Store Categories V/A Almost Famous / 2x LP NEW COLORED VINYL / unofficial 2021

unofficial 2021 reissue on colored vinyl - Although it's been pronounced dead more often than Mark Twain, the life expectancy of rock & roll was surely looking faint at the end of the '60s. Few people realize that it wasn't all bad. As Almost Famous' central character slowly realizes, it's much less important what history may mean to music journalists 30 years from now than what it means to actually experience it right then and there. Maybe it was a hard lesson to learn. Because while the counterculture and its music started to become everything it hated (and too soon before punk came to remind everybody what the revolution was really about) rock's "lurch" still promised much for those that paid attention.

Indeed, it would take a concentrated effort to ignore this soundtrack's refreshing outlook. Simon & Garfunkel and the Who are pitted right against Yes and Elton John. The Beach Boys against Cat Stevens. There's a sense of heady nostalgia here -- but one more deliberately adolescent and tender than the schlock-infested oldies radio station trends of most soundtracks of this ilk. The Seeds are represented by one of their most psychedelic pop gems ("Mr. Farmer") while Thunderclap Newman sounds almost prophetic with their playfully carny-piano mini-marathon ("Something in the Air"). Even the two new fictionalized compositions both manage to evoke the feeling of a waning era with just the right amount of reminiscence.

This is surely not a definitive collection of post-'60s music and it's proud not to be. Like all great soundtracks, the one for Almost Famous works both as an instant reminder of the film's highs as well as a personal, startling perspective into the very "last gasps" of rock & roll.

A1 Simon & Garfunkel - America
A2 The Who - Sparks
A3 Todd Rundgren - It Wouldn't Have Made Any Difference
A4 Yes - I've Seen All Good People: Your Move
A5 The Beach Boys - Feel Flows
B1 Stillwater - Fever Dog
B2 Rod Stewart - Every Picture Tells A Story
B3 The Seeds - Mr. Farmer
B4 The Allman Brothers Band - One Way Out
C1 Lynyrd Skynyrd - Simple Man
C2 Led Zeppelin - That's The Way
C3 Elton John - Tiny Dancer
D1 Nancy Wilson (2) - Lucky Trumble
D2 David Bowie - I'm Waiting For The Man
D3 Cat Stevens - The Wind
D4 Clarence Carter - Slip Away
D5 Thunderclap Newman - Something In The Air

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