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):
Now here’s an offer you can’t refuse: The soundtrack album to the acclaimed American Mob dramedy The Sopranos.
Appropriately, most of these classic, um, hits have a wiseguy element to them (and I mean that in every sense of the word). There’s Frank Sinatra reminiscing his way through It Was A Very Good Year; Jersey kids Bruce Springsteen and Little Steven (who also acts in the show) serving up State Trooper and Inside of Me, respectively; a few macho melodies from the likes of Bo Diddley (I’m A Man) and even thematically fitting Britpop from Nick Lowe (The Beast in Me) and Elvis Costello (Complicated Shadows). My fave, though, has to be Bob Dylan’s apt offering: Gotta Serve Somebody. It would be criminal to fuhgeddabowdit.
