Saturday, May 2, 2009

Great Soundtrack

If you like Bob Dylan songs that is. I saw a movie called "Masked and Anonymous" (not too sweet a movie-see my web site) with a great soundtrack.
"Most of the Time" by Sophie Zetmani is my favorite song. It's better than Dylan does it, but that's not too hard to believe. Did you ever hear "Like a Rolling Stone" done in Spanish hip-hop? Awesome, by Articolo 31 with Dylan on the chorus in English. "City of Gold" by The Dixie Hummingbirds is one of the two songs on the cd which are not in the movie. I'm glad it was included for sure. "Gotta Serve Somebody" by Shirley Caesar is the other tune which wasn't in the movie. Again, much better than Dylan's version in my opinion. "If You See Her, Say Hello" is in Italian by Francisco de Gregorio. "Senor" is a nice version by the late Jerry Garcia. The traditional song "Dixie" is sung by Mr. Dylan. Those are my 7 favorite tracks. All of the songs except for "Dixie" and "Diamond Joe" (another traditional tune) were written by the great poet Bob D. There are 14 tracks. Also of interest are "One More Cup of Coffee" by the Turkish singer Sertab and a Japanese "My Back Pages". There is not a bad tune anywhere. Only one regret about the soundtrack: "Blowin' in the Wind", which runs during the final credits for the movie, wasn't ready in time to be included. Thousands of people have recorded this song, but I've never heard anything like this unique, tremendous version. It's unrecognizable except for the words. It was performed by Percy Faith and His Orchestra!! What the #@*^&? I'm not normally a fan.
At the same time I purchased (from Amazon) Marianne Faithful's "Easy Come Easy Go". Not as good. The title song's o.k. She does a nice "Down From Dover" which was written by Dolly Parton. "Sing Me Back Home", a Merle Haggard song, is really nice (with Keith Richards-they are old buddies). My wife says she sounds like a "lounge lizard".

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