Using primitive electronic circuits effected with reverb and delay, the music could just as well be considered sound design vs an actual score as there’s nothing you can hum along with. Louis and Bebe Barron did perhaps the 1st experimental soundtrack when they scored Forbidden Planet in the 50’s. #Judgment night soundtrack list plusAdd in Slayer’s skull bashing rendition of “In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida” and Glenn Danzig channeling his inner Righteous brother on “You and Me (Less Than Zero)” plus some Roy Orbison and Public Enemy (and even a begrudgingly decent Bangles track) and overall you have a very solid collection of songs. Compiled by legendary producer Rick Rubin, you have LL Cool J’s finest moment (before he became a tedious lip licking has-been on a bad forensics show) with the horn driven “Going Back To Cali”. The soundtrack while being a mixed bag (Poison? Oran Juice Jones? Yuck.) has enough good songs worthy of inclusion. The fact that Robert Downey played the lead certainly gives it a sad slice of irony. “Less Than Zero” is a fairly forgettable 80’s flick about the darker path towards drugs and addiction. Standouts include the aforementioned Faith No More with Boo Yaa-Tribe on “Another Body Murdered”, Helmet & House of Pain with “Just Another Victim”, and Living Colour and Run DMC on “2 Turntables and a Microphone”. The album’s producers decided to combine a different rock and rap act on each track. But even falling fast on the heels of Faith No More and Anthrax/Public Enemy it was still fairly novel in the early 90’s. The combination of rock and hip hop isn’t an anomaly anymore. This 90’s film definitely falls into the category of lame and forgettable (the plot isn’t even worthy to mention), but it’s an impressive soundtrack.
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