ya it's just a $9M movie (grossed $19M!) from 1992 that had a killer soundtrack

oh ****, Prezbo was in it!?

Reality Bites was it's successor.

*I don't know if that was covered since I don't listen.

i had a feeling it had something to do with reality bites, mainly cuz simmons and c(h)uck always discuss that genre of films.

Don't think I've ever seen Reality Bites in its entirety. Seems boring as hell.

ya it was p bad from what i recall

Honestly I really don't know what he means. Plenty of soundtracks with original material were yuge sellers and culturally important before and after Singles. Like I'm not sure why you want to disqualify SNF and Purple Rain and The Graduate, all of which were bigger sellers. SNF, like Singles, had a bunch of different artists, and it looks like about half or more of the stuff was first released on the SNF soundtrack. And no, the Bee Gees were big before SNF. Hell they were big in the late 60s but not really disco back then.

Is what he means "original material by a bunch of different artists?"

Even that doesn't really disqualify SNF or even The Bodyguard, even though they were mostly the Bee Gees or Houston. And if that's what he means and Singles: The Soundtrack CHANGED EVERYTHING (NO ONE DISPUTES THIS) then OK there must have been a bunch of movies that had a bunch of different original artists coming up with new material after TOTAL GAME CHANGER Singles: The Soundtrack was released. But were there? I'm struggling to think of another similar popular soundtrack.

What he means is it was the first one that he remembers during college that was cool and had different videos from different groups on MTV.

clearly

Well I just gave you one. Others that come to mind are: City of Angels, Batman Forever, and Space Jam.

MTV and how omnipresent it became in the early to mid 90s is really the big game changer.

BS: The whole concept of the soundtrack hadn't really become a thing yet. I'm sure there was a movie soundtrack that hit that was kind of marketed as he'res the soundtrack of the movie and here are these songs but in 1992 I don't think that was as much of a thing.
Other guy: It happened. It had happened. Heavy Metal, The Graduate,
BS: Rocky. I'm saying I don't remember the soundtrack being marketed as one of the hooks to go see the movie. Does that make sense? Here's this soundtrack you should get. And I remember going to the movie and buying the soundtrack.
Other guy: Footloose
BS: Dirty Dancing. But '92-95 was when the soundtrack became a thing for the movie.

I mean ffs.

basically ya, that

it was cool

cool people weren't rocking out to soundtracks for The Graduate or The Bodyguard

and of course he's being typically self-absorbed about his nostalgia

That only describes Singles and then Reality Bites tried to mimic it's too cool for school vibe with the James Dean copycat antihero.

That's not really a "thing."

I've never seen either movie but the only thing that really registered iconically was Lisa Loeb.

... The Crow and Romeo and Juliet ...

He's basically saying the movie is only noteworthy because of the soundtrack and that became a thing.

And that's just false.

Also have never heard of Singles and I've probably seen >1000 films

not saying it's great, but it's a cameron crowe movie between say anything and jerry maguire and there are a lot of names in the cast:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105415/

I have no idea what his appeal is.

Judgement Night by far the greatest soundtrack ever. Also very underrated movie.

lol

movies today use a lot of existing music, but back in the 80s it was completely standard for a big budget movie to have a whole album of new music written and performed by big names expressly for the movie.

...and the 90s. And the 2000s. And the 2010s.

All this movie talk and Tony Hawk 2 still had a better soundtrack than anything

Madden '03 tho.

GTA san andreas tho

Wrong.

Vice city brah

to each their own

Really sad to hear of the passing of Frank DeFord. He just retired a few weeks back. Maybe not the GOAT sportswriter but certainly pretty high on my personal list. I've been missing his morning commentaries during my commute for a while now. RIP