It’s probably the scene where Michelle Pfeiffer pulls up a backwards chair to a student meeting and asks “You wanna tell me what this is all about?,” right? Actually, that wasn’t from the movie at all, and the “student” she was meeting with was Coolio, in the video for “Gangsta’s Paradise.” How about Angus, remember the names of any of the teen actors in that movie? Maybe not, but thanks to Green Day’s presence on the soundtrack you probably probably remember the name Jason Andrew Relva.

Try to picture a scene from Dangerous Minds. Twenty years on, you might not remember much about some of these movies at all, but you remember the hit songs they helped spawn. No longer was the point of a soundtrack just to advertise and complement its accompanying movie - with the rise of Music From and Inspired By-type soundtracks like Batman Forever, songs didn’t even have to come directly from the movies at all anymore - but rather to exist as a totally separate entity, with blockbuster potential of its own. The various-artists soundtrack had already existed as a phenomenon for decades, but 1995 was the year that the OST became an event into itself.

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