I can't believe I lived so long without this CD, I couldn't believe how good it is! This is an amalgamation of everything about the 80s I love so much!

Allow me to extrapolate: I was looking through the Z section at an HMV (much to my dismay, I have yet to find a good zombie movies in almost two months). This CD was playing (who says kids these days have no taste in music?) and without even realizing it I was listening intently. It may just be me, but this CD reminds me of the old 80s Italian zombie movie synth scores (like Zombi 2 or After Death), coupled with a bit of John Carpenters early (Assault on Precinct 13) work, with some other stuff thrown in.

I really can't explain it better than that.

'Strangelove' sounds like it would fit a Timothy Dalton Bond movie perfectly. His were some of the best.

'Agent Orange' is entirely instrumental, and sounds just like something you'd hear in a Romero-type zombie movie. Slow, droning, yet melodic at the same time. There's an emptiness to it, it feels like a zombie (I'm crazy, just go with it).

'I Want You Now' just sounds plain cool.

'Nothing' is like an overloaded vocal version of an old 16-bit era song you'd find in a game like Kid Chameleon. Same goes for 'The Things You Said.' Meanwhile, 'Pimpf' is an old boss battle song. Listening to that I felt the urge to pick up my controller and start sweating (hey, bosses back then were tough).

The last two tracks, 'Never Let Me Go (Aggro Mix)' and 'To Have and to Hold (Spanish Taster)' are both excellent as well, again sounding like good old Sega Genesis goodness.

So, this probably made no sense whatsoever. Allow me to summarize: If you like 80s zombie movie music, classic Carpenter, or 16-bit Genesis era music, get this CD.

**** out of ****
And it's 18 years old. Good old 80s.