Zabriskie Point: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack [Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered, Soundtrack]

Pink Floyd, Jerry Garcia | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 16, 1997)
• Original Release Date: February 9, 1970
• Number of Discs: 2
• Format: Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered, Soundtrack
• Label: Rhino
• ASIN: B0000033TH
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (22 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #29,009 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. Heart Beat, Pig Meat

2. Brother Mary

3. Dark Star [Excerpt]

4. Crumbling Land

5. Tennessee Waltz

6. Sugar Babe

7. Love Scene

8. I Wish I Was a Single Girl Again

9. Mickey's Tune

10. Dance of Death

See all 11 tracks on this disc

Disc: 2

1. Love Scene Improvisations [take 1][#][Version]

2. Love Scene Improvisations [take 2][#][Version]

3. Love Scene Improvisations [take 3][#][Version]

4. Love Scene Improvisations [take 4][#][Version]

5. Country Song [#]

6. Unknown Song [#]

7. Love Scene [Version 6][#]

8. Love Scene [Version 4][#]

Editorial Reviews

This is the soundtrack from Antonioni's weird and wild classic, originally released in 1970. The set features the debut solo recordings by Grateful Dead guitarist Jerry Garcia (only available on this soundtrack) as well as a number of songs recorded especially for the movie by Pink Floyd. Also includes 1960's nuggets from the Grateful Dead, John Fahey, Jessie Colin Young & the Youngbloods, Roscoe Holcomb, and David Lindley's Kaleidoscope, remastered onto 180 gram audiophile vinyl from the original master recordings. Deluxe gatefold sleeve includes rare photo stills from the movie, new liner notes about the music and film by maverick journalist Steve Dollar. --This text refers to the Vinyl edition.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

41 of 41 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Why I Love Re-Issues (and Pink Floyd) (and Jerry Garcia), October 18, 2003

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Paul Allaer (Cincinnati) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Zabriskie Point: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Audio CD)

The "Zabriskie Point" soundtrack was re-issued a few years ago, and this is a most welcome reissue, overseen by the (as usual) reliable folks at Rhino. What originally was a single CD soundtrack now comes to us in 2 CDs.

CD 1 (11 tracks, 36 min.) contains music by a variety of artists, including 3 tracks from "The Pink Floyd" (sic). It shows the band in pre-Atom Heart Mother/Meddle mode (all Floyd music for the soundtrack was recorded in Nov/Dec 1969). "Heart Beat, Big Meat" is a great mood piece along the lines of "Speak to Me"; "Crumbling Land" could have fitted nice along Meddle's "Fearless"; "Come in Number 51" is a retooled "Careful With That Axe Eugene". Jerry Garcia contributes the "Love Scene" accoustic guitar solo. Strangely there is also a 2 min. excerpt from the Dead's "Dark Star" that starts and ends with no rhyme or reason and begs the question: why? (Deadheads know what I mean).

CD 2 (8 tracks, 55 min.) is completely new. It is divided up between 4 Jerry Garcia tracks (more accoustic "noodling"), and 4 Pink Floyd tracks. The latter are fascinating, and what makes this reissue so good. "Country Song" is another one of those classic early-Floyd ballads; "Unknown Song" (a/k/a "Rain in the Country" on bootlegs) is a great instrumental with many undertones. "Love Scene Version 6" is Pink Floyd doing the blues. "Love Scene Version 4" is Rick Wright in piano solo (even if credited to the entire band).

In addition to the new music, the reissue comes with a fascinating 40 page booklet, with great liner notes and quotes (Roger Waters on the recording sessions for director Antonioni: "It was hell, sheer hell", haha!). For any Pink Floyd fan, or anyone interested in a slice of 1969/70 psychedelia, this is very much recommended, even if (like me) you've never seen the movie.

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Works Together as a Whole, November 9, 2000

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"flakecosmo" (Brantford, Ontario Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Zabriskie Point: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Audio CD)

There is a unique mood set by this CD, that is wholly separate from the film itself. The weirdness of psychedelic Pink Floyd tunes juxtaposed with acoustic pieces, hurtin' country tunes, and the "Tennessee Waltz" no less (!), works together to create an entirely unusual head space. Open your mind, and the rest will flow. I owned this on vinyl originally, and jumped when I saw the double CD re-release. Besides 4 lengthy out takes from Jerry Garcia's beautiful love theme, it also has 4 unreleased Pink Floyd pieces, "Country Song", which sounds like something that would have been at home on "Atom Heart Mother", "Unknown Song", a breezy acoustic instrumental with psychedelic flourishes that is vintage Floyd, and two pieces that were Pink Floyd's original attempts at writing music for the love scene before film director Antonioni opted to go with Jerry Garcia's piece. Both are excellent, one an amazing, late night blues instrumental, the other a reflective piano piece. The second disk is a worthy addition to the package. The double CD also comes with some excellent liner notes that fully recognize the failure of the film to achieve the director's ambitions while at the same time recognizing the unique contribution its sound track made to rock history.

12 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars More rare Pink Floyd/Jerry Garcia music, March 23, 2000

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kireviewer (Sunnyvale, Ca United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Zabriskie Point: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Audio CD)

There are two possible questions that could be asked here:

1. Should I buy this?

2. I already have the original, should I now buy this.

The answer to both questions is yes. There is enough new material here to make this worthwhile for any Pink Floyd (or Jerry Garcia) fan. If you already bought the original for the 3 Pink Floyd tunes, it means that you are a big enough fan that you have to have this one too.

This was originally released as single album that contained the material on the first CD. It later came out as a single CD. Being a soundtrack, it was always a little more expensive than a standard album. It could be difficult to find at times. It contained 3 Pink Floyd tracks, a spacey track, a typical Pink Floyd movie soundtrack song, and a truncated version of Careful With That Axe Eugene (called Come In Number 51) which is very good and different from the original. The Jerry Garcia tune is a nice 7 minute solo acoustic instrumental. The Grateful Dead track is just a 2 minute expert of Dark Star. There are also some other interesting things here and somethings that may seem out of place (Tennesee Waltz). Even with the strange mix material, the flow of the CD is effective in creating the mood of the sixties. But in the end, you had to be a Pink Floyd fanatic to shell out the bucks for this one.

This new release adds the second CD with 30 minutes of Jerry Garcia and 25 minutes of Pink Floyd. I kind of wonder if the Jerry Garcia material is mislabelled. Tracks 1, 2 and 4 sound like instrumental variations of Pink Floyd's Granchester Meadows, complete with birds chirping at the end of track 4. Maybe it is where Roger Waters got the idea. Track 3 is the only one that really sounds like Jerry Garcia. For the Pink Floyd tracks, there is one that sounds like the origins of Atom Heart Mother, one that is a typical Pink Floyd soundtrack song, a very good bluesy number and an excellent piano solo. The first disc sounds like it got remastered, with a boost in the very low end bass.