Track Listing

1. Who Is Tyler Durden?
2. Homework
3. What Is Fight Club?
4. Single Serving Jack
5. Corporate World
6. Psycho Boy Jack
7. Hessel, Raymond K.
8. Medula Oblongata
9. Jack's Smirking Revenge
10. Stealing Fat
11. Chemical Burn
12. Marla
13. This is Your Life
14. Commissioner Castration
15. Space Monkeys
16. Finding The Bomb

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #62287 in Music
• Released on: 2003-03-24
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Soundtrack
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: .16 pounds
• Running time: 139 minutes

Amazon.co.uk Review
The Dust Brothers are best known as the production duo that everyone from the Beastie Boys to Beck and White Zombie have turned to for help behind the mixing board (and to great results). With the soundtrack to Fight Club (the movie based on the Chuck Palahniuk novel), we finally get a glimpse of one of the duo's original creations. Filled with dark techno and sparse industrial passages, it's a bleak though interesting listen. Sinister funk gives way to medieval chants on "Homework", but the bulk of this disc is all about samples and synths. Don't expect to find the quirks of Paul's Boutique or Odelay here, but in terms of good movie mood music, the Dust Brothers have done it again. --Jason Verlinde

Customer Reviews

Just half the story...
Hm, well. I have to say, that Fight Club is one of the best films I've seen ever ... fantastic concept, sylish, proper bo. And the soundtrack, just fits it superbly, has the be the only film where I've actually sat and thought 'I really wish I had the soundtrack to this!'. So lo and behold, I actually got it. A bit of a mixture of joy and sadness with this one. One of the things that made this a killer soundtrack was the way that the audio linked so well with the visuals. Without the visuals it does indeed feel like something is missing from this OST. You will, however, find some choice moments which evoke fond memories of the cuddly fluffy film which is Fight Club. Corporate World with its low-fi Casio beats always raises a smile for me, LOVE the way Homework kicks off about 2 minutes in too. What this album does is group together common themes under one track. Play Marla, and you'll hear a couple of the themes that usually play in a scene corresponding with her.

So this isn't something you'll whip out religiously everyday and bang onto your mates about, but you will drag it out every now and again for those little personal moments.

An excellent and unique soundtrack
Fight Club is one of those movies that when you watch for the first time, everything about is insightful, awe inspiring, fantastic, funny and just simply great. A film which still oozes substance despite it's release dating back 5 years ago, it still manages to beat the Lindsay Lohan and Hilary Duff rubbish on screen today. The soundtrack, like the movie, also is insightful, inspiring in it's own unique way.

The Dust Brothers have created a unique album unlike anything I have heard before. Employing everything from guitars, to decks, to choir singing and cheesy sounds that wouldn't be heard outside of elevators. Each song's name refers to a character/event/feeling etc in the movie, so each name carries a certain feeling, emotion with it. If you've seen the movie you will recognise the music and where it was used at in the film.

There's quite a varied selection of songs here. "Who is Tyler Durdan?" builds up to something that is a little reminiscent of Darth Vader gracing his minions with his prescence (or in this case, Tyler and his space monkeys). "Corporate World" is a combination of cheesy elevator music and those songs you hear in supermarkets that you'll never know the name of. While it is cheesy, it is also twisted which suggests that something is a foot. My favourite track of the bunch is "Jack's Smirking Revenge". The track begins off with a sense of realisation, and turns into a feeling of knowing what to do. In this case it would be Jack's revenge on his boss. The album is light on the ears, with the exception of "Chemical Burn" which half way through it, bursts into a grinding guitar riff which is more instantly recognised as the Fight Club theme, used at the beginning of the movie. Overall, the songs all hold a feeling of darkness with them in some way. I feel this is good as it holds true to the film, no rays of sunshine here, just dark, grim reality.

If you are a fan of the movie Fight Club, there's not much doubt that you would not enjoy this music. Even if you haven't seen or heard about Fight Club, this soundtrack is still a great piece of music, and it might be just what you're looking for if you're trying to find something different.

Missing something
I am not suggesting this a bad soundtrack. The Dust Brothers have created some of the coolist tunes to be put on a film. And if you have seen the movie Fight Club then you will understand what I mean, it adds to the overall greatness of the movie. It simply misses one thing - that is 'Where Is My Mind' by the The Pixies. The amazing song is clearly featured at the end of the film but is sadly not on the soundtrack?