She's also totally in tune (sorry) with 'Sorry' by Sybil Vane, one of those Liz Fraser-esque singers who's happy to really mine those emotional depths. BTW, The Matinis comprises Joey 'Pixies' Santiago and his wife Linda Mallari, and they're still going. It suits her perfectly with its sweet female vocals, gutsy roughed-up guitars, and the overwhelming feeling of melancholy Oh, and mystical elements in the lyrics. When she shaves her head ' Free' by The Matinis is on the stereo. Musically Debra is everything that was awesome about American 90s alt rock. (This is when the gang give Debra a funeral to show her they would miss her if she died. I'm happy to say it's a film that stands up to repeat viewing almost twenty years later, especially since-did you get the memo?-90s style in music and fashion is back. Bands whose albums I bought, but then probably only listened to the one song I knew from movie. I was introduced to so many bands thanks to Empire Records.

And the soundtrack-woah boy-the soundtrack. It was pure grunge glamor, there was misunderstandings and miscommunications, but also kilts and hash brownies. When Empire Records was released in 1995 it gave suburban lame-os like me the chance to see what it would actually be like to work in a record shop (I gave my resumé to loads of places when I was a teen but they never gave me a job. Yes, you're really into bands, yeah you like being in that world, but mostly you're just there because you know it's seriously fun to work in a place where you can listen to music all day and there are loads of angsty babes strolling around. Or perhaps you were like Gina and Corey in Empire Records. Everything about it excited you, you wanted to be a part of it in any way-even just standing next to a Gin Blossoms vinyl made you feel alive and purposeful. You couldn't get enough, your enthusiasm knew no bounds. Possibly you were just someone who loved music. You would find it a personal insult if someone didn't own Blonde On Blonde, you relished the opportunity to correct someone when they quoted a lyric wrong or messed up release dates for the third EP by Your Favorite Band. Maybe you were the guy who knew everything about every band ever, key example-Jack Black in High Fidelity. You had to be a very special kind of person to work in a record store.

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