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6/01/2010

OST OCD: Colors

If you’ll do me the favor of thinking back a couple of weeks, you’ll recollect I posted up a remixed cover version of Ice-T’s classic “Colors.” At that time I mentioned I would consider a post of the original if I still had the soundtrack. Well, friends, guess what?

This is actually sort of a relevant time to post from this soundtrack, with the death last week of Dennis Hopper. Hopper, in case you’ve forgotten, directed the 1988 flick, which starred Robert Duvall and Sean Penn.

Your basic plot summary, from IMDB:

Colors stars Robert Duvall and Sean Penn as partners on the LAPD’s gang crime division. Duvall had hoped to spend more time with his family, but he's pulled back into active service because of a step-up in gang activity. He makes no secret of his contempt for his novice partner Penn, but eventually comes to rely on the younger man as a valuable street contact. The central crisis is the battle for supremacy between the Crips and the Bloods, with every effort to call a truce stymied by the gang members themselves and by undue police intervention.

The soundtrack itself did pretty well, chart-wise. It went as high as number 31 on the Billboard charts, and helped launch the career of the future Detective “Fin” Tutuola. Before Colors, Ice-T was doing OK, releasing 12-inch singles and the moderately successful Rhyme Pays. But it would be “Colors” that put Ice-T on the map as a “gangsta rapper” as well as a commentator on that lifestyle. From that point, Ice’s lyrics would become sharper and more incisive, putting him in the role as “OG” of west coast rap.

Along with “Colors,” I’ve also got for you the classic Cold Cut remix of Eric B. & Rakim’s “Paid in Full,” another old-school, not-to-be-missed hip hop track.

Colors.mp3
Paid in Full - 7 Minutes of Madness (The Cold Cut remix).mp3

Labels: hip-hop, movies, soundtracks

2/10/2010

OST OCD - Cruising

A few months ago, when I posted about the Germs, I got a comment suggesting I check out the soundtrack for the 1980 Al Pacino movie, Cruising. The comment was spurred by one of the songs I posted, “Lion’s Share,” which was one of six Germs songs on the soundtrack.

I didn’t know it at the time, but the Cruising soundtrack has long been out-of-print. To the best of my knowledge, it was issued on vinyl and never reissued on CD. The Germs songs surfaced on the Germs (MIA) anthology; as far as the others, your guess is as good as mine.

The movie itself pretty much bombed when it was released. Gay rights groups, who opposed the way gays were depicted in the film, heavily protested it, which didn’t help ticket sales either. However, in the last decade or so, the film has become something of a cult classic. It’s even more accepted by some gays as “an entertaining and (for those born too late to enjoy the sexual excesses of pre-AIDS gay life) fascinating if ridiculous glimpse into gay life,” according to Raymond Murray, editor of Images in The Dark, an encyclopedia of gay and lesbian films.

Your basic plot summary, courtesy of Rotten Tomatoes:

A sadistic serial killer is targeting New York's gay community and, in response, the NYPD sends rookie cop Steve Burns undercover to find the killer. Burns, who is straight, poses as a homosexual and enters the world of gay S&M sex clubs, learning their rules and mores as he goes along. But as Burns arduously tracks down the murderer, he finds himself growing attracted to these clubs and the gay lifestyle, forcing him to question -- and possibly confront -- his own sexual identity.

These songs come from a vinyl rip. As I said, this isn’t available on CD. Since the album is out-of-print, I’ve been a little more generous than I usually am with commercial releases. Note that, except for the Germs track, all of the songs have little snippets of dialogue from the movie, not all of which is workplace appropriate, ifyaknowwhatimean.

Lump.mp3 ~ Mutiny
Loneliness.mp3 ~ The Cripples
Spy Boy.mp3 ~ John Hiatt
When I Close My Eyes I See Blood.mp3 ~ Madelynn Von Ritz
Shakedown.mp3 ~ Rough Trade
Pullin’ My String.mp3 ~ Willy DeVille
My Tunnel.mp3 ~ The Germs

Labels: "alternative", punk, soundtracks

7/25/2009

OST OCD: 'He Got Game'

It’s been a long time since I did one of these OST posts and, truth to tell, the origin of this particular post didn’t come from the movie, but from a Buffalo Springfield song.

I heard “For What It’s Worth” the other day, which got me thinking about Public Enemy’s soundtrack for Spike Lee’s 1998 movie, He Got Game (I’ve mentioned before how my brain moves along those paths). I watched the movie once, some time ago, and, at least in my opinion, it wasn’t one of Spike Lee’s best.

