The '60s: Original NBC Motion Picture Soundtrack
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Free Music Review: the 60's were a lot longer than 10 years
Hit: 3 Stars
overall i liked both the video & the offerings on CD. In fact i just came over from nbc.com to check out the community's take before taking up their KILLER combination offer - oops, sorry amazonia - & my response to all this is - when everybody's a critic, nobody has fun! There is NO WAY i am ever gonna b satisfied w/ any grouping, cause it's my life they're writing about - and in the pastiche of that time period - which really DID take much longer to xperience than most decades, whether you got high or dropped or not - there was just so much going on that the world, not just the US, had not seen the likes of, NONE of our lifelines could be even semi-adequately depicted, in my opinion. Sure there was a lot omitted on the album - how could you not have CJ & the Fish or some Phil Spector stuff, or Spencer Davis' "I'm a Man" or the Troggs send up of the Yardbirds/British "invasion" (Wild Thing) or Reflections - remember the leadin for China Beach? or Stevie Wonder - but there's just so MUCH ! Jazz & Acid C&W aren't even in the movie but they contributed. U want real? Buy soundtrax 4 Apocalypse Now/Platoon/Deer Hunter. Not only did i do time for protesting 'Nam, i was a DJ on the CVS Hornet for awhile in '68 & i was TOTALLY baffled how to include a very broad but heavy'n hip package to my shipmates.Yes, i agree the producers shouldn't call this microcosm a "soundtrack", but from all the happy buttons they pushed they did ok. And "Draft Morning" was hardly EVER played on underground radio even & when u did hear it u didn't get it @ 1st - that can't be a savvy business move. And because of having no Brit/Aussie bands they HAD 2 shortchange us - go to the amazon.com catalog for Donovan (Leitch) & feed your 60's soul. Sample Hurdy Gurdy Man & Season of the Witch. I know his stuff wasn't in the vid, but to see how much this "trippy dippy little hippy" has influenced me blew me away...
TEXAS FAN - since nobody responded, that tune i believe w/ "i saw you comin' back$" is "Comin' Back to Me" on i think '67's Surrealistic Pillow by Marty Balin of Jefferson Airplane, if it is it would go something like "small reasons like memories come, from t pages of a LOOK, the taste of sleepy music & suddenly you're hooked/& thru t open window, where no curtain hung - I SAW YOU (rep 2x) comin' back to me"
Free Music Review: A good starting place for people who own few 60s CDs
Hit: 3 Stars
Lots of folks slam this CD as "too commercial" or "not complete", but how could one CD from a TV Movie soundtrack have everything "required" from one decade? I bet it would be hard to compile a set of 10 CDs, with the most important or best songs from each *year* of the 60s, much less the whole decade, so take this for what it is: an introduction of 60s rock&roll and soul to people who weren't even born before the Beatles broke up. Nothing wrong with that. Where are all the complaints from folks about the CD compilations for the 30s, 40s, 50s? Lastly, some of the suggestions for what *should have* been on the 60s CD are songs that were not even written in the 60s, like Ohio by CSNY, because that song was about Kent State, which went through upheaval in early 70s. Overall, this CD is a broad overview, and a good starter kit. Find what you like,and then buy more CDs from the artists and styles you dig. Peace, from a guy who remembers my Dad getting upset at the paperboy coming by the house "collecting" with white courderoys, no shirt, and love beads, and my Mom telling me to "turn down that Beatle music!".Free Music Review: Worth it for the first track
Hit: 3 Stars
I've been reading the other reviews of The '60s, and first of all, I've noticed a LOT of people asking about a song that was played in the mini-series and not on the CD. That is probably the CD's biggest fault; not that it doesn't do justice to the 60s as a decade, but that it doesn't do justice to the 60s as a mini-series. Bob Dylan is sorely mis-represented on the CD while his songs get a lot of play in the movie, but I think that the first track (a duet with Joan Osborne) is worth the CD. Instead of a rushed companion product to the NBC Mini-series, the CD could have benefited from a more thorough representation of the different music genres emerging at the time (which I must say, all got fair treatment in the series). 1/3 of the soundtrack is devoted to boy and girl band pop, leaving the other 2/3rds to float around and leave the soundtrack as a hit/miss purchase. Highlights include Chimes of Freedom, The Weight, and Draft Morning, where I think we could have done without Do Wah Diddy Diddy and Do You Believe in Magic.
If you're getting this CD, I suggest you get The Essential Bob Dylan with it (most of the songs on that set were used in the movie).
Free Music Review: Nothing THAT impressive
Hit: 3 Stars
I've studied modern music in all its forms for a long while now. Especially the 60s. I've got my share of 60s soundtracks, too. This is not one that I'll be adding to my collection soon, because (1) We've all heard these songs on some form of 60s compilation album before, (2) You kinda predict what's gonna be on the album before you see the series on the tube and (3) it's just second nature to put the Beach Boys on a 60s compilation. But this CD does have its good points. However overplayed or prdictable, it's good to see James Brown and Graham Nash on the same CD. Gives a good balance. And you gotta have The Band with "The Weight", it's a pure classic. So, on the whole, this is one of those middle-of-the-road kinda of 60s soundtracks. They could've done better. Like "I'm a Man" by the Spencer Davis Group or "Pictures of Matchstick Men" by Status Quo. If NBC does another one of these things I hope they take these ideas into consideration.Free Music Review: Good music, but incomplete as a soundtrack
Hit: 3 Stars
I was a teenager in the 60's, watched the movie and enjoyed my trip down memory lane. So I bought the "soundtrack" without reading the list. I assumed soundtrack meant all the songs from the movie. The soundtrack from "West Side Story", " Music Man", "The Sound of Music" and others contain ALL the songs in the movie. I was disappointed that so many were missing. Perhaps they'll come out with the remaining songs on a "The 60's" part 2 CD, or next time, Call it "Selections" from the movie "The 60's" which is actually what the CD is. I feel gypped. I want the rest of the songs!