Soundtrack Your Life

Happy Valentines Day! For this week's episode, Ryan, Brandice, and Nicole talk about a film soundtrack where a character tells another character "This song will change your life." which seems like the perfect film to discuss on this podcast! That's right, we discuss Zach Braff's 2004 film, Garden State, and it's Grammy Award Winning Soundtrack. Ryan and Nicole originally saw the movie in its original theatrical run, while Brandice had never seen the film until she was tasked to for the podcast, so there's an interesting discussion about how the movie spoke to our 3 hosts. We talk about whether the soundtrack and film have aged gracefully, the influence that they had on popular culture, and why this film didn't lead to bigger and better things for our actor/writer/director triple threat. Of course we talk about The Shins, and Ryan shares about trying to help someone write their own version of Garden State.

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David Ballantyne of The Vinyl Score YouTube Channel stops by to chat with Ryan and Nicole about the 1994 Quentin Tarantino blockbuster Pulp Fiction and its triple platinum soundtrack. It's a soundtrack that seemed to be everywhere in 1994 and it opened up a lot of ears to a bunch of different genres of music including surf rock, R&B and classic rock. We start with "Pumpkin and Hunny Bunny" / "Misirlou" and go through our favorite tracks from the soundtrack as well as how Tarantino wanted to license The Knack's "My Sharona" for an iconic scene in the film, but was ultimately rebuffed by the band. We also talk about Urge Overkill and their surprise hit, a cover of Neil Diamond's "Girl, You'll be a Woman Soon", and how they had two women in Chicago intensely troll them back in the late 80/early 90s. 

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We kick off Season 3 of Soundtrack Your Life with a very special guest, John Munson of Semisonic. (Also of Trip Shakespeare, The New Standards, Munson Hicks Party Supplies, The Twilight Hours). Instead of talking about one soundtrack, we talk about the different soundtracks that Semisonic has appeared in. While John doesn't have all the details about how the band ended up on every soundtrack, he shares some fun behind the scenes stories. We chat about the excitement of being placed on a soundtrack for the first time (The Long Kiss Goodnight), what soundtracks John regrets the band passing on, and his favorite placement of "Closing Time" in a film/tv show. We also talk about some film score related projects that John is working on outside of Semisonic and he shares about a soundtrack that has changed his life.

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It's the holiday episode and Austin and Jenn from I Hate Your Taste in Movies stopped by to join Brandice, Nicole and Ryan to discuss the soundtrack to the 2003 Richard Curtis film, Love, Actually. This holiday get together with our friends to The North turned into a bit of a holiday massacre as we pick apart how both the film and the soundtrack haven't aged particularly well. From Bill Nighy's "Christmas is All Around" to the Mariah Carey (but not Mariah Carey) Christmas sing along, we jump from storyline to storyline and from song to song on the soundtrack. If this movie / soundtrack has a special place in your heart, this episode may not be for you.

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As 2020 comes to an end, we're ending our season with a B-Sides (outtakes) episode where we showcase some fun conversations that didn't make the final cut or our Soundtrack Your Life Season 1 episodes. We're happy to share clips from our Trainspotting, Baby Driver, Dave Chappelle's Block Party, and Life Aquatic with Stevie Zissou episodes. 

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Brandice Wilson and Nicole Barlow are back to discuss the 2001 Wes Anderson film, The Royal Tenenbaums, and it's much celebrated soundtrack. It begins with the Mark Mothersbaugh score, and from there it ranges from Vince Guaraldi's iconic "Christmas Time Is Here" to Elliott Smith's Needle in the Hay with a lot of great classic and punk rock in between. We talk about the iconic scene of Margot Tenenbaum getting off Greenline bus to Nico's "These Days", the use of two Rolling Stones' tracks (that aren't on the soundtrack), and the story behind Wes Anderson trying to get the rights to the original version of "Hey Jude". Nicole also shares a story about she doesn't connect Bob Dylan's "Wigwam" with this film but with a bizarre event that all three of us attended.

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Lily and Hannah return as guests to talk about the beloved soundtrack to Cameron Crowe's 2000 Rock'n'Roll classic, Almost Famous. We dive into the early 70s, talking about everything from Alvin and the Chipmunks to Zepplin. With over 120 songs featured in this film, we cover a lot of ground, but we make sure to talk about the fictional band in the film, Stillwater (which is also a real band), which features Pearl Jam's Mike McCready and Peter Frampton. We talk about Cameron Crowe, both as a music journalist, and as a filmmaker. We talk about how this film relates to his other Rock'n'Roll film Singles, (which also has a strong Pearl Jam presence). From there, we wonder why Cameron Crowe's hot streak as a director ended with this film. Lily and Hannah helped kick off season 2 back in January where we covered Empire Records. New episodes of Society Owes Me a Gen-X Podcast drop on Fridays.

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The SYL music composer, Phil Bertulfo and comic writer / horror expert-in-residence, J.M. Brandt, return to talk about Wes Craven’s 1997 slasher film, Scream 2. Why are we covering Scream 2 opposed to the original, you might ask? The soundtrack of course! This soundtrack ranges from D’Angelo covering Prince to The Foo Fighters to… the Kottonmouth Kings? We chat about this diverse and uneven soundtrack as well as how it compares to the other installments in the franchise and we discuss how much Jamie Kennedy is the appropriate amount of Jamie Kennedy in a movie.

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Brandice is back to talk about the 1996 Joe Pytka film, Space Jam, and the blockbuster soundtrack that accompanied the film. We manage to spend our time talking about everything from The Quad City DJs "Space Jam" theme to Bugs Bunny's "Buggin", while avoiding talking about that one song by that one very problematic artist. We also discuss how some of the artists featured on the soundtrack had major soundtrack hits the year before (Coolio, Seal), and how stacked the soundtrack was with big name artists.We also chat about composer James Newton Howard, who scored Space Jam right after being nominated for an Oscar for his score for The Fugitive. From there, we take a stab about why Joe Pytka stopped making feature films after Space Jam, and we talk about a forgotten Saturday morning cartoon featuring a crime fighting Michael Jordan (along with Bo Jackson and Wayne Gretzky).

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We're almost done with Season 2 so here's our B-Sides compilation of this season. We have conversations with regulars Brandice and Nicole as well as clips from many of our many entertaining guests. From some of our favorite podcasters to a writer / actor / director triple threat and a horror comic book writer, we've had a lot of great people stop by the podcast this season as we're forever grateful for ALL OF THEM! Conversations in this episode range from geeking out about Asian American hip hop artists to the weird plot of Yes Man to Richard Linklater's sneaky underrated reputation as a director who has a great taste in music for his films.

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