Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Tonight I'm Gonna Rock You Tonight
2. Back From The Dead
3. (Funky) Sex Farm
4. Rock 'n' Roll Creation
5. Jazz Oddyssey I
6. Gimme Some Money
7. Rock 'n' Roll Nightmare
8. Heavy Duty
9. America
10. Jazz Oddyssey II
11. (Listen to the) Flower People (Reggae Stylee)
12. Hell Hole
13. Big Bottom
14. Celtic Blues
15. Jazz Oddyssey III
16. Warmer Than Hell
17. Stonehenge
18. Short And Sweet
19. Cup And Cakes

Disc 2:

1. DVD: + accompanying DVD giving a track by track rundown from Nigel Tufnel, David St. Hubbins and Derek Smalls (60 mins)

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3399 in Music
• Released on: 2009-06-22
• Number of discs: 2
• Format: CD+DVD
• Dimensions: .25 pounds

CD Description
Spinal Tap return - guitars turned up to eleven - with 'Back From The Dead', an album that embodies the spirit of heavymetal. Following the cult comedy film 'This Is Spinal Tap' in 1984, the parody group have gone on and on to become a musical institution in their own right. This collection includes tracks such as 'Warmer Than Hell' and the unmistakable 'Stonehenge'. One thing is certain, The East End of London's finest shall be 'Tapping' into plenty of CD players with thisrelease.

Customer Reviews

Never Mind The Big Bottoms, Smell The Glove!
The big question is... why bother? I can't recall any great demand or desire for a new Spinal Tap album, and there isn't any artistic reason for it. Every band, it seems has the whole reunion moment - including those that happen for no reason at all, apart from possibly boredom or ego or money. That said, with one member of Spinal Tap coining in $400,000 per episode of The Simpsons (400 episodes and counting), he must be fairly well off.

So... er, why? It's by no means a bad record, but it isn't very good. There are re-recordings of quarter-century old songs, last heard in faux-live form on the original, classic debut. These established songs are given fairly pedestrian funk and reggae tinges. "Funky Sex Farm" sounds like a 2000-era Prince out-take : servicable, possessed of great groove, but not necessarily designed to be listened to more than once. By the same token, the new recordings of the old classics are mostly redundant - a new guitar lick or drum roll here or there - but ultimately, if you know the original stuff, you've heard this all before.

There's a couple of 'new' songs : the ancient free-download of "Back From The Dead" and the ho-hum "Warmer than Hell". The legendary "Jazz Odyessy" is here : and it's dull. And where's "Saucy Jack"? That's a brilliant song.

Anyway, there's no reason for this record apart to shove out some more Spinal Tap pap for you to buy. It's pretty good, but it's not really essential listening - and a pointless record is a sin against every struggling artists there is.

Should've stayed dead!
Being a Tap fanatic, I had to buy this CD but was left wondering what the point of it was since it's mostly reworkings of old material. Still, it was worth it to hear 'Jazz Oddysey' at last but will 'It's A Smalls World' ever see the light of day?

same old same old...
I consider myself a real fan of Spinal Tap: i got the VHS tapes, the cds, the Criterion DVD, etc... so naturally i pre-ordered when i heard the guy's had a new cd. But "Back from the dead" is disappointing: only 2 new songs really, the other tunes are re-recorded classics and some studio jams. The bonus DVD is 1 hour of the guy's talking about the songs, unrehearsed and thus only sporadically funny. To make matters worse they're on an acoustic tour at the moment (???)
If you saw the band rock out on Conan O'Brien a few days ago and you want to hear more then i suggest you buy the amazing None more black album aka This is Spinal Tap and also the most excellent "Break like the wind".