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** 1/2 Various artists, “The Faculty” soundtrack, Columbia/Sony Music Soundtrax. Enhancing the creepy academic theme of the movie, this collection seethes with righteous teen angst. Original tracks by Garbage and the Offspring (among others) are at least as engaging as Soul Asylum’s menacing (if overly faithful) version of Alice Cooper’s “School’s Out,” but pale alongside Pink Floyd’s “Another Brick in the Wall,” razed and reconstructed with gritty panache by the Class of ‘99: members of Porno for Pyros plus Alice in Chains’ Layne Staley and Rage Against the Machine’s Tom Morello.

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