| Product Summary | | Label: Universal Music Group | | UPC: 00602498163597 | | Release Date: 3/23/2004 | | Buy.com Sku: 60628816 | | Item#: MKF3LL | | Buy.com Sales Rank: 25079 | Format:  CD |
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Disc 1
| | Song Title | Sample | | 1. Pusher, The - Steppenwolf ~ Original Soundtrack |  | | 2. Born To Be Wild - Steppenwolf ~ Original Soundtrack | | | 3. Weight, The - Smith ~ Original Soundtrack | | | 4. Wasn't Born To Follow - The Byrds ~ Original Soundtrack | | | 5. If You Want To Be A Bird - The Holy Modal Rounders ~ Original Soundtrack | | | 6. Don't Bogart Me - Fraternity Of Man ~ Original Soundtrack | | | 7. If 6 Was 9 - Jimi Hendrix ~ Original Soundtrack | | | 8. Kyrie Eleison / Mardi Gras - The Electric Prunes ~ Original Soundtrack | | | 9. It's Alright Ma (I'm Only Bleeding) - Roger McGuinn ~ Original Soundtrack | | | 10. Ballad Of Easy Rider - Roger McGuinn ~ Original Soundtrack | | Disc 2
| | Song Title | Sample | | 1. Pushin' Too Hard - The Seeds ~ Original Soundtrack | | | 2. I Had Too Much to Dream Last Night - The Electric Prunes ~ Original Soundtrack | | | 3. We Ain't Got Nothin' Yet - Blues Magoos ~ Original Soundtrack | | | 4. San Franciscan Nights - Eric Burdon & The Animals ~ Original Soundtrack | | | 5. White Rabbit - Jefferson Airplane ~ Original Soundtrack | | | 6. I Can See For Miles - The Who ~ Original Soundtrack | | | 7. Whiter Shade Of Pale - Procol Harum ~ Original Soundtrack | | | 8. Groovin' - The Young Rascals ~ Original Soundtrack | | | 9. High Flyin' Bird - Richie Havens ~ Original Soundtrack | | | 10. Weight, The - The Band ~ Original Soundtrack | | | 11. You Ain't Going Nowhere - The Byrds ~ Original Soundtrack | | | 12. Time Has Come Today - The Chambers Brothers ~ Original Soundtrack | | | 13. With A Little Help From My Friends - Joe Cocker ~ Original Soundtrack | | | 14. Summertime Blues - Blue Cheer ~ Original Soundtrack | | | 15. Nights In White Satin - The Moody Blues ~ Original Soundtrack | | | 16. Mendecino - Sir Douglas Quintet ~ Original Soundtrack | | | 17. Get Together - The Youngbloods ~ Original Soundtrack | | | 18. My Uncle - Flying Burrito Brothers ~ Original Soundtrack | | | 19. Something In The Air - Thunderclap Newman ~ Original Soundtrack | |
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Notes & Personnel Info |  | Producers: Stephen Blauner, Joel Sill, Steve Barri. | | Compilation producer: Mike Ragogna. | | Includes liner notes by Mike Ragogna. | | Includes liner notes by Bud Scoppa. | | All tracks have been digitally remastered. | | Easy Rider was the surprise box-office hit of the summer of 1969, a low-budget film about a couple of hippies who use their profits from a drug deal to drive their motorcycles across the Southwest and attend New Orleans' Mardi Gras celebrations, encountering adventures and tragedy along the way. It turned out to be a telling portrait of America's cultural divide in the late '60s, and no small part of its impact was the soundtrack music, which eschewed a traditional score (the filmmakers couldn't have afforded that, anyway) in favor of rock music. Even then, director Dennis Hopper didn't have much special music written, instead mostly using songs he'd heard on the radio in 1968 while he was editing the film. (In the liner notes to the 2000 CD reissue, Hopper claims that he canceled a proposed Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young score when he became enamored with his own selections; other accounts claim the film studio insisted on the music used in the rough cut.) | | So, the film's music consisted of such 1968 rock radio favorites as Steppenwolf's "The Pusher" and "Born to Be Wild," the Band's "The Weight," the Byrds' "Wasn't Born to Follow," and the Jimi Hendrix Experience's "If Six Was Nine," with such humorous changes of pace as the Holy Modal Rounders' cosmic folk song "If You Want to Be a Bird" and Fraternity of Man's marijuana-smoking behavior guide "Don't Bogart Me." Hopper had little trouble persuading various record labels to grant the screen rights to these songs at a time when re-used rock wasn't heard much in movies. Roger McGuinn, making his solo performing debut, contributed new recordings of Bob Dylan's "It's Alright Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)" and his own specially written "Ballad of Easy Rider," actually co-written with Dylan, who was not credited. | | When Easy Rider became a successful film upon release, a decision was made to release a soundtrack album, and most labels agreed to license their tracks to Dunhill/ABC. Only Capitol Records held out, so the Band's version of "The Weight" was replaced by a near-copy recorded by Dunhill act Smith. The soundtrack album also featured some dialogue and sound effects from the film. The result was a commercial bonanza: The album reached the Top Ten and went gold, becoming the second most successful soundtrack LP of the