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Before South Park, there was BASEketball.
Review:
Yes, I said BEFORE South Park. Baseketball, starring them wacky
creators of South Park - Trey Parker and Matt Stone, was actually filmed
before South Park was ever shown on Comedy Central. The movie release was
delayed a bit due to problems with other release dates. However, we are a
MUSIC site, so enough about the movie, on the the soundtrack.
This soundtrack is of about the same quality as most other soundtracks.
While there are a few great tracks on here, there are a few bad tracks as
well. This is very common with soundtracks, with their attempt to encompass
a variety of styles and artists. BASEketball suffers from this same
soundtrack syndrome.
The album starts out with what I consider one of the best songs on the
album. Despite the fact that any hard-core ska fan will tell you Reel Big
Fish is nothing but a bunch of sellouts, it has nothing to do with the
quality of their music. On this first track, Reel Big Fish (one of today's
hottest ska bands) covers the 80's A-Ha hit "Take On Me". (You may
remember the original video as the one done with all black and white line
drawings and sketches). I love the original version of this song, and I
thought redoing it would be next to heresy. I can be wrong sometimes
though. RBF does a pretty good job covering it, and their horn chords do a
great job in taking the place of the synthesizers used in the original.
The album continues with a "Don't Hate Me (Because I'm Beautiful)" by
Nerf Herder. This song is an interesting mix of different genres, with a
ska sound over what sounds almost like Phantom of the Opera. Deep Blue
Something contributes the next track. This is the first I heard of them
since their hit "Breakfast at Tiffany's" a few years back. The album
continues with a few mediocre offerings by Supersuckers, Plastiscene, and
Soul Asylum. The Soul Asylum track is "I Will Still Be Laughing" and is
their first radio single in a few years.