80 of 91 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
the REAL soundtrack, August 8, 2004
This review is from: Kids (Audio CD)
For anyone who's interested, here are the hip hop songs from the movie:
Pow-Beastie Boys
In 3's-Beastie Boys
Sabrosa-Beastie Boys
Whutcha Want-Nine
Da Bichez-DJ Premier & Jeru the Damaja
Word is Bond-Brand Nubian
Wrong Side Of The Tracks-Artifacts
Crooklyn (Inst.)-Crooklyn Dodgers
Oh My God-A Tribe Called Quest
Listen Up-E Rule
Time's Up-O.C.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
STANDS OUT FAR BETTER THAN THE FILM, April 25, 2007
This review is from: Kids (Audio CD)
Ok, although I never cared to much for the movie itself, I always have dug the soundtrack to KIDS. I bought this disc sometime in junior high and it has remained a staple in my rotation ever since. It is an album best played when you have no idea what to put on (and this happens more often than you would think.)
Daniel Johnson opens this up with warped string section sound and pre-emo voiceover tune called CASPER (this song is loosely reprised later on in the disc.) Daniel Johnson was not the guy from Dinosaur Jr. like I had thought, that was Lou Barlow, and he can be found with his fingers in just about every other track on this disc except for two or three... Folk Implosion/Deluxx Folk Implosion rip into the punk rock styled DADDY NEVER UNDERSTOOD, which seems to melt into the rythmic NOTHING GONNA STOP, also by them... they also do the radio song NATURAL ONE.
Throughout this disc is a good handful of tripped out chamber-like instrumentals, some other assorted weirdness, a little bit of underground hip hop, and some dubs.. oh and a seventies soft rock like song from Sebadoah (also Barlows so I have read) called SPOILED.
All of these songs seem to mix perfectly together in their order. Some people have complained that more than half of the songs from the film were not included on this soundtrack.. but I have no problem with that at all.
As far as I'm concerned this is a quality album as a whole, rather than just a random collection of songs, very surreal, but very chilled out, and very good for setting that type of mood. KIDS the movie was overhyped and overplayed, but KIDS the soundtrack never seems to get old.
Pick it up. Yo.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
magnificient!, August 19, 2003
This review is from: Kids (Audio CD)
I love this album. I can listen to it when I work out (it's very beat driven), I can listen to it when I'm falling asleep or hanging out (it's very mellow) and I can listen to it after I watch Kids and love it love it love it. Although I can listen to the whole thing without skipping any songs, I think the stand-out tracks are "Jenny's Theme" and "Natural One" both by Folk Implosion, "Spoiled" by Sebadoh and "Good Morning Captain" by Slint. I think my parents like "Natural One" even more than I do, maybe it reminds them of seventies rock? I'm too young to know. All are deliciously guitar-y backed with wonderful drumming and Slint is a marathon long, which I always enjoy. "Daddy Never Understood" is the song featured in the previews and is punky, but not overwhelmingly so and the Daniel Johnston songs are especially wonderful... two of the few songs that have lyrics. I think the weakest parts are "Simean Groove," only because the wolf howl is a bit cheesy, and "Mad Fright Night" becuase it is the only rap track on the album. This album opened me up to a whole new world of music, as cliche as it sounds, and I'm planning on buying many Sebadoh and Slint cds now, haha. Everyone who loved Kids should immediately purchase this.
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