The movie stars Denzel Washington and current Boston Celtic Ray Allen. The plot is basically as follows: Jesus Shuttlesworth (Allen) is an extremely talented basketball player being pursued by the top college programs in the nation. Washington's character, Jake Shuttlesworth, is a convicted felon serving time at Attica State Prison for accidentally killing his wife (Jesus’ mother). Jake is temporarily released by the governor, influential alum of one of the colleges Jesus is considering, so that he might direct his son to sign with the governor's college. (See the trailer here.)

As a longtime listener of Public Enemy, I got the soundtrack long before I saw the movie. This album reunited Professor Griff and Terminator X with Chuck D and Flavor Flav, giving the album the feel of the early PE disks. They also invited a host of guests, including Masta Killa, KRS-One, and one of the last people you’d expect to find here, Stephen Stills.

Stills stepped in to lend his voice and acoustic guitar to the title track. While the original version symbolizes the unrest of the 1960’s, this more-or-less updated version touches more on oppression: Racial oppression, political oppression, self oppression.

More than your eye can see / And ears can hear
Year by year / All the sense disappears
Nonsense perseveres / Prayers laced wit’ fear
He Got Game the soundtrack remains one of my favorite Public Enemy disks and one of only a few soundtracks that can stand on its own.

He Got Game.mp3 ~ ft. Stephen Stills
Unstoppable.mp3 ~ ft. KRS-One

Labels: hip-hop, movies, soundtracks

10/06/2007

OST OCD - A Two-fer

You may not even have noticed, since I did post the other day, but I’ve been having some ftp problems. But with the help of the DreamHost support team, I was able to get all issues resolved and get going again. Every time I’ve had a problem or needed help, they’ve taken care of me. A lot of times I even hear back from the support people within an hour of the time I’ve submitted my question. If you’re looking for a host, these guys really are great.
Moving on.

I just got my hands on a couple of soundtracks that are, in a lot of ways, very similar. That’s the reason for my “two-fer” post today. “Kurt Cobain: About a Son,” and “Joe Strummer: The Future is Unwritten” are both from recent movies about the two rock icons. And both disks go fairly deep into the music that inspired Kurt and Joe’s respective bands.

Interestingly, though, while “The Future is Unwritten” includes some solo Joe Strummer as well as some previously unreleased Clash demos, “About a Son” is strictly about Kurt Cobain’s influences. The soundtrack is filled with bands such as Mudhoney, Scratch Acid, and the Melvins. There were some surprises, though, such as the inclusion of Arlo Guthrie (coincidentally, the Strummer soundtrack has a song by Woody Guthrie) and CCR.

Rolling Stone’s RockDaily describes the film as such: “You’ll hear only one voice in ‘About a Son’ – Cobain’s – and there’s no footage of Nirvana or even Kurt himself in the film,” which (co-producer Michael) Azerrad reiterated isn’t a documentary but a retelling of Cobain’s life in his own words. ‘It was more about bringing him into the realm of a three-dimensional human being, not the cartoon rock icon,’ says Azerrad, who drew from a bank of more than twenty-five hours of previously unheard audio tape for the project. ‘It’s not a look back at Kurt, it’s a look into Kurt.’”

Alternately, sort of, is Julian Temple’s tribute to Joe Strummer. Along with interviews and such, “The Future is Unwritten” draws a lot from archival footage of The Clash and the Mescaleros. The soundtrack also includes a track from the 101’ers, Strummer’s pre-Clash band.

A reviewer on IMDB writes that “Temple – who filmed the Clash at one of their earliest rehearsals – has assembled a truly impressive array of footage, including 8mm family films from Joe's childhood and a performance from the 101ers, his pre-Clash R&B/pub-rock band. There are interviews with Joe's squat-mates from the early 70s, Mick Jones and Topper Headon of the Clash, and numerous other people (musicians and other) who either worked with Joe or were influenced by him. My only reservation is that the movie might be overwhelming to someone who was unfamiliar with Strummer's work, or the broad outlines of his history, but I think even a complete novice would have to come away impressed by the sheer scope of Joe's legacy, both in terms of music and the influence he left on his friends and admirers.”

