Warning: the following review is rated R for language, a scene of sexuality and drug use, and intense sequences of terror and violence. Oh yeah, and there\u2019s a slight possibility of motherf***** snakes on the motherf***** plane!<\/p>\n
Ok, there is no way that a soundtrack based off the motion picture Snakes On A Plane<\/em> could possibly be conventional or predictable in any way. If it was, I would have been disappointed. This album reflects its namesake in many ways.<\/p>\n First off, though the film primarily is drawing the attention of the college age crowd, Snakes On A Plane: The Album<\/em> comes off across as more of a record designed to appeal to the middle school age demographic. Most of the album is purely disposable pop\/rock, but in its defense most of it is pretty good pop\/rock. <\/p>\n It should be noted that according to the track list, many numbers here are remixes. That quite honestly meant nothing to me, as I had never heard any of these songs previously. Even the bands featured were nothing more than fuzzy recollections in my head.<\/p>\n \u201cSnakes On A Plane (Bring It)\u201d is the best example of this. Functioning as the opening number as well as a collaborative effort between 3-4 of the artists featured on the disc, it is truly infectious. For starters, you gotta love the cheesy Nintendo keyboard riffs that kick things off before you dive headlong into the chugging guitar riffs and various beeps and buzzes. <\/p>\n Panic! At The Disco recently made news in Milwaukee when a riot among adolescent girls started at one of their concerts at Summerfest. After giving their contribution a spin, I can\u2019t see how the hell that managed to happen, since rage is hardly the emotion their music stires up. It reminded me more of the Killers than Rage Against the Machine.<\/p>\n The vocals on \u201cOphidiophobia,\u201d capture an old school Stevie Wonder sound, which when coupled with the excellent hip\/hop production allow for one of the best tracks. The All-American remix \u201cCan\u2019t Take It\u201d is a fun listen simply for the little flourishes contained therein. There\u2019s some backwards-tracked guitar, a few short but sweet orchestral arrangements, and some subtle 70s organ work.<\/p>\n Along with the aforementioned pop material, Snakes<\/em> surprises with some truly random selections of songs. There\u2019s the reggae number \u201cHey Now Now,\u201d the rap track \u201cNew Friend Request,\u201d and the stripped down, acoustic oeuvre of \u201cWake Up,\u201d and \u201cLovely Day.\u201d It is with the inclusion of these songs that highlights what the Snakes On A Plane<\/em> phenomenon is all about. <\/p>\n Right now you\u2019re saying, \u201cGee, a touch of the hyperbole there?\u201d But in all seriousness, this album really has no grand marketing scheme to it. Much like the movie, it was made for pure enjoyment. You want to throw a reggae song on there? Why the hell not! It works because it\u2019s Snakes On A Plane<\/em>, motherf*****.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":28460,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"artist":[6722],"rating":[5617],"class_list":["post-39911","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-original-soundtrack","rating-rating-b-plus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/39911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/39911\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39911"},{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=39911"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=39911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}