VA - Armageddon The Album - OST (1998)

Armageddon is a 1998 American science fiction disaster film produced and
directed by Michael Bay, produced by Jerry Bruckheimer, and released by
Touchstone Pictures. The film follows a group of blue-collar deep-core
drillers sent by NASA to stop a gigantic asteroid on a collision course
with Earth.

It stars Bruce Willis with Billy Bob Thornton, Liv Tyler, Ben Affleck, Will
Patton, Peter Stormare, Keith David and Steve Buscemi. The film was a
commercial success, grossing $553 million worldwide against a $140 million
budget and becoming the highest-grossing film of 1998. However, the film
received mostly mixed reviews from critics.

A would-be blockbuster soundtrack for a would-be blockbuster, Armageddon is
a strange album, as far as carefully tailored soundtracks go. Sometime
during production, Columbia evidently bet that Aerosmith, whom they
recently acquired for millions of dollars, would be a big draw. That was
before Nine Lives bombed and the group lost much of their teen following.

Nevertheless, the album features no less than four Aerosmith tunes,
including the singles "I Don't Want to Miss a Thing" and "What Kind of Love
Are You On," both of which are pretty standard latter-day Aerosmith songs
that are outclassed not only by "Sweet Emotion," but even their hamfisted
cover of "Come Together." Those four songs provide the core of an album
that is clearly aimed at a "mature" audience - well, with new songs from
Shawn Colvin, Patty Smyth, Jon Bon Jovi, Trevor Rabin, and Journey
(complete with new vocalist Steve Augeri), plus oldies by ZZ Top and Bob
Seger, the album was never really intended for a young audience.

Of course, stumbling post-grungsters Our Lady Peace and fledgling folk
chanteuse Chantal Kreviazuk are added as attractions for younger audiences,
but they don't add much to the stodgiest "event movie" soundtrack in
memory. And that's really too bad, because if there's one audience that
buys into event movies, it's adolescents - and, for all of its many flaws,
Godzilla at least knew that much.