Various - Beavis and Butthead do America

The idea of a TV show based on the antics of a pair of teenage heavy metal fans who shriek and groan at every opportunity must have seemed intensely daft to someone at some point. Even so, a series was born with the main topics being "chicks ‘n stuff", but the idea of making a film surely defies belief and seems even more pointless. And there is the point with MTV’s Beavis and Butt-head. They are so pointless it’s cool, they’re so so stupid that it doesn’t become an issue, and sometimes it’s so base that, unless it was them doing it, it would not be funny.

The film soundtrack has them slightly grown up and with a 70s throwback applied to them. The first song, indeed, is a classic shaft-esque 70s wah-wah funk version of the TV theme. It careers along with typical Beavis and Butthead type songs. The metal score (albeit very early stuff) is well represented by AC/DC and Ozzy Osbourne and newer razor sharp post grunge rock is here in the form of the Butthole surfers.

There are some tracks that art atypical of the B&B mold and the worst offender is LL Cool J with Ain’t Nobody. First question: "How did this ever get to number one?" This is dismal, terrible, disgusting. Not only for the fact that the original was so well done by Chaka Khan and that he has destroyed it, but also Cool J’s terrible lyrics. There is also an Englebert Humperdink track, Lesbian Seagulls which was surely only added probably due to people with the IQ of the teenage duo snickering discreetly to the title.

Is this a cool album? Definitely not what you’d expect from a Beavis & Butthead album, anyway.(5)

Alok