Customer Reviews

Chicago Cab

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I have an import with a poor recording of Hard to Imagine on it so I bought this CD only for that song. Much to my surprise the rest of the CD is pretty good also. It took a few listens to grow on me, but now I throw this in the stereo on a regular basis.

Hard to Imagine is Ed Vedder at his best. It is a truly great PJ song. The rest of the album is pretty cool too. A good CD to throw in when your screwing around in the house.

I bought this cd because of Pearl Jams, Hard to Imagine (previously unreleased), and was pleased to hear that they had captured its beauty. Brads, Secret Girl and Pearl Jams, Who You Are are true classics ( They deserve five stars), and if you havent heard them before, it is well worth buying the CD.

The rest of the album flies all over the place, Supergrass and Fu Manchu being among the better ones of a package of different tunes.

The soundtrack for the 1998 indie movie Chicago Cab boasts an impressive array of buzz bands like Sparklehorse, Supergrass, and Fu Manchu along with one of the biggest rock bands of the 90's, Pearl Jam. While it's not a blow away album, there's enough good to take from it for one to deem the soundtrack successful. Sparklehorse's contribution, "Hammering the Cramps," is a very atmospheric song that, unlike much of their work, leans closer toward accessibility. "Don't Be Cruel" is much moodier than most Supergrass tracks until the more upbeat chorus kicks in. "Swami's Last Command" is just straight up stoner rock as provided by Fu Manchu, and is very similar to Queens of the Stone Age. The strongest element of the album, however, is the Pearl Jam influence, which is evident on four separate tracks. The first half is brought by the band themselves, as No Code's "Who You Are" is included, as is the b-side "Hard To Imagine," a very melancholy track recorded during the Vs. sessions that could just as easily have been included on any one of their studio albums. "Secret Girl," by Stone Gossard's side band, Brad (which sounds like much of Gossard's PJ stuff, like "Mankind" etc.), and Hoovercraft's "Haloparidol" (which includes Eddie Vedder's wife) are the other two tracks with the PJ connection. Much like the movie, the Chicago Cab soundtrack is more small-scale than it is bombast, which serves the sense of the album very well.

I bought this for only two songs--"Hammering the Cramps" by Sparklehorse, and "Don't Be Cruel" by Supergrass. Those two alone are worth the $0.99 + shipping.