| Product Summary | | Label: Uni/geffen | | UPC: 00720642521823 | | Release Date: 5/19/1998 | | Buy.com Sku: 60010465 | | Item#: MH52R5 | | Buy.com Sales Rank: 25079 | Format:  CD |
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Disc 1
| | Song Title | Sample | | 1. Combination Of The Two - Big Brother & The Holding Company ~ Original Soundtrack |  | | 2. One Toke Over The Line - Brewer & Shipley ~ Original Soundtrack | | | 3. She's A Lady - Tom Jones ~ Original Soundtrack | | | 4. For Your Love - The Yardbirds ~ Original Soundtrack | | | 5. White Rabbit - Jefferson Airplane ~ Original Soundtrack | | | 6. Drug Score, A (Part 1: Acid Spill) - Tomotasu Hotei/Ray Cooper ~ Original Soundtrack | | | 7. Get Together - The Youngbloods ~ Original Soundtrack | | | 8. Mama Told Me Not To Come - Three Dog Night ~ Original Soundtrack | | | 9. Stuck Inside of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again - Bob Dylan ~ Original Soundtrack | | | 10. Time Is Tight - Booker T. & The MG's ~ Original Soundtrack | | | 11. Magic Moments - Perry Como ~ Original Soundtrack | | | 12. Drug Score, A (Part 2: Adrenochrome, The Devil's Dance) - Tomoyasu Hotei/Ray Cooper ~ Original Soundtrack | | | 13. Tammy - Debbie Reynolds ~ Original Soundtrack | | | 14. Drug Score, A (Part 3: Flashbacks) - Tomoyasu Hotei/Ray Cooper ~ Original Soundtrack | | | 15. Expecting To Fly - Buffalo Springfield ~ Original Soundtrack | | | 16. Viva Las Vegas - The Dead Kennedys ~ Original Soundtrack | |
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Notes & Personnel Info |  | Audio Mixer: Andre Jacquemin. | | Recording information: Air-Edel, London, England. | | Editor: Kevin Lane. | | Photographer: Peter Mountain. | | For years, it was speculated that Hunter S. Thompson's wild, dope-fueled, hallucinatory Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas was simply one of those books that couldn't be adapted for film. Nevertheless, Terry Gilliam -- possibly one of the only contemporary directors with enough visual panache to pull it off -- brought it to life in 1998 with Johnny Depp as Raoul Duke and Benicio Del Toro as Duke's Samoan lawyer, Dr. Gonzo. Promising cast, promising director, and a bunch of promising cameos (Christina Ricci, Tobey Maguire, Cameron Diaz, Lyle Lovett, etc.) -- all the ingredients for a good movie, plus a good period-piece soundtrack, as well. Gilliam has stocked the film with familiar cuts from the late '60s and early '70s -- "White Rabbit," "For Your Love," "Get Together," "Mama Told Me (Not to Come)," "One Toke Over the Line" -- plus album cuts (albeit classics) from Bob Dylan ("Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again"), Buffalo Springfield ("Expecting to Fly") and Big Brother & the Holding Company ("Combination of the Two"). There's also a clutch of Las Vegas lounge standards, such as Tom Jones' "She's a Lady," Perry Como's "Magic Moments" and Debbie Reynolds' "Tammy," that hammer home the fact that the movie is set in Vegas. Excerpts from the score and bits of dialogue are scattered throughout it all. All of this plays better if you know the book or seen the movie, but it still has a certain warped charm that's pretty fun, regardless of your familiarity with the crown prince of gonzo journalism. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine | | Another in a series of wildly eclectic compilation soundtracks (see THE BIG LEBOWSKI). It's not often that one can sample Bob Dylan, Tom Jones and Perry Como all on one disc. Yet the effect is not all that disparate, thanks in part to the brief spoken excerpts from Hunter Thompson's gonzo screed on which the film is based. Given the drug-drenched nature of the narrative, the selections are skewed to tried-and-true hippie psychedelic classics ( "White Rabbit", "Expecting To Fly"), except for Como's "Magic Moments" and Debbie Reynolds' "Tammy," which veer towards the surreal. | | Of course, Tom Jones ' "She's A Lady" is a little more appropriate, given the Las Vegas setting. Composers Tomoyasu Hotei and Ray Cooper also provide "A Drug Score," an effective 3-part acid freak jam scattered throughout the disc. The whole goofy trip ends with The Dead Kennedys' thrashing cover of "Viva Las Vegas." Given the proto-punk ethos of Hunter Thompson's writing and its roots in West Coast psychedelia , this surprise appearance by San Francisco's witty homegrown punks makes a twisted kind of sense. |
Producer: Terry Gilliam; Ray Cooper |
Engineer: Rupert Coulson |
| | Technical Info | | Release Date : 05/07/2005 | | Original Release Date : 1998 | | Catalog ID : 25218 | | Label : Geffen Records (USA) | | Number of Discs : 1 | | Studio/Live : Studio | | Mono/Stereo : Stereo | | SPAR Code : n/a | | UPC : 00720642521823 |
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