Captain Marvel 90s music you'd like to hear in the movie

[Damkac]

There's always great music in every decade, it's just the matter of finding it.

That's true but when you look at the mainstream music, one you can hear in the radio and TV it's very hard to find anything good.

 

[Moridin]

There's always great music in every decade, it's just the matter of finding it.

Too right. I'd go as far as saying that almost every year since 2000 there's been at least one album per year that I'd put on my "All Time Favourite" list.

That's true but when you look at the mainstream music, one you can hear in the radio and TV it's very hard to find anything good.

Simple fix- Stop going to TV & radio to find good music.

 

[flickchick85]

I'll honestly be surprised if the soundtrack doesn't lean heavily (though not entirely) in the "girl rock" direction given the era. Excluding music that came after 1995 if we're going with that as the main setting, some stuff I'd be happy to see on it..

Spoiler: Beware, LOTS of videos under the cut...

 

[Popndough]

"Dreams" was always my favorite Cranberries song.

It's pretty fun trying to remember all the songs I used to like 25 years ago. Here's some more. Mostly "girl rock", too.

Spoiler: Lots of Videos

 

[InvisibleWoman]

Here are some of my picks...

Black Hole Sun and Lithium are two of my favourites. Great choices.

 

[Aximili86]

Ehh, Nirvana, blahh. Etc.

Rest are awesome though. I'd be surprised if they go as early as Pretty Hate Machine as a NIN era though. They were still pretty underground at that point, just known amongst that scene. Probably more likely Broken or Downward Spiral, methinks.

 

[NewYorkSpider]

Would love to hear Montell Jordan’s - This Is How We Do It.

 

[Kane52630]

If anything Cosmic Girl has to be somewhere in the marketing, the lyrics fit too well.

 

[Popndough]

Ehh, Nirvana, blahh. Etc.

Rest are awesome though. I'd be surprised if they go as early as Pretty Hate Machine as a NIN era though. They were still pretty underground at that point, just known amongst that scene. Probably more likely Broken or Downward Spiral, methinks.

I don't know about that. I remember "Head Like a Hole", and "Down in it" getting some decent airplay on our local Independent radio station WFNX, and were on MTV's 120 minutes in '91. They were right there behind Jane's Addiction, REM, Pixies, and Depeche Mode as college rock was getting more popular in the late 80s which would lead to Nirvana's explosion. NIN toured in Lollapalooza 1991, and "Head Like a Hole" was #18 on the KROQ Top 100 of 1990. KROQ Top 106.7 of 1990 Pretty Hate Machine sold 500,000 copies by March 1992.

Besides, I don't think they would really take the popularity at the time of a song, as much as it's popularity now, and hopefully, more than anything, if it fit the scene.

I hope they don't do some lame cover, or remix of whatever 90's songs they use.

 

[Aximili86]

Yeah, local independent. As in they'd broken with the scene they were a part of, got some college radio time and were starting to become a part of the festivals. Just not so sure that, given this is 1995 and they'd put out two more releases by then (way, way more successful) that they'd go back to music from 1989/1990 from them for the movie.

If Carol's wearing NIN merch - while NIN t-shirts probably existed in the PHM era, sure - it's pretty likely from something later after they'd broken big. Keep in mind NIN were one of the biggest alternative type bands in the world by '95. Chances are she probably found out about them later on than the first album, unless Carol's some real hardcore midwest-industrial-pop scene enthusiast type.

But yeah, agreed on the notion that they probably don't pay too particular attention to this stuff either. Just kinda figure if they're playing up the grungey thing they'd probably go with something both heavier/darker (and way more known/successful nationally & internationally) from Broken or The Downward Spiral, rather than the pissed-off-Michael-Jackson vibes from PHM. It's sort of the unicorn of Trent's albums anyway, really different & sort of before he'd nailed down his own sound. Just don't think they'd use it, cool as Head Like A Hole is.

 

[Heretic]

It kind of bothers me that Fury mentions her Grunge look, while she's wearing a NIN tshirt. I mean...there was certainly fan crossover (myself included) and I get that Trent Reznor is respected in Hollywood and all...but still. Not that I thought she'd bust out a Mudhoney shirt, but Soundgarden or something would have been cool.

More than likely, the music selection will be upbeat.

 

[Aximili86]

Ehh, to be fair, he's a 50 year old dude. Doubt my parents would have remotely known the difference either.

It all basically got lumped in as the same. Smashing Pumpkins weren't a grunge band either, but to 90% of people out there they were "a grunge band". Electronic stuff like NIN isn't really any different, considering the image and Trent was a pretty dark & grim dude of the same generation as Cobain & Cantrell & stuff. Pretty sure even like Garbage & those hard-edge-but-mainstream rock bands that came later, Fuel or whatever, were considered the same in a broad sense among the "normies".

Vietnam-era-youth Fury's not gonna know or care one way or another. He might as well be Steve Rogers here.

 

[Heretic]

Wow...Sam Jackson is 70!?? I guess I get it now...like how my mom certainly wouldn't have been able to tell you the difference between Motley Crue and Slayer. And how I can't tell the difference between Imagine Dragons and a pile of dog crap.

