This Is Spinal Tap | 
| Artist: Spinal Tap
Creators: Christopher Guest, Harry Shearer, Michael Mckean, Rob Reiner
Label: Polydor / Umgd
Category: Music
List Price: $13.98
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Rating:  66 reviews
Sales Rank: 4744
Format: Extra Tracks, Original Recording Reissued, Original Recording Remastered, Soundtrack
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 549075
UPC: 731454907521
EAN: 0731454907521
ASIN: B00004WGVQ
Publication Date: 2000
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| Tracks:
| • | Hell Hole | | • | Tonight I'm Gonna Rock You Tonight | | • | Heavy Duty | | • | Rock and Roll Creation | | • | America | | • | Cups and Cakes | | • | Big Bottom | | • | Sex Farm | | • | Stonehenge | | • | Listen To Me (The Flower People) | | • | Christmas With The Devil (Bonus Track) | | • | Christmas With The Devil (Scratch Mix) (Bonus Track) |
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Amazon.com
One of the greatest ironies surrounding This Is Spinal Tap is that it's actually better than many of the recordings it parodies. Songs like "Tonight I'm Gonna Rock You Tonight," "Hell Hole," "Heavy Duty," and even "Stonehenge" are fun, 1980s-style rockers that any closet hair-band fan will enjoy, and "Sex Farm" and "Big Bottom" are simply hilarious by any standard. There's also the hippie-drippy "Listen to Me (the Flower People)" (even funnier if you've seen Rob Reiner's film of the same title), although Michael McKean and Christopher Guest singing "Cry, Cry, Cry All the Way Home" is sadly absent. The CD does lose some of its entertainment value if you haven't seen the film, but its mix of comedy and unabashed pop metal makes it the perfect party album. --Genevieve Williams
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 England's Loudest Band October 18, 2000
Jon Harlson (Naperville, IL USA)
56 out of 57 found this review helpful
Finally, here is a collection of sone of the greatest hits of one of Englands Loudest Bands, Spinal Tap. This is overall a great collection. It has 2 pre-tap songs, when David and Nigel were in the Thamesmen, and Spinal Tap's first, and only, international number one hit, Listen to (the flower people). It also has some of the fan favorites like "Tonight I'm Gonna Rock You" from the classic Intrevenous De Milo album, and "Rock N Roll Creation" from my personal favorite tap album A Rock and Roll Creation (known to others as The Gospel According to Spinal Tap). Although many may disagree with me, they may be right, because I am a sucker for concept albums. Some of the other fan favoites are on here, like "Big Bottom" from their phenominal Brainhammer album, and "Sex Farm" from their rather disappointing Shark Sandwich album. ALthough the music is good, it seems that Tap was trying to recreated the magic they had during the Intrevenous De Milo period, and they didn't succeed. Despite some great songs on this album, there are some disappointments. There are no songs from their famous Blood to Let album. It may be because a young taphead was found dead while listening to this albums, and initial accusations were that they album made him commit suicide. However, authorities did and autopsy and found out the cause of death was boredom. It would also be nice to see the 19 minute live version of "Short N Easy" from their Silent but Deadly live album. There are also some old classics missing like "We Are All Flower People" "To Fly" "I Am Flight" "Get Me Away From the Ground" "The Incredible Flight of Icarus P. Anybody" and "All the Way Home". As well as the recent composition by Nigel entitled "Lick My Lovepump". Although this collection is missing some great songs which will never see the light of day since Megaphone has refused to release any of their albums due to "Lack of Talent", there are some great gems here, and this is a great introduction to Spinal Tap to any new Taphead.
The University of Tap June 6, 2005
Alasdair Brooks (Melbourne Australia)
17 out of 18 found this review helpful
It saddens me to see that so many reviewers at Amazon.com have so badly misunderstood what is perhaps England's most literate and intelligent band. Few popular musicians of the 20th century have had the intellectual firepower to so consistently subvert commonly received opinions on such a wide variation of academic topics.
Ladies and gentlemen, the evidence:
1) 'Sex Farm' is often misunderstood as some sort of sexist song drawing puerile analogies between barn animals and women. Tosh! As anyone familiar with the settlement of the North American continent can attest, the Tap are offering an insightful perspective on the objectification of women during the settlement of the American Prairie.
2) 'Big Bottom' is often misunderstood as an even more sexist song based on juvenile delight at sexualised female buttocks. Never. What people fail to understand is that the Tap are issuing a satirical howl of rage at the reification of pseudo-anorexic 'Cosmo Woman', and are instead urging us to consider the beauty of the fuller-figured woman in line with their understanding of the role of the Goddess Image in proto-historical Europe
3) 'Stonehenge' shows the Tap's awareness of broader archaeological issues by serving as an academic historiography of outdated interpretations of the function of British prehistoric sites - play it backwards, and you can hear the academic citations.
