Various – Singles Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

The Singles soundtrack was released in early 1992, a full three months before the film opened, and it was an instant hit, eventually selling over two million copies. It’s the perfect snapshot of Grunge, Seattle at a certain place and time. Cameron Crow made Singles a full year before Grunge became one of the last cultural phenomenons of pre-internet times. The soundtrack is phenomenal, featuring every Seattle band that was hot at the time (except Nirvana).

 

Alice In Chains delivers ‘Would?’ a dark gothic grunger about former Mother Love Bone singer Andrew Wood (who died of a drug overdose). The spectre of Andrew Wood looms large on this soundtrack; his band’s fingerprints can be heard throughout the score. Their epic ‘Chloe Dancer/Crown Of Thorns’ closes out side A, and both Pearl Jam and Soundgarden (featuring former MLB members) turn in some of their best songs. Paul Westerberg, fresh from breaking up the incredible The Replacements, has two solo songs, including the mini hit ‘Dyslexic Heart’. Also featured are The Screaming Trees, The Smashing Pumpkins, Jimi Hendrix and The Lovemongers, and let us not forget the incomparable Mudhoney with the barbed ‘Overblown’.

 

Undoubtedly one of the greatest soundtracks ever released.

 

A1 – Alice In Chains – Would?

A2 – Pearl Jam – Breathe

A3 – Chris Cornell – Seasons

B1 – Paul Westerberg – Dyslexic Heart

B2 – The Lovemongers – The Battle of Evermore

B3 – Mother Love Bone – Chloe Dancer/ Crown Of Thorns

C1 – Soundgarden – Birth Ritual

C2 – Pearl Jam – State Of Love And Trust

C3 – Mudhoney – Overblown

C4 – Paul Westerberg – Waiting For Somebody

D1 – Jimi Hendrix – May This Be Love

D2 – Screaming Trees – Nearly Lost You

D3 – The Smashing Pumpkins – Drown