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Small Soldiers: Music From The Motion Picture

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I really wanted to get the soundtrack right after I saw the movie. But I was very dissapointed that all the songs were remixes ( except for "War"). The songs rocked as originals. The remixes are okay, but "Another one bites the dust" was not intended to be a hip hop song, and it should remain a rock song. At least the unbutchered version of "War" was included or I would of lost all faith in our society.

Woah! Hold up! Who did this soundtrack? Yee-haw! Think about this first. You know all those songs you have forgotten from long ago? Let's just thank the people who did this, because they are bringing old songs back to life! Yea yea so what if it's not original? But in reality it is. New lyrics bring 90's tastes to older music! So that should settle some people's thoughts. Now for all those actually reading this, GET THE ALBUM! Bone helps out on the War track. A remake of Rock and Roll Part 2 will surely stir your athletic ways! Mad props to Wyclef Jean and Pras Michael! Dang! The remake of Another One Bites the Dust just keeps reminding me that this soundtrack IS A MUST FOR ANY FAN! Pick one up today!

This is a awesome cd this cd is fun and enjoyable to listen to. The best songs on this disc are all of them

I think that this is one good soundtrack. The music is pretty solid and the remixes sucessfully bring orginal classics up to date. I think that "The Stroke", and the original "War" by Edwin Starr are highlights this solid soundtrack. "Tom Sawyer" by Rush further adds to the soundtrack giving the Collection a rock-n-roll foundation with an up-to-date take on the classics. My only complaint is "Another One Bites the Dust" and "Love is a battlefield," which both should have been left in their original state as classics.

This is a pretty good soundtrack that is better than x-files but not as good as godzilla. the only songs worth listening to are Bone Thugs 'War', Wyclef's phat remix of 'another one bites the dust' and the cult's 'love removal machine'

To A music fan from Tennessee, USA
The part you're referring to in the Another One Bites the Dust remix, Wyclef is talking to all the people like you. It's a joke when he says "If you know the deal, this is the master reel kid".

Wyclef has actually made a lot of good remakes and remixes of older songs. Many of them with the original artist's cooperation and involvement.

To A music fan from Springfield, Massachusetts
Do you know what a beat is? That's what a hip-song is built on, the beat. Another One Bites the Dust has a very hip-hop like beat. Which logically means, it's good material for a hip-hop remix.

Even though the cover and the headings of the songs are a reminder of past hits, they are just the opposite. For example, the second song, "Another one bites the dust", says it WAS at one time performed by Queen, however, it has been REMIXED. This means that the uncreative people of the world can't think of any origional music themselves, so they take good songs and butcher them enough to make them sound like their own music, but there is still that HINT of the origionl. This is not what i would suggest is the "Music from the motion picture". It has the slightest twinge of the songs the titles suggest, but is covered over by fairly abrasive rap. It was not what i was expecting to get. This is the grossest rip-off and misrepresentation of music I have seen for a long time. BUYER BEWARE!!!

It's a nightmare come true. Toy soldiers coming to life, and not just fighting back but taking over. It's the Commando Elite - action figures with an attitude. It's a take-no-prisoners situation, and DreamWorks is in the trenches shelling out the elite music - the Small Soldiers soundtrack.

The cross-genre collaboration is almost the making of a movie in itself. Small Soldiers merges hard-core classic rock with the hottest of hip-hop and rap. The best of two worlds collide to form an indestructible militia force.

The album smashes into the scene with an awesome rendition of "War." Originally recorded by Edwin Starr, "War" reached the top of the charts during the summer of 1970, as the dissent of the Vietnam War reached its pinnacle. Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, along with Flesh-N-Bone, Henry Rollins, Tom Morello, the guitar player for Rage Against the Machine, and the infamous Red Hot Chili Peppers' Flea place a spin on "War" that catapults i! ! t into present-day scene. Guitar chords rip through the release as vocalists battle for position.

It only gets better from there. Wyclef Jean and Pras from The Fugees join Free of The Refugee Allstars to lay down the stylization of Queen's "Another One Bites The Dust." Talk about the attitude steaming. Man, oh, man. Pat Benatar's "Love is a Battlefield" gets the treatment as Queen Latifah contributes additional vocals.

Other tracks include "Love Removal Machine" by The Cult, "My City Was Gone" by The Pretenders with additional vocals by Kool Keith, Cheap Tricks' Surrender" and "Tom Sawyer" by Rush.

War. With the Small Soldiers soundtrack - you'll find out what it's good for!

The absalute BEST on this CD is RUSH's Tom Sawyer remix. I'm a HUGE RUSH fan & the real song is SOooooo over played on the radio because radio thinks it's the only song they've ever released (basically, common you guys know it's true!) I absalutely LOVE the Remix! I'm a also a HUGE fan of 80s Rap (but that's it, other than the 80s rap blows!) because they did it WELL & in a creative way, you can FEEL the soul in this remix. I'm a Hard Rock lover but when you hit me with some REAL scratching, you have my attention because it's *SO* rare outside the 80s it's an attention getter when it happens.
I believe they showed a lot of respect to RUSH with this Remix! Anytime I elect to play Tom Sawyer now it's usually THIS track, I've even added this track to a copy of my original Moving Pictures...placing the REAL Tom Sawyer at the end & this Remix at the start. It truely is very well done.

The rest of the CD is....uhmm...junk! Great movie! Lame soundtrack except for the Tom Sawyer Remix. If you want the remix, get creative..it's less than a cent. :)

RUSH...brilliant tallent!