There’s so much good music on both of these disks that it was hard for me to pick just a couple from each. I ultimately picked songs I liked and thought were interesting.

from “Joe Strummer: The Future is Unwritten”

White Riot (demo).mp3 The Clash
Crawfish (from King Creole).mp3 Elvis Presley
Keys to Your Heart.mp3 The 101’ers

see the trailer

from “Kurt Cobain: About a Son”

The Motorcycle Song.mp3 Arlo Guthrie
Owner’s Lament.mp3 Scratch Acid
The Man Who Sold the World.mp3 David Bowie

see the trailer

Labels: demos, rock, soundtracks

9/29/2007

I Spit on Your Corpse, I Piss on Your Grave

If you look over to the right side of this page, you’ll notice a little column titled “Other Media Filling the Void.” This is where I keep score of the latest books and movies I’ve read or seen. Mostly I do this for my own entertainment. I doubt just because I put “The Heart is a Lonely Hunter” there, anyone who wasn’t so inclined anyway will read it. The link underneath all of that goes to Amazon, from which, to be honest, it’s been months since I’ve bought anything. About 95 percent of my reading material comes from the public library. A similar amount of the movies I watch come from Blockbuster’s online rental program.

But I continue updating it, as I say, mainly for myself. In the year-plus I’ve been at this blog, no one has ever mentioned anything in that little space. Then, earlier this week, I got an e-mail from a reader named Chris. He writes, “’I Spit on Your Corpse, Piss on Your Grave’--what the Hell is that?!” [sic]

Good question, Chris.

I think I can sum up by saying “I Spit on Your Corpse, I Piss on Your Grave” epitomizes grindhouse movie fare. The flick, basically a rape-revenge story, looks to have been made on a budget of about $50. There is gratuitous violence and gratuitous sex. And a scene where a man is forced to eat his own feces.

This movie rocks! I don’t know how “I Spit on Your Corpse” missed cult-dom. If nothing in the preceding paragraph offended you, and you’re a fan of trashy, worthless movies, you’ve got to see this.

You know if critics hate it, it’s going to be great: “This film sucks ass. It looks like a home movie shot on a digital camcorder by people who are too unattractive to make amateur porn. Horrible acting - check. Complete lack of production values - check. Abysmal writing and directing - double check. Shit, when you can't even make fucking and axe-murder entertaining, it's time to get out of show business. My advice to you is to avoid anything under the Sub-Rosa label, which seems to be nothing more than a front under which to release gory heavy metal extended music videos that feature ugly people having lots of sex.” Read the whole review, from the eFilmCritic, here.

The phrase above, “gory heavy metal music,” provides me a smooth transition to today’s post. There were a couple of pretty heavy songs in the movie’s soundtrack. Curious, I watched through the credits and learned a band named Crypt33 performed the songs.

More curious now, I Googled the band. Very little information exists, other than a MySpace space, which does appear to be up-to-date. There, I learned Crypt33 is based out of Fredericktown, Mo., and have been together almost 10 years: “Formed in 1997, Crypt33 was a reaction to the music we loved and to the music we were hearing around us that we HATED...we couldn't find any thing we liked, so, like many before us, we decided to form our own band... Our music falls under the category of what fans call ‘ghoul rock’ or ‘horror punk,’ in the vein of classic Misfits or Samhain, though we have found that our set fits in well with many diverse styles of Hard music... The Crypt33 sound is the sound of doom, the sound that you hear at the moment of death...the sound of FEAR.” [sic]

Crypt33 is every bit as hard as you’d expect. Of the two songs below, “Fuck Face” was featured in “I Spit on Your Corpse, I Piss on Your Grave.” I do not think the band is currently signed, but there are a couple more tracks on their MySpace.

Dropkick.mp3
Fuck Face.mp3

As a little trivia, Crypt 33 is supposedly also the compartment at the Los Angeles County Morgue where Marilyn Monroe’s body was stored.

Labels: metal, soundtracks

9/27/2007

And now, for something completely different...

This is, without a doubt, something completely different. Elvis Costello has covered Christina Aguilera.

Elvis contributed his version of Christina’s 2002 hit “Beautiful” to the second episode of the second season of “House,” airing in September 2005. That episode, titled “Autopsy,” opens with a scene where a girl with a blood clot listens to the original song, and closes with House listening to Costello's version. The song is included on the show’s soundtrack, which was just released Sept. 18.

I may have mentioned here that I don’t really mind hearing Christina Aguilera’s music. I think the actual words I may have used are “guilty pleasure”. And of course, I have been an Elvis Costello fan pretty much since the time he released his first album. But is it necessary to say I was a little skeptical when I heard that Costello was covering Christina?

