October 9, 2004
A movie soundtrack must do two things:
1) Contain sound clips from the movie. They let you know, "Hey, this is a soundtrack to a movie." They give you pithy bites of funny quotes to put on your computer. And they help you to remember in this busy day that you have actually seen the movie in question.
2) Ninety percent of the soundtrack, minimum, must contain songs that are actually in the movie. All those soundtracks that have random collections of whatever rookie bands the soundtrack label had a demo laying around for should be rounded up and copied over. It's lazy, and I shan't be a party to it.
The Trekkies 2 soundtrack passes these tests. There are quotes from Trekkies 2 AND from the soundtrack-free first Trekkies. And a good 90 percent of the music is shown in its entirety or in clip form on the DVD.
It's also the first movie soundtrack to contain filk. Filkin' A! There are filking CDs that have people filking, just filking the whole time, some of which is un-filkin'-believable. But on this soundtrack it's funny filking.
It includes the most legendary / infamous filk song, the "Imagine" of filk: Leslie Fish's "Banned From Argo." There is a filk segment on Trekkies 2. Fish herself makes an appearance, regally striding into a con like the Aretha Franklin of sci-fi fandom.
Then it all falls apart when she performs her hit, joined onstage by a gaggle of caterwauling backup Trekkies. Unfortunately, that track is what's on the CD, not a studio (or even a semi-quiet con suite) recording.
"Expendable Guy" by Ash Productions (two teen girls) is a clever take from the POV of the soon-to-die redshirt.
B-52s lead singer Fred Schneider sings the Trekkies 2 theme song, which sounds exactly like almost all B-52s songs. But "Trek Lobster" it ain't.
The biggest revelation is that Star Trek breeds theme rock bands like Tribbles. Warp 11, whose album Red Alert I reviewed here, have two songs. Both "Everything I Do, I Do With William Shatner" and "Red Alert" are good intros to the band. They might do the obvious trick of making you buy their CD, but their best is on Red Alert: "Old Country Doctor (The Ballad of Bones") remains their funniest song.
All of the bands are from the apparent Trek music hotbed of Sacramento, California. The soundtrack includes three different groups called No Kill I. (if you get the reference, join me now in saying: "Pain . . . PAIN. . . ." )
No Kill I, No Kill I: The Next Generation, and No Kill I: Deep Space Nine are here, with songs themed to their series of choice. Does No Kill I: Voyager stink to high heaven?
"Tranya" is the best of the bunch: "Pour the hard stuff, I'm getting the chills. But you better make it fast or your green blood will spill."
I can't say that I didn't enjoy Stovokor. I can't say that because I fear that they would bat'leth me. But that would be without honor, for my cowardice makes me weak. They're a Klingon Cookie Monster-metal band. You know — their lyrics sound like "RRAAAR RRAAR RRAAAR RAAAAAARRRR."
This CD is silly, fun stuff. Buy it or insert Trek reference here.
Wait, I've got one!
Nope . . .
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A movie soundtrack must do two things:
1) Contain sound clips from the movie. They let you know, "Hey, this is a soundtrack to a movie." They give you pithy bites of funny quotes to put on your computer. And they help you to remember in this busy day that you have actually seen the movie in question.
2) Ninety percent of the soundtrack, minimum, must contain songs that are actually in the movie. All those soundtracks that have random collections of whatever rookie bands the soundtrack label had a demo laying around for should be rounded up and copied over. It's lazy, and I shan't be a party to it.
The Trekkies 2 soundtrack passes these tests. There are quotes from Trekkies 2 AND from the soundtrack-free first Trekkies. And a good 90 percent of the music is shown in its entirety or in clip form on the DVD.
It's also the first movie soundtrack to contain filk. Filkin' A! There are filking CDs that have people filking, just filking the whole time, some of which is un-filkin'-believable. But on this soundtrack it's funny filking.
It includes the most legendary / infamous filk song, the "Imagine" of filk: Leslie Fish's "Banned From Argo." There is a filk segment on Trekkies 2. Fish herself makes an appearance, regally striding into a con like the Aretha Franklin of sci-fi fandom.
Then it all falls apart when she performs her hit, joined onstage by a gaggle of caterwauling backup Trekkies. Unfortunately, that track is what's on the CD, not a studio (or even a semi-quiet con suite) recording.
"Expendable Guy" by Ash Productions (two teen girls) is a clever take from the POV of the soon-to-die redshirt.
B-52s lead singer Fred Schneider sings the Trekkies 2 theme song, which sounds exactly like almost all B-52s songs. But "Trek Lobster" it ain't.
The biggest revelation is that Star Trek breeds theme rock bands like Tribbles. Warp 11, whose album Red Alert I reviewed here, have two songs. Both "Everything I Do, I Do With William Shatner" and "Red Alert" are good intros to the band. They might do the obvious trick of making you buy their CD, but their best is on Red Alert: "Old Country Doctor (The Ballad of Bones") remains their funniest song.
All of the bands are from the apparent Trek music hotbed of Sacramento, California. The soundtrack includes three different groups called No Kill I. (if you get the reference, join me now in saying: "Pain . . . PAIN. . . ." )
No Kill I, No Kill I: The Next Generation, and No Kill I: Deep Space Nine are here, with songs themed to their series of choice. Does No Kill I: Voyager stink to high heaven?
"Tranya" is the best of the bunch: "Pour the hard stuff, I'm getting the chills. But you better make it fast or your green blood will spill."
I can't say that I didn't enjoy Stovokor. I can't say that because I fear that they would bat'leth me. But that would be without honor, for my cowardice makes me weak. They're a Klingon Cookie Monster-metal band. You know — their lyrics sound like "RRAAAR RRAAR RRAAAR RAAAAAARRRR."
This CD is silly, fun stuff. Buy it or insert Trek reference here.
Wait, I've got one!
Nope . . .
Click Here to see the full review
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