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The Heroin Diaries Soundtrack | 
 enlarge | Creator: Sixx: A.m.
Label: Eleven Seven Music
Category: Music
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Rating:  154 reviews
Sales Rank: 1740
Format: Soundtrack
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.4 x 5 x 0.4
MPN: 171
UPC: 846070017124
EAN: 0846070017124
ASIN: B000SM7QUC
Release Date: August 21, 2007
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| Tracks:
| • | X-Mas | | • | Van Nuys | | • | Life Is Beautiful | | • | Pray For Me | | • | Tommorrow | | • | Accidents Can Happen | | • | Intermission | | • | Dead Man's Ballet | | • | Heart Failure | | • | Girl With Golden Eyes | | • | Courtesy Call | | • | Permission | | • | Life After Death |
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Amazon.com
The Heroin Diaries (the soundtrack to Nikki Sixx's addiction memoir of the same name) sounds nothing like the music that catapulted Nikki Sixx into the limelight (and, presumably, the dank and dark underground of addiction) with Moetley Cruee more than 20 years ago. And the music suffers for it. Perhaps Sixx didn't want to romanticize addiction and ill behavior by unleashing a series of rockers that would send fists high in the air and let the spirit, at least for a moment, soar while the listener struggled to better understand the seductive lure of dependence and decadence. (If anyone cares that much--this is rock & roll, after all, and not Oprah.) Instead, Sixx dresses the songs in the trappings of contemporary pop so that "Tomorrow," "Life is Beautiful" and "Accidents Can Happen" sound like lite imitations of the lesser bands that have captured the public's imagination in the wake of the Cruee's inexplicable absence from the recording studio. ("Permission" may even be Sixx's first stab at getting airplay on CMT.) The true rockers, far too slender in number, are half-realized and pallid; the lyrics are overly diaristic (yes) and fail to live up to Sixx's vintage street sophistication ("Dancing on Glass" and "Kickstart My Heart"). The Heroin Diaries comes off more like an affectless pity party than a walk on the wild side. --Jedd Beaudoin
Album Description
Upcoming national television appearances with Jimmy Kimmel, Craig Ferguson, Carson Daly, Conan O'Brien, & more. Other upcoming national television appearances include Heroin Diaries Headbangers Ball Special (premiering week of soundtrack street date), and Vh1 Storytellers- Breaking an Addiction (hosted by Nikki Sixx). Album reviews/interviews/features to hit with street date in major publications like Spin, Rollingstone, Billboard, Blender, & more. BWR is handling publicity for the Heroin Diaries Soundtrack.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 149 more reviews...
 Amazing October 13, 2008
The critic obviously has no idea what he is talking about or what the music is about. Nikki Sixx has told a most amazing story the has the ability to help so many people suffering from the same types of addiction. The fact that he was able to do it musically is absolutely brilliant.
In the future the critic should not do reviews on subjects he knows absolutely nothing about. Unless you have dealt with an addiction or someone trying to cope with an addiction, some of this may be too deep. But for any one who has, it is right on the money and beautifully done.
I guess the critic could possibly be in denial of his own addiction, or anyone else that did not understand the depth of the story, which in turn this would rub them the wrong way.
BEAUTIFUL October 6, 2008
I can't stop listening to this. Probably the most beautiful music since Siamese Dream. Yes, it's all about death and living, and it is incredible. Thank you Nikki and company for giving us lines like "I don't want my mom to know I never loved my life," and "it's only one day, it's not your whole life, you havn't thrown everything away."
Jedd Beaudoin missed the point entirely. September 30, 2008
The Heroin Diaries Sountrack was never intended to be the typical head-banging, fist thrusting album. This is NOT Motley Crue.
What we have here is, I think, exactly what Nikki Sixx intended: REALLY GOOD music that captures the pain of an addict's darkest year. The more "diaristic" tracks are just as powerful as the songs.
I recommend buying this album, as well as the book. They can stand alone, but together, the experience becomes so much more powerful.
Nikki's heart September 30, 2008
This book is absolutely amazing, easy to read, funny, dark, deep, all in one. Nikki really opens his heart and your world to help others. Excellent book!
Disagreeing With The Editorial Review September 24, 2008
I was quite shocked at how the editorial review for this cd was so negative. Yes its true that this is different from Niki Sixx's previous work but in my opinoin it is vastly better. Throughout the cd, the listener can feel the raw emotion that Sixx was feeling at that time. It is simply a phenominal cd.
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