The Pick of Destiny

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The pick of destiny
Soundtrack from Tenacious D

Publication
(s)

2006

Label (s) Epic Records

Format (s)

CD

Genre (s)

skirt

Title (number)

12

running time

33 min 52 s

occupation

production

John King

Studio (s)

The Dell and 606 Studio

chronology
Tenacious D
(2001) 		The pick of destiny Rize of the Fenix
(2012)

The Pick of Destiny is the second studio album by the American rock band Tenacious D and the soundtrack album for the film Kings of Rock - Tenacious D (originally: Tenacious D in: The Pick of Destiny ). It was released on November 14, 2006 by Epic Records .

History of origin

The Pick of Destiny is Tenacious D's first studio release after their self-titled debut album Tenacious D from 2001. The album was produced by John King ( Dust Brothers ). Several guest musicians can be heard on the album, who are also featured in the film of the same name. Dave Grohl of the Foo Fighters took over the drums on the album, John Spiker the bass. Both can also be heard as guest singers. The electric guitar was played by John Konesky . The actor Troy Gentile and the two rock singers Meat Loaf and Ronnie James Dio can also be heard.

Versions

The album was released in three different versions. A cleaned version got by without swear words, another "dirty version" contains the original film score. Another limited version comes in a digipak and also contains a poster, tarot cards and a replica pick , which the film is about.

successes

The soundtrack reached # 8 on the US Billboard charts and # 2 on the soundtrack charts. In England the album reached # 10 in the album charts and # 47 in Germany.

Track list

All songs were written by Jack Black and Kyle Gass , unless otherwise noted.

  1. Kickapoo (Black, Gass, Meat Loaf, Ronnie James Dio, Liam Lynch ) - 4:14
  2. Classico - 0:58 (uses the melody of the piano piece Für Elise by Ludwig van Beethoven from 1810 and Eine kleine Nachtmusik by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart )
  3. Baby - 1:36
  4. Destiny - 0:37
  5. History - 1:42
  6. The Government Totally Sucks - 1:34
  7. Master Exploder - 2:24
  8. The Divide - 0:22
  9. Papagenu (He's My Sassafrass) (Black, Gass, John Spiker, John King) - 2:24
  10. Dude (I Totally Miss You) - 2:53
  11. Break In-City (Storm The Gate!) (Black, Gass, Lynch, King) - 1:22
  12. Car Chase City (Black, Gass, John Konesky, John Spiker, King) - 2:42
  13. Beelzeboss (The Final Showdown) (Black, Gass, Grohl, Lynch) - 5:35
  14. POD - 2:32
  15. The Metal (Black, Gass, Konesky, King) - 2:45
Bonus tracks
  1. Rock Your Socks (Acoustic) - iTunes bonus track when pre-ordered
  2. Training Medley - A download is made available with the Best Buy version, also included on the Single POD .

Single release

POD (the abbreviation for Pick of Destiny ) was released as the only single from the soundtrack on October 30, 2006. It was released both as a CD and as a vinyl version with different titles. The music video was directed by Liam Lynch , the film's director. The single reached # 24 in the UK charts.

CD

  1. POD
  2. Master Exploder
  3. Training medley
  4. POD (music video)

vinyl

  1. POD
  2. Kong

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.allmusic.com/album/mw0000563033
  2. ↑ a b http://everyhit.com/
  3. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from January 17, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.musicline.de

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