My brother and I saw this movie in the theatre when it came out
and kept our ears open for Blind Idiot God. We didn't hear much
of them at all, except for the main title song. But that's them
backing Henry Rollins and the song is more in his style
than in theirs. Good song, though, and nice to have it here.
"Rip/Stop" sounds more like them but it's only about fifteen
seconds long, so not exactly a mystery that we would have missed
it during the movie.
"Midget Man Skank" finds them in dub mode and is a really cool
number but also quite short at about a minute and a half.
The last piece from them is "Gluehead Stomp" which is
another agreeably loud and pounding instrumental. Only a
minute long though!
What else is on here?
Paul Lear's "Gumby Jack Flash" is a blazing and blistering
high-energy heavy rock instrumental.
"Hideous Mutant Freekz" by Axiom Funk is good and has
great grooves but is kind of long at over seven minutes.
Tim Burns's "Pick-a-Freek" sounds like 8-bit music
for a video game and there's quite a lot of it, almost
four minutes' worth.
Butthole Surfers have two songs on here, the hilarious
"Sweat Loaf" which jumps off of Black Sabbath's "Sweet Leaf"
and the Melvins-ish "Butter Queen".
Finally there's a demo for a title song that Iggy Pop
did for the movie but I guess wasn't used. The filmmakers
were hoping for something more like the Repo Man
theme and what Iggy gave them was more sedate.
That's the first LP, which covers the songs from the movie.
Sides three and four contain the score.
Kevin Kiner's soundtrack covers a lot of musical ground energetically
and efficiently, easily keeping up with movie's madcap pace.
There are 35 cues on one LP, so you won't be surprised to learn
that many of the cues are quite short.
The "Intro" is suitably dramatic and building and then
"Sky's Theme" captures perfectly the style of TV show opening
credits of the period.
After that it was kind of difficult to match the tracks
to the titles since I can't see the grooves on the record.
But suffice it to say that it's an incredibly dynamic
and wide-ranging score that takes on numerous genres of music
and creates some perfect dramatic underscore for a variety of moods.