1. Overture	Disc 2
2. Heaven On Their Minds	1. The Last Supper
3. What's The Buzz/Strange Thing Mystifying	2. Gethsemane
4. Everything's Alright	3. The Arrest
5. This Jesus Must Die	4. Peter's Denial
6. Hosanna	5. Pilate and Christ
7. Simon Zealots/Poor Jerusalem	6. King Herod's Song
8. Pilate's Dream	7. Judas' Death
9. The Temple	8. Trial Before Pilate
10. Everything's Alright	9. Superstar
11. I Don't Know How To Love Him	10. Crucifixion
12. Damned For All Time/Blood Money	11. John Nineteen Forty-One

 

I bought Superstar on December 24th, 1995. My first impression of this album came from the overture, which is a very unique (that's being polite: it's odd) piece of music indeed. At the time, most of the music in my CD wallet was 80's pop, early 90's grunge & alternative. I was shocked by the sound of Superstar, and in fact by the end of track 1 I was entirely convinced that I was going to throw the 2 disc set into the trash. Before I could get to the CD player, track 2 began playing. And forth from my speakers came a voice which utterly stopped me in my tracks. It was so harsh and unrefined in its growl-ish screaming.

I thought I hated it, yet somehow I found myself listening to 'Heaven On Their Minds' over and over again. Eventually this opened the door to enjoying the rest of the musical, but still it's Murray Head's raw and tortured portrayal of Judas that maintained my interest in this now classic show.

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