 

[flickchick85]

It's funny, I was just having a conversation with another Hypester (who shall not be named, I will not shame you here lol!) not too long ago, and he though NIN were grunge, too. And he ain't that old. I think it's a common view for those who simply weren't into that music.

 

[Aximili86]

And how I can't tell the difference between Imagine Dragons and a pile of dog crap.

A man of taste & class.

 

[Popndough]

Yeah, local independent. As in they'd broken with the scene they were a part of, got some college radio time and were starting to become a part of the festivals. Just not so sure that, given this is 1995 and they'd put out two more releases by then (way, way more successful) that they'd go back to music from 1989/1990 from them for the movie.

If Carol's wearing NIN merch - while NIN t-shirts probably existed in the PHM era, sure - it's pretty likely from something later after they'd broken big. Keep in mind NIN were one of the biggest alternative type bands in the world by '95. Chances are she probably found out about them later on than the first album, unless Carol's some real hardcore midwest-industrial-pop scene enthusiast type.

But yeah, agreed on the notion that they probably don't pay too particular attention to this stuff either. Just kinda figure if they're playing up the grungey thing they'd probably go with something both heavier/darker (and way more known/successful nationally & internationally) from Broken or The Downward Spiral, rather than the pissed-off-Michael-Jackson vibes from PHM. It's sort of the unicorn of Trent's albums anyway, really different & sort of before he'd nailed down his own sound. Just don't think they'd use it, cool as Head Like A Hole is.

That local independent(commercial not college) station was one of the most popular in the Boston region where Carol grew up(Apparently in Beverly MA, which is funnily enough, next to Danvers MA). It rivaled Boston's top rock station WBCN, and usually beat them to new music in the late 80s-90s, which included NIN.

WFNX world premiered Nirvana's "Nevermind" in August 1991, and Nirvana(with openers Smashing Pumpkins) chose to play in Boston at FNX's 8th anniversary show the night before Nevermind was released because they championed their music so much in years past. WFNX also had it's own free newspaper, the Phoenix, in Boston, Providence RI, and Portland ME which was hugely popular with tons of articles on new music, film, art, etc. They were bought in 2012 by Clear Channel, and turned into a country station. FU CC. RIP WFNX... Sorry, OTA radio is sadly lacking these days.

Not that this information would have any bearing on what songs they decide to put in the film, just FYI.

Carol would probably be away at Air Force Academy, or pilot school anyways, but that still doesn't mean she couldn't have been one of the 500,000+ people who bought(or taped a copy from a friend like me) PHM before March 1992.

I may be a bit biased since I like pretty much every song on PHM, but only 2-3 from NIN's later releases.

 

[Aximili86]

Well, yeah, but that's getting pretty anal. My only point was we know it's set in '95, NIN had become a whole lot bigger between '92 and '94 with Trent's second and third releases. Seems more likely than not that's the stuff Carol would be familiar with. The Downward Spiral would have still been huge & current in 1995.

Pretty Hate Machine was 6 years old already, and...we've got evidence she's a bit of a grunge type kid from the clothing choices. Pretty Hate Machine, as stated earlier, was a whole lot less heavy, basically 80s synth-pop Michael Jackson type of stuff, only written by a really pissed-off guy. You could make an argument of Broken & The Downward Spiral fitting in that early-90s mopey & angry mould, but PHM's pretty much a leftover remnnant of 80s pop stuff, already pretty dated by the time this movie takes place. Hell, Trent himself always says he only really came into his own with Broken. PHM's awesome, but it's pretty much like leftover Exotic Birds-era Trent, with nastier lyrics. Not exactly...reflective of the mid-90s like the stuff that came after.

 

[Heretic]

Didn't she take the jacket from some dude??

We're not even sure if those are "her" clothes or if she grabbed them when needed, like Clark did in Man of Steel.

 

[Aximili86]

Fair, we have no context on it yet. That's what the discussion's for, speculation.

 

[x-er]

Seeing how she's constantly falling (even from the sky) and getting back up i'd say "I believe I can fly"

but i really wanna hear some Nirvana in a marvel movie!

 

[Thome216]

I'd like Dreams by Van Halen.

Any idea yet what the orchestra soundtrack is like?

 

[Smurphftw]

I'd like Dreams by Van Halen.

Any idea yet what the orchestra soundtrack is like?

Not a 90's song. From the 5150 album, released in 1985. Unless you were making a joke that I went over my head ....

 

[Aximili86]

Heh, well there is that long-running in-joke among the flyboy fighter-jock types that they all listen to Van Halen.

But yeah, don't use 5150, not really representative of the time period. I guess you could go with one of their bomb albums from the 90s, which never connected with anyone, but the music' still pretty cool. It'd be more obscure than the classics everyone knows though.

 

[flickchick85]

To be fair, some kids growing up in the 90's like myself were introduced to Van Halen's "Dreams" via the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers movie, so I feel it should be considered an honorary 90's song.

 

[Aximili86]

Heh, love that goofy original Power Rangers movie. Actually saw some of it being filmed and met Jason David Frank & Amy Jo Johnson as a kid during my time in Australia. Had totally forgotten there's a Van Halen song in that though, been forever since I've seen it. Just a tie-in song in the credits or something?