- Audio CD (26 April 1999)
- Number of Discs: 1
- Format: Soundtrack
- Label: DRG
- ASIN: B000008MEP
- Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 151,089 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
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Track Listings
| 1. A Whiter Shade Of Pale - King Curtis |
| 2. The Wolf |
| 3. All Along The Watchtower - The Jimi Hendrix Experience |
| 4. To The Crow |
| 5. Voodoo Chile - The Jimi Hendrix Experience |
| 6. While My Guitar Gently Weeps - The Beatles |
| 7. Marwood Walks |
| 8. Monty Remembers |
| 9. La Fite |
| 10. Hang Out The Stars In Indiana - Al Bowlly |
| 11. Crow Crag |
| 12. Cheval Blanc |
| 13. My Friend - Charlie Kunz |
| 14. Withnail's Theme |
Product Description
Catalogue number CDSBL 12590 on the DRG label with the following tracks: 1> A Whiter Shade Of Pale - King Curtis [5:30], 2> The Wolf - David Dundas & Rick Wentworth [1:33], 3> All Along The Watchtower - The Jimi Hendrix Experience [4:10], 4> To The Crow - David Dundas & Rick Wentworth [2:22], 5> Voodoo Chile - The Jimi Hendrix Experience [4:28], 6> While My Guitar Gently Weeps - The Beatles [4:44], 7> Marwood Walks - David Dundas & Rick Wentworth [2:15], 8> Monty Remembers - David Dundas & Rick Wentworth [2:02], 9> La Fite - David Dundas & Rick Wentworth [1:11], 10> Hang Out The Stars In Indiana - New Mayfair Dance Orchestra [1:35], 11> Crow Crag - David Dundas & Rick Wentworth [0:56], 12> Cheval Blanc - David Dundas & Rick Wentworth [1:15], 13> My Friend - Charlie Kunz [1:28], 14> Withnail's Theme - David Dundas & Rick Wentworth [2:40].
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42 of 42 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
This CD release of the soundtrack to the film 'Withnail and I' is patchy at best.
If you know the film think about the music in it that you liked the most. The first will probably be the title track - the wonderful live version of 'A Whiter Shade of Pale', played with such extraordinary skill and empathy by King Curtis. The second might be 'Withnail's Theme' by David Dundas which was used right at the end of the film. Perhaps you may remember the music played as Marwood walks out of the cottage on that first cold Penrith morning.
Well those wonderful tracks are here but what about the rest of this often deleted disc? Well, the Hendrix tracks on this CD are certainly not the ones that were used in the film. Both 'All Along The Watchtower' and 'Voodoo Chile' are inferior live versions. The wonderful Al Bowlly track, 'Hang Out The Stars In Indiana' is cut horribly short. There are also another couple of tracks by Dundas but they weren't even used in the film.
This is a CD that's short in duration (36 minutes) and so much of it is irellevant that you will have to ask yourself whether it's worth buying for just three or four moments of utter beauty. Well alright, it does contain the original 'While My Guitar Gently Weeps' by George Harrison but I'll bet that if you like 'Withnail & I' you probably have that track somewhere already.
If, however, you are comitted to owning a proper Withnail soundtrack you will need to buy this, a good Hendrix compilation and the 'Al Bowlly - The Dance Band Years' CD (where you can find the original full-length 'Hang Out The Stars In Indiana' in it's proper glory).
And if you're really crazy about the film then you can also find that bit of music playing in the background when Withnail and Marwood visit Monty at his house in Chelsea. It's Piano Sonata No 21 in B flat (D960) 'part III Scherzo Allegro vivace con delicatezza' by Franz Shubert.
There's no doubt that the good tracks are just wonderful. But be informed before you shell out crazy money for this disc.
If you know the film think about the music in it that you liked the most. The first will probably be the title track - the wonderful live version of 'A Whiter Shade of Pale', played with such extraordinary skill and empathy by King Curtis. The second might be 'Withnail's Theme' by David Dundas which was used right at the end of the film. Perhaps you may remember the music played as Marwood walks out of the cottage on that first cold Penrith morning.
Well those wonderful tracks are here but what about the rest of this often deleted disc? Well, the Hendrix tracks on this CD are certainly not the ones that were used in the film. Both 'All Along The Watchtower' and 'Voodoo Chile' are inferior live versions. The wonderful Al Bowlly track, 'Hang Out The Stars In Indiana' is cut horribly short. There are also another couple of tracks by Dundas but they weren't even used in the film.
This is a CD that's short in duration (36 minutes) and so much of it is irellevant that you will have to ask yourself whether it's worth buying for just three or four moments of utter beauty. Well alright, it does contain the original 'While My Guitar Gently Weeps' by George Harrison but I'll bet that if you like 'Withnail & I' you probably have that track somewhere already.
If, however, you are comitted to owning a proper Withnail soundtrack you will need to buy this, a good Hendrix compilation and the 'Al Bowlly - The Dance Band Years' CD (where you can find the original full-length 'Hang Out The Stars In Indiana' in it's proper glory).
And if you're really crazy about the film then you can also find that bit of music playing in the background when Withnail and Marwood visit Monty at his house in Chelsea. It's Piano Sonata No 21 in B flat (D960) 'part III Scherzo Allegro vivace con delicatezza' by Franz Shubert.
There's no doubt that the good tracks are just wonderful. But be informed before you shell out crazy money for this disc.
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Amazing!!!
5 Jun 2001
Format:Audio CD|Amazon Verified Purchase
If you know this movie, then you are probably aware of how important it is. Not many movies have the ability to change ones life. This is one of those few. The sountrack thus automatically becomes something of a soundtrack to one's life. Whether you're just waking up after a particularly long night and listening to the opening track (searching desperately for your cigarettes), or if you're driving through the countryside and enjoying the plantive piano tune of Monty's Rolls, you'll have no choice but to smile at the luck that you've had: you're one of the desperate few who have gotten a hold of this elusive soundtrack, a soundtrack to one of the most elusive-but-rewarding movies of all time.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
A quintissential English soundtrack
2 Sep 1999
Format:Audio CD
A CD worthy of laudation. This must be the soundtrack for a lost generation of English students. Beaten up by Thatcher, swept up by Labour. Each track is solemly attached to a more-than-memorable scene from Bruce Robinson's film. Read the screenplay and loose yourself on an autumn afternoon. From the brassy introduction of King Curtis cover through to the tea-time jazz of gramphonic delights, if you're lost then this has to be bought.
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Joy of the north and the end of an era
5 Aug 1999
Format:Audio CD
This soundtrack captures an indefinable and a wonderously depressing Englishness, the essence of rain, grey skies, grey cities and green lands. From the first opening smoke filled days to the creak of leather along the watch tower there is an underlying rythmn to each piece that not only makes this film what it is but unites each track in a lazy but precise way. Music for indolents indeed.
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