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I guess with the amount of music covered in the movie, it's probably hard to pick definitive tunes for a soundtrack CD. This should have really been a double album. Great in a "mix" on my shuffle mode.
I love the diversity of this CD. I like every song on this disc. Happy listening.
I mean it was practically a musical. The decision to invent a fictional band called Stillwater was a master stroke and avoided any biopic style film being made. They are hanging out with Humble Pie and playing the same venue as Sabbath. But will I be playing this soundtrack album regularly.
Or Clarence Carter or the truly horrid Thunderclap Newman. Not likely. And in brief here are my reasons;Firstly there was a stack of great music in the movie. Awesome film, really captured that youthful love of music and it did it with a certain underlying tragedy about the lives of the people involved. But the whole thing seems to me to come across as having been put together by people who didn't 'get' the film. Take the Zep song playing as the band head into NYC - it's way cool and matches the film and.and.and it's not on the disc.Secondly Stillwater the fictional band in the film come across as being sort of a Cream, Free, Cactus, slightly psychadelic heavy rocker group from that genres formative years.
So why on earth do we have stuff like The Beach Boys on this soundtrack. Stillwater the fictional band wouldn't of had much time for them nor the naive 60's sounding track Mr Farmer by some mob called The Seeds.
Who don't like rock music or have any affinity with the genre.A truly sad wasted opporunity. I've watched it a number of times and probably will again in the future.
For heavens sake the most heft on this album is from the Bowie track I'm Waiting For The Moon. But not much of it is on the S/T.
I mean I don't even recall most of these songs being in the film so they can't really have been the salient tracks surely. And a nice tune it is too.Don't get me wrong, there is some nice stuff here such as The Who and especially the gorgeous Elton John number Tiny Dancer that is etched so firmly in your memory from it's wonderful use in the film.
They would of been better off filling it with Nancy Wilson compositions cos she wrote the one 'Stillwater' song here and it's better than most of the other stuff on the album.
The only things missing from this soundtrack are the Stillwater tracks. I loved them in the movie, but missed them here.
How can you go wrong with the likes of Simon & Garfunkel, The Who, Todd Rundgren, Yes, Rod Stewart, The Allman Brothers Band, Lynyrd Skynyrd and Cat Stevens to mention a few. I happened upon the movie on cable and was impressed with how accurate it was to the time and culture. But what caught me was the music. This soundtrack produced by Danny Bramson and Cameron Crowe really captures this moment in time and brings back a flood of memories. I don't think anyone who lived this would be disappointed.
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