Track Listing

1. Heavy Metal - Sammy Hagar
2. Heartbeat - Riggs
3. Working in the Coal Mine - Devo
4. Veteran of the Psychic Wars - Blue Öyster Cult
5. Reach Out - Cheap Trick
6. Heavy Metal (Takin' A Ride) - Don Felder
7. True Companion - Donald Fagen
8. Crazy (A Suitable Case for Treatment) - Nazareth
9. Radar Rider - Riggs
10. Open Arms - Journey
11. Queen Bee - Grand Funk Railroad
12. I Must Be Dreamin'
13. Mob Rules - Black Sabbath
14. All of You - Don Felder
15. Prefabricated - Trust
16. Blue Lamp - Stevie Nicks

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3342 in Music
• Released on: 1995-03-14
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Soundtrack
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: .19 pounds

Customer Reviews

Good nostalgia, not much actual metal
I saw this movie as a youth, and the soundtrack was the first record I ever bought that was rock 'n roll. A good start, I must say. The original record was a double-album. Funny nowadays that you can fit that on one CD.

But even after all of these years, some of these tracks still stand out as some of my favorites: Cheap Trick's Reach Out and I Must Be Dreamin', Black Sabbath's Mob Rules, Blue Oyster Cult's Veteran of the Psychic Wars, and the Devo and Riggs tracks are all great. The mellow stuff, even as a kid, I could do without. Interestingly, the follow up movie has a soundtrack that is truly all metal, yet that soundtrack and film are far inferior to this original.

The film has aged, but if you were a fan of the magazine back then and can remember what animation was like back then; you can still probably bring yourself back to that time and remember what made it so good.

Sit down, shut up, and hang on...
Of the hundreds of "albums" I own, this is definitely among the most listened to. Forget what other reviewers say about "it's not heavy metal music" and there's only "x" number of good songs... This album will evoke and satisfy the audiophile in anyone who can appreciate music, regardless of genre. Heavy Metal was merely the name of the album, the movie which it aurally illustrates, and the magazine which inspired it. Don't be so literal. Don't be so judgemental. Shut up and enjoy the music.

(In fact, buy it, slide it into your CD player, turn it up loud and go for a nice long drive to nowhere... you won't regret it)

Great movie. Even better soundtrack.
Original motion picture soundtracks don't get any better than this, folks. You won't here ME complaining. There are so many great things to be said about this collection. This is classic rock/metal at it's best. Don Felder's 2 songs are better than anything that the Eagles have ever done. Also you'll find one of the best (albeit lesser known) BOC songs - Verteran of the Psychic Wars. And fellow Black Sabbath fans will be interested to know that Tony Iommi does a completely different lead solo on this version of 'Mob Rules.' Believe me, I was surprised, too! Speaking of different versions of songs, Sammy Hagar's 'Heavy Metal' is much stronger, here, than on his own album. And if you haven't heard the song 'Crazy' by Nazareth, then you really are missing out. I'm not a huge Nazareth fan, but this song rocks! But I've said enough. -- Scott S.