The Stooges contribution to the rap-rock hybrid are arguably minimal but they were part of the burgeoning garage-rock/protopunk scene and they along with their peers (The Velvet Underground, The New York Dolls, MC5, The Sonics ) undeniably pushed rock toward more experimentation, smashing rock into its fundamentals components and ushering the eventual emergence of punk. The song features Iggy Pop as he walks the narrow line between traditional singing and the rhythmic speech delivery that defines rap: And now I’m ready to close my eyes The following year The Stooges released their debut single “I wanna be your dog” off of their self-titled debut album. Limitless, friendless but much more together Over a steady bassline, Burdon does not so much sing but speak his lyrics : Now here I sit in a state-run asylum But one of the earliest known fusions of rap and rock can be found listening to “Year of the Guru “ (1968) by Eric Burdon & the Animals. It is one of the jewels in the crowing achievements of rap-rockĪs stated earlier tracing the lineage of any genre in music is fraught with challenges. The “Judgement Night” soundtrack was an experimental collaboration between rock and hip hop artist who largely kept to their overarching genre with a few exceptions. But the soundtrack, that is a different story.
#JUDGMENT NIGHT SOUNDTRACK REVIEW MOVIE#
But where Tarantino movies are both visually and sonically part of my cultural fabric, the movie “Judgement Night” (1993) has all but faded from my visual memory banks. One need look no further than a Quentin Tarantino soundtrack to find some of the best playlists ever created. Those of us coming of age before the commercialization of the internet, in that twilight period when the tape cassette passed into shadow and the CD ascended, movie soundtracks served as a playlist of sorts. The shaky scaffolding buckles under the strain of classifying musicians and music that defy or destroy classification with no regard for external constraints. The use of genres to categorize music, much like the use of taxonomy for the classification of organisms, provides a handy framework but is not without its faults.
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