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1984's perfect, side-splitting rock documentary spoof This Is Spinal Tap wouldn't have succeeded if Spinal Tap's "original" music didn't properly mimic what it poked fun at. But not only does the music have the exact traits of hard rock and heavy metal, the lyrics are a scream. The soundtrack features the howlingly funny songs used in director Rob Reiner's film. The music was all co-written by Reiner, Michael McKean (aka vocalist/guitarist David St. Hubbins), Christopher Guest (aka lead guitarist Nigel Tufnel), and Harry Shearer (aka bassist Derek Smalls). McKean, Guest, and Shearer -- all extremely talented comic actors and writers -- are credited with performing the music along with a keyboardist, drummer, and synthesizer player. "Hell Hole" and "Tonight I'm Gonna Rock You Tonight" are mindlessly catchy. The appropriately melodramatic "Heavy Duty" has a cliched, hysterical chorus. "Rock and Roll Creation" and "Stonehenge" mock the music and image of mystical, allegedly demonic bands like Black Sabbath; "Stonehenge" in particular is a riot thanks to Tufnel's narration about the Druids. "Big Bottom" and "Sex Farm" are two more highlights that needle the rampant misogyny, sexism, and machismo in the heavy metal subculture. "America," "Cups and Cakes," "Gimme Some Money," and "(Listen to The) Flower People" show a keen sense of rock history because they are meant to illustrate the '60s pop and psychedelia that influenced heavy metal's originators. The fictional liner notes are very funny too; included are the album covers of "Rock `N' Roll Creation," "Brainhammer," "Shark Sandwich," "Heavy Metal Memories," "The Sun Never Sweats," and "Intravenus de Milo," as well as the band's bio in The Rocklopedia Brittanicus. The 2000 remastered CD -- re-released in conjunction with the DVD and VHS re-releases -- includes lyrics and two versions of "Christmas With the Devil" as bonus tracks. ~ Bret Adams
All tracks have been digitally remastered.
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Recorded at The L.A. Studio, Hollywood, California.
Spinal Tap: Christopher Guest (vocals, guitar, mandolin); Michael McKean (vocals, guitar); David Kaff (keyboards); Harlan Collins (synthesizer); Harry Shearer (bass, background vocals); R.J. Parnell (drums, percussion).
Producers: Michael McKean, Harry Shearer, Christopher Guest.Entertainment Weekly (10/12/01, p.43) - Ranked #86 in EW's "100 Best Movie Soundtracks" - "This loving send-up of heavy metal stupidity wouldn't have been half as funny were the songs not so heartfelt..."
NME (Magazine) (10/28/00, p.40) - 666 out of 10 - "...Timeless in that sludgy, seriously dated kinda way....Unenlightened, unimproved, unapologetic - it doesn't get more Tap than this."
This Is Spinal Tap Soundtrack Music
Original Soundtrack / Spinal Tap - This Is Spinal Tap Soundtrack Songs
| 1 | Hell Hole
Spinal Tap | 3:07 | $0.99 | |
| 2 | Tonight I'm Gonna Rock You Tonight
Spinal Tap | 2:38 | $0.99 | |
| 3 | Heavy Duty
Spinal Tap | 4:28 | $0.99 | |
| 4 | Rock and Roll Creation
Spinal Tap | 4:08 | $0.99 | |
| 5 | America
Spinal Tap | 3:31 | $0.99 | |
| 6 | Cups and Cakes
Spinal Tap | 1:33 | $0.99 | |
| 7 | Big Bottom
Spinal Tap | 3:32 | $1.29 | |
| 8 | Sex Farm
Spinal Tap | 3:20 | $0.99 | |
| 9 | Stonehenge
Spinal Tap | 4:36 | $0.99 | |
| 10 | Gimme Some Money
Spinal Tap | 2:26 | $0.99 | |
| 11 | (Listen To the) Flower People
Spinal Tap | 2:38 | $0.99 | |
| 12 | Christmas With the Devil
Spinal Tap | 4:28 | $0.99 | |
| 13 | Christmas With the Devil
Spinal Tap | 4:42 | $0.99 | |
This Is Spinal Tap Soundtrack Music Review
Average Rating: (5 out of 5 stars)  This one goes to 11!
This is absolutely one of the best movies of all time. I've watched it literally hundreds of times since first seeing it about 8 years ago and I just can't enough of it. For the most part, the songs are very solid and, while you won't exactly find a Stairway to Heaven or Back In Black type of classic songwriting here, they are still great songs. And buy the way, the actors in the movie really did play their own instruments and are in fact playing on this album. All except for poor Mick Shrimpton, who exploded behind his drum kit. The heaviness and pure rock and roll abandon on this album leaves the listener with only question: How much more black could this album cover be? The answer is none....none more black.
Submitted by Matt (Phoenix, AZ)
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The movie Spinal Tap is a piece of genius thats incredibly difficult not to love, and the soundtrack album deserves the same praise. The eighties stuff like 'Hell Hole' and 'Rock 'n' Roll Creation' rock real hard like bands of this ilk should, whilst 'Gimme Some Money' and 'Flower People' sound like genuine songs from the sixties.
Submitted by eddtipton (Hereford, England)
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The Tap prove themselfs on Vinyl as well as film, before their time genius.
They make Slayer look like Steps.
And their amps go up to 11!!
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