THE COLD SPOT
Josh's Blair Witch Mix
Original Soundtrack to The Blair Witch Project
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· Year: 1999
Track list
  1. Gloomy Sunday - Lydia Lunch
  2. Order of Death - Public Image Ltd.
  3. Draining Faces - Skinny Puppy
  4. Kingdom's Coming - Bauhaus
  5. Don't Go to Sleep Without Me - The Creatures
  6. God Is God - Laibach
  7. Beware - The Afghan Whigs
  8. Laughing Pain - Front Line Assembly
  9. Haunted - Type O Negative
10. She's Unreal - Meat Beat Manifesto
11. Movement of Fear - Tones on Tail
12. Cellar - Antonio Cora
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Synopsis
A concept album to go with a concept movie. This album is supposedly a copy of the tape that was found in the car the three film students drove to the woods before disappearing during an investigation of the Blair Witch legend.
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Jack Witzig Nov 15, 2000/Oct 7, 2002
RATING
Out of 100
74
While the inclusion of a few audio clips and a sample of Antonio Cora's "score" for the film (the thumping sounds we've come to associate with the Blair Witch series) poke holes in the idea that this album was actually a tape directly from the film itself, this musical brew is a well-produced mix of eclectic, atmospheric pieces, some which succeed in capturing the feel of the film. Interestingly, Public Image Ltd.'s "The Order of Death," a song full of synthesized sounds, comes the closest to evoking the film's feeling of wilderness desolation. "Don't Go to Sleep Without Me" by The Creatures brings to my mind feelings of desolation and moodiness, and Type O Negative's comfortably lengthy "Haunted" achieves several different atmospheres. Then there's "Movement of Fear" by Tones on Tail, an odd but not unpleasant addition. And Lydia Lunch's version of the infamous "Gloomy Sunday," which was sad, meandering, (truncated,) and though evocative of Blair Witch just made me want to listen to Sarah McLachlan's truly morose version. On the other hand, Skinny Puppy's "Draining Faces," a cacophony of noises and voices eventually giving way to techno music, is kind of fitting but not very interesting. And Laibach's "God is God" makes me smile every time I hear it--anything that sounds this much like "Berzerker" from Clerks, I can't take seriously. I don't recommend this album without reservations, but I definitely recommend it.

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