Spider-Man (Soundtrack)
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This collection of music from one of the summer of 2002’s most anticipated blockbusters definitely has its moments. For the most part, it’s a collection of great music, but it suffered from less-than-spectacular mixing. In fact, I think that my college roommate and I used to put more thought into the order of the songs on the plethora of mix tapes we used to make for our road trips.

After opening with the Spider-Man theme from days gone by, the album jumps into “Hero” -- the it-was-good-the-first-100,000-times single that you can’t help but hear on the radio at least five times a day (though I’ll admit it -- I still like the song). The Canadian boys from Sum 41 follow up with “What We’re All About.” And then it pretty much lost me in a sea of guitars and drums. For a while, the album just feels like one endless rock song. It gets a little sickening.

Corey Taylor breaks up the monotony with “Bother,” a slower song with tons of feeling. And then the songs start to vary a little bit. A little bit. But not too much.

There are a lot of great songs on this album, but, in listening to it, I learned that you can, in fact, get too much of a good thing. Listening to this album is something like eating nothing but pizza for a month. I love that edgy rock sound, but the Spider-Man soundtrack opened my eyes to the fact that today’s edgy rock bands pretty much all sound the same.

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