What keeps this from bottoming out is that, while it is true the song was a hit for Aguilera, she didn’t write it. Linda Perry did. Perry, of course, has gone from being known as the leader of 4 Non Blondes to a very popular pop music songwriter and producer. She’s worked with and/or written songs for, among others, Courtney Love, Pink, and Alicia Keys. Suffice to say Ms. Perry knows how to write a decent song. That Costello can take a well-written song and make it his own should not come as a surprise. Look what he did with “(What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding?”, “I Can't Stand Up for Falling Down”, and “A Good Year for the Roses”, to name but a couple. From the opening notes of "Beautiful", the song is an Elvis Costello song. Give it an unbiased listen and you'll hear what I mean.

Beautiful.mp3 Elvis Costello

Labels: covers, new stuff, soundtracks

9/25/2007

The Heroin Diaries

As a general practice, I don’t ramble much here about my own life. For one thing, this blog is about music, not me. Next, there’s always the chance something could bite me in the ass if I were to have a forum to air my personal laundry.

Without getting into all the whys and wherefores, let me throw out there that I was immediately drawn into the soundtrack to Nikki Sixx’s “Heroin Diaries.” I’ve never done heroin and never been through the kind of special hell of addiction. But when he describes sitting alone on a Christmas morning, crouched under a Christmas tree with a needle in his arm, that image really just sums up everything about hitting bottom. It doesn’t matter what dragged you down there; it doesn’t matter if the picture Sixx paints is literal or metaphorical to you, there is no more complete image of someone who has given up on everything and, in turn, has had everything give up on them.

“The Heroin Diaries,” if you haven’t heard, is Nikki Sixx’s account of his descent into drug addiction and the accompanying train wreck that was his life. He kept a journal during one of his darkest years and has combined those entries with his current thoughts as he looked back at that year. (For an excerpt from the book, check out The Heroin Diaries.net.)

To accompany the book, Nikki also penned a soundtrack. “In a unique and innovative twist, The Heroin Diaries Soundtrack brings a fascinating sonic component to Nikki Sixx’s tales of self-destruction,” says the SixxAM Web site. “The 13 tracks each coincide with a chapter of the book, enhancing the already intensely graphic imagery of Sixx’s journal entries.”

Nikki dubbed his band for the project Sixx A.M. In addition to Sixx, there’s James Michael, who sings, and along with Nikki wrote the songs, and former Beautiful Creatures guitarist DJ Ashba.

The two tracks I have from the album are “Xmas in Hell,” which is the opening piece that sucked me in; and the first single, “Life is Beautiful.”

Xmas in Hell.mp3
Life is Beautiful.mp3

If you check the Heroin Diaries MySpace space, there’s an acoustic version of “Life is Beautiful.”

Labels: books, rock, soundtracks

7/09/2007

OST OCD - "Private Parts"

Enough dicking around. MediaMax is still sucking, so here’s what I’m going to do. I mentioned awhile back that I have a RapidShare account. The downside of that (for you) is if you don’t have an account, you have to wait something like 45 seconds to download, and you’re limited to how many downloads you can do. I didn’t want to hassle you with all that crap, but it’s sucking that I’m not able to post.

What I decided to do for now is go ahead and use RapidShare. I’ll put all posted songs in one zip file. You can download that, check the songs out, then do what you want with the ones you like. Personally, I usually like to listen to a little bit of a song before I download the whole thing, so I hope this method will work for the time being.

Moving on.

Like I started to say before I was so rudely interrupted, I want to sample a couple of tracks from the “Private Parts” soundtrack. “Private Parts,” for those who may not know, was the 1997 film based on Howard Stern’s 1993 autobiography of the same name. And if you’re not sure who Howard Stern is, I will refer you to his Wiki entry. You can also check out HowardStern.com to see the type of stuff that happens on his Sirius Satellite Radio show.

“Private Parts” premiered at the top of the box-office in its opening weekend with a gross of $14.6 million. The film received mostly positive reviews from critics, most notably from Siskel and Ebert, who were frequent guests of Stern's radio show. Some critics, however, claimed the film glossed over his use of sexual and racial humor.

For his performance, Stern won the Blockbuster Entertainment Award for “Favorite Male Newcomer.” He was also nominated for a Golden Satellite Award for “Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Comedy.”

