Track Listing
1. That's Just What You Are - Aimee Mann
2. Back on Me - Urge Overkill
3. Baby I Can't Please You - Sam Phillips
4. Blah - Dinosaur Jr.
5. Ordinary Angels - Frente!
6. Precious - Annie Lennox
7. I'm Jealous - The Divinyls
8. Kids...This Is Fabulon - Seed
9. Here & Now - Letters To Cleo
10. How Was It For You - James
11. Star Is Bored, A - Paul Westerberg
| Details | | Distributor: | WEA (Distributor) | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes
Compilation producers: Jeff Aldrich, Howard Benson.
As generation-defining television series go, Aaron Spelling's "Melrose Place" occupies the same place for 90's twentysomethings as Spelling's "Dynasty" did for their parents--proving that obsessing over titilating soap operas is not era-specific. Where "Melrose Place" succeeds over its Eighties' counterpart is in relating to its viewers' tastes rather than drowning them in opulence; thus, MELROSE PLACE - THE MUSIC is brimming with up-and-coming alterna-popsters, rather than proven commercial supernovas. Post-modern guitar heroes (Urge Overkill, Dinosaur Jr.), perennial "next big things" (Divinyls, James), and future "Buzz Bin"-ers (Letter To Cleo, Seed) all blaze through excellent originals, ready to set the Alternative Nation of "Melrose"-junkies afire. Yet, it is a trio of under-rated, established singer/songwriters (Aimee Mann, Sam Phillips and Paul Westerberg), whose commercial fates have long seemed sealed, who serve MELROSE PLACE - THE MUSIC best. Their confident, almost stately contributions illustrate that "it" is not all about appearences, and offer the only historical perspective on a collection built for the moment.
Editorial Reviews
THE MUSIC is brimming with up-and-coming alterna-popsters, rather than proven commercial supernovas. Post-modern guitar heroes (Urge Overkill, Dinosaur Jr.), perennial next big things (Divinyls, James), and future Buzz Bin-ers (Letter To Cleo, Seed) all blaze through excellent originals, ready to set the Alternative Nation of Melrose-junkies afire. Yet, it is a trio of under-rated, established singer/songwriters (Aimee Mann, Sam Phillips and Paul Westerberg), whose commercial fates have long seemed sealed, who serve MELROSE PLACE - THE MUSIC best. Their confident, almost stately contributions illustrate that it is not all about appearences, and offer the only historical perspective on a collection built for the moment.
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