Posted by 38th at 208-59-174-135.c3-0.slvr-ubr1.lnh-slvr.md.cable.rcn.com on September 20, 2001 at 23:17:46:
In Reply to: less punk as we go along posted by tangerineutopia on September 20, 2001 at 23:08:05:
Clerks and Mallrats - films primarily about and around slackers - practically scream for the need of a dash of punk thrown in... sort of a "f&%k you" mentality. Chasing Amy, however, is a different sort of movie. Two genres of tunes dominate: "relationship" songs - songs of longing, regret, remorse (such as the Soul Asylum tunes that Pirner put in) and "classic" rap - most likely tapping into the music that Banky, Holden, and Alyssa would have listened to growing up in the suburbs of Jersey.
The tunes have to fit the music. Just 'cause you love The Ramones, doesn't mean you should put "KKK Took My Baby Away" in Dogma.
: Has anyone else noticed that the farther down the series of Smith movies we go the less punk we see for instance ckerks has "chewbacca" that's all I remember. then, mallrats came in with that "seventeen" song by who knows the Squirtgun song a weezer song and an All song then it stops with Chasing Amy (I think)! whats that all about? also was it Smith who liked punk in the first place or some other member of the Veiw Askew crew?