Your basic plot synopsis, from Rotten Tomatoes :

Radio's larger-than-life bad boy, and self-proclaimed “King of All Media,” Howard Stern exposes his “Private Parts” in this adaptation of his best-selling autobiography. Tracing his evolution from hopelessly geeky student to top-rated shock jock, the film not only chronicles his legendarily off-color on-air demeanor (Lesbian Dial-a-Date; frequent nude guests) and his continuous battles with management over content and co-hosts, but it also examines his unexpectedly touching and sincere relationship with his wife, Alison.

What I like about the soundtrack, in addition to the little skits between songs, is the mix of old and new contributions. Were this disk an LP, Side 1 would feature newer artists such as Marilyn Manson and a collaboration between LL Cool J and members of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, while Side 2 would be the classics Howard probably played back in his days at WCCC.

To give you the full effect, I’ve picked a fair range of things from this disk: The opening skit, “Pig Virus” features an anti-Stern rant by Paul Giamatti, in his role as Kenny Rushton, the WNBC program director. “The Great American Nightmare,” a collaboration between Rob Zombie and Stern, is the current opening theme for the radio show. The live ACDC song, I think, comes from a Stern appearance in New York, although I’m not certain about that.

Music:
~“Pig Virus” (skit)
~“The Great American Nightmare” Rob Zombie with Howard Stern
~“Hard Charger” Porno for Pyros
~“You Shook Me All Night Long (live)” AC/DC

Music Link

Labels: comedy, rock, soundtracks

5/20/2007

OST OCD - "S.F.W."

I came home early from the bar Friday night, put on Comedy Central and was surprised by a showing of “SFW.” They were airing the 1994 flick as part of their late night “Secret Stash” series. (“No commercials, no editing and some really sweet curse words. It's our Secret Stash, man.”)

I thought I had seen the movie before, but it didn’t seem too familiar. I concluded that was probably a result of one or more of the following: a) I’d seen it, but a LONG time ago; b) I’ve never seen it; or c) Too many beers to remember ever having seen it.

Your basic plot summary, from All Movie:

Embracing the supposed nihilism and cynicism of the “slacker” generation, “S.F.W.” caused nary a blip on the media-saturated cultural radar screen that it criticized. Stephen Dorff stars as Cliff Spab, an aimless, hard-drinking youth. Spab becomes a national hero when he is one of several people held hostage by gun-toting terrorists in a convenience store. He doesn't care much about his own life or anything else, and his attitude of “so fucking what?” translates into debates with his terrorist captors and gloomy pronouncements that charm viewers. After a month-long siege, a crisis erupts when the store runs out of beer and junk food, so Cliff finds himself a free man whose celebrity image is emblazoned on t-shirts and whose presence is requested at a rock concert where he is required to do nothing other than appear. In the meantime, Spab's girlfriend Wendy becomes a ubiquitous talk show guest. Ostensibly a satire of the celebrity-obsessed culture of the 1990s, the film was withheld from distribution for a year because of thematic similarities to Oliver Stone's “Natural Born Killers”.

You might recognize Wendy as a very young (18 years old) Reese Witherspoon in one of her first leading roles. An almost-as-young Tobey Macguire also has a small role as “Al”. Jefery Levy directed SFW, which was based on a novel by Andrew Wellman.

The soundtrack reflects the heavy, “SFW” attitude of the film. Along with the couple of songs I’ve posted today, Monster Magnet and Radiohead’s first big hits are on the album and there are also tracks from Suicidal Tendencies and Soundgarden. As a reviewer on Amazon said, “This disc will surely please any metal-head with a short attention span.”

Get Your Gunn.mp3 Marilyn Manson
Like Suicide (acoustic).mp3 Chris Cornell
S.F.W..mp3 GWAR

Labels: metal, soundtracks

5/09/2007

OST OCD - "Rock 'n' Roll High School"

I’m flipping through channels on the TV last night and happened across VH1 Classics airing Rock ‘n’ Roll High School. I don’t even remember the last time I saw this flick, which was released originally in 1979. But I sat, enthralled for two hours, watching this classic rock movie.

Allan Arkush directed this vehicle for the Ramones, which was executive produced by B-movie legend Roger Corman. Corman wanted a latter-day version of his “wild teen” films of the 50s and 60s, and felt that the best way to adapt to the 70s would be to center the plot on the popular music of the day. The production Disco High began. Based upon a story by Allan Arkush and Joe Dante, the film's screenwriters Richard Whitley, Russ Dvonch, and Joseph McBride developed the script through several versions, under titles ranging from Heavy Metal Kids to Girl's Gym to a mutation of Disco High's title, Rock 'n' Roll High School.

