"Couple of cool guys...
"With fire in their eyes,
"Known by the names of:
"Beavis and Butthead..."

Imagine that bit sung by Isaac Hayes, with the last bit done by the oh-so-seggsay backup singer girls and accompanied by a nice 70s discomatic funkitron guitars, and you're thinking of the track that opens up the Beavis and Butthead Do America soundtrack. Now I'll be the first to admit, the movie was probably not very good. I remember it as being pretty funny, but then again, I was probably around 13 or 14 at the time, and liked a lot of things I would consider rather dumb now.

That being said, the soundtrack doesn't suck. There are some songs on there that could only have arisen out of the primordial musical swamp muck that was 1990s MTV, but the majority of them are pretty good. Ozzy Osbourne's Walk on Water comes to mind, as does Snakes by No Doubt. Rancid has a really catchy ska-type piece about rioting and AC/DC pops up near the end with Gone Shootin'. Now I agree, these are all B-side tracks (just a hop, skip and jump away from C-side, or even Q-side) but that simply means you probably a) won't have heard them and b) won't have them on any other albums you already have.

This one is probably being given away for free at some record store nearby, so there's not much to lose even if you end up having to visit the record store for it. And really, is a couple of bucks all that much to ask when you could have your very own copy of Lesbian Seagull by Engelbert Humperdinck? I didn't think so.  ¶ 10:07 a.m.