I don't know about other people my
age --- I hate old people, so I don't talk to other people my
age --- but every since I started to approach, and then reach
the big (begins with 'f' and ends in 'e') -0, I experience
times when I can hear that sand running through the hourglass to
beat the band. I don't hear it when I'm watching The Man
Show or listening to Richard Thompson or downloading porn off of
the internet. I do hear it, however, when I'm doing something I
don't want to do, like waiting in my doctor's office for an anal
probe or waiting for the privilege of renewing my driver's
license. And boy, did I ever hear it while I was listening to
the soundtrack of JAY AND SILENT BOB STRIKE BACK.
I smell corporate greed here. I'm not one of these asshole neo-Marxists
who shit in the streets every time the League of 100 comes to
town --- I mean, did these guys ever stop to think about who
pays the taxes so that they can collect welfare, which frees 'em
up to shit in the streets when the League...well, you get the
idea. But any more of these soundtracks that sound as if the
music was thrown together to satisfy some suit's publishing
portfolio and I'm gonna be out there on the barricades, too. I
mean, the best track on the CD is by the overrated in the
sixties, underrated in the nineties, Steppenwolf, who are
represented by "Magic Carpet Ride" ---not their best
song by a long shot. Run-DMC is on here too, with "Tougher
Than Leather," which is "Older Than God"---
nothing on their new CD would have fit here? C'mon. Morris Day
and the Tyme? 16 years old or so. And Bon Jovi --- "Bad
Medicine." And that's the BEST stuff. The new stuff on
here, by Stroke 9, the overrated PJ Harvey, the forgettable
Marcy Playground, the socially irresponsible Afroman ("I
Got High" --- hey, nice work, dude!), and Dave Pilsner (I'm
not going to pick on him; I mean, how would you like it if you
were named after the beer responsible for your conception?), is
enough to make you go through your older brother's sissy
classical CDs. Anything to wash the sound out of your ears.
Actually, now that I really study this train wreck, maybe
someone wanted this thing to ship cutout after all. In an
apparent effort to kill whatever big mo' might have been
accidentally generated musically, someone had the bright idea to
intersperse snippets of dialogue from the movie in between the
tracks. Argh. El stupido. This thing must be every bit as
juvenile as the commercials make it seem to be. Whoever put this
thing together must have been the same guy who let Michael J.
Spend 38 million on a CD that Quincy Jones had no involvement
with, or who released Richard Thompson from Capitol. If you want
to see how the job is done, check out the soundtrack to THE
CROW, or MO' BETTER BLUES. This, thing, however, is a
fuzzily-conceived waste of time.
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| Artist |
Various Artists |
| Title |
Jay and Silent Bob
Strike Back (OST) |
| Label |
Universal
Records |
| Reviewer |
Joe Hartlaub |
| Rating |
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| website |
Spottiswoode
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