Movie Music

So there was a list recently, published by bullz-eye.com, of their top 40 music moments in film. There were some enjoyable ones, but the thing I really noticed was that there was one thing sorely missing.

Every moment in Can't Hardly Wait.

To be fair, I was twelve years old when this movie came out. My musical tastes might have changed a little since then, but probably not. But see, one of the things that I think is cool about this movie is that there are some songs I hate, that I love in this movie. Perfect case in point.

"Paradise City" by GNR, brozef

There are few things in this world that cause me the amount of discomfort I feel when Axl Rose opens his mouth, but I'll be a liar if I tell you that I don't enjoy the hell out of this song in the movie. It is just god damn perfect. I have that shit on my computer now though. Eeww.

Plus, there's always the chance that the name of the movie will inspire some youths to open their ears to the Replacements.

"Can't Hardly Wait" by the Replacements
"Kiss Me on the Bus" by the Replacements
"Bastards of Young" by the Replacements

Although there's probably a better chance that they'll start listening to the band that they play during the scene where the cops rush the party. Oh man, what was that again?

"Dammit" by Blink 182

Well there you have it, that's the post about a movie from 1998 and four songs from two different decades that aren't this one. Man this is cigarbox is one hip spot.

The Hold Steady podcast! I listen!

I listened to a podcast for the first time today. I guess admitting that now kind of makes me unhip and behind the times, but I'm still awesome. So the podcast in question was one by Craig Finn from the Hold Steady and he played and talked about a pretty cool little mix of music. The tracklisting for his podcast is as follows:

"I Will Dare" by the Replacements

"Right Brigade" by Bad Brains

"Sometime to Return" by Soul Asylum

"Start Today" by the Gorilla Biscuits

"Sour Grapes" by the Descendents

I don't know if I've ever even heard Soul Asylum and the Gorilla Biscuits mentioned by the same person, let alone played back to back, so that was pretty cool. I'm kind of divided on this whole podcast thing. When I say divided, I mean I enjoyed listening to it, but in the back of my mind, it bothered me knowing that each individual track wasn't going to show up on my scrob.

The Hold Steady Podcast