAME cover of How Soon Is Now. So it is only the soundtrack to the 1990s if you think it was a decade that sucked like a cheerleader.

― DV, Friday, 8 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Early 80's - Flashdance, Breakin' (and Breakin' 2 - Electric blah blah blah), Footloose, Purple Rain, Beverley Hills Cop, etc...

― static, Friday, 8 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

two years pass...

For the 80's it has to be the soundtrack to BLADE RUNNER....both the movie and soundtrack (that's proto synth people!!) were way ahead of their time. The fact that the soundtrack wasn't released until 12 years after the movie only makes it more intriguing

― Brendan Webber, Tuesday, 7 September 2004 18:26 (twenty years ago)

Oh yeah, The Craft - wasn't the whole idea of the soundtrack to compile alterna-girly covers of good songs? I recall a Letters to Cleo cover of "Dangerous Kind" or some such.

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 18:36 (twenty years ago)

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - late 60s/early 70's
ghostbusters - early 80s
High Fidelity - late 90's/early 00's (rather obvious)

― jb, Tuesday, 7 September 2004 18:47 (twenty years ago)

Empire Records or Friends soundtracks for the nineties. No, they weren't the best by any stretch of the imagination, but they did sadly represent that decade pretty well.

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 21:16 (twenty years ago)

Early 80's - Flashdance, Breakin' (and Breakin' 2 - Electric blah blah blah), Footloose, Purple Rain, Beverley Hills Cop, etc...
-- static (stati...), February 8th, 2002.

now THAT's the shit i grew up listening to. my parents played that stuff on our frequent car trips through europe (my dad was stationed in germany), also while my mom vacuumed.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 01:01 (twenty years ago)

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