Videos You Forgot has been a bit stuck in the 90s lately. What can we say, it was quite a forgettable decade in real indie rock. Post 93, anyway.
So today we say forget that indie/college rock stuff. Let’s talk bad 90s teen movie soundtracks. Everyone wanted to continue the John Hughes tradition of putting cool songs in their movies, but there was a tragic glut of untalented music supervisors running the world or something.
“Clueless” probably had the best of the teen fluff soundtracks, but then they messed it up by putting the Mighty Mighty Bosstones in the movie. “Empire Records” created the most adult contemporary teen movie soundtrack ever made. And “Reality Bites”, which skewed a little older, was clearly scored by a schizophrenic.
Letters to Cleo are one of our favorite 90s sountrack bands. They were giving it away to everyone. You heard their music in “10 Things I Hate About You”, “The Craft”, “Jawbreaker”, “The Baby-Sitters Club”, even on the Melrose Place official soundtrack. However, their excellent poppy single “Awake” never made it to anyone’s soundtrack except our own.
