Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas: Music From The Motion Picture [Soundtrack]

Various Artists (Composer) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 19, 1998)
• Original Release Date: May 19, 1998
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Soundtrack
• Label: Fontana Geffen
• ASIN: B000006NN1
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (24 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #91,418 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Combination Of The Two - Big Brother & The Holding Company

2. One Toke Over The Line - Brewer & Shipley

3. She's A Lady - Tom Jones

4. For Your Love - Yardbirds

5. White Rabbit - Jefferson Airplane

6. A Drug Score-Part 1 (Acid Spill) - Tomoyasu Hotei & Ray Cooper

7. Get Together - Youngbloods

8. Mama Told Me Not To Come - Three Dog Night

9. Stuck Inside Of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again - Bob Dylan

10. Time Is Tight - Booker T. & The MGs

11. Magic Moments - Perry Como

12. A Drug Score-Part 2 (Adenochrome, The Devil's Dance) - Tomoyasu Hotei & Ray Cooper

13. Tammy - Debbie Reynolds

14. A Drug Score-Part 3 (Flashbacks) - Tomoyasu Hotei & Ray Cooper

15. Expecting To Fly - Buffalo Springfield

16. Viva Las Vegas - Dead Kennedys

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

23 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Make this the soundtrack for your own trip., August 27, 2000

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k (Northville, MI United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas: Music From The Motion Picture (Audio CD)

Perhaps being the rabid Hunter S. fan that I am, maybe I'm too biased to review this disc. It doesn't hurt that I pored over the book and can be found catatonically transfixed by the movie at least twice a month. But even if I found the movie confusing and pointless, as many lesser individuals did, I would still love this soundtrack. It's the perfect mix of songs to stir up those old feelings of fear and loathing lurking inside you, or to blast late at night while tearing across the Nevada desert (as I tested on a recent trek across the country). They are appropriate for the sentiment of the movie and the era, without being ersatz or Forrest-Gump-soundtrack-cheesy most of the time. And, where there is cheese, it's good cheese, like Brewer and Shipley's stoner anthem "One Toke Over the Line", with a little Tom Jones and Perry Como thrown in for that Vegas feel. Other songs recall the central theme of "Fear and Loathing"--the end of the hippie dream, the center of American excess. The drug score will trip you out and have you chanting "...you took too much, too much..." and the highly memorizable sound shippets from the film are so appropriate, not to mention handy. Finally, a suprise with The Dead Kennedy's version of Viva Las Vegas, a perfect coda which makes this soundtrack stand on its own.

In conclusion: Buy it. Now.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars JohnnyLongStreet, October 30, 2005

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G. Versch "johnnylongstreet" (Omaha) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas: Music From The Motion Picture (Audio CD)

It is true that this is a great collection of songs.

With that said, here are two complaints:

1) The audio snippets from the movie are built into the tracks, so they're tougher to skip through.

2) The audio transfer is terrible. Somewhere in the process, either at the transfer or the mix, the audio thinned out. There's a really weak bass end, and everything sounds thin and tinny.

Not that it ruins the experience, but for someone who's actually into how music sounds, you might look elsewhere.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent, BUT...., August 4, 2004

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The Greatest (Nowhere Land) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas: Music From The Motion Picture (Audio CD)

WHERE THE HELL ARE "SOMEBODY TO LOVE" AND "JUMPIN' JACK FLASH"? If these made the soundtrack, this would definitely be a five-star release, and one of the best soundtracks ever (right up there with Pulp Fiction and Almost Famous). Personally, I also would rather have Frank Sinatra's wonderful take on "You're Getting to Be a Habit with Me", since it's infinitely better than whatever that Perry Como song is.

But beyond that, the music in this movie is perfectly used. Several reviewers have noted the anachronism of the DK's excellent rewrite of "Viva Las Vegas". The fact that it was recorded 8 or so years after the movie takes place is irrelevant- it's used during the credits. Also, to me it was quite an apt choice, since the feel and lyrics of the song suggest a frenzied, drug-addled Vegas traveller. Hmmm... sound like anything in 'Fear and Loathing..."?

P.S. After seeing this movie, you will never hear "White Rabbit" the same way again.