Sounds of Horror: The Ultimate Horror Party Rock

Various Artists (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (July 19, 2000)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Delta
• ASIN: B00004ST33
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #780,439 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Mostly Halloween Electronica, No "Party Rock", July 17, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Sounds of Horror: The Ultimate Horror Party Rock (Audio CD)

Even though there are only six tracks on this CD, most of the songs on "Sounds of Horror" are pretty long, averaging about 8½ minutes. The first track on here ("The House of Horror") clocks in at just 8 minutes and is a relatively good song with piano and organ mixed with electronica. To add to the Halloween theme, a voice sample ("Welcome to my house") is played a few times followed by a supposedly scary laugh. In my opinion, if the voice samples (cackles and laughs included) had been removed, this CD would have been a lot more enjoyable. On the other hand, though, it probably wouldnt have been recognizable as a Halloween CD without the vocals.

Tracks #2 ("Heartbeats") and #3 ("Thunderstorm Night") are a bit more likable and well named. "Heartbeats" obviously includes a medium tempo heartbeat with some slow breathing, and "Thunderstorm Night" involves rain and thunder. Both are set to music, though; theyre not just sound effects.

With track #4 ("Horror Party Rock") returns the annoying voice samples. In this one its an Igor-sounding creature saying, "Why dont you come into the house?" More obnoxious "creepy" laughs and cackles in track #5 ("Laugh of Death"), the longest song on here (12 minutes), with some heavy breathing and yells alternating in the background. Track #6 ("Mystic Ballad") wraps everything up with an equally long digital song which includes a beautiful piano solo like in the first track.

Now, although the front cover claims this CD contains "party rock", there is nothing close to rock n roll on here. All the tracks lean more towards the electronic/instrumental genre. So, if you enjoy that type of music, then you might like this CD. In my opinion, its pretty good as long as you ignore the cheesy sound effects and vocals.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Looking for a creepy Halloween CD? Don't buy!, July 25, 2006

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Gary (North Carolina) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sounds of Horror: The Ultimate Horror Party Rock (Audio CD)

I take a chance on these Halloween CD's from time to time and on occasion I get ripped. Basically this one is a bunch of soft electonic bebop music with bad, supposedly creepy, voice-overs. My neighbor thought it was cool, but he also owns a library of 80's dance music.

If you are looking for good haunted themed CD's try; A Night in a Haunted House/A Night in a Graveyard, Sounds from a Night of Terror, Drew's Famous Haunted House Horrors, Screamin' Halloween Sounds and Halloween Horror.