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 Great Soundtrack...Great Movie Mar 11, 2009
I remember when I first heard this cd back in 1993 and how much I loved it...My friends and I used to blast this cd in my backyard while jumping on my trampoline...Now it being 2009...I still love this cd...This is one of my all time favorite cds and I still listen to it alot...Though I have heard other rap/rock combos before this cd(Run DMC and Aerosmith so to say and Public Enemy and Anthrax), this was the cd that made me a fan of the rap/rock genre...
Now what bugs me is all the negative reviews about the movie itself...It's not a masterpiece but for what it was its far more better than alot of reviewers say it is...If you haven't seen it...GIVE IT A CHANCE!!!
 Pioneering, Excellent Concept Album of Hip Hop & Rock! Feb 26, 2009
The Judgment Night soundtrack accompanied the 1993 action film of the same name that starred Emilio Estevez and Cuba Gooding, Jr. Each song on the 11-track release featured an original collaboration between a rock band and a hip-hop artist or group. Circa 1993, alternative-rock was the latest trend in modern rock, while hip-hop had recently become a regular fixture on the crossover charts. The pairings mesh better than listeners might assume, especially if they are exclusively fans of one genre or the other.
House of Pain & Helmet open the album with "Just Another Victim": At first featuring rockers' vocals the song changes into an extended rap from House of Pain's Everlast, where he apparently identifies with Taxi Driver's Travis Bickle. The title track features the hyper-aggressive Onyx and thrash outfit Biohazard, where Sticky Fingaz is bold enough to make provocative statements like "I swear to God I'll raise hell and make the white man call me master..."
Cypress Hill pulls double duty here- first with Sonic Youth on "I Love You Mary Jane", a tribute to--what else--cannabis: Card-carrying smoker B-real raps over a slow, droning groove while Kim Gordon provides assistance on the hook. Cypress also figures on the album's closer with members of Pearl Jam on "Real Thing" (however, Eddie Vedder apparently skips the session).
De La Soul and Teenage Fanclub easily take the nod for weirdest song, "Fallin'": MCs Posdnous and Trugoy lament the choices of a self-indulgent rapper who falls on hard times; ad-libs by the guys make reprise the chorus to Duice's "Dazzy Duks". Del and Dinosaur Jr. have one of the best songs here in Missing Link; Del happily name-checks comic-book characters in his stream-of-thought freestyle.
Sir Mix-A-Lot retains his humor on "Freak Momma" with Mudhoney; over some surf-rock inspired guitar riffs, Sir Mix continues his horny-come-ons from "Baby Got Back" and in a self-aware moment acknowledges "I just lost my street credibility, y'all!" Genre-bending pioneers Run-DMC sound as if they're having great fun jamming with Living Colour on "Me, Myself & My Microphone."; this should have been a single.
Ice-T trades his Body Count band for the death-metal of Slayer, on the anti-war rant "Disorder". West coast underground gangsta crew Boo-Yaa TRIBE find common ground with Faith No More "Another Body Murdered", and Fatal & Thearapy continue the theme on "Come and Die".
Creative listeners may fantasize about what other combos could have happened (Public Enemy and Nirvana? Red Hot Chili Peppers and Ice Cube? We'll never know.) In years soon to come a wave of rap-rock fusion bands came to prominence like Rage Against the Machine, Limp Bizkit and Korn. That this compilation is more memorable than the film speaks to the impressive results from what could have been a disastrously executed concept.
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What a soundtrack!!!!!! Mar 11, 2008
This one of the best soundtracks out there. At the time this soundtrack came out it was one of the earliest albums to bring to together rock and rap music. Everyone of these songs is great to listen too. Get it you will not regret it.
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A Hidden Treasure Aug 10, 2007
Being a huge old school rap/rock fan, I stumbled across this one just this year, not even being aware it was even around. It's like the missing piece of the puzzle of those early years of the genre, perfect last piece I guess....perhaps there are more out there to find?
I agree with many that these were the great days to rap rock/metal, it had gotten beyond the "rap and metal can never mix" of the late 80's and started to hit it's stride. Pick this one up for the glory days of it all, at first glance this looks like some rather silly over-saturate the market collaborations perhaps, like a bunch of strange bands jumping on the rap rock bandwagon, but this was 1993 and it was nowhere near as loaded with lackluster rap rocks bands as there would be in the late 90's and into 2000. In '93 I think Rage Against the Machine were just starting out, Body Count was just starting out...this was the early days, the glory days of rap rock, rap metal, whatever you wanna call it, this is essential for the completist of the genre in my book anyway.
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My First Time Apr 01, 2007
I remember, back when my older brother got his first car and popped this cd in when I rode with him. I fell in love with this cd so much that I knew when the skips happened(and still do till this day) and was sad when he lost this cd. Years Later, I had my own collection but it was missing something. So I searched and searched and finally found it! I've seen the movie but I will always love this album. There's heavy, hard, laid back, funky, and truly bizzare, all are great.
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