The ’90s movie soundtrack that still makes millennial hearts flutter | CNN

Backlit by an orange sky, Romeo appears. He smokes on a derelict outdoor stage; the only curtains here the blonde hair framing his face. The moody keyboard of Radiohead’s “Talk Show Host” swells, a 21-year-old Leonardo DiCaprio comes into focus, and a million teenage crushes are launched. The year is 1996 and director Baz Luhrmann has reimagined William Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet” for the MTV-era. Fair Verona is now a Venice Beach-style metropolis, the rivaling families tote guns rather than swords, and Romeo pops an ecstasy pill before going to the party where he falls for Juliet, played by a 17-year-old Claire Danes. But it is the soundtrack – an eclectic mix of songs spanning Des’ree’s ballad “Kissing You,” The Cardigans’ sugary hit “Love Fool” and Garbage’s sexy trip hop tune “#1 Crush” – that captured both the film’s kaleidoscopic energy and shape-shifting ‘90s music landscape. On its 30th anniversary year – and with ‘90s nostalgia at full tilt – the compilation is also a snapshot of a unique cohesion between film and record companies. A time when albums were a key part of the movie experience that continued on peoples’ CD p

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