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| Heavy Metal: Music From The Motion Picture | 
 enlarge | Creator: Various Artists
Label: Elektra / Wea
Category: Music
List Price: $7.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  54 reviews
Sales Rank: 2384
Format: Soundtrack
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 60691
UPC: 075596069120
EAN: 0075596069120
ASIN: B000002H4C
Release Date: March 14, 1995
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| Tracks:
| • | Heavy Metal - Hagar, Sammy | | • | Heartbeat - Riggs, Jerry | | • | Working in the Coal Mine - Dorsey, Lee | | • | Veteran of the Psychic Wars - Bloom, Eric | | • | Reach Out - Comita, Pete | | • | Heavy Metal (Takin' A Ride) - Don Felder | | • | True Companion - Fagen, Donald | | • | Crazy (A Suitable Case for Treatment) - Nazareth | | • | Radar Rider - Jordan, Marc | | • | Open Arms - Journey | | • | Queen Bee - Farner, Mark | | • | I Must Be Dreamin' | | • | The Mob Rules - Butler, Geezer | | • | All of You - Don Felder | | • | Prefabricated - Bonvoisin, Bernard | | • | Blue Lamp - Nicks, Stevie |
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| Customer Reviews: Read 49 more reviews...
 Good nostalgia, not much actual metal December 23, 2005
22 out of 23 found this review helpful
I saw this movie as a youth, and the soundtrack was the first record I ever bought that was rock 'n roll. A good start, I must say. The original record was a double-album. Funny nowadays that you can fit that on one CD.
But even after all of these years, some of these tracks still stand out as some of my favorites: Cheap Trick's Reach Out and I Must Be Dreamin', Black Sabbath's Mob Rules, Blue Oyster Cult's Veteran of the Psychic Wars, and the Devo and Riggs tracks are all great. The mellow stuff, even as a kid, I could do without. Interestingly, the follow up movie has a soundtrack that is truly all metal, yet that soundtrack and film are far inferior to this original.
The film has aged, but if you were a fan of the magazine back then and can remember what animation was like back then; you can still probably bring yourself back to that time and remember what made it so good.
A vinyl classic. January 23, 2006
7 out of 8 found this review helpful
There's only one thing as cool as seeing this movie at midnight in the right state of mind, and that's this soundtrack. Even without the connection to the film, the tracklist is awesome. Included is the great title song from Sammy Hagar, the odd-but-cool cover from Devo, a huge hit from Journey, and killer tunes from Blue Oyster Cult, Don Felder, Sabbath (with Dio), and the beautiful Stevie Nicks. If the 70's were your decade, this is your soundtrack. Sure, by todays standards this might not be considered metal, but it is classic, it is heavy, and it does rock!
 Great movie. Even better soundtrack. November 28, 2000
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
Original motion picture soundtracks don't get any better than this, folks. You won't here ME complaining. There are so many great things to be said about this collection. This is classic rock/metal at it's best. Don Felder's 2 songs are better than anything that the Eagles have ever done. Also you'll find one of the best (albeit lesser known) BOC songs - Verteran of the Psychic Wars. And fellow Black Sabbath fans will be interested to know that Tony Iommi does a completely different lead solo on this version of 'Mob Rules.' Believe me, I was surprised, too! Speaking of different versions of songs, Sammy Hagar's 'Heavy Metal' is much stronger, here, than on his own album. And if you haven't heard the song 'Crazy' by Nazareth, then you really are missing out. I'm not a huge Nazareth fan, but this song rocks! But I've said enough. -- Scott S.
Simply superb December 5, 2004
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
When I first saw the film in 1981, I rushed out to by the LP soundtrack. Over the years it has lost none of its sheer listening enjoyment. Naturally the cd is an improvement in sound quality over the LP.
This soundtrack really captures the movie's hugely enjoyable OTT ebullience. All the tracks in here can be listened to on multiple repeat plays. Cheap Trick's 'Reach Out' and 'I Must be dreamin' are both good. 'Radar Rider' is the stronger of the two Riggs tracks on the album. Stevie Nick's 'Blue Lamp' grows on you each time you play it, as does the Nazareth track 'Crazy (A suitable Case For Treatment). Chill out to Don Fagen's 'True Companion' and Don Felder's 'All Of You'.
What is the best track on here - two contenders in my opinion:
- Blue Oyster Cult's superb 'Veteran Of the Psychic Wars' Was this track ever released as a single, if not why not?
- Don Felder's Heavy Metal, mean, moody, and magnificent track. Slow build up to a crescendo, and then it just winds back down again to a graceful fade out.
Frankly it's a tie, both songs are too good to put into second place.
Get this cd for that drive into work, guaranteed to make it a somewhat more enjoyable experience.
Great early 80s rock/metal December 4, 2002
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Before metal in the eighties was all about hairspray, there was a generation of hard rock that really rocked. The Heavy Metal soundtrack accompanies the animated film of the same name, and many have said that the songs here are better than the movie. Truth be told, by today's standards, many of these songs don't qualify as "heavy metal." I mean, Cheap Trick, Journey and Don Felder? But, most of these songs work in the context in which they are presented.Sammy Hagar's version of "Heavy Metal" has far more energy than the one on his solo LP. The guitar part is just more crunchy and aggressive and the bassline has more punch. Riggs has two numbers on this disk, "Heartbeat" and "Radar Rider" and I've never heard of these guys since. "Radar Rider" has some cool distorted guitar licks and pounding drums and worked great with the corvette descending to earth. Devo, now there's a heavy metal act, presents "Working in the Coal Mine" in typical quirky fashion with train and hammer effects. The lyrics are comic chain gang. This is a fun tune, helped me survive hell week in college, and only later did I learn it was a cover of a song from the sixties, I think by Leo Dorsey. I wish they would have also included "Through With Being Cool" from the movie "cantina scene" but both can be found on a Devo disk. BOC's contribution was co-written with SF/Fantasy writer Michael Moorcock and is full of synths and tribal drums and space-age lyrics. "Wounds are all I'm made of..." Cheap Trick also has two numbers, the synth-driven "Reach Out" and "I Must Be Dreamin'" with Bun E. Carlos really driving on the drums. Don Felder steps out of the shadows of the Eagles with "Heavy Metal - Takin' a Ride" a slow burner with excellent lead guitar work. Even better is "All of You," a laid-back cruising tune for all those plutonium nyborg fans. "True Companion" comes to us from Donald Fagen of Steely Dan fame. This tune has a long instrumental with cool guitar licks that I'm guessing were by Jeff Baxter. Nice vocal harmonies. Who would have thought of Elvis Costello being included here, but "Prefabricated" by Trust is a rocker! One of the most rocking on the disk. Black Sabbath's Dio-era "Mob Rules" is one of the few truly heavy metal tunes, with it's machine gun guitar, thundering bass, and throbbing drums. This fit perfectly with the invasion/sacking scene in the movie. Songs by Nazareth, Journey, Grand Funk Railroad and Stevie Nicks round out the set.
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