Customer Reviews

Dreamers

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i really enjoyed the movie and some of the songs on the list for the soundtrack i recognize...i really enjoyed the music in the movie...but there is a song that they play on the dvd during the menu...its not in the actual movie but they play a very short version of this song...does anyone know what the song is???

I LOVE this soundtrack. Its eclectic and very representative of the film. And in answer to the previous reviews, perhaps the reason those songs are missing from the soundtrack are because the rights were not given.

a song by big brother and the holding company (featuring janis joplin) makes an appearance in the film The Dreamers, twice.
yet, is not included with the soundtrack CD.
the song is titled "i need a man to love" and the version used in the film is not the "cheap thrills" version but another version that can be found on the cd "live at winterland 1968".
one more short snippet of a 'cheap thrills' song "combination of the two" heard during the film is also from this winterland '68 cd.
a 2nd Doors song "maggie m'gill" is heard during the film but not available on the soundtrack cd .
and a bob dylan song "queen jane approximately" is also heard during the film but is not included on the soundtrack cd.

I recently saw "The Dreamers," and I must say the music is by far the best feature. The storyline is, in my opinion, pretty weird, but hearing Janis Joplin and Big Brother and the Holding Company several times during the film is just great. I believe most of that is from the "Cheap Thrills" album, but there are also a couple of extended riffs by Big Brother that are both good and raw power. If the CD had included the Janis and BB cuts, I would have given it a higher, perhaps much higher, rating.

Where are the songs of Janis Joplin used in this totally overrated movie?

If you had ever heard Steve Miller's "Song For Our Ancestors" before, you probably thought it would sound great in a movie...it does, and it does not sound like any Steve Miller you have ever heard before, so smooth, so cool, so perfect for this movie. Jimi's "Third Stone" and the rest of this soundtrack match the visual pleasures that the movie offers. This is true art.

How can they pass this off as a soundtrack of this film without any Janis Joplin tracks?

i know this is a short review, but the music quite possibly MAKES the entire movie. its expertly chosen, amazingly placed, and even better carried off.

to make a long rambling paragraph short... it takes serious balls to put Jimi Hendrix music in a movie and pull it off. This soundtrack does it and does it well. Most fall too heavily into their '60's' mode and use cliches. This takes those cliches and SUCEEDS and reminds exactly WHY so many have tried and failed before.

An amazing album. If you're a fan of the movie this is a must-own.