Various Artists - Soundtracks - Almost Famous
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Artist: Various Artists - SoundtracksEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language); German (Unknown)
Format: Soundtrack
CD Release Date: 2000-09-12
Music Label: Dreamworks
Soundtracks:
- America - Simon and Garfunkel
- Sparks - The Who
- It Wouldn't Have Made Any Difference - Todd Rundgren
- I've Seen All Good People: Your Move - Yes
- Feel Flows - The Beach Boys
- Fever Dog - Stillwater
- Every Picture Tells A Story - Rod Stewart
- Mr. Farmer - The Seeds
- One Way Out - The Allman Brothers Band
- Simple Man - Lynyrd Skynyrd
- That's The Way - Led Zeppelin
- Tiny Dancer - Elton John
- Lucky Trumble - Nancy Wilson
- I'm Waiting For The Man - David Bowie
- The Wind - Cat Stevens
- Slip Away - Clarence Carter
- Something In The Air - Thunderclap Newman
Free Music Notes for Almost Famous
Free Music Review: Would Stillwater have listened to this?
Hit: 2 Stars
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. The decision to invent a fictional band called Stillwater was a master stroke and avoided any biopic style film being made. I've watched it a number of times and probably will again in the future. But will I be playing this soundtrack album regularly? Not likely. And in brief here are my reasons;
Firstly there was a stack of great music in the movie. I mean it was practically a musical. 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!!! 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. They are hanging out with Humble Pie and playing the same venue as Sabbath. 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. Or Clarence Carter or the truly horrid Thunderclap Newman. For heavens sake the most heft on this album is from the Bowie track I'm Waiting For The Moon. 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. But the whole thing seems to me to come across as having been put together by people who didn't 'get' the film. Who don't like rock music or have any affinity with the genre.
A truly sad wasted opporunity. 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.
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Writer-director Cameron Crowe (Jerry Maguire, Say Anything, Singles) was a teenager when Rolling Stone magazine sent him out to write cover stories in the 1970s. Nearly 30 years later, Crowe tells the tale in satisfying fashion and extensive detail with Almost Famous, accompanied by a soundtrack that accurately reflects the time of his trial by fire. Led Zeppelin have never before licensed a performance to a soundtrack, so "That's the Way" earns the distinction. A live version of Lou Reed's "Waiting for the Man" performed by David Bowie in 1972 typifies the emerging underground glam movement. Classic rock from Simon & Garfunkel, Rod Stewart, Elton John, and Yes fill things out. Cat Stevens's "The Wind" is rescued from the Timberland commercial. Nancy Wilson of Heart contributes the original score (one track, "Lucky Trumble," featured here) and a track by the fictitious hard-rock band Stillwater, whose "Fever Dog" sounds like a lost track from the hard-rock-guitar wars of the 1970s. Add in tracks by garage-rock faves the Seeds, soul strutter Clarence Carter, and Southern rockers Lynyrd Skynyrd and the Allman Brothers Band and you've got an expansive collection of tunes to sift through. More than 50 songs are featured in the film. Next question: when's volume 2? --Rob O'ConnorClassic Rock Music CDs
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