Incredibly happy that this soundtrack was selected for this feature. "Fretless" and "The Adversary" are two of my favorites on this album, and two of my favorite soundtrack pieces period. "Summer Kisses, Winter Tears" is one of my favorite covers that people don't realize is a cover (I didn't know for years). I've…

I guess not listening to college radio when it came out might have something to do with my perspective of its obscurity. I didn't discover it until maybe a year or year and a half after release; I was basically in my "metal or nothing" phase when it dropped and didn't move on until the following year. Ended up seeing…

The Other Two? Or is there another Hook project I am missing?

I mean, I've always thought so. Or, at least, more obscure than a soundtrack that has so many good/fairly popular (at varying times) bands should be. But perhaps you're right and I have just not looked in the right places to see people discussing it.

Glad to see "Fretless" get a mention for REM. The soundtrack in question (Until the End of the World) is an interesting collection of tracks/artists (Nick Cave, Jane Siberry + kd lang, Depeche Mode, Talking Heads, etc.) and "Fretless" is the best of the bunch. I'd love to see that album highlighted for Soundtracks of…

My wife and I bought it on DVD a few years ago. It's still delightful.

Midnight Madness getting a mention is without a doubt one of the 5 most exciting moments for me in my years of reading AVC. I love that movie immensely.

What about Ball Ball?

Oh, the first album is great ("Milk" is sublime perfection), but Version 2.0 just hit me in a different way.

I won't say it's the best song on there, but it's enjoyable, IMO.

I still count Version 2.0 as my second favorite album of the 90s. I enjoyed Beautiful Garbage, but it was too poppy to me at the time, so that affected my enjoyment to some degree. In retrospect, it's solid.

So's your face!

Oh, the Whigs cover of "Can't Get Enough of Your Love, Babe" is probably in my all time top 5 covers. So great.

FWIW, "#1 Crush" would almost certainly be my second pick. Garbage's first two albums and their b-sides from that time are so great. The R&J soundtrack is really inconsistent, IMO, but the highs (like "#1 Crush") are *really* high.

Oh, I wasn't saying he was a great actor; i just thought this was a great performance. I mean, I've seen Showdown In Little Tokyo…

It's a movie that suffers from the removal of the context of its time, I think; it is pretty over the top in some ways, but at the time didn't really seem to be. I still enjoy it, and I think Lee gave a wonderful performance.

"Burn" remains probably my favorite soundtrack-specific track of all time, 20+ years later. I had just gotten into The Cure maybe a year or so before the movie and soundtrack came out, and that song really just hit me like a lightning bolt. I kind of like that the song's climax isn't really as charged as it…

"Vivid" is one of my favorite songs ever. The rest of the album is fine, but not really memorable. Raise the Pressure was pretty meh, although I enjoy "Dark Angel" and "Freefall". The debut is still stellar; I listened to it a couple of weeks ago and it holds up very well, IMO.

Yeah, being able to work with all of those guys was assuredly a draw for her to be on the show in the first place. I think she just didn't understand the reality of being a woman on the show prior to ~2000; based on comments by several women who worked on the show, it was often nightmarish. In addition, I think she…

I always just assumed that they asked him something like "any cast members you interacted with that you didn't get along with?" or something similarly generic, and he latched onto her because of his friendship with Lorne..