Small Soldiers: Music From The Motion Picture

No matter how hard they try--and they put plenty into the effort--there's really no way the synthetic drum sounds and effects-laden guitars of Pat Benatar's "Love Is a Battlefield" can be bent into a hip-hop track, even in the days of Puff Daddy. The same can be said for even the best tracks on the Small Soldiers soundtrack: Bone Thugs-n-Harmony are silky smooth (as always) and make a fine single out of "War," but it doesn't add anything or update Edwin Starr's classic take. Similarly, Wyclef, Pras, and Free add nothing to "Another One Bites the Dust"; and who really needs dance-oriented remixes of Billy Squier's "The Stroke," Gary Glitter's "Rock and Roll (Part 2)" or (gulp) Rush's "Tom Sawyer"? Only the Pretenders' "My City Was Gone" survives the addition of some extra beats and rapping by Kool Keith in the breaks. The highlight of the album, it's--in the grand scheme of things--completely unnecessary and plenty of fun. --Randy Silver Amazon.com

The Tom Sawyer Remix Rocks!

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! July 16, 2004

Wyclef makes the album

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. April 25, 2003

Not for someone with a taste for music

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!!! December 31, 1998

Brings another level to da hip hop - interpolation crossover

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! August 6, 1998

A little dissappointing

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. August 1, 1998

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