
In the middle of the 90's teen comedies reigned supreme in the box office and mediocre (at best) alternative rock was a staple of radio and teenagers alike. It makes sense then that so many teen movies paired their moving images with the sounds of the troubled youths of the time. Movies like 10 Things I Hate About You , Clueless , and of course Empire Records were almost as popular for their soundtracks as they were for the movies themselves. They would enlist the likes of The Cranberries, Evan Dando, and even smaller named alterna-rockers [...]

This one's for my roommate, who just wrapped up student teaching and is graduating and going off into the real world in the not-too-distant-future. Every time I play this song she gets excited. So here it is, your moment of Zen. Coyote Shivers - Sugar High [ iTunes ] (This is the soundtrack version, without Renee Zellweger singing that fantastic hook in the chorus) ==TJ==
If there's one movie I could watch over and over again, it will be Empire Records (1995) . It's not an Oscar-winning or any other award-winning movie for that matter, but it has got a bunch of young movie superstars-to-be, a supeeerb boss, memorable quotes, and one hell of a soundtrack. This movie and soundtrack inspired my youth in the 1990s. Oh cliché. So here in the spirit of ushering the new year, I present to you, my entire collection of tracks from Empire Records I have managed to find over the years. [...]

I watched one of my favorite movies Empire Records the other day. It had been so long since I had watched it, I had forgotten why I loved it so much. The storylines, the funny one-liners and the cast of characters are all great, but the music in it is what does it for me. Some sort of music is is just about every single scene, adding to the overall experience. However, upon looking at the soundtrack , I was not happy. Gone are the well-known songs from the movie and instead are random songs [...]