'Singles' 27 years on: Where did it happen in Seattle?

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

If you love the movie "Singles," be sure to thank Heart.

Or at least half of the band's founding sisters, because it was Nancy Wilson who wooed Cameron Crowe to move to Seattle in 1986 (the two married that same year).

And it was the impression Seattle made on the filmmaker that led him to write and re-write the screenplay for "Singles," the seminal movie of grunge-era Seattle.

To those who didn't grow up as a part of the Northwest's Generation X, the movie might seem like a mildly entertaining story of some people trying to get it together.

But for those trying to make the scene in the early '90s — and particularly those doing so in Seattle — the movie stood as a storyboard to much of the youth culture of the day.

Out of college, in the working world and hitting the clubs as often as possible, the 'singles' make their way through the challenges of dating and friending in their 20s.

Crowe put it this way in the intro to a 1992 Rolling Stone story that collected his journals from making the film: "It's the story of disconnected single people making their way, forming their own unspoken family."

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[50 Shades Of Blue]

1. I don't know if I would now, but I loved that movie then!

[Aristus]

2. Seattle erupted onto the national scene while I was away in the Army.

Before "Singles", "Frasier", and Sub Pop became cultural phenomena, Seattle was just that weird city tucked away in the Pacific Northwest; it rained all the time, freeway on and off ramps stopped abruptly in mid-air and didn't go anywhere, and guys threw fish at the public market. Oh yeah, and the Space Needle.

Nirvana and the alternative music movement drew attention to a city I'd always loved.

I got out of the Army in 1993 and came home to oceans of coffee, great music at the Tractor, the Croc in Belltown, and the Nectar Lounge, the liberal boho life in Ballard, and a vibrant, intellectual city prospering on tech wealth.

A lot of that is getting buried in luxury condos south of Lake Union, and a music scene that has moved on. Corporate girl-pop has replaced the raw energetic guitar rock of the Seattle streets.

And the 1990's are looking more and more idyllic as time passes, and our country grows angrier, meaner, and more heartless with every passing year.