VARIOUS ARTISTS / Natural Born Killers (1994)

As you'd expect, NBK is a collection of songs from different artists. But unlike most film soundtracks, there's been some actual thought and care put into structuring them. Custom edits and audio clips from the film itself are used often to connect tracks into a more story-style structure than is usually the case.
It was compiled by Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails, who referred to it as a "collage of sound," which I guess is as good a description as any. It's the kind of thing many of us used to do back when all we had was a double tapedeck and a VHS collection.
Don't judge it solely on my choice of songs (below), there are a variety of styles on offer from many different musical eras.

Songs of Note: Cowboy Junkies / Sweet Jane (Edit); Nine Inch Nails / Something I Can Never Have (Edited and Extended)

4½ warm, violent places out of 5

BOB DYLAN / Tempest [2012]

50 years after his first record and 35 albums later, poetical songwriter Bob Dylan is still going strong on 2012's Tempest.
Channelling the old-timey blues n' boogies, Dylan swaggers on in with his scraggy, yet finely tuned voice and bleakly humorous and honest lyrics.  Being one of modern music's master storytellers, Dylan tackles several cheerful subjects such as death, more death and then a little more death all while lamenting and honoring what humanity means to him.
Several songs run a bit too long to remain interesting but in the end you're still left with a might fine record that proves this old-timer still has some more records in him.

3½ Titanics out of 5

Songs Of Note: Duquesne Whistle; Long & Wasted Years