Now, twenty-five years on, Singles gets a make over with an additional disc of outtakes and rarities. By the time the film was finished, Grunge was already on the rise and the Original Soundtrack transcended the movie itself, providing a definitive package of the Seattle music scene in 1991/2. When he started filming, Nevermind hadn’t been released and Pearl Jam were still called Mookie Blaylock. Many local musicians appear in cameos or in Matt Dillon’s fictional band, Citizen Dick. The clubs and bars all play grunge and the characters all wear the sloth-style clothing associated with the genre. One character, played by Matt Dillon, is an aspiring musician. ![]() As you’d expect from Crowe, an essential ingredient of the film is the music. Briefly, in the early nineties, it made rock music commercially successful again as Nirvana’s Nevermind knocked the Prince of Pop’s Dangerous off the top of the charts, and grunge bands became millionaires.Ĭameron Crowe is a rock journalist turned film-maker who decided to ‘write a love letter to Seattle’, the home of grunge, and did so by making a rom-com movie called Singles. Grunge is worthy of more than just a footnote in the history of rock.
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