CD Review

Movie soundtrack...makes perfect sense. Television soundtrack...ok, more and more TV shows are featuring some great music on them. Videogame soundtrack...wait, huh?? Videogames are no longer featuring simple computer melodies repeated over and over. Today’s games have soundtracks of their own often containing exclusive music that either comes out before albums hit to hype up new and upcoming artists. Or in the case of the kitschy, 1950's set game Stubbs The Zombie you get a bunch of hip indie-rock bands to take a stab at covering pop songs from that era. For those of you out there that got subjected to listening to oldies radio on those long car rides with your parents, all the songs here will take to back to those days fighting with your brother and sister in the back seat, and they will be as familiar as the artists covering them.

The thirteen tracks offer up unique takes that embrace the original but inject them with some of their own personality. Ben Kweller kicks things off with a slacker-pop take ‘Lolipop’; while The Ravonettes turn ‘My Boyfriend’s Back’ into an electro-funk anthem. The Dandy Warhols deliver an acid-soaked version ‘All I Have To Do Is Dream’. It’s Clem Snide though, that offers the strongest track on the album with ‘Tears On My Pillow’ - Eef’s Barzelay’s whiney-croon is a perfect fit for this song about heartache. For an album that could have fallen rather flat with poor execution, this is an enjoyable romp through some great oldies