pitchfork is dumb (#34985859340293849494 in a series.)

i like both westerberg songs

I was nodding happily along with the Singles trashing until I realized I was confusing it with Reality Bites. I don't think I've ever actually seen Singles.

― PJD PDJ DPJ (DJP), Tuesday, 23 May 2017 20:37 (thirty-nine minutes ago) Permalink

I confuse those two movies, both of which I've seen, CONSTANTLY in my mind.

What were those damn Westerberg songs doing there anyway?

Singles has nothing so offensive as the Steve Zahn character in Reality Bites sitting around being gay and ill-used until I remembered the garage door opener gag

"within your reach" was on the say anything soundtrack, crowe must've been a fan xp

any one of you defend Elizabethtown, starring Ornaldo BOOMS' bangs?

"Within Your Reach" is the only Replacements song I like (I discovered it through the Say Anything soundtrack)

I've never seen Say Anything, but when I got into the Replacements and first heard "Within your Reach" I had a feeling that it just had to have been on some 80's movie soundtrack.

i kinda like how goofy and dumb dyslexic heart is

it sounds a lot like what was on "modern rock" radio before grunge took hold

(i like it too!)

"Overblown," "Seasons," "Birth Ritual," "Drown," & both Pearl Jam songs are really good. I'm not sure if "Would?" or "Nearly Lost You" were intended as non-album tracks but they're also both really good.

"state of love and trust" is also the best pearl jam song

This might be true.

I hate Cameron Crowe movies but I'll concede that he did start putting this movie together a while before Nevermind blew up.

it sounds a lot like what was on "modern rock" radio before grunge took hold

― maura, Tuesday, May 23, 2017 8:58 PM (one hour ago)

otm

yeah reading that review, sounds like the studio is to blame for making it seem like a cash-in upon release - they wanted to change the title to Come As You Are.

"within your reach" was on the say anything soundtrack, crowe must've been a fan

Or Cusack. I always assumed that's why Fishbone and the RHCP are in there. (Fishbone has a cameo in Tapeheads, too.)

according to an article in Musician written by Crowe when Singles was released, Cusack had originally wanted to blash FIshbone instead of Peter Gabriel from that boom box until Crowe nixed it – he didn't want it to look like Ione Skye was being serenaded by a crazed Fishbone fan.

Pearl Jam was my first favorite band, so I can't overemphasize how mesmerized I was to see Vedder acting (endearingly poorly) in Singles. That's really the only thing I remember about it (aside I guess from realizing even at age 12 that Campbell Scott was a dweeb).

I agree with Brad that State of Love and Trust is PJ's best song. I don't much like the other PJ song. I will go to bat for most of the songs tbh. (not so much Dyslexic Heart.

according to an article in Musician written by Crowe when Singles was released, Cusack had originally wanted to blash FIshbone instead of Peter Gabriel from that boom box until Crowe nixed it – he didn't want it to look like Ione Skye was being serenaded by a crazed Fishbone fan.

― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, May 24, 2017 7:42 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

omg did they say which song??

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwnOGJZUEUY

wrt fishbone

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fishbone#Film_and_television_appearances

John Cusack wears a Fishbone shirt in the film Say Anything.... (In that movie's iconic "boombox" scene, Cusack is actually blasting Fishbone from the radio. Peter Gabriel's "In Your Eyes" was added later).

i actually did not know this til now

cool little trivia

oh damn

I wonder what song

Fishbone would do a great cover of "In Your Eyes" tbh

Probably Voyage to the Land of the Freeze-Dried Godzilla Farts.

Fishbone (the song from the soundtrack) plays during a party scene. Fish plays drums on "Taste the Pain," the RHCP song that's in the movie. (Kiedis was dating Skye, iirc.)

I am dying thinking of this song playing during that scene:

https://youtu.be/1OuiuolN1r4

lol

actually this may have been funnier

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78ZVbw74OhU

ahahahahahahaha A+

The cassingle!

https://img.discogs.com/w5mfMg8mXWVhKHlpjqmqZHW0Yys=/fit-in/454x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-6921113-1429548049-8161.jpeg.jpg

lolz
brb starting a ska punk band called Ione Ska

OK, apparently

A) Sublime With Rome covered this song on their last album
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tv2M5eV8ufY

B) The drummer from Sublime left the band in 2011 and this is Josh Freese

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tv2M5eV8ufY

I dunno where I heard or read this, but I thought it was originally "Party At Ground Zero."

I can't say if it it would have made it a better scene, but definitely seems more accurate for an 18 year old
in late Eighties Seattle than Peter Gabriel

Odd how the character in the film loves a song that wasn't a hit on first release and she might not have heard but as a result of its exposure in this movie it becomes better known.

From Vanity Fair

The Peter Gabriel boom-box scene is obviously the moment of the film, but that’s not the song that was playing on set when Cusack shot it. Do you think the scene would have been any different if you had the actual song playing?

Absolutely. It was completely different with the song John Cusack was playing when we filmed. What he’s actually playing is Fishbone’s “Bonin’ in the Boneyard.” John was a big Fishbone fan and turned us all onto the band. But when we watched the scene as filmed, with that tune playing outside Diane Court’s window, the effect wasn’t particularly romantic or yearning. It was: “Hey girl, I love Fishbone and I’m not going to let you sleep.”

that suits cusacks personality tho

he always seemed like a cool asshole even in say anything w the whole punching bag thing (then later in hi fidelity)

Also, in my research for this very important post, I would that Smithereens hit "A Girl Like You" was actually written to be the theme of the movie ("I'll say anything, you want to hear...") but it turned out not so

Pat DiNizio from Smithereens: “‘A Girl Like You’ was initially a ‘work for hire’, written for the film Say Anything. Writer/director Cameron Crowe (Fast Times At Ridgemont High, Singles) gave me a copy of the screenplay and a VHS work print of the ‘film-in-progress’ for me to work with. I interpreted the best bits of dialogue between the main characters and told the story of the movie lyrically, but I was careful to write a set of lyrics that stood on their own, that told a story independent of the film as well.”

This dude's life was something else [via wiki]

When Rolling Stone moved its offices from the West Coast to New York in 1977, Crowe decided to stay behind. He also felt the excitement of his career was beginning to wane....

At the age of 22, Crowe came up with the idea to pose undercover as a high school student and write about his experiences. Simon & Schuster gave him a contract, and he moved back in with his parents and enrolled as Dave Cameron at Clairemont High School in San Diego. Reliving the senior year he never had, he made friends and began to fit in. Though he initially planned to include himself in the book, he realized that it would jeopardize his ability to capture the true essence of the high school experience.

His book, Fast Times at Ridgemont High: A True Story, came out in 1981.

Dave Cameron

I was so bald at 22, my attempt to do this would have been straight

http://skateandannoy.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/fellowkids-480x273.jpg

ah http://pitchfork.com/thepitch/1526-the-16-best-band-shirts-to-wear-this-summer/

lmao

sorry I haven't trusted their tshirt lists since I spent an awkward summer trying to rock constantines and Clearlake shirts

lol

ilm eoy shirt list usually more otm, except that year a sock won

lmao nomar

Beyoncé T-shirts are $35?