Various Artists

Various Artists Mission Impossible 2 [soundtrack]

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Music From and Inspired By M:I-2 collects industrial, metal, and rap-rock from acts like the Pimps, Apartment 26, Diffuser, Tinfed, and Uncle Kracker. While much of the music on this soundtrack didn't actually turn up in the movie, the set's predictably in-your-face sound is the audio equivalent of the movie's over-the-top action. The album kicks off with Take a Look Around, Limp Bizkit's rap-metal remake of the Mission: Impossible Theme and Metallica's slow-burning I Disappear. Much of the collection remains mired in a brooding, hostile vibe, though Rob Zombie's Scum of the Earth, the Butthole Surfers' They Came In, Chris Cornell's Mission 2000, and Buckcherry's Alone manage plenty of aggression without sounding monotonous. Softer, quieter moments such as Diffuser's Karma, Tinfed's Immune, and Tori Amos' Carnival arrive near the end of the album, and the flamenco-rock of score composer Hans Zimmer and guitarist Heitor Pereira's Nyah closes the set in a last-minute reminder to buy the score in case you want to hear more the music that actually appeared in the film. ~ Heather Phares, All Music Guide

Track Listings:

1. Take a Look Around
2. I Disappear
3. Scum of the Earth
4. They Came In
5. Rocket Science
6. Have a Cigar
7. Mission 2000
8. Goin' Down
9. What 'Chu Lookin' At?
10. Backwards
11. Karma
12. Alone
13. Immune
14. My Kinda Scene
15. Carnival
16. Nyah