The Big Lebowski: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
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Composer: Carter BurwellComposer: Piero Piccioni
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language); German (Original Language); Hebrew (Original Language); Spanish (Original Language)
Format: Soundtrack
CD Release Date: 1998-02-24
Music Label: Island / Mercury
Soundtracks:
- The Man In Me - Bob Dylan
- Her Eyes Are A Blue Million Miles - Captain Beefheart
- My Mood Swings - Elvis Costello
- Ataypura - Yma Sumac
- Traffic Boom - Piero Piccioni
- I Got It Bad And That Ain't Good - Nina Simone
- Stamping Ground - Moondog With Orchestra
- Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In) - Kenny Rogers And The First Edition
- Walking Song - Meredith Monk
- Die Tote Standt - Gluck Das Mir Verblieb
- Lujon - Henry Mancini
- Hotel California - Gipsy Kings
- Technopop - Carter Burwell
- Dead Flowers - Townes Van Zandt
Music reviews of The Big Lebowski: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Music Review: I think I found the creedence tape...
Rating: 5 Stars
First let's get this out of the way: This is a great soundtrack! One cannot help but visualize the film while listening. From Bob to the Gipsy Kings to Kenny Rogers. The songs are now forever linked to the Dude and Jesus and Maude. Anyone who loves the film will want to own this. This review isn't so much about that but about my criticism of film soundtrack criticism in general.
There are several reasons why a soundtrack like this is "incomplete". Most of the time a soundtrack featuring various artists includes much more music than can fit on one cd. With BL specifically obviously there were some tracks that seem like they "must" be included. Songs that were featured prominently (tumbleweeds) or are indispensible to the plot (the eagles or creedence) seem much more valuable than say the Captain Beefheart or Costello songs.
While the "missing" songs are included the film, the rights to these songs may be limited and their inclusion on a soundtrack is NOT possible (how many Led Zeppelin songs have you ever seen on a soundtrack album? They won't even let a few notes of "Stairway to Heaven" be heard in Wayne's World).
I think a third reason is simply financial. Do you want to pay $30 for a "complete" Big Lebowski soundtrack just to get a few tracks that you probably already own (I wanted this cd for the tracks I didn't own or had never heard before. My indispensible track is "Dead Flowers"). Some of the missing songs may have been available but just not affordable if they were going to release a normally priced disc. I can imagine the crooks at Fantasy Records charging an arm an a leg for putting a Creedence track on the soundtrack.
Basically, this cd gives us a challenge to act like the Dude. Let's make our own mix tape (well, okay mix-cd)! The Dude most definately abides!
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