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WWE Anthology

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Although I did not purchase WWE Anthology [online], it is a truly tremendous buy wherever you decide to get it if your a WWE fan to the end. What many people fail to realize is that the theme music used in the WWE isn't wrestling music for the nostalgic, its a mix of all kinds of music, from rap to hard rock, soft rock to even R&B, and thats what makes a great album. This 3-CD set journey will keep you rockin' all night, and for some, will bring back old, fond memories of the old times in WWE.

CD 1, "The Federation Years", will take you back to the 80's and early to mid 90's with themes like Hulk Hogan - "Real American", Jake "The Snake" Roberts - "Snake Bit", Ultimate Warrior - "Unstable", Shawn Michaels - "Sexy Boy", and Mankind - "Schizophrenic."

CD 2 will take you through the latter part of the 90's, as the WWE moved into what CD 2 is entitled, the "Attitude Era", with memorable tracks such as D-Generation X - "Break It Down", Stone Cold Steve Austin - "I Won't Do What You Tell Me", Chyna - "Who I Am", Mr. McMahon - "No Chance In Hell", and The Rock - "If You Smell...."

And finally, CD 3, "Now!", will bring you straight to the present with current tunes like Brock Lesnar - "Next Big Thing", Eric Bischoff - "I'm Back", Trish Stratus with Lil' Kim - "Time To Rock & Roll", Chris Jericho - "King Of My World" (performed by Saliva), and Undertaker - "You're Gonna Pay."

And with so many more songs to name, it's value is definitely worth every penny. If anyone deserves a lifetime achievement award in this world, it is the composer of nearly all the songs listed on this album-Jim Johnston. I salute you Jim, and thank you for so many wonderful songs you have given us the opportunity of listening to over the years and now.

Well, folks, it's finally here. WWE: The Anthology brings you almost every major piece WWF and WWE Theme Music from the past 18 years. Everything from Hulk Hogan's "Real American" to Brock Lesnar's "Next Big Thing" is on this puppy, . 86 total songs at a hell of a price. The only reason I didn't give it 5 stars was because 90% of these songs have already been released on previous WWE albums and have absoulutly no need to be on this(Lita's and Chyna's music spring to mind)and there's just too many Undertaker and Triple H songs for my liking. They could've have put more unreleased material on here (Snuka, Rockers, Demoliton,just to name a few.), this collection is pretty damn good and will satisfy almost all wrestling fans. Another reason I didn't give if 5 was because on the second disc, Chris Jericho's "Break Down The Walls" is all screwed up and the CD skips for about the first forty seconds(not a REAL big deal, but it is the 2nd version of the song). It may just be my CD, I don't know, but other than that, go out and buy this awesome collection, you won't be sorry.

The CD arrived to me on Wednesday Morning. I was really impressed with the artwork. Inside the CD jacket is a story about how WWE Music history came about and how Jim Johnston's first so-called studio was actually a church basement in 1985, where he had a 4-track tape deck, synthesizer and two guitars.

CD 1 has old WWF old with Hogan ripping his shirt and is yello colored.

CD 2 is green and has Triple H giving the "DX" sign.

CD 3 is blue with new "W" logo.

The cosmetics are absolutely beautiful and gave me nastalgia all over.

Now, the music itself:

CD 1: Awesome! All the oldies. I finally get to listen "Corporate Ministry" in clear version. It's a bit mixed, too. But how come its not in CD 2: Attitude Years?

Owen Hart's theme was a mixture of siren theme and "Enough is Enough"

However, my comment is that they should've did 2 Owen Themes, because they had all 3 versions of Undertaker Themes, at least 2 of Triple H's and Jericho's to name a few.

CD 2: Nice! However, Where's Steve Blackman's theme and Al Snow's theme{I can't fine Al Snow heel theme anywhere on the web!} Also, they had the Kurt Angle's alternative theme, which they used a few times during his entrance.

CD 3: CD#1 had 33 tracks; CD#2 has 35 tracks; However, I think WWE rushed a bit with this one, as they only listed 16 tracks and 2 of them were Taker's! Not enough themes in my opinion. They should've at least put a few generic themes of Steven Richards, Johnny Stombolli or Randi Orton.

MY OVERALL SCORE[out of 10]: A solid 8

If you are hardcore fan, you gonna love this one!

Wow! thats all I can say what an amazing CD!
86 Tracks In all gives you over 3 and a half hours of music.
With over 25 Unreleased Tracks!
Its 3 CD's
CD 1 is The Federation Years:
33 Tracks on this best Songs : Sexy Boy , Shawn Michaels and The Previousley Unreleased Enough Is Enough by Owen Hart

CD 2 The Attitude Era
35 Tracks this has a bunch of unreleased songs on it I was most suprised with The 2nd version of Kurt Angles song He only used it twice in late 2000. Its more Metal and has the same tune. Great Stuff

CD 3 NOW!
Every Track on here is UNRELASED and They are all great.
My Favorites in order
5."kING oF mY World" Jericho
4."Next Big Thing" Brock Lesnar
3."Fight" Summerslam Theme Great Song from Summerslam 2002
2."Here Comes The Money" Shane McMahon great rap tune
1."At Last" Christian Amazing fast rock beat love this song

Things To NOTE
HHH Has A brand New Theme on here That he has never used.
Its his old My Time song with different Lyrics and heavier
Undertaker has 2 songs on here as well One w/ lyrics and one w/o lyrics

Overall 10 Outa 10 MUST HAVE!!!

