Easy Rider: Soundtrack [Soundtrack] [Import]

easy rider: soundtrack [soundtrack] [import]

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Product Description
Unavailable on CD in the U.S., this is the soundtrack to Dennis Hopper's 1969 film about drifters Hopper and Peter Fonda motorcycling across America. This is a reissue on MCA of the original soundtrack, but with different cover art. 10 tracks, including classics from Steppenwolf, the Byrds, Jimi Hendrix, Roger McGuinn, the Electric Prunes and more! Both the original 1969 soundtrack & this 1976 reissue are MCA releases.

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Easy Rider: Soundtrack [Soundtrack] [Import]

Average customer rating:

Mother Earth will swallow you...
Works... in combination with "The Trip"
Great Album
Great music, bad sound, get the other one instead
Memories of my youthful rebellious stage.

Easy Rider: Soundtrack
Original Soundtrack
Manufacturer: Mca Import
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000005RVS
Release Date: 1998-09-01

Tracks:

The Pusher - Steppenwolf
Born To Be Wild - Steppenwolf
The Weight - Smith
Wasn't Born To Follow - The Byrds
If You Want To Be A Bird - The Holy Modal Rounders
Don't Bogart Me - The Fraternity Of Man
If Six Was Nine - The Jimi Hendrix Experience
Kyrie Eleison Mardi Gras - The Electric Prunes
It's Alright Ma (I'm Only Bleeding) - Roger McGuinn
Ballad Of Easy Rider - Roger McGuinn

Album Description

Unavailable on CD in the U.S., this is the soundtrack to Dennis Hopper's 1969 film about drifters Hopper and Peter Fonda motorcycling across America. This is a reissue on MCA of the original soundtrack, but with different cover art. 10 tracks, including classics from Steppenwolf, the Byrds, Jimi Hendrix, Roger McGuinn, the Electric Prunes and more! Both the original 1969 soundtrack & this 1976 reissue are MCA releases.

Customer Reviews:

Mother Earth will swallow you..........2007-02-20

Before the soundtrack was issued on CD in the states, only this German import was available. Boasting some superb period tracks like the Byrds' "Wasn't Born To Follow" and Hendrix's "If 6 was 9" alongside some harder to find stuff like the Electric Prunes' "Kyrie Eleison" and Roger McGuinn's version of Bob Dylan's "It's Alright Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)," it's easy to overlook some of the omissions and flaws. Of course there's the substituted version of "The Weight," not a bad version at all really.

Sound quality-wise, it sounds like a lot of early unremastered CD re-issues. That is, not great. But not terrible either. Audiophiles take heed and run screaming for the pricier re-issue, which is bulked out with more "period" music (which, honestly, is really nice as a "value add-on" but does nothing for the soundtrack since most of these extra songs weren't featured in the film and are thus just a post-summer of love pastiche).

An interesting sidenote: The closing track, McGuinn's "Ballad Of Easy Rider," (a different mix than the version recorded by the Byrds) was originally going to be Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young's "Find The Cost Of Freedom." Apparently Dennis Hopper wasn't into it at the time, so the song became CSNY's longstanding show-closer instead.

Works... in combination with "The Trip".......2004-12-15

Contains _most_ of the music from the film. But is missing one key track: "Flash, Bam, Pow" by Electric Flag (played in the film as Wyatt and Billy ride away from New Orleans after the LSD sequence and before Wyatt concludes, "We blew it" during the final campfire scene). The missing Electric Flag track can be found only on the CD soundtrack to "The Trip" -- a Peter Fonda film written by Jack Nicholson which itself contains some pretty cool music.

Great Album.......2004-04-23

If you like the movie Easy Rider you'll love the soundtrack, it has the best songs from the movie and they sound great. Definately a good buy for just a few bucks.

Great music, bad sound, get the other one instead.......2000-12-03

This CD is chock full of the great music from the film Easy Rider. I have this import CD from a few years ago, but the sound quality is very bad. The CD was reissued in the US in 2000, with the original cover. I don't have that CD yet, but I strongly suggest getting it instead of this one in hopes that the sound will be better.

Memories of my youthful rebellious stage........1999-08-18

The movie was one of the defining motion pictures of my teen age years. The music augmented perfectly the movie. The soundtrack was a bit less than satisfactory with the omission of "The Weight" by the Band and the substitution of the song by Smith, but it was only a minor flaw. I had played the vinyl album a multitude of times so that it was pretty much unplayable and it was with some satisfaction that I was able to find it on CD. I would recommend the movie and the sound track to anyone who wants a taste of the '60s.

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