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Let’s be honest; the skater culture ain’t for everyone. Personally, I find the sick pleasure in watching pubescents and grown men; stupid enough to entrust their life into what’s essentially a pimped up plank of MDF with four wheels making best friends with the floor. But hey. Entertainment’s entertainment, right?
Skater-music is probably a sub-genre of rock in itself; tending to be manifested in an abundance in a large majority of music videos played on Kerrang! and Scuzz — what we have here, though is a soundtrack a skater film, which is (by and large) a montage of various dudes pulling off sweet-ass ‘n’ totally gnarly half pipe acrobatics to music produced by dance-hit extraordinaire, Baron, and featuring the legends that are Lemmy Kilmister & Dave Lombardo.
Soundtracks are usually not worth whipping 10 quid and above for, and it’s very rare that a soundtrack feels like it posesses some kind of musical direction (if we take it out of context from the film that it compliments). The Extremely Sorry soundtrack, though, is pretty fucking impressive.
It’s hard not to be cynical when you see that the tracklisting contains a cover of the Ben E. King classic ‘Stand By Me’ by Motorhead frontman, Lemmy Kilmister. It’s actually remarkable. Really. I’m not shitting you. Lemmy manages to evoke genuine emotion, and anyone who dismissed his singing voice, shame on you. Shame on me, to be honest, but now ya know it’s good Purple Revolver told you. It just makes you wonder what the fuck it’s doing on a skating soundtrack.
Avoid the pointless drum solo which follows, it hardly showcases Lombardo’s blatant talents behind a kit to any extent.
The vast majority of tracks on this compilation are high-adrenaline instrumentals; which range in influence and style. From the atmospheric ‘This Is Forever to the flamenco fuelled ‘When Is Now’ and who could forget the addictive and groovy drive of ‘Lead The Storm.’
Other notable highlights also include the trippy ‘Love Shroom’ (wouldn’t advise listening to that one stoned), and the sexcellent closing track ‘Swagger Rich’ which features none other than west coast hip-hop star Snoop Dogg who boasts typically nonsensical lyrics over bond-esque chords, sharing vocal duties with Warren G.
It’s an enjoyable listen — the killer is thick, and the filler; scarce; it makes a refreshing change from bands like CKY and The Offspring who conjure up images of half-pipes, grindrails and Bam Margera…yeah. You know the rest.
Invest.