Various Artists - Spiderman 3 Soundtrack
Reviewed by jonathan
What songs like Snow Patrol’s “Signal Fire” have to do with Peter Parker battling escaped convicts, goblins, and alien symbiotes is uncertain. What is certain is that this album has some strong musicians from The Killers to the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Rogue Wave to The Flaming Lips. Chubby Checker has a cameo as well, which is a little off-putting, but perhaps it’s one of those special comic book things when they throw someone famous in the story to make it fun, like Scooby-Doo did when they had the Harlem Globetrotters help them solve a crime. Whatever the case may be, the album is passable. A compilation of fairly strong songs like something you’d get for free if you bought a new cell phone at a Verizon store for a limited time. [www.spiderman3.sonypictures.com]