Rating: - Only buy it if you REALLY want to
Me being an avid wrestling fan (more specifically, a fan of WWF/E), I've naturally developed a great love and appreciation for several music CDs, containing so many wrestlers' entrance themes. The WWF/E's resident music composer, Jim Johnston, has produced really great pieces of music over the years for all the top superstars and it's only fitting for his music to be released on soundtracks.
The best of these have been WWF: Full Metal - the Album, WWF: The Music vols. 2, 3, 4 and 5, WWF: Forceable Entry, WWE: The Music vol. 6, WWE: Wreckless Intent and of course, the masterpiece known as WWE: Anthology. So for the next soundtrack, one would expect the same continuation of that greatness, right? Sadly, this latest release is quite the fall from grace.
There is some good news about WWE: The Music vol. 8. After vol. 7 was released exclusively on iTunes (for some tight and daft reason), we can finally be treated again to superstar themes back on good old, more easily-accessible CD. The downside is that not much of the music selected here is REALLY something to be bothered about.
The first problem is that all the top superstars' music (e.g. Cena, HHH, HBK, Batista, Orton, Taker, Mysterio, Kane etc) have already been released on CD time and again, so understandably they've had to pick themes that are either brand new or HAVEN'T been done to death. Otherwise, this would've been a very redundant album indeed. And that's a problem in itself, as WWE have been left with VERY slim pickings.
To make matters worse, the themes from TV that you've heard, loved and really want to own on soundtrack (such as Jeff Hardy, Mr. McMahon, Shelton Benjamin, Mr. Kennedy and Chris Jericho), have all been remixed by other bands. So instead of being treated to the original classics, you've got remixes, which although enjoyable, really don't compare to the sheer vintage quality of the original songs. And for a fan of Jim Johnston and WWE music, that is such a letdown.
On top of all this, themes such as Kofi Kingston's "SOS", Mark Henry's "The Wall", Hawkins & Ryder's "In The Middle Of It Now", Jesse & Festus' "Biscuits & Gravy" and John Morrison's "Ain't No Make Believe" aren't all that much to fall in love with in comparison to songs from other WWF/E music volumes. Not to say that any of these songs are absolutely atrocious but they're really only passable at best. Jim Johnston has composed MUCH better stuff in previous years.
Volume 8 isn't completely terrible, though. There ARE some really great songs here. The ECW Theme "Don't Question My Heart" is a fabulous song that you'll enjoy getting into. Jeff Hardy's "No More Words" has a great beat, rhythm and emotion to it (despite my preference of his original theme), and the Diva themes, Beth Phoenix's "Glamazon" and Candice Michelle's "What Love Is", are both excellent pieces of music, certainly the highest-ranking of Johnston's most recent stuff. And on a lighter note, Jillian Hall's "Sliced Bread" is a funny song that showcases Jillian's creative talent of being really bad at singing in an entertaining way.
High points, though, are very few and far-between here. I'm afraid that WWE: The Music vol. 8 is the weakest wrestlers' soundtrack album to ever be released by a long way. If you really, REALLY want to complete your WWF/E music collection, then buy it certainly. Personally, I wouldn't recommend it and if you're not that bothered about seeing a gap in your wrestlers' themes CD shelf, you wouldn't be missing out here at all.
Rating: - WWE Vol 8 Cool but could be better
I have had the opurtunity to listen to samples of some of the tracks and they are all really good but i do think that Turn Up The Trouble could have been alot betteras it hsa noting on the previous version of the song used but all in all it is a good compilation from what i have heard of the TV and smples on the net well worth buying.
Rating: - Meh,... what can we really expect from this??
Ain't listened to this yet but it's another typical WWE CD release - never releasing the songs you ACTUALLY want.
Songs either get changed, remixed or redone right before a CD is released, while you get songs that never appear on TV because of wrestlers that don't debut, hardly wrestle or never wind up using their new themes from the CDs on TV. And if we are lucky enough to get a song we hear week in, week out on TV then WWE releases the full studio versions and NOT the WWE Mixes - take Batista's and RVD's themes as examples on previous albums.
I was looking forward to Mr. Kennedy's theme [one of many actually], but suprise suprise they've got Airbourne to do an annoying remix of it and NOW I'll NEVER get my hands on his old theme now :( This always happens and it's so frutrating. Are WWE stupid?
They just don't get it do they?
Regardless, there are bound to be some good songs on this as it seems to be in the vain of Forceable Entry, which was a great WWE CD.
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