Your basic plot summary, from AllMovie:

Rock 'n' Roll High School is a prime example of a '70s movie phenomenon: a cult film that was deliberately designed to be a cult film. High-schooler Riff Randell's (P.J. Soles) efforts to meet the Ramones are continually thwarted by rock-&-roll-hating principal Miss Togar (Mary Woronov). Miss Togar is the zealous sort who conducts experiments on laboratory rats to prove the adverse effect of rock music on innocent teenagers. Riff knows that she'll have to be twice as clever and devious as Togar to get her daily supply of Ramones -- and thereby hangs our tale. A secondary plot involves the efforts of the men's-bathroom-stationed matchmaker Eaglebauer Clint Howard to arrange a date for high-school jock Tom Roberts (Vincent Van Patten). An anarchistic climax caps this spoof of '50s R&R musicals.

Some other people to look for in the movie: Dey Young as Riff’s best friend Kate, LA Disc Jockey The Real Don Steele as DJ Screamin’ Steve Stevens, and, in an uncredited role, the late Darby Crash of the Germs.

Watching this movie took me back to my high school days, with the girls wearing Farrah-do’s, the guys with almost equally long hair, and rocking the portable cassette player. Great stuff!

A quick song note: On the soundtrack the five Ramones songs are all jammed together under the heading “Ramones medley.” When they were re-released as bonus tracks on the CD version of Road to Ruin, the songs are still listed as one track. That being the case, I’ve decided to leave them as one eleven-minute track instead of trying the split them and screw them up. Besides, the songs all appear during one sequence in the movie. Also – in the movie, the kids are all headed to the Rockatorium, or something like that, to see the Ramones. According to the album jacket, the tracks were recorded at the Roxy in Los Angeles.

Blitzkrieg Bop/Teenage Lobotomy/California Sun/Pinhead/She’s the One.mp3 Ramones
Rock ‘n’ Roll High School.mp3 PJ Soles
Teenage Depression.mp3 Eddie & the Hot Rods

YouTube has the original Rock ‘n’ Roll High School trailer.

Labels: rock, soundtracks

4/12/2007

OST OCD - "Judgment Night"

I don’t know how other people do their blogs, if they have a plan or schedule, or what. I know that I don’t. F’rinstance, I have a couple more albums left from last time I ripped stuff from vinyl, but I don’t feel like listening to that stuff. I figure, if I don’t feel like hearing it, probably no one else does, either. Anyway, I usually approach my blog with a “let’s sit down and see how I feel” attitude.

Tonight I felt more like posting weird soundtrack stuff than posting Slade, my original choice.

“Judgment Night,” a 1993 flick directed by Stephen Hopkins and starring Emilio Estevez, Cuba Gooding Jr., and Dennis Leary wasn’t exactly Oscar material: “’Judgment Night’ is regrettably familiar fare” with “precious little tension,” wrote Washington Post critic Richard Harrington.

I’ll throw you a plot summary from IMDb, in case you, like me, have not seen this movie.

Four pals are on their way to a boxing match, but get stuck in heavy traffic. To get to the boxing match in time they take the first exit they find to find another way to the venue. As they are driving around lost in gangland they get stuck and witness a brutal murder. The killer wants no witnesses and tries to kill them too. The four pals get away the first time, but the killer is soon back on their tail again while they are trying to find help in the middle of nowhere.

Fortunately, the soundtrack is better than the movie. It even managed to achieve some chart success, with every song being a collaboration between hip-hop artists and alternative rock artists. These collaborations came about before the rash of rock-rap bands such as Limp Bizkit. At the time, it was unique and very cool, with rappers (such as Cypress Hill) and rockers (such as Pearl Jam) blending their styles to create a new sound. Which is exactly why I bought this disk then when now you could hardly pay me to listen to rap-rock.

Pretend you didn’t spend the last half of the 90s being blasted with lame-ass white rock singers rapping inanely over crappy music, and I think you’ll find most of these songs interesting and not too bad at all.

Me, Myself, & My Microphone.mp3 Living Colour and Run D.M.C.
I Love You Mary Jane.mp3 Sonic Youth and Cypress Hill
Freak Momma.mp3 Mudhoney and Sir Mix-A-Lot
Real Thing.mp3 Pearl Jam and Cypress Hill

Labels: soundtracks