Various - Spawn The Album

Label:

Immortal Records (3), Epic

Catalog#:

EK 68494, EK 68494

Format:

CD, Album, Compilation

Country:

Released:

29 Jul 1997

Genre:

Electronic, Rock, Stage & Screen

Style:

Breakbeat, Soundtrack, Techno, Drum n Bass, Nu Metal

Tracklist

1	Filter (2) & Crystal Method, The -	(Can't You) Trip Like I Do	4:27
2	Marilyn Manson & Sneaker Pimps -	Long Hard Road Out Of Hell	4:21
3	Orbital & Kirk Hammett -	Satan	3:45
4	Korn & Dust Brothers, The -	Kick The P.A.	3:21
5	Butthole Surfers & Moby -	Tiny Rubberband	4:12
6	Metallica & DJ Spooky -	For Whom The Bell Tolls (The Irony Of It All)	4:39
7	Stabbing Westward & Wink* -	Torn Apart	4:53
8	Mansun & 808 State -	Skin Up Pin Up	5:27
9	Prodigy* & Tom Morello -	One Man Army	4:14
10	Silverchair & Vitro -	Spawn	4:28
11	Henry Rollins & Goldie -	T-4 Strain	5:19
12	Incubus (2) & D.J. Greyboy* -	Familiar	3:22
13	Slayer & Atari Teenage Riot -	No Remorse (I Wanna Die)	4:16
14	Soul Coughing & Roni Size -	A Plane Scraped It's Belly On A Sooty Yellow Moon	5:26

Notes

This is the only release on which The Prodigy's "One Man Army" can be found.

The version on the "Smack My Bitch Up" single doesn't feature any vocals and is therefore named "No man army".

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Review by Alastis Feb 05, 2006 (edited over 4 years ago)

On paper it sounds great - rock/metal heavyweights collaborating with electronic ones. In reality, it doesn't work most of the time.
Although rock/electronic collaborations were done before (think Pierre Henry/Spooky Tooth record from 1970, which reportedly wasn't extremely succesful), there was nothing similar done on a massive scale and with so many big names. Also, pairing of musicians might raise some eyebrows.
Returning to compilation itself - there are no terrible/irritating tracks, but nothing that stands out either (ok, although i admit that the most well-known track here (Filter/Chrystal Method collaboration) is quite energetic). Aside from that, i have a feeling that a lot of tracks weren't real collaborations, but rather remixes/remakes of originals (especially "For Whom The Bell Tolls" and "Satan").
The only track that's missing from most of Spawn copies is collaboration by Morphine and Apollo 440, which i'm not familiar with. But even if it sounds better than most tracks here, i doubt that it might save this soundtrack from sounding mediocre for the most part.