Tenacious D The Pick of Destiny
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Like Spinal Tap, the Rutles, and even the Bonzo Dog Band, Tenacious D manage to send up rock conventions while employing them expertly. Thesoundtrack to their first full-length motion picture mixes songs and bits from the movie, but it plays like a hilarious concept album more than anything. Dave Grohl and (one half of the) Dust Brothers--who played on the D's delicious 2001 debut--are here joined by Meat Loaf and Ronnie James Dio. The title song navigates power balladry from the late '80s and early '90s in ways most awesome, while also throwing in a bridge that rips on faux-mystical elf-progisms of '70s stadium rock. At times the songs get a bit too meta (e.g. "He who is groovy must be in my movie"), but quibbling about self-referentiality when it comes to a fake band that calls itself "The Greatest Band on Earth" and who sings that their movie is "better than-uh Citizen Kane-uh" is perhaps to not have much of a sense of humor.--Mike McGonigal
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The Pick of Destiny is the highly anticipated soundtrack to the upcoming New Line Cinema comedy, Tenacious D in the Pick of Destiny. An epic musical adventure, the film follows Tenacious D (Jack Black and Kyle Gass) on their quest to obtain the Pick and become The Greatest Band on Earth.
Like Spinal Tap, the Rutles, and even the Bonzo Dog Band, Tenacious D manage to send up rock conventions while employing them expertly. Thesoundtrack to their first full-length motion picture mixes songs and bits from the movie, but it plays like a hilarious concept album more than anything. Dave Grohl and (one half of the) Dust Brothers--who played on the D's delicious 2001 debut--are here joined by Meat Loaf and Ronnie James Dio. The title song navigates power balladry from the late '80s and early '90s in ways most awesome, while also throwing in a bridge that rips on faux-mystical elf-progisms of '70s stadium rock. At times the songs get a bit too meta (e.g. "He who is groovy must be in my movie"), but quibbling about self-referentiality when it comes to a fake band that calls itself "The Greatest Band on Earth" and who sings that their movie is "better than-uh Citizen Kane-uh" is perhaps to not have much of a sense of humor.--Mike McGonigal
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The Pick of Destiny is the highly anticipated soundtrack to the upcoming New Line Cinema comedy, Tenacious D in the Pick of Destiny. An epic musical adventure, the film follows Tenacious D (Jack Black and Kyle Gass) on their quest to obtain the Pick and become The Greatest Band on Earth.
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Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: - Tenacious D does it again!!
This movie is pretty much a history of how Tenacious D came to be.It is full of great one liners and a couple of great cameos.The dynamic between Jack Black and Kyle Gass is great.It is recommended for anyone who is a fan of The D and also should be seen by anyone who is unfamiliar with the group but enjoys other 2 man novelty acts such as Flight of the Conchords.
Rating: - a weak effort overall
tenacious d is a great band who expertly mix rock and comedy and this soundtrack from their film and the most of the songs are keepers,bit overall this cd doesn't mesh well and alot of the songs get old after awhile and this just isn't their best. but if you liked the movie or their first cd then i reccomend it completely
Rating: - Not their greatest work
I know it's out of the movie, but it's targeted AT the movie and not just a general mush of music.
Their regular music is much more hardcore than what's on this album.
Though I gotta give Kickapoo and The Final Showdown the honors for the greatest songs on the album. They almost compete with Tribute and Wonderboy
Rating: - Better than the movie - give it a chance and you'll love it!
It has been several years that Tenacious D fans have been waiting for a new album from The D, and as a fan, this album satisfied my hunger for new content but failed to deliver as a worthy successor to their self-titled debut CD.The main reason for this is that the album plays much more like a soundtrack (which it is advertised as) rather than a full-blown album.That being said, this has to be one of my favorite movie soundtracks of all time and still captures the unique sound (and humor) that ... Read More
Rating: 
- Only good if you have seen the movie
I am a big fan of Tenacious D's music, and I didn't like this album upon first listen.I was skeptical about the massive amount of profanity throughout the album, and overall did not think it was that funny.After watching the film, however, I think that this album is hilarious.Tenacious D is comical in all aspects of their art, and this soundtrack only further proves this.Great album.
- Tenacious D does it again!!This movie is pretty much a history of how Tenacious D came to be.It is full of great one liners and a couple of great cameos.The dynamic between Jack Black and Kyle Gass is great.It is recommended for anyone who is a fan of The D and also should be seen by anyone who is unfamiliar with the group but enjoys other 2 man novelty acts such as Flight of the Conchords.
- a weak effort overalltenacious d is a great band who expertly mix rock and comedy and this soundtrack from their film and the most of the songs are keepers,bit overall this cd doesn't mesh well and alot of the songs get old after awhile and this just isn't their best. but if you liked the movie or their first cd then i reccomend it completely
- Not their greatest workI know it's out of the movie, but it's targeted AT the movie and not just a general mush of music.
Their regular music is much more hardcore than what's on this album.
Though I gotta give Kickapoo and The Final Showdown the honors for the greatest songs on the album. They almost compete with Tribute and Wonderboy
- Better than the movie - give it a chance and you'll love it!It has been several years that Tenacious D fans have been waiting for a new album from The D, and as a fan, this album satisfied my hunger for new content but failed to deliver as a worthy successor to their self-titled debut CD.The main reason for this is that the album plays much more like a soundtrack (which it is advertised as) rather than a full-blown album.That being said, this has to be one of my favorite movie soundtracks of all time and still captures the unique sound (and humor) that ... Read More
- Only good if you have seen the movieI am a big fan of Tenacious D's music, and I didn't like this album upon first listen.I was skeptical about the massive amount of profanity throughout the album, and overall did not think it was that funny.After watching the film, however, I think that this album is hilarious.Tenacious D is comical in all aspects of their art, and this soundtrack only further proves this.Great album.
