| CD REVIEW V/A (various Artists) |
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Band : V/A Quite incredibly, Extremely Sorry is apparently the third movie in Flip’s Skateboard’s trilogy on skatboarding insanity. A skateboard team which evolves with the addition of new talents to the original crew continuously, and all people who are renowned for their extravagant lifestyles. The movie behind this soundtrack has apparently been 5 years in the making, and the title is a tongue-in-cheek mockery of the mainstream contest side of skateboarding. No big deal uh? I mean, we’ve known about skateboarding movies before, right? And usually the soundtrack of such movies is made up by favourite songs of the skateboarders partaking. Usually makes up for quite diverse compilation albums! Well, in the case of Extremely Sorry, an actual score was written for the movie soundtrack, producer “Baron” inviting several musicians to contribute to the music. In this case, the people invited include Lemmy Kilmister (Motörhead), contributing spoken words to the album opening “Intro” (actually a rhyme, composed to fit corrupt politicians, and also featuring Geoff Rowley) and singing to the ensuing cover of “Stand By Me” (features Slayer drummer Dave Lombardo, and guess what the latter does in track N°3, titled “Drum Solo” in track N° 3 which was simply named that way). Other guests include Jim Lindberg (on “Scream My Name”), Mark Winston (on “Love Shroom”, a soft-Industrial The Beatles-with-strings like track), Black Mountain (on “The End Of The Beginning”), ((Sounder)) (on “Burn Out Like Fireflies”), Early Man (on “The Process Of Extinction”), and Warren G & Snoop Dogg (on album closer “Swagger Rich”). The 3 opening tracks differ themselves from the rest of the 15 tracks, in that from track 4 on, there’s a slight Industrial touch in each and every one! The one flavoured with a Hip Hop vibe (tracks “This Is Forever”, and the album closer…evidently, seen as whom guests in the latter), with Latin acoustics (“Scream My Name”), the next a more straight-forward Rock/Metal Industrial hybrid…but àll both have electronics intermingled with electric guitar. A very diverse score (occasionally introducing “other” instruments like strings or horns, and even in one case some “Arabic” sounds – check “Ignition”) which certainly has me wondering about the skateboard extravagancies that inspired the music, even if the whole skate business was never my thing! To check out the music, simply google “Extremely Sorry Soundtrack”, then click on the “volcoment.com/flipsoundtrack” link. That page has a music player which allows you to listen to each and every track on the album…ain’t that grand!?! When listening to this album the first time, I had some strange (and negative) forebodings about what was to come, but what comes after those first two tracks is só great, I couldn’t help but grow fonder and fonder of what I got to hear! Meanwhile, the album has grown on me to the poiny of my adding it to my year-lists (of 2009)…and me promising myself that if ever the occasion arises, I would check out the movie! 98/100 Tony. |