Pump Up The Volume: Music From The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

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Free Music Review: a few duds, but worthy overall - especially 4 "Evbdy Knows"
Hit: 5 Stars

Although I bought it for "Everybody Knows," it turns out the whole CD is pretty darn good! "Why Can't I Fall in Love" is a good follow-up song and holds its own. Next is a very respectable version of Sly's "Stand!" followed by another big treat on this CD: the Pixies' unplugged slow-wave version of "Wave of Mutilation!"

Unfortunately, Peter Murphy's "I've Got a Secret Miniature Camera" sounds like a second rate Fixx song. What a change from Bauhaus! It's just O.K.

"Kick Out the Jams" has never been my favorite song. Not even the great Bad Brains or Henry Rollins can salvage it for me, although they totally shred. You can definitely rock out to it.

"Freedom of Speech" is a great rap set to a jazzy hip-hop background. An anti-cencorship track with positive points of view.

"Heretic" is some wicked old-school Soundgarden while Sonic Youth contribute a song of driving weirdness that somehow manages to behave like a normal rock song. Well, sort of. How cool that a track this out-there found a place on a popular movie soundtrack. (and obviously, this is about the soundtrack, not the movie . . .)

The Cowboy Junkies' reading of Robert Johnson's creepy "Me and the Devil Blues" is first rate.

Finally, "Tale o' the Twister" rivals "Miniature Camera" as the weakest track in the bunch. Skip these 2 and you've got one heck of a soundtrack album. If you're like me and you like to rock as well as appreciate diversity, this one could be 4 U!

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