WWE Anthology 20 years of WWE Music

WWE Anthology is not a bad collection of themes from over the years, don't get me wrong.

However, this does not mean it could not have been a little better.

It should have been a 4 disc collection featuring themes from the Federation Years, the New Generation, the Attitude Era, and current themes of today. Heres how I would do it (Not in order):

Disc 1:
Hulk Hogan
Rowdy Roddy Piper
Macho Man Randy Savage
Million Dollar Man Ted Dibiase
Brother Love
The Bushwhackers
Undertaker (1st ever version)
Jake The Snake Roberts
Ultimate Warrior
Hillbilly Jim
Big Boss Man (Cobb County Georgia)
Mr. Perfect
Dusty Rhodes
Brutus The Barber Beefcake
Honky Tonk Man
etc.

Disc 2:
Bret Hart
Shawn Michaels
Diesel
Razor Ramon
Owen Hart (King of Harts)
123 Kid
Yokozuna
Mankind
Sunny
Goldust
The Smoking Gunns
Bam Bam Bigelow
Ahmed Johnson
etc.

Disc 3:
Stone Cold Steve Austin
Degeneration X
Kane (Burned)
Mick Foley
Vince McMahon
Kurt Angle (Original, not remix)
Chyna
The Hardy Boyz
Tazz (13)
Lita
The Rock
Too Cool
Big Show
The Dudley Boyz
etc.

Disc 4:
Brock Lesnar
Christian
Undertaker (Deadman Inc.)
Eric Bischoff
Trish Stratus
The Hurricane
Rey Mysterio
etc.

Hope you see my point, these are not all the themes I would put but a good majority of them. If it were to come out now I would also add Evolution, Eddie Guerrero (I Lie...), John Cena, Booker T, etc. WWE Anthology overall is still a must have for all WWE fans.

I really thought that this was going to be one of WWE's best CDs but for me it was a let down - As I WWE fan, I collected all the CD's before Anthology so I had half of them already. I really picked up Anthology for the 3rd Album - I was very dissapointed with the songs on it and to see that it didn't have Rob Van Dam or The Hardy'z Entrance Music. Neither did it have Austin's Heavy Metal Entrance - A bad buy... but that's just my opinion!

It took awhile, but it finally come out. This has to be one of the best wrestling CD's ever. It has theme songs from Hulk Hogan's "Real American" and Shawn Micheal's "Sexy Boy" to D-Generation X's "Break It Down" and Chris Jericho's "King of my World." This is 3 jam packed CD's full of history. It has a few unreleased tracks such as Kurt Angle's remixed theme, "I Don't Suck." I would recommend this CD to anyone who is a wrestling fan and even some who aren't.

this was the best wwe cd ever. its a collection of the full version of wrestler and event themes from "The Federation Years", "The Attitude Era", and "Now WWE." its a journey of the WWF into the WWE throught its music and it brings back good memories. Disc 1: good- Hulk Hogan, Bret Hart, Jake Roberts, Razor Ramon, No Holds Barred, Shawn Michaels, Owen Hart,Dude Love, Ministry of Darkness.bad-Miss Elizabeth/Macho Man Disc 2: good- DX(both), Goldust, SCSA(both), WM16 theme, D-Lo Brown, Deadly Game theme, Ken Shamrock, Edge, Gangrel(scary but its good),NAO, Kane, Kurt Angle, Lita, Vince McMahon,The Rock, S2H, Tazz, The dudleys, HHH(annoying but its good), Chris Benoit, Undertaker(same as gangrel), Y2J's is OK. ( basically all of them lol)bad-Val Venis, William Regal. Disc 3: good- Brock Lesnar, Eric Bischoff, Rey Mysterio, SummerSlam Theme, Chris Jericho(saliva), HHH, Undertaker, Judgment Day theme. bad- Undertakers(Deadman he has two of them), Shane McMahon, Billy/Chuck. get this CD its flippin awesome!

The whole thing is, if you are a wrestling fan, you most likely have the cd's the songs originated from, with the exception of the very few previously unreleased tracks.

The 1st disc is the gem of the set, showcasing old wrestling tracks from the late 80's all the way through the 90's. The problem is though, that very few songs are from the 80's. Which kind of defeats the purpose of this being a anthology, when 90% of the tracks come from 1996-2002, leaving out mainly anything from the mid 80's to mid 90's.

It would have been better to see a better timeline of great themes, as the cd indicates there being a timeline theme going, but they failed, and chose to produce this as cheaply as possibly, by recycling anything from previous albums, and leaving us with unreleased tracks that very well could have remained unreleased.

While this CD collection is prety cool i noticed a couple of gapping gaps in the track salection.

Disk 1: Missing was Macho Man, Undertaker (Origianl), Dusty Rhoeds, Bam Bam Bigelow, The Allied Powers, Mr Perfect & Doink The Clown (EVIL) Themes

Disk 2: Missing was Too Cool (Origanl), APA, Dudley Boyz (Original)
The Hardy Boyz ,Dean Malenko, Cactus Jack, T&A & Steve Blackmans Themes

Disk 3: This was the worst offender missing in action were Booker T, RVD, Ric Flair, nWo 2002, Hollywood Hulk Hogan, Maven, The Un-Americans, William Regals (New Theme), Edge, Kanyon & DDP's Themes

This CD is deffinatly worth buying but it could have been so much better if some if not all of these traks been used instead of some that were like Mark Henry, Summerslam 2002, Undertaker (Dead Man) DX Fist and some othres these appances and poor selection of traks greatly affects this collections appeal