Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Selling the Drama - Live
2. But Anyway - Blues Traveler
3. I'm the Only One - Melissa Etheridge
4. Feelin' Alright - Joe Cocker
5. Dreams - The Cranberries
6. Soup - Blind Melon
7. When I Come Around - Green Day
8. Shoop - Salt-N-Pepa
9. Blood Sugar Sex Magik - Red Hot Chili Peppers
10. Porno for Pyros - Porno for Pyros
11. Those Damned Blue-Collar Tweekers - Primus
12. Headed for Destruction - Jackyl
13. Draw the Line/F.I.N.E. - Aerosmith
14. Happiness in Slavery - Nine Inch Nails

Disc 2:

1. For Whom the Bell Tolls - Metallica
2. Hunter - Paul Rodgers
3. Come Together - The Neville Brothers
4. Run, Baby, Run - Sheryl Crow
5. Déjà Vu - Crosby, Stills & Nash
6. Dance, Motherfucker, Dance!/Kiss Off - Violent Femmes
7. Shine - Collective Soul
8. Arrow - Candlebox
9. How I Could Just Kill a Man - Cypress Hill
10. Right Here Too Much - Rollins Band
11. Highway 61 Revisited - Bob Dylan
12. Pearly Queen - Traffic
13. Biko - Peter Gabriel

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #50232 in Music
• Released on: 1994-11-08
• Number of discs: 2
• Format: Box set

Customer Reviews

Excellent but small sampling of the event.
The CD set here is not meant to represent the concerts themselves but the event as a whole. the songs (and announcements) reflect the moods, styles, genres, humor and talents of the artists as a snapshot. This means that some bands may not have their best or most popular songs on these CD's. Both Cd's have a mix of:

Popular bands playing hits ( Melissa Ethridge, Cranberries, Collective Soul),

Popular bands playing lesser known songs ( Blues Traveler, Live, Candlebox, Cypress Hill),

And classic bands playing from their catalog ( CSN, Peter Gabriel, Joe Cocker).

Leading the second disc, Metallica dominated the set with an energy no one else seems to bring. (As I said some of these songs dont represent the bands' overall performance very well)Another review stated that this song, "For whom the Bell Tolls" was the definitive live recording of the band and I totally agree. The recording of this song is required for any metallica fan. The clarity beats any bootleg and the intensity beats the few live recordings the band is willing to sell.

Other standouts include: Cypress Hill, NIN, Blues Traveler, Aerosmith, Dylan, Chili Peppers, Primus and the Neville Bros.

Some may be dissapointed by Jackyl, Green Day, Blind Mellon, Salt N Pepa's song Shoop has dated very poorly, and the stage announcements can get repetitive. I personally found "Come Together" to be a little gratuitous as a reference to the original music of Woodstock. As a side note, I believe that Slash from GNR plays on "The Hunter" with Paul Rodgers though i could be mistaken.

It is possible to refute one complaint I have seen about the set (and the event). The sampling of the discs makes it clear that the bands selected are for the most part not platinum sellers, and those few that were, normally didn't have the "hit" song selected for the cd. The commercialism of the event itself may be an entirely other matter. Still I believe that at least 17 of the 27 bands have never seen platinum or achieved mainstream success. Bands like "Rollins Band" are talented but are so niche they are never likely to do so.

All in all I love the set. I believe it is worth the purchase if only for the Metallica song. However, this does not represent even a fraction of the music at the event and a true box set should be made available.

Blind Melons Performance of 'Soup'... Worth the price and more
5 stars for Blind Melons Performance of 'Soup'... Worth the price and more. That and Nine Inch Nails 'Happiness in Slavery'. I've had this since it came out, haven't really listened to it since, cept' the pre mentioned songs. But it's worth all of it just for those 2 songs.

Soup and Dreams are the best ones on this album
In my opinion this is one of the best "90's" albums in my collection.(by the way this isn't a box set... lol) all it is is a 2 cd set. Anyways, as you read in the title, i think that soup by blind melon and dreams by the cranberries are the two best songs on this album. Most of the songs like the ones by the violent femmes, the rollins band, and of course who could forget...nine inch nails.
Those are all the music of the 90s. If you don't like any of the bands., then don't buy it. But if you grew up in the 90s like me, and you like these artists, than i suggest you buy this album. (By the way... don't buy woodstock 99, its a s*** fest! if you buy any woodstock stuff make it either woodstock 1969 or woodstock 1994) :D