VA - Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls - Music From The Original Motion Picture (1995)

This various-artists collection is paced by a remake of the Police's "Spirits in the Material World" by Pato Banton with Sting, that gives a more reggae interpretation to a song that always leaned toward reggae (there's also a reggae/toasting cover of the old Them hit "Here Comes the Night," by Native); a faithful remake of Johnny Rivers' "Secret Agent Man," by Blues Traveler; and tracks by such currently hip acts as the Goo Goo Dolls, the Presidents of the United States of America, Matthew Sweet, and Blessid Union of Souls. The result is a good sampler of alternative and hard rock (plus some tame world music), circa 1995.~Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls [Music from the Motion Picture] Review by William Ruhlmann