Track Listing

1. Mountain Town - Stan & Kyle/Kenny/Cartman/Sharon/Sheila
2. Uncle Fucka - Terence & Phillip
3. It's Easy - Mr. Mackey & Stan/Cartman/Kyle/Gregory/Wendy
4. Blame Canada - Sheila & Sharon/Liane/Ms. McCormick
5. Kyle's Mom's A Bitch - Cartman
6. What Would Brian Boitano Do - Stan & Kyle/Cartman
7. Up There - Satan The Dark Prince
8. La Resistance - McGillin, Howard & People Of South Park
9. Eyes Of A Child - McDonald, Michael
10. I Can Change - Hussein, Saddam
11. I'm Super - Big Gay Al
12. Mountain Town (2) - People Of South Park
13. Good Love - Hayes, Isaac
14. Shut Yo Face - Trick Daddy
15. Riches To Rags - Nappy Roots
16. Kyle's Mom's A Big Fat Bitch - Joe C. & Kid Rock
17. What Would Brian Boitano Do (2) - DVDA
18. I Swear It (I Can Change) - Violent Femmes
19. Super - Rupaul
20. O Canada - Lee, Geddy & Alex Lifeson

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #20138 in Music
• Released on: 1999-06-28
• Number of discs: 1
• Formats: Explicit Lyrics, Soundtrack
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: .21 pounds
• Running time: 81 minutes

Amazon.co.uk Review
Race, creed, PC ethics, Barbra Streisand--no-one is safe in South Park. And now we must also doff our snowcaps in acknowledgement of Trey Parker's super-killer-sweet song-writing talent, which allows the abuse to continue in the best cinematic musical in decades. Mr Mackey provides a template for replacing colourful metaphors in the feel good "It's Easy, Mmmkay" (so Disney can now be said to totally suck buns!) The Mouse's style is beat repeatedly with the fun-poking stick: listen for "Bonjour" from Beauty and the Beast in "Mountain Town" (after a spot of Oklahoma!). Satan sings "Up There" which is "Out There" from The Hunchback of Notre Dame. Even Saddam Hussein spoofs The Little Mermaid with "I Can Change". The ballsiest pastiche spins Les Misérables into the breath-taking "La Resistance (Medley)". Much of the credit must go to co-writer Marc (The >Addams Family) Shaiman's stunning, mammoth arrangements, all of which are in the best and biggest classic Hollywood tradition. Hypocritical censorship is the film's running-gag and warning message, but somehow that point was missed in replacing several numbers by "name" artist variations. The filthy lyrics stay funny, but any Chef Aid fan knows it's the whitebread/podunk/redneck mountain town inhabitants who should be singing "Uncle Fukka" and "Kyle's Mom's A Bitch" not Trick Daddy or Kid Rock. "What Would Brian Boitano Do?" they ask. He'd eat Cheesy Poofs and singalong of course! --Paul Tonks

Customer Reviews

What Were They Thinking?.....
Lets face it, as unfortunate as it maybe, if you haven't seen this movie or aren't a fan you're not going to buy this album, which is a shame. The music is genuinly fantastic, oweing more than a nod to inspirations ranging from Disney to Les Miserables. In true Broadway style Stan, Kyle, Kenny and Eric lead us through half an hour of true brilliance with unbelievable orchestration and cleaver wordplay, however it's still 100% South Park at heart.

All 12 songs from the film appear here, and these alone would make a fine, if somewhat short, soundtrack album. Unfortunatly to build on that 30 minutes of melodic magic and whimsical wizardry, someone decided it would be a good idea to include 'Interpretations'. Indeed it is, but not when you give a gang of 'Gangster Rappers' lisence to massacre Trey Parker and Marc Shaiman's works of genius. I won't go on about it, as much as I'd like to, all I'll say is that you won't listen to these more than once. It amazes me; this album is for people who want to appreciate these songs for their musical value, out of the context of the movie. Surely people who want this aren't going to like the style of remixes.

