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Classic Album Review: Various Artists | Never Been Kissed Soundtrack

The soundtrack to Barrymore's reporter-in-high-school romcom makes the grade.

This came out in 1999 – or at least that’s when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):

 


The soundtrack for Drew Barrymore’s reporter-in-high-school romcom offers a refresher course in Pop 101.

The list of study aides includes everything from Semisonic’s Never You Mind and R.E.M.’s At My Most Beautiful all the way back to John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s Watching The Wheels and The Beach BoysDon’t Worry Baby. Typically, however, most kids will skip over the required reading and go straight to the predictably catchy new single from teenypoppers The Moffatts. Either way, however, Never Been Kissed still passes the test — albeit with a C+.