Out of print in the U.S.! Digitally remastered two CD edition of this soundtrack from the 1970 film featuring music from Pink Floyd, Kaleidoscope, Grateful Dead, Patti Page, the Youngbloods, John Fahey and others. This double disc edition includes a bonus CD that contains four songs from both Jerry Garcia and Pink Floyd that did NOT appear on the original soundtrack release. Zabriskie Point was a film by Italian director Michelangelo Antonioni, widely noted at the time for it's setting in the late 1960s counter-culture of the United States. Some of the film's scenes were shot on location at Zabriskie Point in Death Valley. Sony Classical.
A**T
Of special interest to die-hard fans of Floyd and The Dead
I have never seen this film, and all I know is what I have read. It sounds like it might be interesting, but I can't say. But this soundtrack, on the merits of the music alone, is an excellent cross-section of styles and genres circa 1969-70. The sound is clear and solid, a huge improvement on the original not-so-good sounding release. This is a purely personal observation, as my old copy was a store-bought cassette. It sounded alright, but it pales next to this reissue.The material is a juxtaposition (real word?) of mostly psychedelic rock and old-style American country music; when it was still good. No chubby smiling wannabe with his black cowboy hat crooning for the droves of clueless masses, etc. No, this is the real thing. A subversive mood is set with Pink Floyd's "Heartbeat Pigmeat." The title sets it up; it's strange and incongruous, as is the music. The cleaned-up sound really takes this to its extreme, and the swirling sounds and voices are perfectly reproduced. I won't belabor the reader with a song-by-song synopsis, this has been done into the ground, but a curious thing happens while listening to this whole disc, in order; the original recordings are of varying quality, but this is okay, as Patti Page's "Tennesee Waltz" has retained its smoky late 40's early 50's tone because of this. And the bluegrass song, Roscoe Holcomb's "Wish I Was A Single Girl Again" just wouldn't sound right if it were "State-Of-The-Art."But, to the Floyd fan, anyway, the highlight is the set's closing number, "Come In Number 51, Your Time Is Up." This is a superior remake of the 1968 classic, "Careful With That Axe, Eugene." The quiet part is more sinister and malevolent, and the other part is, well, to the uninitiated, a real adrenaline rush. The explosive nature of it, the booklet says, conveys a very violent scene in the movie. Again, I haven't seen it. I'm shooting in the dark.The second disc is the bonus material, and the first four tracks are basically a half-hour of Jerry Garcia noodling away on his guitar. It's not particularly exciting to listen to, quite dull, actually, but it does show his talent as a very lyrical musician. It's relaxing, in fact, and one can cue these selections up when preparing for bed. Garcia was a good musician and a great guy, and he will be missed.The rest of the bonus disc is taken from a month's torture Pink Floyd went through trying to satisfy the film's director, Mr. Antonioni. They just couldn't make him happy. But the material here is tastefully rendered, and once again, the analog sound has been digitized and sounds fresh and new. BUT! There is an error in the booklet's text. It says the track titled "Country Song" is sung by Roger Waters. Any Floyd fan, even a tepid one, can tell Waters' voice from Gilmour's and Wright's. The voice is clearly Gilmour's, even if Waters wrote the lyrics, which he probably did. These selections were obviously untitled at the time, the current titles convey this. "Country Song," Unknown Song," "Love Scene-Version 6" and "love Scene-Version 4," they lack the poetic value of other original titles, such as 1968's "A Saucerful Of Secrets." Original title: "The Massed Gadgets Of Hercules." 1971's "Echoes:" "The Return Of The Son Of Nothing."But we now have, nonetheless, a very good soundtrack recording of an old subversive film, and some new nuggets from Garcia, and Misters Waters, Wright, Mason, and Gilmour.I really wish people still did stuff like this.
