I bought this back in 1997 for one reason, and one reason only: It had an infamous Nirvana track called I Hate Myself And Want To Die on it. Remember kids, this was before filesharing, before mp3s, before you could just get online and download whatever you liked. If you wanted something you had to pay for it. Sometimes through mail order and you had to wait weeks for it to arrive. No, I'm not joking. That's how we did things before the turn of the millennium. And you know what else? We didn't sit in front of a computer all day - we used to play outside! The horror!
The song of course turned out to be not that good, but after the initial disappointment I started to appreciate the rest of this compilation. You could say it's an obvious cash-in attempt by MTV to throw some outtakes by various bands onto a cd and sell it to the kids by just putting Beavis & Butt-Head on the cover.
I prefer to see it as a collection of rare, hard to find songs with original B&B material inbetween. Some of this stuff, especially the part were B&B hang out with Anthrax on their tour bus or Beavis impersonating Dave Mustaine (I never realised how much they sound alike!), used to make me howl with laughter. Most of the songs are damn good too, with White Zombie's I Am Hell and Primus' Poetry And Prose being my two favorites. Other highlights include Jackyl's Mental Masturbation and Run DMC's Bounce. I'm not crazy about the Red Hot Chili Peppers' Stooges cover Search And Destroy, or Sir Mix-A-Lot's Monsta Mack, but that's okay.
(mp3) Anthrax - Looking down the barrel of a gun
(mp3) White Zombie - I am hell
(mp3) Primus - Poetry and prose (highly recommended!)
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