4) And 'Rock and Roll Creation' - here the subtlely of Tufnell, Smalls and St. Hubbins is truely revealed through their attempt to offer a syncretisation of Christian sources pre-dating St. Polycarp's letter to the Phillipians with non-Mediterranean creation myths. Ultimately, the Tap's magnificent ambition perhaps exceeds their grasp, and it cannot be claimed that they succeed - but surely they should be applauded for trying?
Perhaps it is because the Tap's genius is so wide-ranging that so many people have misunderstood the true meaning of the songs. But their legacy will live on, hewn into the living plastic of my CD collection.
The 2nd-Funniest Thing in the World November 30, 1999
19 out of 23 found this review helpful
The funniest being, of course, the review posted by the woman from Colorado, who indeed was disillusioned and fanatical enough to slam a parody of "white-male misogyny" as the real thing. Indeed Rob Reiner (not Riener, proving once again that this 14-year old male can spell better than the average woman [knowing this will not change anything, I state now that that was also a joke... but that didn't change anything for the aforementioned woman, did it?]) made a "documentary" about Spinal Tap. Incidentally, this is the funniest movie ever, and also just happens to be a parody. Back to the CD, the music is very good, and the lyrics are hilarious. They also influenced my thinking. I must end this review here, because I feel the urge to break into one hundred houses and stick every woman I see with my pitch-fork because I'm only a male with a one-track mind and recognize all women as inferior and spend all my time with my beer-swilling white male buddies scratching myself and watching football games while my brilliant, beautiful, intellectually superior, yet violently oppressed girlfriend does all the housework and makes my food. I thank this CD for guiding my life along this path.
They're gonna rock you tonight September 12, 2003
E. A Solinas (MD USA)
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
They transcended their hippie-ish song origins to become the loudest, strangest metal band in Britain: Spinal Tap, the slightly insane band of Rob Reiner's mockumentary/rockumentary "This is Spinal Tap." And not mentioning their songs is like neglecting to say that the beach has water. Included are the goopy hippie anthem "(Listen To the) Flower People," the hilarious buttock anthem "Big Bottom" (so much for "Bootylicious"), the abortive semi-mystical "Stonehenge," the delicious "Gimme Some Money," and a bunch of others from the movie.Technically, you don't have to have seen "This is Spinal Tap" to be amused by the songs, but knowing their context makes them about five times funnier. (Try to listen to "Stonehenge" without seeing that tiny replica being lowered to the stage, or hear "Rock 'N' Roll Creation" without seeing Derek trapped in his pod) If I didn't know better, I would actually think that Spinal Tap was a real band. (For your information, that is not a black cover -- it's a close-up of the black glove. Okay?) This album brims over with the good-natured "retarded sexuality and bad poetry" that people love. The lyrics range from almost normal to insanely bad. They rhyme "Monday" with "Bun-day" (from "Big Bottom"), to give one example. The good songs are pretty good, and the bad songs are so terrible they're brilliant. They includes such Shakespearean gems as "Getting out my pitch fork/And poking your hay" ("Sex Farm"), "Where the dew drops cry and the cats meow" ("Stonehenge"), and "You know what I want/You know what I need/Or maybe you don't" ("Gimme Some Money"). What's really amazing: They rate above the bands they parody, both in singing and musical quality. Highly recommended, and not just for fans of the modern classic mockumentary. So crank your amps up to eleven and listen to Britain's loudest band. And ignore those dwarfs dancing around the tiny Stonehenge, okay?
The movie was "sort of OK" but the music CD is awesome. July 19, 2001
thechosen_1 (Calgary, Alberta, Canada)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
***added July 25*** I just watched the movie a second time--it was much better this time around. Once you become more familiar with the music and watch the movie again, you notice more of the subtle humor which completely flew by my head the first time. I recommend both the music CD and the movie!*** original post july 18 *** A musical parody that can pass itself as a legitimate heavy metal band. If you were to make a heavy metal fan with no idea who Spinal Tap is watch the movie, he would believe it was a real band. Just look at the interviews that bands such as Metallica, Ozzy, Motley Crue and Skid Row would make on MTV in the 1980's. While I found the movie to be not as good as I thought it was going to be, I was blown away by the music. I immediately recognized the musical references to my metal heroes from my teens: Black Sabbath, Judas Priest and Iron Maiden. My favorite song: "Rock and Roll Creation" by far!
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