Re: This thread goes to 11
Here's the skinny...The album features new versions of several of the original soundtrack album's songs - , some faithful, some re-imagined ("Sex Farm", "Flower People"), along with a handful of new items (notably recordings of "Back From The Dead", "Warmer Than Hell", and - wait for it - "Jazz Oddyssey").
C.J. Vanston returns on Keyboards, as he has been since "The Return Of Spinal Tap/Break Like The Wind", and Greg Bissonette, having shaved off his 80's punk mullet, is on drums. Vanston is also the album's production overlord.
The "Free DVD" included is a frivolous on-camera roundtable with the boys in character improvising discussing their songs. Some moments are hilarious - in discussing 'Heavy Duty', they compare rock to jazz, where in jazz, the idea is to "play it wrong, and people applaud your mistakes...Miles Davis, putting that thing in the end of his trumpet, so it doesn't sound like a trumpet - what's the point of that??"
I can understand the need to re-record the original songs, since the boys and Rob Reiner don't own them anymore, just like their characters. They're properties of the film company and it's conglomerate owners who just buy things. From a Canadian perspective, it's kind of like Gary Lee and Showdown re-recording "The Rodeo Song" for inclusion on a CD of his second album, or the Powder Blues having to record "Thirsty Ears" (originally issued by Capitol) so it could be included on a CD re-issuing their independent debut LP, later picked up for national distribution by RCA.
The diorama is nice, but it makes the package difficult to keep stored properly have to fold and unfold it. Get your self a full-size 2-cd case to put the CD, DVD and booklet in.
Casual fans may be disappointed, hardcore, a bit also, but it's got some interesting stuff on it worth listening to a few times, then pulling out the OST.
