Spinal Tap [Soundtrack]

Spinal Tap [Soundtrack]

Editorial Reviews
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One of the greatest ironies surrounding This Is Spinal Tap is that it's actually better than many of the recordings it parodies. Songs like "Tonight I'm Gonna Rock You Tonight," "Hell Hole," "Heavy Duty," and even "Stonehenge" are fun, '80s-style rockers that any closet hair-band fan will enjoy, and "Sex Farm" and "Big Bottom" are hilarious, especially to those same closet fans. There's also the hippie-drippy "Listen to the Flower People" (even funnier if you've seen Rob Reiner's film of the same title), although Michael McKean and Christopher Guest singing "Cry, Cry, Cry All the Way Home" is sadly absent. The CD does lose some of its entertainment value if you haven't seen the film, but its mix of comedy and unabashed pop metal makes it the perfect party album. --Genevieve Williams

Tracks:

Hell Hole
Tonight I'm Gonna Rock You Tonight
Heavy Duty
Rock and Roll Creation
America
Cups and Cakes
Big Bottom
Sex Farm
Stonehenge
Listen To Me (The Flower People)
Christmas With The Devil (Bonus Track)
Christmas With The Devil (Scratch Mix) (Bonus Track)

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One of the greatest ironies surrounding This Is Spinal Tap is that it's actually better than many of the recordings it parodies. Songs like "Tonight I'm Gonna Rock You Tonight," "Hell Hole," "Heavy Duty," and even "Stonehenge" are fun, 1980s-style rockers that any closet hair-band fan will enjoy, and "Sex Farm" and "Big Bottom" are simply hilarious by any standard. There's also the hippie-drippy "Listen to Me (the Flower People)" (even funnier if you've seen Rob Reiner's film of the same title), although Michael McKean and Christopher Guest singing "Cry, Cry, Cry All the Way Home" is sadly absent. The CD does lose some of its entertainment value if you haven't seen the film, but its mix of comedy and unabashed pop metal makes it the perfect party album. --Genevieve Williams

Customer Reviews:

A must-have if you love the movie........2007-01-18

Seriously, who can resist songs like, "Sex Farm", "Big Bottom", and "Stonehenge". Great movie, great soundtrack...you have to get it.

tonight i'm gonna rock it! .......2007-01-15

the movie is fantastic. and any fantastic movie needs an equally fantastic soundtrack. this one.....ok. not musical genius. not grammy worthy. but, on a bad day, it's like chocolate.

If You Like The Movie.......2006-08-05

If Your A Fan Of The Movie, Then There Is No Reason Why You Shouldn't Like The CD; Its All The Songs They Sing Plus Some They Don't.

Lots of Fun.......2006-03-23

If you've seen the movie This is Spinal Tap, and you are a rock fan, you owe it to yourself to buy this soundtrack. It's good to hear the songs in their full versions, especially the wonderful "Stonehenge," which speaks of a place where "a man is a man, and the children dance to the pipes of Pan." I am disappointed, however, that Nigel's Mozart- and Bach-influenced "Moch" piece in D-minor, "Lick My Love Pump," was not included. However, it does feature a song, "America," that's not featured in the movie. And perhaps the compilers should have put the songs in chronological order, so we hear "Give Me Some Money" and "Listen to the Flower People" before we get to "Stonehenge." "Chistmas with the Devil" is a bonus track not included in the film. Perhaps for the better. The best thing about it is the title.

missing song.......2005-12-28

This CD is awesome but on here it is missing song 10 originally titled Gimme Some Money.

Average customer rating:

Better than most "real" heavy metal
Almost better than the first!
Sh*t Sandwich
not as funny as the original
And that's the Majesty of Rock!

Break Like The Wind
Spinal Tap
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Tracks:

Bitch School
The Majesty Of Rock
Diva Fever
Just Begin Again
Cash On Delivery
The Sun Never Sweats
Rainy Day Sun
Break Like The Wind
Stinkin' Up The Great Outdoors
Springtime
Clam Caraban
Christmas With the Devil
All The Way Home

