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PAT GARRETT.
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23 of 24 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Having come to this album through the film, I never cease to be amazed at how Bob Dylan got this so right. Usually, soundtracks are bitty and without the film action to guide them, seem spare. This is not the case of PAT GARRETT..., which is so convincing an album in its own right. I guess the style fitted in well with his own country blues leanings of BLONDE ON BLONDE and the later BLOOD ON THE TRACKS, (which must have been his reward from the Byrds and their having used so many of his songs in the past).
Dylan threads his themes very well, and there is a touch of repetition that might have been borrowed from classical sources (to the great benefit of the album). While most songs are country folk, I like "Turkey Chase" which is heading into Bluegrass, with I guess Roger McGuinn on banjo. "Knockin' on Heaven's Door" is also well-positioned on the album, and pops up almost as a surprise due to the size of its popularity.
I have only one slight, slight quibble (oh, here it comes...); the two versions of "Billy" at the end do have the feeling that Dylan pre-empted the modern practice of bonus tracks without ever having gone through the re-issue phase. These two versions do seem a little bit tagged on at the end, but memory fails me, and I cannot say for sure if they are used in the film or not (last seen in 1995 by myself). That said, it is interesting to see Dylan playing with the lyrics, his voice, and choice of instrumental styles - all three versions of "Billy" are both different and sit well enough to make it difficult to say which is best (which is probably why all were included). Also Dylan's playful humour comes out more in these versions.
To be honest, it may be sacrilegious to say, but I would have to say that this is my favourite Dylan album, which is almost embarrassing to admit BECAUSE it is a soundtrack.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
There are, it must be said, basically only two tunes on this album, neither of which is particularly memorable in itself. There's the 'Billy' theme, and the 'Cantina / Knockin' on Heaven's Door' theme. The album really consists of variations on these two themes, some instrumental and some with slight lyric changes. (There's also some frenetic hillbilly nonsense with a banjo and fiddle that lasts for about two minutes in the middle of the album, but we won't let that detain us here.)
Anyhow, while the limitations of the album are hard to deny, I find that when played through from start to finish this is actually a very satisfying work. The simplicity of the music gives it a kind of continuity and coherence that you don't always get with Dylan's albums (I say this as a big fan of the great man, by the way). Actually, so interchangeable are the tracks that you might as well just set your CD player on shuffle when you're listening to this album, because it really doesn't matter in what order you listen.
It has a freshness that I don't normally associate with movie soundtrack albums. A lot of that comes from the fact that it doesn't sound like Dylan spent a lot of time on either composing or recording the album (or rehearsing it, for that matter). Personally, I like Dylan best when he's off the cuff - I think spontaneity is very much his thing. In fact, it reminds me a little of the spirit of the Basement Tapes, though musically it has little in common with that work. I mean by that, it sounds like a guy just making music, the kind of music that he feels like making at a given moment, and making it for no other reason than the enjoyment of making it. I recommend that you listen to it in the same spirit, for no other reason than the sheer enjoyment of listening.
Anyhow, while the limitations of the album are hard to deny, I find that when played through from start to finish this is actually a very satisfying work. The simplicity of the music gives it a kind of continuity and coherence that you don't always get with Dylan's albums (I say this as a big fan of the great man, by the way). Actually, so interchangeable are the tracks that you might as well just set your CD player on shuffle when you're listening to this album, because it really doesn't matter in what order you listen.
It has a freshness that I don't normally associate with movie soundtrack albums. A lot of that comes from the fact that it doesn't sound like Dylan spent a lot of time on either composing or recording the album (or rehearsing it, for that matter). Personally, I like Dylan best when he's off the cuff - I think spontaneity is very much his thing. In fact, it reminds me a little of the spirit of the Basement Tapes, though musically it has little in common with that work. I mean by that, it sounds like a guy just making music, the kind of music that he feels like making at a given moment, and making it for no other reason than the enjoyment of making it. I recommend that you listen to it in the same spirit, for no other reason than the sheer enjoyment of listening.
21 of 24 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
When Rudy Wurlitzer, the writer of the screenplay for the Sam Peckinpah movie 'Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid', approached his friend Bob Dylan, he originally intended for him to write the soundtrack. He wrote 'Billy', a fine example of Dylans ability to master the ballad. Dylan had been lying low since his motorcycle accident, so this was his first work for some time, and there is a beautifully easy nature to the music. It is light and soothing with many a raw journey into a mexican dusty night on a tequilla stained veranda. The listener is lulled into the scene as the story is told until we are brought back to home with the masterpiece of Dylans simple yet masterful 'Knocking on Heavans Door'. I originally bought this album a couple of years ago on Vinyl for a fiver, at that time for this track alone, which I never saw on another album. 'Heavans door' is short, with only two verses, and my only fault with this album is that Dylan did not provide more verses. The listener is left eager for more.
I highly reccomend this album to anybody who enjoys a cosy candlelit evening by a fire, stare into the flames and imagine your there.
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