Judgment Night (Soundtrack)
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Publication |
September 14, 1993 |
| Label (s) | Immortal Records |
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45 min 11 s |
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Judgment Night is the soundtrack to the 1993 feature film Judgment Night . The soundtrack was released on September 14, 1993 via Immortal Records and is considered to be groundbreaking for the genre of rap metal .
Emergence
idea
The soundtrack is based on an idea by music manager Happy Walters, who has been overseeing various rap artists such as Cypress Hill , House of Pain and the Wu-Tang Clan from Los Angeles since the early 1990s . After Everlast got a supporting role in the film Judgment Night from the band House of Pain , Walters contacted the film producers and submitted his idea to create a soundtrack for the film. A rock and rap band should collaborate. Years later, Walter told Billboard magazine that he simply noticed that "many alternative artists appreciate hip- hop and many hip-hop artists like alternative". For him "it was obvious to do something that brings the two together".
Collaborations between musicians from both camps were nothing new at the time. Bands like the Beastie Boys have linked both genres since the early 1980s. Further successful collaborations followed with the song Walk This Way by Aerosmith and Run-DMC from 1986 or Bring the Noise by Anthrax and Public Enemy from 1991. Hip-hop artists like Ice-T sampled guitar riffs by Black Sabbath or Slayer while they were playing Tone Loc served at Van Halen and Kiss . Rock bands like Faith No More , the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Living Color also experimented with rap singing. In 1992 the groundbreaking debut albums by Rage Against the Machine and Body Count were released .
Recordings
The first song Just Another Victim is musically divided into two parts and begins as helmet- typical noise rock , which turns into a hip-hop song in the second half. Teenage fan club and De La Souls collaboration Fallin ' based on the song Free Fallin' by Tom Petty . Biohazard and Onyx had worked together before. Their contribution to the soundtrack was created together in the rehearsal room and was produced by Jam Master Jay . Initially, Biohazard wanted to write guitar riffs over beats by Onyx, which didn't work. After all, it was Onyx who persuaded the producer to record a rock song with rap vocals. Slayer and Ice-T record a medley of three songs by the Scottish band The Exploited for their contribution Disorder . Among the three songs used is UK '82 , which Ice-T turns into LA '92 , a reference to the 1992 Los Angeles riots . Ice-T does not use rap vocals in this song.
Faith No More initially had the idea for their contribution with Boo-Yaa TRIBE to record a pure song title, which corresponds to the Samoan culture. The song used on the soundtrack was created spontaneously in the studio. It was the first song that Faith No More released without their guitarist Jim Martin , even if he was still in the band. Bassist Billy Gould played the guitar, while singer Mike Patton only contributed an onomatopoeic vocal melody. Kim Gordon of the band Sonic Youth contributed the only female vocals on the soundtrack for the collaboration with Cypress Hill. Mary Jane sung in the song is a slang term for marijuana .
Sir Mix-A-Lot recalls that he was very nervous about recording with Mudhoney because it was his first time in the studio with a band. He would have thought a long time beforehand about when someone would bring rock and rap music together on a large scale, since the two scenes are quite similar.
In the second Cypress Hill contribution, Pearl Jam singer Eddie Vedder cannot be heard for unknown reasons. Cypress Hill's Sen Dog said he was friends with the musicians on Pearl Jam before the recordings.
Actually, twelve songs were planned for the soundtrack. The song Can't Kill the Revolution by the bands Rage Against the Machine and Tool was planned, but was not used. Both bands were dissatisfied with the result.
Track list
| No. | title | Rock artist | Rap artist | length |
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| 1 | Just Another Victim | Helmet | House of Pain | 4:23 |
| 2 | Fallin ' | Teenage fan club | De la soul | 4:28 |
| 3 | Me, Myself & My Microphone | Living Color | Run DMC | 3:10 |
| 4th | Judgment Night | Biohazard | onyx | 4:35 |
| 5 | Disorder | Slayer | Ice-T | 4:58 |
| 6th | Another body murdered | Faith No More | Boo-Yaa TRIBE | 4:24 |
| 7th | I love you Mary Jane | Sonic Youth | Cypress Hill | 3:52 |
| 8th | Freak momma | Mudhoney | Sir Mix-A-Lot | 4:00 |
| 9 | Missing Link | Dinosaur Jr. | Del tha Funkee Homosapien | 3:59 |
| 10 | Come & Die | Therapy | Fatal | 4:27 |
| 11 | Real thing | Pearl Jam | Cypress Hill | 3:33 |
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Reviews
The soundtrack received positive reviews in contemporary reviews. Frittz Loch from the German magazine Rock Hard wrote of “the compound of the year”, which “practices quality crossover”. The album would be "a must for the fan of any of these bands" and received eight out of ten points. Dimitri Ehrlich of the American magazine Rolling Stone described "the concept of mixed marriage between the two primary forms of youth culture music as a largely untapped source of creative exchange". The magazine Entertainment Weekly could be "not vouch for the film, however, was the soundtrack is a must."
Chart placements
The soundtrack reached number 17 in the US, number 38 in the German and number 44 in the Swiss album charts. Two singles made it into the UK charts, Another Body Murdered by Faith No More and Boo-Yaa TRIBE at number 26 and Fallin ' by Teenage Fanclub and De La Soul at number 59. The other two released singles Judgment Night by Biohazard and Onyx as well as Just Another Victim by Helmet and House of Pain could not place in the charts.
meaning
Jens Mayer from the German music magazine Visions described Judgment Night as “a classic and a pioneer of a global trend. The soundtrack would be the early climax and at the same time the apex of the rap-rock genre ”. According to Axel Horn from the German band Such a Surge , the sampler “captured a sense of time and took it to extremes worldwide”. He added, however, that “neither the sound nor the idea were really new”. For Sen Dog from the band Cypress Hill, a new genre was born with the soundtrack. Judgment Night was "the initial spark that changed people's view of rap and metal bands." Christian Olde Wolbers (ex- Fear Factory ) explained that the music on Judgment Night “didn't sound like something new” to him, but thought it was “great that the acts involved combined their strengths here”. James Greene, Jr. of the online magazine Pop Matters wrote that, unlike the movie, the soundtrack proves that the right combination of rock and rap can produce fantastic results. These results led to Nu Metal in the later 1990s .
In November 1993, the soundtrack was awarded a gold record by the Recording Industry Association of America for 500,000 units sold . On the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the soundtrack, the German music magazine Visions published an eleven-page article about the creation of the album and the history of the crossover between rap and rock in August 2018. In addition, "25 crossover albums for the ages" were presented. Happy Walters, however, tried to copy the concept of Judgment Night with two other soundtracks . Rock bands worked with electronic music artists for the film Spawn , while electronic and rap artists came together in Blade II . Both soundtracks were less successful.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f Jens Mayer: The best of both worlds . In: Visions , issue 305, pages 50–60
- ↑ Chart sources: DE CH US UK (Fallin ') UK (Another Body Murdered)
- ↑ Frittz Loch: Judgment Night . In: Rock Hard , Oct 1993, 81
- ↑ Dimitri Ehrlich: Pearl Jam, Slayer Team Up with Run DMC, Ice-T on 'Judgment Night'. Rolling Stone , accessed September 2, 2018 .
- ↑ Entertainment Weekly , Sept. 24, 1993, p. 93
- ↑ James Greene, Jr .: Judgment Night: Music from the Motion Picture (1993). Pop Matters, accessed September 2, 2018 .
- ^ Judgment Night. RIAA , accessed September 2, 2018 .
Web links
- Judgment Night at Allmusic (English)
- Chart sources: US / UK / SE