Spring Break - Empire Records

The Great Albums

Bill Lambusta

Albums, Music Commentary, Criticism, Billlambusta, Brianerickson, Music

4.3 • 749 Ratings

🗓️ 3 April 2017

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Bill and Brian take a short Springtime respite from our usual release schedule and talk instead about something a little different and kind of fun - a film with a soundtrack as important as its script, Empire Records (1995). Bill talks about how he loved this movie since his teenage years, and Brian reveals that he had never seen it until the very day of this discussion. We get into the differences between the theatrical and Special Fan Edition, our favorite tunes from the soundtrack (including songs from the Gin Blossoms, Edwyn Collins, the Cranberries, Evan Dando, and Dire Straits), how 90s angst may not resonate with viewers todays, and how some of our own love tales mirrored AJ and Cory. No Bonus Song Thursday this week. We'll be back with another Spring break episode next week!

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Great Albums podcast. I'm Bill.
0:02.5	And I'm Brian.
0:03.2	And what are we talking about today, Brian?
0:05.0	Doing something a little bit different today.
0:06.9	We're going to be talking about a film, particularly 1995's Empire Records.
0:33.5	Yeah. What we do here every week on the podcast is take an album of music and talk about what makes it great.
0:40.3	We try to have the conversation that fans do about how and why we love the music. But this is what I'm going to call our spring break, Brian. Oh, we did one of these, uh, did we do it last
0:47.2	spring? No, we did it over the summer. Yeah, we had a summer, we had a couple of summer specials.
0:51.1	A couple summer, yeah, what we did on our summer vacation. Yeah, so this is, we're doing the same thing for this spring.
0:56.8	We're going to take a couple weeks off, and we're going to be doing these kind of special
1:00.7	episodes, but no bonus song Thursdays.
1:02.9	It's not really like a week off.
1:04.2	I mean, we're still here, so.
1:06.4	Well, you and I are taking a couple weeks off.
1:08.4	Well, yeah. We're kind of banking these ahead of time. So we're doing something nice and easy and fun.
1:13.4	So much like we did with that thing you do,
1:16.2	we're going to talk about a movie that is important
1:20.2	as far as, like, its musical contributions into the world,
1:23.6	and we're talking about Empire Records.
1:25.6	Yeah.
1:26.4	So, Brian, we've talked about this on the podcast
1:29.8	before. You have never seen Empire Records. That is correct. I saw it today. So for the first time
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