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Everlast-So Long: A little too slow for my tastes, but pretty good. 4/5.

Professional Murder Music: The best track on here. I've never heard of these guys before, but I absolutely love this song. 5/5.

Limp Bizkit-Crushed: What the hell? This is Limp Bizkit? Way too slow. Only Fred and DJ Lethal are here, so why did they say it was by Limp Bizkit? Where's Wes? He's the best part about the band. 3/5.

Guns N' Roses-Oh My god: I don't know why everyone was so hyped by this song. It's not great or anything. 4/5.

Prodigy-Poison: What the hell? Why do people like this? It's fun to listen to while you're bored, but overall, it's not that good. 2/5.

Rob Zombie-Superbeast Remix: Why can't he ever just do a regular song on a soundtrack and not a remix? The remixes suck. On The Matrix he did a remix of Dragula, and here he does the same thing, just with Superbeast. The original song is way better. 3/5.

Eminem-Bad Influence: I was surprised by this track. I usually think of Eminem as someone who can't make music, but this song's pretty good. Not enough diversity though, the entire thing sounds like the first minute. 3/5.

Powerman 5000-Nobody's Real: Awesome track by an awesome band. I picked up their CD before this soundtrack came out, and I'm curious why they didn't use When World's Collide or Opperate Annihilate. Those songs are way better and both suit the movie more. 4/5.

Stoke-I Wish I Had: Wish you had what? Made a good song? So do I. A near 7 minute track of techno beats and a guy singing about how he could get wasted (or something like that). 3/5.

Sonic Youth-Sugar Kane: The beginning's pretty cool, and the track itself is really good, with some pretty wigged out guitars later on. 5/5.

Creed-Wrong Way: Something about the singer's voice annoys me. It's a good track though. 5/5.

Overall good, but they could have taken out the weak tracks (Limp, Prodigy, remix, Eminem, Stroke) and replaced them with something better like more Korn/PMM, Marilyn Manson (he fits the movie well), Incubus, Orgy (i heard they WERE going to be on here), Coal Chamber, Rage, etc. But it's still worth the money just for tracks 1 and 3.


Gave me faith in Chinese Democracy.   February 26, 2005
 7 out of 10 found this review helpful

I don't care about the other songs. Limp Bizkit, Rob Zombie, Eminem, Everlast, Sonic Youth - fine artists but that's not why I paid attention to this soundtrack (or anyone else for that matter). There's a reason a special preview is included on the DVD just for the soundtrack.

There's a reason the preview features the NEW Guns N' Roses song "Oh My God" whilst scrolling text across the screen: "NEW MUSIC BY GUNS N' ROSES."

There's a reason fanboys were drooling on the Internet before the MTV Movie Awards because they knew there was going to be a 15-second clip commercial for End of Days featuring...yep, you guessed it..."Oh My God" by Guns N' Roses.

Wow, a dream come true. At the time (1999) it was the first original song in eight years.

Before then everyone had been speculating as to whether Chinese Democracy was in the works at all.

Well, it is. It's 2005 now and I truly, firmly believe it will be released soon. Geffen isn't going to waste their $13 million + by throwing out the tracks. And after a while they're going to make Axl cough up his material. I'm betting they won't pass $20 million.

The good news here is that "Oh My God" is one of the best Guns N' Roses songs ever recorded - ironic considering the departure of Slash, Matt and Duff.

However if you're not a GN'R snob and not completely against Axl, try opening your ears and really listening to this song. It's great. No, it doesn't have an awesome guitar solo. But it's really hard and gritty - what Appetite for Destruction would sound like had it been processed in the day and age of Manson and Reznor.

I think this is better than most of the stuff Manson's done and a helluva lot better than anything Trent's done. "Industrial rock" tends to give me a headache - just lots of noise. However this song proves Axl is not only still able to write good lyrics (read the words - pretty deep all considered!) but still able to sing, which I doubted after hearing him perform "Madagascar" and other songs in Rio. (His voice sounded awful then, but if it's any consolation the edited Oh My God track sounds like he did back in '93, only a bit edgier given the nature of the song.)

This is GN'R/Axl once again showing us that they/he are able to be more than "just" rock musicians. They did hardcore metal, they did rock, they did country-western, they did rap-metal, they did rock ballads, soft ballads, and now this.

I love Guns N' Roses.


End Of Days is best collection of hard-edges of the year...   November 17, 1999
 5 out of 5 found this review helpful

This soundtrack is mindblowing.

Korn and Limp Bizkit deliver two brilliant songs; both fresh and funky (Korn nicely mellow for once) and the Bizkits rap it up. Cool.

Prodigy and Rob Zombie get the drive going, but the story here is clearly OH MY GOD - first offering from thought to be forgotten GUNS N ROSES.

Axl Rose not only re-invents himself here, Oh My God is one awesome industrial yet totally whomping and banging melodic trasher. Well worth the CD alone. Who thought it possible ? Axl surfaces after seven years with a hard rock song compiled with industrial trademarks and a freakin disco beat ? And it works.


Some good tracks, lot of big names, GNR steals the show...   November 23, 1999
 4 out of 4 found this review helpful

"Oh My God" is just a killer song. The first time I heard it I was like "what the hell is this?" but it really does grow on you. It may not be the best song GNR have ever written, but it's far from the worst either, and with them that's saying quite a bit! This is a new role for Axl, as the old "classic" band on a hard-hitting soundtrack like this, but he fills it well, with what is perhaps the freshest and hardest hitting of all the tracks. And even though it's new, there's plenty of that classic GNR feel to the piece as well. The songs by Korn and Eminem are both pretty good too, but if you have some of their other work you can't help thinking "haven't I heard this already?" a couple times during each of these performances, but there're also some new ideas so it's OK. The rest of the album hasn't differentiated itself in my mind yet, except for the Limp Bizkit song which bores me. Kid Rock should have been on this soundtrack, too.


MUSIC TO A MOVIE I'VE NEVER SEEN   January 5, 2005
 4 out of 4 found this review helpful

I don't know anything about the movie this soundtrack is based on, but this collection of songs is like a great late '90s hard rock mix tape, full of gloomy, ominous, hopeful and deadly, high profile artists and songs. The Frankenstein experiment gone wrong in Prodigy's "Poison" is dramatic and fun listening, Everlast's "So Long" got some bad publicity as allegedly being a song obsessed by a certain high school killer, it is truly less menacing, being a beautiful rock ballad about the results of bullying, Guns N' Roses' "Oh My God" successfully fuses old school rock with a nu metal heartbeat, Eminem's cocky "Bad Influence" attempts reverse psychology in an anti-suicide social statement, the more alternative Sonic Youth breezes along in their traditional rhythm and guitar chaos in "Sugar Kane", Korn's big production in "Camel Song" is like an upheaval of late '90s radio, Limp Bizkit's "Crushed" leans on funk, pop, and The Steve Miller Band in a weird jangle song structure, Rob Zombie's "Superbeast Girl On a Motorcycle Mix" sounds like a high school marching band fully geared for war. Twelve tracks in all, these songs sound like they belong together, hard rock with a heart, a halo, and a gun.