I Am Sam OST (Re-release)
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- Released
- 10/02/12
- Music Genre
- Soundtrack
Description
I AM SAM was nominated for the 2003 Grammy Awards for Best Compilation Album For A Motion Picture Or Television..
In the film I AM SAM, Sean Penn's title character is a mentally challenged, Beatles-obsessed character who lands in the middle of a custody case for his daughter. With Sam looking to the Fab Four's music for guidance, the accompanying soundtrack is wall-to-wall Lennon-McCartney. Rebuffed for the rights to the original songs, the album's organizers instead recruited an all-star array of talent to contribute Beatles covers within a three-week span. The quick turn-around time meant delightfully original interpretations of these stellar songs as opposed to by-the-numbers readings.
Among the many highlights are Ben Harper's psychedelic "Strawberry Fields Forever," a chiming Aimee Mann/Michael Penn duet on "Two Of Us" and Chocolate Genius' ethereal "Julia." Elsewhere, Eddie Vedder delivers an acoustic-driven "You've Got To Hide Your Love Away" through gritted teeth, Sheryl Crow adds a nice country twang to "Mother Nature's Son," and Stereophonics' raspy take on "Don't Let Me Down" sounds like a Faces outtake.
Although The Black Crowes offer up a stark arrangement of "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds," Grandaddy's chugging alt-rock version of "Revolution" and Nick Cave's melancholy crooning of "Let It Be" make I AM SAM worth the price of admission.
Product Details
- Artist
- Various
- Number of Discs
- 1
- Recording Environment
- Studio
- Label / Studio
- UMI
- Media Content Format
- Album
- Original year of release
- 2002
- Media Format
- Audio CD
- Year of release
- 2002
- Cast & Crew
- Original Soundtrack (Music Performer)
Press Reviews
...These songs are like old friends...and you don't have to see the movie to enjoy it..." - Rating: B Entertainment Weekly (12/14/01, p.84)
3 out of 5 stars - "...The right stuff... Q (4/02, p.125)
Tracklisting
Disc 1:
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Two of Us - Mann, Aimee & Michael Penn
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Blackbird - McLachlan, Sarah
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Across the Universe - Wainwright, Rufus
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I'm Looking Through You - Wallflowers
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You've Got to Hide Your Love Away - Vedder, Eddie
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Strawberry Fields Forever - Harper, Ben
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Mother Nature's Son - Crow, Sheryl
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Golden Slumbers - Folds, Ben
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I'm Only Sleeping - Vines
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Don't Let Me Down - Stereophonics
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Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds - Black Crowes
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Julia - Chocolate Genius
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We Can Work It Out - Nova, Heather
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Help - Day, Howie
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Nowhere Man - Westerberg, Paul
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Revolution - Grandaddy
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Let It Be - Cave, Nick
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Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds - Mann, Aimee
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Two of Us - Finn, Neil & Liam
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Here Comes the Sun - Cave, Nick
