It's best to remember this about Post-Apocalypto: it's not a proper Tenacious D album but rather a soundtrack to the group's animated Internet series.
Jack Black first mused about an Internet series to Marc Maron way back in 2012, but it took six years to reach fruition, by which time Black and Kyle Gass were pushing their fifties and sixties, respectively -- an ideal time to make the leap from film to animation.
Post-Apocalypto, which made its debut in September 2018, makes sense as an animated project but less so as an album.
Running 21 tracks, most hovering around a minute long, Post-Apocalypto is a scattershot collection of sketches, jokes, and song fragments, all telling a story that is reliant on visuals.
Some of this can work in isolation -- the band's loving mockery of classic rock retains potency; there are some throwaway laughs -- but this is the first Tenacious D record that plays as a comedy album, not a musical one.
That would be fine, but the problem is that Post-Apocalypto often sounds like a recorded version of the audio portion of the animated series, which just raises the question: why listen to this when it's easier -- and funnier -- to watch the series?.
| Title/Composers | Performer | Listen | Time | Size | Size | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | POST-APOCALYPTO THEMEJack Black, Kyle Gass | Tenacious D | Play | 00:37 | 1 MB | 4 MB |
| 2 | desolationJack Black, Kyle Gass | Tenacious D | Play | 01:17 | 2 MB | 4 MB |
| 3 | HOPEJack Black, Kyle Gass | Tenacious D | Play | 01:59 | 4 MB | 12 MB |
| 4 | cave womenJack Black, Kyle Gass | Tenacious D | Play | 01:26 | 3 MB | 6 MB |
| 5 | MAKING LOVEJack Black, Kyle Gass | Tenacious D | Play | 02:56 | 6 MB | 18 MB |
| 6 | scientistsJack Black, Kyle Gass | Tenacious D | Play | 01:17 | 3 MB | 6 MB |
| 7 | TAKE US INTO SPACEJack Black, Kyle Gass | Tenacious D | Play | 01:56 | 4 MB | 13 MB |
| 8 | i’ve got to goJack Black, Kyle Gass | Tenacious D | Play | 01:50 | 4 MB | 8 MB |
| 9 | FUCK YO-YO MAJack Black, Kyle Gass, John Spiker | Tenacious D | Play | 01:34 | 3 MB | 9 MB |
| 10 | reunion/not so fastJack Black, Kyle Gass | Tenacious D | Play | 01:08 | 2 MB | 5 MB |
| 11 | DADDY DING DONGJack Black, Kyle Gass | Tenacious D | Play | 01:45 | 4 MB | 12 MB |
| 12 | chainsaw bazooka machine gunJack Black, Kyle Gass | Tenacious D | Play | 01:00 | 2 MB | 4 MB |
| 13 | ROBOTJack Black, Kyle Gass | Tenacious D | Play | 02:26 | 5 MB | 14 MB |
| 14 | marCHJack Black, Kyle Gass | Tenacious D | Play | 01:23 | 3 MB | 8 MB |
| 15 | turd whistleJack Black, Kyle Gass | Tenacious D | Play | 00:39 | 1 MB | 2 MB |
| 16 | COLORSJack Black, Kyle Gass | Tenacious D | Play | 02:20 | 5 MB | 14 MB |
| 17 | who’s your daddy?Jack Black, Kyle Gass | Tenacious D | Play | 00:48 | 1 MB | 4 MB |
| 18 | JB JR RAPJack Black, Kyle Gass | Tenacious D | Play | 01:31 | 3 MB | 10 MB |
| 19 | WOMAN TIMEJack Black, Kyle Gass | Tenacious D | Play | 01:23 | 3 MB | 11 MB |
| 20 | SAVE THE WORLDJack Black, Kyle Gass | Tenacious D | Play | 00:44 | 1 MB | 4 MB |
| 21 | POST-APOCALYPTO THEME (REPRISE)Jack Black, Kyle Gass | Tenacious D | Play | 00:39 | 1 MB | 4 MB |
| 30 mins | 71 MB | |||||
| 30 mins | 182 MB | |||||
| Artist | Job | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jack Black | Composer |
| 2 | Bo Bodnar | Assistant Engineer |
| 3 | Will Borza | Assistant Mastering Engineer |
| 4 | Kyle Gass | Composer |
| 5 | John Spiker | Composer, Engineer, Mixing, Producer |
| 6 | Tenacious D | Primary Artist |
| 7 | Howie Weinberg | Mastering |
| 8 | Matt Wolach | Assistant Engineer |
| Quality | Format | Encoding | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Standard | MP3 | 320kps 44.1kHz | MP3 is an audio coding format which uses a form of lossy data compression. The highest bitrate of this format is 320kbps (kbit/s). MP3 Digital audio takes less amount of space (up to 90% reduction in size) and the quality is not as good as the original one. |
| CD Quality | FLAC | 16bit 44.1kHz | FLAC is an audio coding format which uses lossless compression. Digital audio in FLAC format has a smaller size and retains the same quality of the original Compact Disc (CD). |