Amazon.com Music Reviews

Has there ever been a rock band more unjustly maligned than Spinal Tap? Accused of everything from heralding the demise of heavy metal to being the very raison d'être for alternative rock, they suffered their greatest indignity at the hands of director Rob Reiner (cowardly hiding behind the moniker Marty DiBergi), whose 1984 "rockumentary," This Is Spinal Tap, muckraked its way through the band's courageous, tragedy-strewn history in service of a few mocking laughs. Reiner/DiBergi even stooped so low as to employ a heartless, mercenary band of Hollywood writer/comedians to burlesque the band's core members--David St. Hubbins (played by mendacious Michael McKean), Nigel Tufnel (callow Christopher Guest), and Derek Smalls (haughty Harry Shearer). But the great ones just won't be denied; Spinal Tap reached deep down in 1992 and let loose with Break Like the Wind, another potent blast of the very stuff that made their legend. Featuring an all-star supporting cast (the title track alone boasts Slash, Steve Lukather, Joe Satriani, and Tufnel look-alike Jeff Beck), the Tap gallantly tried to stem the tide of flannel and tattoos with thundering odes to gender enlightenment ("Bitch School"), mystic quests ("Clam Caravan"), and its own glorious rock-fest legacy ("Stinkin' Up the Great Outdoors"). Pop diva Cher and St. Hubbins share a vocal tryst on the uplifting ballad "Just Begin Again," while even Steely Dan's reclusive Walter Becker pens technical notes, praising the album's pioneering use of the Crosley Phase Linear Ionic Induction Voice Processor System. Sadly, they just don't make albums like this anymore. --J.D. Swift

Customer Reviews:

Better than most "real" heavy metal .......2007-05-29

It's hard to believe that these guys are not professional musicians and that they don't make a living from music. For a "parody" or "spoof" album, this is great music in it's own right. I listen to it first because it's funny, but I listen to it again because it's great stuff. The haunting title track is awesome, and tracks like "Rainy Day Sun" sounds like it was written by the Beatles. Like the first album the rhyming lyrics are purposefully contrived and are a chuckle at first listen, especially in "The Majesty of Rock" ("together and ever"). And the band's breadth of styles highlights the versatility of this extremely talented group of "musicians."

Almost better than the first!.......2006-04-24

I have to say reading reviews that if people aren't laughing out loud at the music on this album you're missing the point. I agree that the lyrics are what give Spinal Tap their edge but if you're a musician listen to their dead on take of all forms of rock. The Sun Never Sweats is a highlight for me particularly the middle section that switches into three unrelated keys while the riff badly apes Slade or Jethro Tull. Rainy Day Sun does a great job of evoking bad '60's psychedlic rock - a cross between the Doors and the Kinks. The best part of the album though is Nigel's voicebox solo on Springtime. The only bad parts for me were the duet with Cher (too blatantly bad for me) and the remake of Christmas with the Devil which is done better on the remastered soundtrack (Take number one with their Hoiday greeting kicks every other version).

Sh*t Sandwich.......2005-06-21

Nah, not really. I just wanted to use that line from the movie.

Good cd...definitely worth getting if you liked the original Tap music.

not as funny as the original.......2004-12-19

Look, like everyone else posting here, I saw the movie a billion times, and went right out and picked up this new album just before seeing them live in San Francisco. I even dressed up in fake rocker attire with "Viv Savage Lives!" penned across my thigh. The problem - nobody else seemed to understand it was satire. People took it so seriously. I figured people would be dressed up, but no...just two of us. This album seems to suffer from the same malady. Yes, the lyrics are funny, but it seems a little forced, and its just not as fun as the first farce. It's in the face of farce. Farce-faced, even. Ok, I'm just being silly now. But what made the first album - and the movie - so much fun was the variety and spontenaity that's just missing from this collection of songs.

And that's the Majesty of Rock!.......2004-11-25

Spinal Tap returns! The most prolific nonexistant band ever is back with "Break Like The Wind," a wonderfully warped metal album that celebrates rock'n'roll, bad lyrics and exploding drummers. This a bad album -- gloriously, magnificently bad, in the way only a spoof can be.

It opens with the roaring male dominance rocker "Bitch School," which would be offensive if it weren't tongue-in-cheek, then lurches on to the wonderfully bloated "Majesty of Rock," a gloriously ghastly duet with Cher, the insanely pretentious "The Sun Never Sweats" ("Bolder than the pirates who used to rule the sea/Braver than the natives, who never heard of tea...")

The peak of this album may be the song "Break Like the Wind," which aspires to be deep and inspirational despite lyrics like "We are the thumb on a stranger's hand." And two of the most priceless songs are at the end: the mope ballad "All the Way Home," and the truly twisted Christmas song, "Christmas With the Devil."

The world was first introduced to Spinal Tap in "This is Spinal Tap," the classic rockumentary about England's loudest band. With the help of Cher (yes, that Cher) and Dweezil Zappa, they take it upon themselves to roundly mock metal, hard rock, rock ballads, and quite a few other things as well -- they're funny because they put so much effort into doing a nudge-wink bad job.

The music itself is pretty standard hard rock riffs -- it's merely okay, and therein lies the irony. What's really startling is that while the music is not amazing in the technical sense, it's actually much better than many real-life bands were. Scary, no? It does have its moments of brilliance, due to Zappa and Jeff Beck mostly, as well as some gloriously ghastly sitar.

