‘Tank Girl’ Full Of Fresh Sounds

Since “Tank Girl” looks like an MTV buzz clip stretched into a 104-minute movie, it makes sense that the soundtrack includes cuts by the most talkedabout bands of the alternative scene.

Veruca Salt, Portishead, Bush, Belly, Hole, L7 and Bjork all weigh in on the 12-song soundtrack, which lists Courtney Love as its executive coordinator.

One song off the album - “Mockingbird Girl” by the Magnificent Bastards, a band featuring Stone Temple Pilots singer Scott Weiland - is already a hit on alternative radio station KROQ.

Most of the other bands are fronted by women, and a feminist theme runs throughout the album, as is fitting for the music to a film about a sci-fi comic book heroine who saves the future world from the clutches of evil.

But Andrew Leary, music supervisor for the collection, said he and Love made no conscious effort to choose women artists.

“It ended up there were a number of female artists on the soundtrack, but we tried to be sensitive to not being completely female, so we wouldn’t alienate anyone,” he said.

“You try to create a common thread or find certain artists that will work together. They’re not all the same type of music, but they’re all very interesting.”

Indeed, the style of songs range from Portishead’s slow, dreamy “Roads” to L7’s aggressive rocker “Shove.”

The album also includes tracks by a trio of new-wave late ‘70s-early ‘80s artists: Devo; Joan Jett; and Paul Westerberg, former lead singer with the Replacements.