Various – Hype! (The Motion Picture Soundtrack)

If you saw this film back when it came out in the mid 90s everytime you hear this soundtrack it brings you back to what it was like then. Its basically Sub Pops take on the 90s movement so you dont get Alive in chains, Stone temple pilots I.e.no band that wasn't signed to sub pop etc but most everyone else is on here.There's also a few Rarities like live mudhoney, fastback tracks etc.the definitive soundtrack to the northwestern sound punk rock. Just don't call it...'GRUNGE!!!'

Fastbacks "K Street"
Dead Moon "54/40"
The Gits "Second Skin"

I got into punk because of these three songs. I bought this soundtrack used for $8.50 on CD at Everyday Music In Portland, Oregon in 1996 after seeing this film on VHS. I only learned about Everyday Music because they ran an ad during The Rosie O'Donnell Show and I used to love that show and watched it a lot. It was the only Everyday Music ad I ever saw. E.M. was / is next to the ABC broadcasting building in Portland, Oregon and it makes sense that they would run an ad. My dad used to go to Portland sometimes to get things fixed and stuff and I told him I wanted to go to Everyday Music on Sandy so we found the place and went there. Portland used to be really run down and trashy. There was nothing cool about Portland back then. The Oregon Zoo and OMSI would have been one of the only reasons most folks would go to Portland back then. I do remember my neighbor did take us kids to the Music Millennium in the early 1990s because he loved the Beach Boys and was looking for their albums on cassette and that was pretty cool. Never been to a record store before! Fred Meyer's two aisles of CD's and cassettes doesn't really count! I used to sit in cars a lot waiting for my dad. Then later on he used to sit in our station wagon waiting for me while I record shopped. Always out of style! Anyway, I bought this soundtrack back in elementary school and was obsessed with these three songs and would play them over and over again. I didn't even know what punk was. I knew what grunge was because of this film - ripped jeans and flannel. I actually hate flannel and never wore it because it seems like such a Northwest cliche. I started going to Value Village every week and looking for worn jeans with lots of holes, weird toys, other weird stuff. I remember it being 1996 and feeling I'd missed the boat by 2 years and that the whole grunge thing was done and gone. I didn't even end up getting a Nirvana record until 2 years later after getting this soundtrack. That's how behind I was not knowing about things or bands. I was so obsessed with thrift stores in 1996 and told this girl in my class I loved going to Value Village and then she and some other kids started making fun of me saying I was poor. I thought it was so stupid because I just liked finding cool stuff and it sure as hell beat the mall and mainstream. Remember Tommy Hilfiger and all that American patriotic red/white/blue garbage? I hated that. I ended up later on seeing that same girl in a thrift store years later and thought she was a fake for being there and putting me down years earlier. It used to be that mainly lower class and poor folks that went to thrift stores. You would occasionally see a Mercedes parked out front and you knew that whoever was driving that car was cheap and trying to save money. I liked like that and being around those type of people because they were just regular people and not following trends. No competition, no people getting in your way, no obnoxious people and thrift stores back then were pretty much empty. Nowadays every aisle is crammed and it's not really fun anymore and the prices are generally pretty high unless you go to your local religious thrift store where they're tryin' to scrape by or if you wanna deal with the collector morons who line up like cattle at the Goodwill bins in hopes of finding one or two decent items that aren't even very cool. Later on thrift stores became lots of middle class type people, boring families or people with money or even trendy high school kids. It's just not as cool as it once was and not the same feeling. My mom told me her grandmother used to shop at thrift stores in California back in the 1950s and 1960s because rich folks would get rid of their old jewelry and it was a good place to get really expensive jewelry for cheap because no one was looking for the stuff. You had to be in-the-know about what to look for. I only learned about punk later on... 3 or 4 years later after getting this soundtrack. Thanks to Doug Pray for making this film.

How come the VHS of the film is not on Discogs? It's a music documentary, so I would think it should be allowed. Does anyone know if it has been deleted from this site before?

Shouldnt this be merged with http://www.discogs.com/Various-Hype/release/1462418 ??

Shouldnt this be merged with http://www.discogs.com/Various-Hype-The-Motion-Picture-Soundtrack/master/372611 ??