It's not the music but the lyrics that are genius. Michael McKean, Christopher Guest, and Harry Shearer are true geniuses of the bad song -- what's even better, these are the sort of bad songs that people write, but don't know that they are bad. "And that's the Majesty of Rock!/The Mystery of Roll!/The darning of the sock,/the scoring of the goal!" Does it get worse than that? Yes, if you include lines like "Rise! for you are cream" and "We may be gods or big marionettes/But the sun never sweats."

"Break Like the Wind" is a wonderful album by the loudest band in Britain, and the best band that never technically existed. Tap into this!

Average customer rating:

A must-have if you love the movie.
tonight i'm gonna rock it!
If You Like The Movie
Lots of Fun
missing song

Spinal Tap
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Binding: Audio CD

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Release Date: 1990-12-29

Tracks:

Hell Hole
Tonight I'm Gonna Rock You Tonight
Heavy Duty
Rock & Roll Creation
America
Cups & Cakes
Big Bottom
Sex Farm
Stonehenge
Gimme Some Money
(Listen To The) Flower People

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One of the greatest ironies surrounding This Is Spinal Tap is that it's actually better than many of the recordings it parodies. Songs like "Tonight I'm Gonna Rock You Tonight," "Hell Hole," "Heavy Duty," and even "Stonehenge" are fun, '80s-style rockers that any closet hair-band fan will enjoy, and "Sex Farm" and "Big Bottom" are hilarious, especially to those same closet fans. There's also the hippie-drippy "Listen to the Flower People" (even funnier if you've seen Rob Reiner's film of the same title), although Michael McKean and Christopher Guest singing "Cry, Cry, Cry All the Way Home" is sadly absent. The CD does lose some of its entertainment value if you haven't seen the film, but its mix of comedy and unabashed pop metal makes it the perfect party album. --Genevieve Williams

Customer Reviews:

A must-have if you love the movie........2007-01-18

Seriously, who can resist songs like, "Sex Farm", "Big Bottom", and "Stonehenge". Great movie, great soundtrack...you have to get it.

tonight i'm gonna rock it! .......2007-01-15

the movie is fantastic. and any fantastic movie needs an equally fantastic soundtrack. this one.....ok. not musical genius. not grammy worthy. but, on a bad day, it's like chocolate.

If You Like The Movie.......2006-08-05

If Your A Fan Of The Movie, Then There Is No Reason Why You Shouldn't Like The CD; Its All The Songs They Sing Plus Some They Don't.

Lots of Fun.......2006-03-23

missing song.......2005-12-28

This CD is awesome but on here it is missing song 10 originally titled Gimme Some Money.

Average customer rating:

Break like the WIND!

Break Like the Wind
Spinal Tap
ProductGroup: Music
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Tracks:

Bitch School
Majesty Of Rock
Diva Fever
Just Begin Again
Cash On Delivery
Sun Never Sweats
Rainy Day Sun
Break Like The Wind
Stinkin' Up The Great Outdoors
Springtime
Clam Caravan
Christmas With The Devil
All The Way Home
All The Way Home - Spinal Tap

Album Description

Enhanced UK pressing of Spinal Tap's 1992 rockin' return to the charts features two bonus tracks: 'All The Way Home' and the Enhanced Video for 'Bitch School'. Crank this one up to 11! MCA.

Customer Reviews:

Break like the WIND!.......2007-04-03

Spinal Tap returns! The most prolific nonexistant band ever is back with "Break Like The Wind," a wonderfully warped metal album that celebrates rock'n'roll, bad lyrics and exploding drummers. This a bad album -- gloriously, magnificently bad, in the way only a spoof can be.

It opens with the roaring male dominance rocker "Bitch School," which would be offensive if it weren't tongue-in-cheek, then lurches on to the wonderfully bloated "Majesty of Rock," a gloriously ghastly duet with Cher, the insanely pretentious "The Sun Never Sweats" ("Bolder than the pirates who used to rule the sea/Braver than the natives, who never heard of tea...")

The peak of this album may be the song "Break Like the Wind," which aspires to be deep and inspirational despite lyrics like "We are the thumb on a stranger's hand." And two of the most priceless songs are at the end: the mope ballad "All the Way Home," and the truly twisted Christmas song, "Christmas With the Devil."

The world was first introduced to Spinal Tap in "This is Spinal Tap," the classic rockumentary about England's loudest band. With the help of Cher (yes, that Cher) and Dweezil Zappa, they take it upon themselves to roundly mock metal, hard rock, rock ballads, and quite a few other things as well -- they're funny because they put so much effort into doing a nudge-wink bad job.

The music itself is pretty standard hard rock riffs -- it's merely okay, and therein lies the irony. What's really startling is that while the music is not amazing in the technical sense, it's actually much better than many real-life bands were. Scary, no? It does have its moments of brilliance, due to Zappa and Jeff Beck mostly, as well as some gloriously ghastly sitar.

