Track Listing

1. Everybody Knows - Concrete Blonde
2. Why Can't I Fall in Love - Ivan Neville
3. Stand! - Liquid Jesus
4. Wave of Mutilation [UK Surf] - Pixies
5. I've Got a Miniature Secret Camera - Peter Murphy
6. Kick Out the Jams - Bad Brains, Henry Rollins
7. Freedom of Speech - Above the Law, Above the Law
8. Heretic - Soundgarden
9. Titanium Exposé - Sonic Youth
10. Me and the Devil Blues - Cowboy Junkies
11. Tale O' the Twister - Chagall Guevara

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #12557 in Music
• Released on: 1990-08-08
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Soundtrack
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: .20 pounds

Customer Reviews

Great Compilation Can Be Made Better
First off, this soundtrack compilation is worth owning. Chagall Guevera's Tale O' The Twister, for example, is difficult to come by. The rest of the songs are excellent alternative music and represent the spirit of the film well. But as everyone has pointed out, there are some crucial omissions.

To fix the problems with it will require mixing additional tracks on your CD burner. I added "Everybody Knows" and "If It Be Your Will" by Leonard Cohen, "Love Comes In Spurts" by Richard Hell and the Voidoids, and "Hello Dad.., I'm in Jail" by Was (Not Was) and now have a five star collection. Leagal downloads should run about $4 or so. You'll be much happier afterwards, I promise.

What's wrong with Leonard Cohen?
You know the song that starts out the movie, Leonard Cohen's "Everybody Knows," with that awesome deep voice that's all mysterious and stuff? It's not on the soundtrack. They have a cover by Concrete Blond... which isn't a bad band, and not a bad song, but it certainly isn't anything like Cohen's version. If you're going to put a cover of the theme song, at least put both of them on the sound track... the original and the cover. That's what I want. Is that too much to ask?

a few duds, but worthy overall - especially 4 "Evbdy Knows"
I got this CD for the deliciously noir and pessimistic "Everybody Knows," surely one of the best songs I've ever heard. Concrete Blonde's version far outshine's the master who wrote it, Leonard Cohen. While I really dig Cohen's songs, his version is a bit tinkly with a cheesy synthesiser. Johnette Napolitano brings more menace and the band brings deft muscle to the song.

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!