{"id":589,"date":"2002-01-10T01:59:00","date_gmt":"2002-01-10T01:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/?p=589"},"modified":"2024-03-26T01:59:45","modified_gmt":"2024-03-26T01:59:45","slug":"various-artists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/?p=589","title":{"rendered":"Various Artists"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsreview.com\/media\/images\/articles\/featured\/2020\/07\/10428-01.jpeg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019ve always hated pop-culture movies, which usually are preceded by a soundtrack of mediocre major-label alternative trash\u2014acts that haven\u2019t broken, nor ever will, always turn up in droves on these compilations.\u00a0<em>Orange County<\/em>, on the other hand, is an exception. From Social Distortion to Cake, Pete Yorn to Creeper Lagoon, the disc succeeds in making a well-rounded, diverse accompaniment to perhaps the stupidest movie ever. If you can forget that Colin Hanks and Jack Black exist, you\u2019ll find great aural pleasure with lesser-known acts like 12 Rods (\u201cGlad That It\u2019s Over\u201d) or Phantom Planet (\u201cCalifornia\u201d). There are, however, a few stinkers\u2014the Offspring\u2019s tepid \u201cDefy You\u201d; the aptly named Bad Ronald\u2019s \u201c1st Time.\u201d Not everyone can be perfect, but give someone credit for leaving off Fred Durst. (The first pressing includes a bonus CD of new Sony acts that can either be used as a coaster or a Frisbee.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(SN&amp;R)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve always hated pop-culture movies, which usually are preceded by a soundtrack of mediocre major-label alternative trash\u2014acts that haven\u2019t broken, nor ever will, always turn up in droves on these compilations.\u00a0Orange County, on the other hand, is an exception. From Social Distortion to Cake, Pete Yorn to Creeper Lagoon, the disc succeeds in making a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=589"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":590,"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589\/revisions\/590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}