Almost Famous

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Excellent Movie, excellent Soundtrack.We can expect more to come, cause there are so many great songs featured in "Almost Famous". Here is a list : 1. America - Simon and Garfunkel 2. Sparks - The Who 3. It Wouldn't Have Made Any Difference - Todd Rundgren 4. I've Seen All Good People: Your Move - Yes 5. Feel Flows - The Beach Boys 6. Fever Dog - Stillwater 7. Every Picture Tells A Story - Rod Stewart 8. Mr. Farmer - The Seeds 9. One Way Out - The Allman Borthers Band 10. Simple Man - Lynyrd Skynyrd 11. That's The Way - Led Zeppelin 12. Tiny Dancer - Elton John 13. Lucky Trumble - Nancy Wilson 14. I'm Waiting For The Man - David Bowie 15. The Wind - Cat Stevens 16. Slip Away - Clarence Carter 17. Something In The Air - Thunderclap Newman 18. Teacher - Jethro Tull 19. Mona Lisa's and Mad Hatters - Elton John 20. Tangerine - Led Zeppelin 21. Search and Destroy - Iggy Pop 22. Sweet Leaf - Black Sabbath 23. Go All the Way - Eric Carmen & The Raspberries 24. Misty Mountain Hop - Led Zeppelin 25. The Chipmunk Song - The Chipmunks 26. Roundabout - Yes 27. Bron-yr-aur - Led Zeppelin 28. Small Time Blues - Pete Droge 29. Hour of Need - Stillwater 30. Paranoid - Black Sabbath 31. The Rain Song - Led Zeppelin 32. Everbody knows this is nowhere - Neil Young 33. Future Games - Fleetwood Mac 34. Albert Flasher - Guess Who 35. Love Thing - Stillwater 36. Burn - Deep Purple 37. You had to be there - Stillwater 38. Reeling in the Years - Steely Dan 39. Dear Jill - Bloodwyn Pig 40. Love comes and goes - Stillwater 41. Voodoo Child - Jimi Hendrix 42. Slip away - Clarance Carter 43. Wishing well - Free 44. My Cherie Amour - Stevie Wonder 45. Looking at you - MCS 46. Cortez the Killer - Neil Young 47. The Oogum Boogum Song - Brenton Wood 48. River - Joni Mitchell 49. Easy to slip - Little Feat 50. Peggy Sue 51. Cover of the Rolling Stone 52. Colour my World

OK, while almost every song on this soundtrack is terrific...where is the rest of it? There are SO many good songs throughout this movie (one review below actually listed them all--you can see that this soundtrack has some big gaping holes) that really should have been on this soundtrack. They should have either:

a. made this a two-disc (three disc?) package, or,

b. left out some of the less meaningful songs on this soundtrack so they could include some of the more meaningful, powerful songs.

For example, 'Tangerine' by Led Zeppelin. The closing song to the movie (when the bus is driving away). Probably my favorite Zeppelin song, so maybe I'm biased, but I really think this should have been included. It fit the end of that movie PERFECTLY. It made the whole movie for me. That's one thing I always remember about this movie, that it closed with that song and how perfectly it fit the scene. Perfect. Everytime I watch the movie, hearing the song just makes me sad. It fits the mood just right. (movie spoilers...don't read the rest of the paragraph if you don't want it spoiled) Penny Lane goes to Morocco, and you never do find out if she sees William before she leaves...you know she probably does, but Cameron Crowe didn't include it in the ending. Makes you feel kinda sad...after hearing how much Penny cares about William, then she leaves. Then the movie closes with the lyrics..."I was her love, she was my queen, and now a thousand years...between." PERFECT.

And it's not on the soundtrack. To me it's the most memorable part of the movie, and it's not on the soundtrack.

A soundtrack should tell the story of a movie, only through the music (especially THIS movie, which is entirely about music). There are many songs that added so much more meaning to the movie than, for example, the Rod Stewart or Todd Rundgren songs, which I could have easily dealt without in place of:

'Mona Lisas and Mad Hatters?' by Elton John?

'The Rain Song' by Zeppelin?

'Everyone Knows This is Nowhere' by Neil Young?

'River' by Joni Mitchell?

Again, a very incomplete soundtrack. It has some good songs, but if you're looking for a soundtrack to the actual movie, you'd be better off compiling your own.