This came out in 1999 – or at least that’s when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):
This unremarkable soundtrack to the controversial 30th-anniversary instalment of Woodstock comes divided into two discs — a rockin’ red one (presumably for the rampaging rap-metaloids) and a mellow blue one (presumably for the bland Boomers).
Fittingly, Disc 1 stars the likes of Limp Bizkit, Kid Rock, Megadeth, Metallica and the F-word. Disc 2 has Jewel, Dave Matthews, Sheryl Crow, Our Lady Peace… and is musical Sominex. But it’s what’s missing that’s the real story. Disc 1 skips Fred Durst’s riot-inciting call for the crowd to “Break s—!” Disc 2 ignores the cries of “Show us your t—!” directed at Jewel and Alanis Morissette by mosh-pit lunkheads. Not that it matters. No matter how much musical revisionism producers attempt, Woodstock 99 will be remembered not for music but mayhem.
