Zabriskie Point: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
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Free Music Review: Floyd music is terific
Hit: 4 Stars
It is certainly a very good double CD. If you are a Pink Floyd fan, you need this album for your collection and you won't be disappointed with the Floyd music.Free Music Review: 3.5 Stars-A collection of gems, almost-gems, and curiosities
Hit: 3 Stars
The soundtrack to Michelangelo Antonioni's somewhat controversial (and commercially disastrous) late 60s cult film is a strangely compelling mishmash of (mostly) 60s underground sounds, a blend of dark post-psychedelic acid rock, experimental flourishes, and eerie country and folk explorations. The original album (which makes up the first of this reissue's two discs) featured three early Pink Floyd tracks, recorded when they were still basically an underground group. Of these three, "Crumbling Land," with its wistful and dreamy folk melodies, is an accessible gem. On the opposite side of the spectrum is "Come In Number 51, Your Time Is Up," a howling acidic freak-out. It's basically just "Careful With That Axe, Eugene," but with a different name. It's also awesome. On the other hand, "Heart Beat, Pig Meat" is a horribly dated and utterly directionless bit of background filler. The other popular band here is the Grateful Dead, who are represented by a two-and-a-half minute excerpt from their live epic "Dark Star." It's a fine bit of music, but anyone who owns the Live/Dead album will have little use for this. However, the other track to feature a member of the Grateful Dead, Jerry Garcia's "Love Scene," is a beautiful and somewhat elegiac guitar solo that brings to mind some of the man's best moments. Outside of those two legendary groups, we have the sinewy "Dance Of Death," courtesy of cult folk artist John Fahey, and two eerie folk numbers entitled "Tennessee Waltz" and "I Wish I Were A Single Girl Again," by Patti Page and Roscoe Holcomb respectively. Aside from that, the songs tend to be fairly forgettable- there's a decent country/folk romp from the Youngbloods, and a couple of similarly minded, similarly effective numbers from the Kaleidoscope. The resulting package is a nice little artifact that is occasionally very entertaining and sometimes even beautiful. Pink Floyd and Grateful Dead completists will certainly want to purchase this puppy, especially considering the fact that this edition features a bonus disc with four out-takes apiece from each from Jerry Garcia and the 'Floyd. Garcia's numbers are all alternate improvisations of "Love Scene," and for they sound just plain lovely. Pink Floyd's numbers include the surreal and hypnotic "Country Song," as well as two rejected (but still very nice) attempts at background music for the same "Love Scene" that Jerry's improvisations were created for. They're both very pretty and piano based. Also included is a certain "Unknown Song," which is a pleasantly languid mixture of accoustic and electric guitars. All in all, a nice little document of the late 60s.Free Music Review: Very entertaining curio
Hit: 3 Stars
Great to see this odd item back in print; Rhino has done an outstanding job with the reissue.
For me the main attraction was the relatively rare Pink Floyd material, along with the Kaleidescope. I'd say I've never liked the Grateful Dead, but if you're a fan I'd expect that the rather subdued Garcia tunes here would please as well.
The PF outtakes are all interesting, and of the officially released tunes, the two instrumentals offer variations on the kind of creeping atmospherics introduced on SAUCERFUL OF SECRETS, and perfected on MEDDLE and DARK SIDE. The exception - "Crumbling Land" - is a breezy piece of folk rock with a very pleasantly undulating sense of melody, further enhanced by the complex, shimmering harmonies.
As for the film, this was one of those problematic reflections of the times - Antonioni tended to prefer ambient sound (i.e. a lack of composed scores or songs) in his films, and his best films have no music, thus by all accounts this soundtrack collaboration was a strained working situation. Perhaps because of it, the soundtrack (and the film, which is underrated, but very, very challenging) should stand on their own merits, and throughout the soundtrack is always interesting, even if it isn't all great.
-David Alston
Free Music Review: Zabriskie Point - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack(Rhino)
Hit: 3 Stars
Without a doubt,this is one interesting soundtrack due to the diverse line-up of contributing artists.The best songs would be the three Pink Floyd numbers "Heart Beat,Pig Meat","Come In Number 51",the somewhat country-like "Crumbling Land" and the Grateful Dead's "Dark Star".A total of nineteen cuts on this 2-CD expanded reissue of the 1970 film score.'Zabriskie's Point' displays each artist's full-hearted attempt to provide a decent piece for the movie's love scene on the beach.But apparently none of the songs were suitable for the film's director Michelangelo Antonioni.It's been noted from Floyd bassist Roger Waters,"It was a sheer hell,there was no pleasing this man whatsoever".With this reissue,you get four extra tunes by Jerry Garcia and four extra instrumentals from Floyd as well.I liked "Love Scene Version 6" the best.Other performers on the CD include Patti Page,the Youngbloods,and Kaleidoscope.Free Music Review: Not just Floyd - - but sold for it's Floyd
Hit: 3 Stars
Pink Floyd on another soundtrack? Why not! The creations for this War-Farce movie were experimentative creations of the band and are very hard to find. The songs hear are echoes of other Floyd creations, past and future.The other tunes on the album? I guess they're alright if you are into that sort of thing ;)