Adventureland

[his_regard]

If there's one thing which has come to irk me in indie movies, it's the reliance on the Received Wisdom Soundtrack. The lovable losers always have a soundtrack of their lives composed by bands acknowledged now as influential, but not too popular. There's no reason, save pandering to modern sensibilities, that the alternatives types in a film set in

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[lhn]

I think that may be a variant of the usual soundtrack-of-still-remembered-hits we generally get with period pieces, just given an alternative spin. (With a different gloss on who's expected to be doing the remembering.)

It would be interesting to see an attempt at more authentic period music variety in either case, but it would take more work and probably impress most of the audience less. Call it the musical equivalent of trying to do an accurate space combat scene. :-)