But then who whould you get to redo already perfect songs. I don't know of many American bands but I think Blink 182 would do a great cheeky version of "Uncle Fu**er"! Perhaps the producers of the album could get together some of the artists that worked on Chef Aid; "Up There" could have written for Meat Loaf, of cause it'd have to be a 10 minute long epic! Chef could not only lend his vocal talent to the ONE good 'not-in-film' track "Good Love" but a saucy version of "I Can Change" as he pleads with one of the many ladies he's cheated on! Elton John could do a bluesy rendition of "I'm Super" or he could duet with Big Gay Al on his own song "Don't Go Breaking My Heart", that would be hillarious! All silly ideas (and several years too late) but thats the kind of creativity and thinking that went into the original music.

This CD warrents a purchase purely for the first 12 tracks.

Irreverent, hilarious, and surprisingly good
This album is almost as much fun as the South Park movie itself. Stone and Parker surprised a lot of people by making their feature film a veritable musical, but the quality of the music here is amazingly good. Filled with South Park's typical irreverence and humor, these songs really satisfy. Just about everyone who is anyone in South Park gets to sing. The boys are featured on the introductory Mountain Town and What Would Brian Boitano Do?, then all the kids back up Mr. Mackey's inspirational It's Easy, Mmmkay. The parents contribute the moving Blame Canada. Oddly, enough, Satan seems to possess the most singing talent among the performers-his Up There can seem annoying when you first hear it, but the song definitely grows on you. Of course, you can't make a South Park album without Big Gay Al, whose song I'm Super is probably the most festive song from the movie. Of course, I should also mention Saddam Hussein, whose song I Can Change conveys a lot of self-effacing humor but, predictably, little conviction. Ridiculing Saddam Hussein is never a bad thing. The only song I don't care for is Michael McDonald's Eyes of a Child, which just seems too serious in the context of this album.

My favorite tracks are the most controversial ones. Although pretty short in length, the Terrance and Phillip cut Uncle F**ka is hilarious and really set the mood for the movie and album at the outset. Then there is Kyle's Mom' a B**ch from the one and only Eric Cartman, backed up by a big chorus for this version of his greatest hit. I can listen to this song over and over again. I have to give special praise to the La Resistance medley; it ingeniously incorporates elements from a number of the movie's songs, bringing in the voices of kids, parents, Satan, and others in a magical, energetic vocal tour de force.

Then we have the extra, non-movie tracks featuring celebrity versions of a few songs. It is unfortunate that we only hear Chef sing a few lines in the movie, but the inclusion of his Good Love helps make up for the loss. RuPaul's version of I'm Super is interesting, as is the collaborative O Canada performed by Rush's Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson with some help from the clearly Canadian Terrance and Phillip. As a big Violent Femmes fan, I was thrilled to hear their version of I Can Change. The other extra songs disappointed me, however, even the Joe C.-Kid Rock version of Kyle's Mom's a Big Fat B**ch.

Obviously, only South Park fans will want this album. For those folks still on the fence concerning this show they have heard about but perhaps never watched, the album has the potential to pleasantly surprise. As long as you don't take this music seriously, it will provide countless hours of feel-good, hilarious entertainment.

Why the last eight?
A superb CD; the first twelve tracks are inspired works of genius. One of the funniest films I've seen in a while.

So why the next eight?

The eight tracks "inspired by the movie" are fairly naff, with a couple of exceptions; "What Would Brian Boitano Do? Part II" by D.V.D.A. is utterly stunning (and, contrary to the album's insistence, did actually appear in the film; it played over the end credits), and the consistently good Violent Femmes' track, "I Swear It (I Can Change)" is also class. But why RuPaul? Why the young skool of gangsta rappas? It's unneccessary. Obviously they needed Isaac Hayes to offer something; and if they wanted another track, then the song I heard during a trailer for the film (Styx's version of the Eric Cartman classic "Come Sail Away") could easily have made it.

But the first twelve tracks are great enough to propel this to the heights.