year, after the Nino Rota score to Romeo and Juliet. Just as the film transformed values in Hollywood, the soundtrack album helped give birth to a new business in which soundtrack albums became collections of various pop songs that sometimes out-grossed the films with which they were associated. | | Its very success ironically doomed the availability of the Easy Rider soundtrack album, however. By the CD era, the various labels that controlled the songs were no longer happy to license their material, and the album went out of print, although a CD was issued overseas in 1993. Finally, on June 13, 2000, MCA managed to bring the Easy Rider soundtrack album back into print in the U.S. Thirty-one years later, it still sounded like a good thematic collection, reflecting the film's values of drug use and open-road freedom. Songs like "Born to Be Wild" and "The Weight" had long-since been enshrined as rock classics, and the lighter material continued to amuse, confirming Easy Rider as both a historical document and an entertaining listen, especially to those who knew the film. ~ William Ruhlmann | | The definitive 1960s soundtrack to a definitive 1960s film, this album can be seen as the soundtrack not only to the film, but to the era itself. Ranging in style from proto-metal (Steppenwolf) and dope rock (Fraternity of Man) to folk balladry (Roger McGuinn), EASY RIDER conjures up the wild and surreal images and associations for which the decade has been celebrated. | | The crunching blues-rock of Jimi Hendrix's "If Six Was Nine" espouses a lo-fi, greasy, axe-wielding ethic that contrasts nicely with the more gentle, reflective melodies interspersed with increasing frequency towards the end. The soundtrack closes with McGuinn crooning the elegiac "Ballad of Easy Rider." |
| | Technical Info | | Release Date : 03/25/2004 | | Original Release Date : 1969 | | Catalog ID : 0002115 | | Label : Hip-O Records | | Number of Discs : 2 | | Studio/Live : Studio | | Mono/Stereo : Stereo | | SPAR Code : n/a | | UPC : 00602498163597 |
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| | Professional Reviews | | Entertainment Weekly (10/12/01, p.34)
- Ranked #31 in EW's "100 Best Movie Soundtracks" - "...An embarrassment of riches..."Mojo (Publisher)
(6/02, p.66)
- Included in Mojo's "100 Coolest Movie Soundtracks" - "...Hippy heaven..." |
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5 of 5 Essential '60s soundtrack receives a full release Wednesday, April 07, 2004
redtunictroll from Earth, USA
In some ways it's fitting that the soundtrack to this landmark film has suffered a series of legal hassles from The Man. In its original 1969 vinyl release, it was denied the film's use of The Band's "The Weight" (by the band's then-label Capitol), and a sound-alike cover by Smith was issued in its place. More recently, the soundtrack was withheld from domestic CD reissue, squeaking out a European version many years before MCA's 2000 digital issue. The latter reunited The Band with their film-mates, at the expense of altering the original Smith-bred artifact. Hip-O's deluxe two-disc reissue provides the best of both worlds – including both versions of "The Weight" – and filling out a second disc of contemporaneous radio hits.
The original soundtrack is a five-star release on its own, brilliantly capturing the flavor of the film and its times with a carefully selected set of music, and augmented with snippets of sound and dialogue. Many of these songs were, or became, period classics, burned into everyone's consciousness by endless radio play; but what really makes the album great are the non-hit tracks. Beyond the collection of well-worn hits are more unusual inclusions: The Holy Modal Rounders' lunatic old-timey "If You Want to be a Bird (Bird Song)," Fraternity of Man's stoner country "Don't Bogart That Joint" and The Electric Prunes' reverb-drenched psychedelic mass "Kyrie Ellison." Roger McGuinn's cover of Dylan's "It's Alright Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)" and his original "Ballad of Easy Rider" close out the original track lineup with a helping of paranoia, dissolution and salvation.
Disc two adds 19 period selections that flesh out the country's growing acid-paranoia, from the independence-minded garage punk of The Seeds and psychedelic trippings of the Electric Prunes and Jefferson Airplane, to the reactionary folk of Richie Havens and The Youngbloods, and heavy-metal acid freak-out of Blue Cheer. Nearly all of this will be very familiar to those weaned on the era's radio, as well as those who've bought other late-60s anthologies. The Band's original version of "The Weight," omitted from the original soundtrack, is a bonus; the rest of the disc, which, unsurprisingly, plays more like an anthology than a film soundtrack, is superfluous in contrast to the original soundtrack. Was this review helpful?  
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