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Judgment Night: Music From The Motion Picture

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What PE and Anthrax began with "Bring The Noise", this disc continues and betters.

Over 10 years on and this album is still amazing. Listening to this makes you realize how mediocre many of the current stable of rap/metal bands are.

The pairings were inspired - and for the most part the tracks stay true to both contributors. Cypress and Sonic are amazing on "Mary Jane" - that track was why I sold most of my books and cds back in '95 to afford the trip to see them on the lollapalooza tour that year - but alas, no joint appearance materialized in Toronto. Helmet and House of Pain could blow the speakers off any system with "Just Another Victim"! And Slayer with Ice T makes you forget all about Body Count.

Once this album goes on my system, it never comes off until every track has been played.

Before you go out and waste your money on some of the stuff record companies are packaging lately, go pick this album up and educate yourself.

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.

This is an album that can get your blood pumping with songs like "Just Another Victim" and "Judgment Night" and bring you back down again with "Fallin" and "I Love You Mary Jane". Concept that sums this album up for me - Slayer and IceT. All tracks are original collaborations just for this soundtrack... and it's a beautiful thing! You'll forget who Fred Durst is after hearing "Another Body...", I swear!!

I've always experimented with Rap, even though I'm a white guy from Minnesota, so I thought I'd try this because I liked the movie. Well it blew me away. Even years later I still listen to some of the songs like 'Another body murdered' by Boo Yaa Tribe/Faith no More, or 'Judgement Night' by House of Pain/Helmet. If you like some of todays rap/metal bands like Limp Bizkit or Rage Against the Machine, you'll like this disk because the rap on it is much more authentic.

This Gem is hard to find. Get it before you can't. Gurnge,Metal and Rap collide. Just get it. You will play it and friends will ask who is this. ICE T and Slayer??? None of these bands will ever play together agin. Not only that it is good.

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.

I got this album back in '93 when it was new and over the years I lost it. I recently rebought it and I must say it is still an awesome album even by todays standard. The rap/rock merge on this album sounds really natural. Helmet and House of Pain rock! But to me the best song is Faith no More and Boo Ya Tribe's Another Body Murdered. I can't say enough good things about this album, it was the only good thing to come out of the Judgment Night movie, thats for damn sure!!! If you want something that rocks with an old school sound, give it a shot! It's cheap enough!

well lets forget about the movie .even though dennis leary has some good one lineres.this is one of the best albums that mixes rap with any style of music that is in todays medium as far as i can see. you got rap meets metal(well we know that formula)rap meets grunge(well thats some what dated but cool)rap meet hard core (how it should be done )rap meets indi(only done the best way)rap meets progessive(you wont belive your ears)rap meets trip hop(just amazing)rap meets polically correct(how can it be)so to put it the many formulas of this style is here for you[r] listening pleasure....

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!!!

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.