Whether you’re a brain, an athlete, a basket case, a princess or a criminal, there's something here for you. Teen movies aren’t just films featuring teens – they say something about what it is to be a teenager, dialling in on the secondary school years where social circles are everything, first loves are life or death, and the promise of a bigger future awaits. Team Empire opened up its old angst-filled diaries to draw up a list of the best teen movies – the most quotable, banger-fuelled, swoonsome classics that capture all the pain and glory of the teenage experience. Though they evolve every few years along with teenage culture itself, teen movies are time capsules forever documenting a time and place on celluloid – as well as containing formative performances from cinematic greats. The teen movie is a cinematic favourite, magnifying the hopes, dreams, greatest fears and glittering futures of youngsters onto the big screen with snappy dialogue, earworm soundtracks, and grand romantic gestures. Crushing crushes and perfect prom nights. The Japanese Sandman – Richard Whiting composer R.A.Adolescent adventures. Where or When – Richard Rodgers composer Lorenz Hart lyricist Recorded on January 27 at American Federation of Musician’s Local 6 Recording Studios, San Francisco, CA With Kent Strand on piano, Ruth Davies on bass, Jeff Minnieweather on drums and percussion, Bill Dendle on Trombone and guitar, Noel Jewkes on Alto, Tenor, clarinet and flute, and Carolyne Swayze on vocals.

One is reality, the other a delicate dance between that to which we may feel entitlement or worth, or perhaps nonexistent. One is assuming while the other is reticent one is fledgling, the other experienced one is pain, the other is beauty. As images, one is plainly expressed, the other implied. Nothing too profound should be read into their meaning, which are merely images, to rouse each listener to produce feelings of their own. It is within this framework that I have recorded these songs. So they lay, rooted in the fiber of one’s soul until the next thought, sound, smell, or song awakens their restless sleep. The memories, which once seemingly mundane, are now, not as much pined for, as when the recognition of their refusal to hand over the past to erasure is realized. Reflections- a ponderance on a moment in time, an individual, group, or place.

A Time of Night by Ruth Swazee