So I fell in love with the whole mix of genres, and I thought, вЂњIf I get to make a movie up here, itвЂ™s going to sound like this.вЂќ

Or somebody would tape Kurt Cobain half asleep having a phone conversation and theyвЂ™d put that on the air. would have been called вЂњcheesy R&BвЂќ was mixed in with Blood Circus or Mudhoney, and I just thought it was the greatest programming ever. They played a lot of what would later be called the вЂњSeattle sound,вЂќ but they mixed it in with all kinds of stuff, like old blues. It was kind of the college station, and it was way to the left of the dial. to me was there was this great radio station called KCMU. And when I started going up to Seattle, and ultimately got married in Seattle, part of the whole kind of wonderful feeling of love and community that was so different from L.A. Well, so much of the enthusiasm came from meeting and falling in love with a Seattle, Pacific Northwestern native. What was your initial concept for the soundtrack, and how did that evolve over time? Crowe talked to Rolling Stone about putting together his ultimate mixtape. On Friday, just short of 25 years later, the soundtrack will be reissued with an 18-track bonus disc of demos, live recordings and alternate takes. Suddenly the Singles soundtrack, packed to the gills with choice material by almost every other significant act on the scene, was rushed to release on June 30th, 1992, almost three months before the film itself saw light.

held the film at bay, unsure what to do with it, for almost nine months, until the explosive success of NirvanaвЂ™s Nevermind put all things Seattle on the map.

The movie singles soundtrack