Post by The Missing Bear on Oct 3, 2023 12:00:38 GMT -6
First let me say, I love this compilation.
Full of classic goth, industrial and post-punk artists, it's the very definition of "alternative" music with which to bizarrely cross-promote a record-setting motion picture. There's not a hit on here, it's full of underground acts dating back to the 80s, and when Typo O Negative, Meat Beat Manifesto, Skinny Puppy or Public Image Limited are your big-names, you know it's been made more out of a specific artistic vision for the movie and the character of Josh, rather than purely a cheap marketing ploy (though of course it was a marketing ploy, but just not a cheap one in my opinion
).
Josh's Blair Witch Mix literally feels like the antithesis to the Blair Witch 2 Book of Shadows commercial soundtrack featuring numerous massive chart-toppers like Marilyn Manson, Rob Zombie, System of a Down, POD and Nickelback. That's absolutely no disrespect to any of you who love the second movie's soundtrack or any of those bands, but it's clear they were trying to score big with a more commercial album for the teen moshpit demographic, rather than the more obscure underground genre acts featured on the first album. But I digress...
I thought the idea of releasing the album that was found in Josh's car was a very inspired way to release a soundtrack/tie-in album for a movie that had no soundtrack, especially when they were still playing on the idea that it was all "real". And yet sadly that's what's also ALWAYS really annoyed me about this release.
I was never under the illusion the movie was real, but I liked how it played upon that idea so well with all the mockumentaries, viral marketing and this album. But when your album of music supposedly found on a cassette in a missing person's car from 1994, includes a number of songs recorded and released a few years afterwards, it utterly pulls back the curtain as you're reading the credits to the CD booklet itself and notice the following copyright credits:
The Creatures' 'Don't Go To Sleep Without Me' was 1999
Type O Negative's 'Haunted' was 1996
Meat Beat Manifesto's 'She's Unreal' was 1996
There maybe others but those are the main ones off the top of my head.
And I appreciate Josh's character was a media student and maaaaaybe could have had a friend who worked in a recording studio, but still don't think he could have been that close to so many insiders in the music industry to have an array of unreleased songs from the bands above that all wouldn't be released (least of all written and recorded) for a few years.
Has this annoyed anyone else ever? Surely when they compiled it they must have realized this issue pokes holes in their lore and could they not have used songs from the same artists that predated 1994, especially when putting the copyright dates in the booklet? Has there ever been any details released about how Josh's Blair Witch Mix was compiled and why they chose songs that hadn't been released for the character to have had access to them?
I know Elly can distort time, but doubt those powers extended to compiling anachronistic mixtapes! Or if they do… does she take requests? There’s some unreleased tracks by the Amazing Snakeheads I’d love to get my hands on
Anyway... great album
Full of classic goth, industrial and post-punk artists, it's the very definition of "alternative" music with which to bizarrely cross-promote a record-setting motion picture. There's not a hit on here, it's full of underground acts dating back to the 80s, and when Typo O Negative, Meat Beat Manifesto, Skinny Puppy or Public Image Limited are your big-names, you know it's been made more out of a specific artistic vision for the movie and the character of Josh, rather than purely a cheap marketing ploy (though of course it was a marketing ploy, but just not a cheap one in my opinion
).Josh's Blair Witch Mix literally feels like the antithesis to the Blair Witch 2 Book of Shadows commercial soundtrack featuring numerous massive chart-toppers like Marilyn Manson, Rob Zombie, System of a Down, POD and Nickelback. That's absolutely no disrespect to any of you who love the second movie's soundtrack or any of those bands, but it's clear they were trying to score big with a more commercial album for the teen moshpit demographic, rather than the more obscure underground genre acts featured on the first album. But I digress...
I thought the idea of releasing the album that was found in Josh's car was a very inspired way to release a soundtrack/tie-in album for a movie that had no soundtrack, especially when they were still playing on the idea that it was all "real". And yet sadly that's what's also ALWAYS really annoyed me about this release.
I was never under the illusion the movie was real, but I liked how it played upon that idea so well with all the mockumentaries, viral marketing and this album. But when your album of music supposedly found on a cassette in a missing person's car from 1994, includes a number of songs recorded and released a few years afterwards, it utterly pulls back the curtain as you're reading the credits to the CD booklet itself and notice the following copyright credits:
The Creatures' 'Don't Go To Sleep Without Me' was 1999
Type O Negative's 'Haunted' was 1996
Meat Beat Manifesto's 'She's Unreal' was 1996
There maybe others but those are the main ones off the top of my head.
And I appreciate Josh's character was a media student and maaaaaybe could have had a friend who worked in a recording studio, but still don't think he could have been that close to so many insiders in the music industry to have an array of unreleased songs from the bands above that all wouldn't be released (least of all written and recorded) for a few years.
Has this annoyed anyone else ever? Surely when they compiled it they must have realized this issue pokes holes in their lore and could they not have used songs from the same artists that predated 1994, especially when putting the copyright dates in the booklet? Has there ever been any details released about how Josh's Blair Witch Mix was compiled and why they chose songs that hadn't been released for the character to have had access to them?
I know Elly can distort time, but doubt those powers extended to compiling anachronistic mixtapes! Or if they do… does she take requests? There’s some unreleased tracks by the Amazing Snakeheads I’d love to get my hands on
Anyway... great album
