World Wrestling Federation: The Music, Volume 3

W.W.E. ~ World Wrestling Federation: The

It's a stroke of marketing genius: Just before any of the World Wrestling Federation's stars enters an arena, his theme music blares over the speakers. It's an amazing dramatic device for the story-line- fueled "sports entertainment experience," and it drives the fans wild. It doesn't make for good songs, but that's not really the point--after all, the idea here is to get a distinctive 10 to 15 seconds that sounds good at stadium sound levels; after about 30 seconds it's easy to see that these "songs" are really nothing more than pumped-up jingles. As a series of commercials for the WWF's stars, 14 of which are represented here, or as a memento for fans, this disc is made to order. If you're looking for a CD that you'll actually put on the stereo for fun, you're better off with either Steve Austin's Stone Cold Metal or ECW: Extreme Music. --Randy Silver