It's not the music but the lyrics that are genius. Michael McKean, Christopher Guest, and Harry Shearer are true geniuses of the bad song -- what's even better, these are the sort of bad songs that people write, but don't know that they are bad. "And that's the Majesty of Rock!/The Mystery of Roll!/The darning of the sock,/the scoring of the goal!" Does it get worse than that? Yes, if you include lines like "Rise! for you are cream" and "We may be gods or big marionettes/But the sun never sweats."

This particular edition includes some extra goodies -- the rambly little song "All The Way Home," which was a pre-band song that the guys sort-of-sing in the movie. And then there's the "Bitch School" video -- an all-girls school, where a leather-clad Monroe-lookalike turns up to be the new teacher, and teaches the girls to get in touch with their inner S&M madam.

"Break Like the Wind" is a wonderful album by the loudest band in Britain, and the best band that never technically existed. Tap into this!

Average customer rating:

Better than most "real" heavy metal
Almost better than the first!
Sh*t Sandwich
not as funny as the original
And that's the Majesty of Rock!

Break Like the Wind
Spinal Tap
Manufacturer: Mca
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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This Is Spinal Tap (Special Edition)
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ASIN: B000002OJH
Release Date: 1992-03-17

Tracks:

Bitch School
The Majesty Of Rock
Diva Fever
Just Begin Again
Cash On Delivery
The Sun Never Sweats
Rainy Day Sun
Break Like The Wind
Stinkin' Up The Great Outdoors
Springtime
Clam Caravan
Christmas With The Devil
Untitled
All The Way Home

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Customer Reviews:

Better than most "real" heavy metal .......2007-05-29

Almost better than the first!.......2006-04-24

Sh*t Sandwich.......2005-06-21

Nah, not really. I just wanted to use that line from the movie.

Good cd...definitely worth getting if you liked the original Tap music.

not as funny as the original.......2004-12-19

And that's the Majesty of Rock!.......2004-11-25

Average customer rating:

Power pop's best kept secret!

Superimpose
Brian Lovely
Manufacturer: The Beat Parlor
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0006ON7W8
Release Date: 2002-07-23

Tracks:

Captain Righteous
Feeling Scorpio
Disappear
Blue, Blue Sky
Justaboutasidon'tknowwhatasithinkyoucanget
Day After
She's Everything
Struggle
Barstool
Talk to Me Louise
Unstoppable
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Product Description

12 Full Tracks recorded by Brian at the Beat Parlor in cincinnati, OH. Ross Rice's keyboards recorded at his place in Memphis, TN. Mixed by Ashley Shephert at Grandin Studios in Newport, KY except "Captain Righteous" and "Struggle" mixed by Ashley Shepherd at Ligosa Studios in Cincinnati, OH.

Customer Reviews:

Power pop's best kept secret!.......2006-01-21

A friend had let me in on "Justaboutasidon'tknowwhatasithinkyoucanget," which had been on one of the International Pop Overthrow collections. Kinda sounds like Andy Partrdige noodling with tongue in cheek, but very unique and pleasing.

On a lark I bought the whole album -- and whoa! From the anthemic opening strands of "Captain Courageous" to the sad and langurous refrains of "Superimpose," Mr. Lovely has crafted a gem of awesome proportions.

Apart from the Partridge reference there really isn't much I can compare this to, although I am reasonably sure that most power-pop aficionados will be able to wrap themselves around this one quite easily.

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Bitch School
Spinal Tap
Manufacturer: mca
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Live-1975

Manufacturer: Broken
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000CA7696
Release Date: 2004-12-28

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Vagiant

Manufacturer: Hyby
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000CAAAVC
Release Date: 2003-11-25

Tracks:

Bangin' (7' Mix)
Bangin' (Remix)
Bangin' (Remix) (Radio Edit)

Average customer rating:

Creme de la Phlegm

Manufacturer: Ian Butler
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000065EP3
Release Date: 2002-01-01

Tracks:

Creme de la Phlegm
Gonna Eat Your Dog
The Red Zone
Tone Deaf
Karen (inspector of my underwear)
Colorblind Todd
Addiction-go-'Round
Stinky Dancers
Rush Limbaugh ate my Dad
The Repetitive Blues Blues
Lipstick on my Dipstick
Thirty Days on the Road
Dead Atheist Friend
I've Falen in Love (and I can't get up)
Half a Song
Big Red Heart
The Shreiking Sphinx's Shrinking Sphincter Stinks

Album Description

This is a collection of twisted and humorous songs. From the blatantly comical "Karen (Inspector of my Underwear)" and "Repetitive Blues Blues" to the cleverly suggestve "Lipstick on my Dipstick" and "Big Red Heart", this record is sure to give you a laugh. Musically, the songs range from punk and grunge, to country and funk - there's even a schmaltzy love ballad!

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