G**C
Zabriskie Point: More Than Just a Soundtrack Pink Floyd and Jerry Garcia Were On, An Underated Masterpiece
One of the best soundtracks ever period. The fact that Pink Floyd is on here so Pink Floyd fans can readily access three of their most obscure tracks is a bonus.The tracks on this soundtrack are diverse and segued as such that the main album flows organically from Pink Floyd to Kaleidoscope and others.As a bonus, there us a second disc of out takes from both Pink Floyd and Jerry Garcia, four tracks each. Jerry Garcia tracks are generically named Version 1, Version 2, Version 3 and Version 4 under the main title LOVE SCENE IMPROVISATION (whereas in the film, as a solo track, it is Live Scene).The Pink Floyd tracks are:Country SongUnknown Song,Love Scene - Version 6Love Scene - Version 4All tracks, especially the Pink Floyd tracks, have been bootlegged and Country Song (or unknown song, if not both) are known by alternate titles from some bootlegger's mind in the 70's.Please also note, if you were lucky in the United States (not sure about the UK/rest of the world) and picked up the Record Store Day vinyl version of this, one if the Garcia and Floyd tracks are not on the vinyl release, just a heads up for the people that have to have all of the music releases.
D**N
Some cool Floyd on this disk. . . .
The first song on the soundtrack (Heart Beat Pig Meat) is nonsensical instrumentals and recorded talking in the background, but the beat is infectious, this could easily have been included on the Animals album where it would have fit perfectly. The next Floyd song comes after a Grateful Dead song, and the funny thing is Pink Floyd sounds more like the Grateful Dead than the Grateful dead. The third song sounds like it's right off the Live at Pompeii album featuring a lot of Waters' screaming. The final two songs are long instrumentals, Love Theme Version 6 is an 8 minute blues instrumental with some awesome Gilmour and some killer Wright, and the final song Love Theme Version 4 is excellent "fine dining" jazz influenced Piano. Timeless classics
K**F
Some good Floyd and Garcia songs.
The Pink Floyd songs and Jerry Garcia songs are best. Most of the other songs sound very dated. The second CD has some great Floyd songs on it. Rick Wright plays great on the last song of the second CD. The Floyd songs on the second CD range from country, blues to jazz. Comes with a nice booklet giving details about the making of the movie and music.
A**W
Like most of us
Like most of us, I bought this album solely for the rare Pink Floyd tracks. Although I do enjoy Garcia's improvisations and most of the other tracks included. Makes me quite curious what the movie is actually like, I should probably watch it... If you love Floyd, you will not be disappointed. Highly recommend! I also urge you to buy Floyds latest offering "The Early Years," it's a MUST.
G**W
Ancient Pink
This album was made for a movie (worth watching), has some great people and songs, but I really wanted to keep the memories of hearing the few by Floyd, a couple are actually the same music and/or style but with different words, only a fanatic fan of Pink Floyd would know of these songs and be thankful to hear them again.........
D**L
For a PF fan and collector....
I know it's hard to enjoy any Antonioni's film, however, the songs PF prepared for this movie are teh preparing songs for some of DSOTM songs such as Us and Them....It's not all PF, however, it's to date the most complete set of PF songs dedicated to this movie.A must have until a better PF-only OST comes along. (If it ever does)
P**U
A great listen from a rather little known film
If you're into early 60's music then check out this soundtrack. Cuts from early Pink Floyd, Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead & the Youngbloods should be right up your alley. A great listen from a rather little known film, give it a spin....
E**D
curious soundtrack to an great movie
I bought this album for the Pink Floyd tracks - which, it turn out, are not that great - apart from Come In Number 51, Your Time Is Up which is a good version of Careful With That Axe, Eugene. There are actually better out-takes on the various bootlegs around but obviously not in such good sound quality - so maybe for Pink Floyd completist only - it's certainly not nearly as good as the More album.
D**Y
Feed Your Head
Fascinating archive stuff from Pink Floyd and Jerry Garcia. Much better than the movie!
M**S
Jerry G at his most romantic
a golden oldie ut the outtakes are boss Jerry Garcia
R**H
get it for this and edit your playlist
the album is odd and the movie is dated but Garcia's improvisation is timeless and exquisite - Love Scene - seen.
U**5
Five Stars
Excellent
