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possibly the best soundtrack ever for a film

posted 19 years ago by jay030
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i dont know if its because the the director and the subject have been friends for 30 years, i dont know if its because they played in the cheap suit serenaders together, i dont know if vinyl ragtime records is a vissible part of the essense of r.crumb but this soundtrack just works, theres not one song thats out of place, which is strange since most soundtracks have atleast one song that doesnt fit. the music is my favourite part of the film. after seeing crumb's deranged family and the graphic nature of some of his material, the reacurring 'Ragtime Nightingale' while displaying his portrait of america is like a triumph in his work and how theres some good in him. watching this film in entirety it's always puts a smile on my face.

what say you?

[–] 19 years ago

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[–] staying_up_with_simon 19 years ago

i'd definitely agree with you. there is a track during a montage of crumb's artwork called 'last kind word blues' by geechie wiley that's a really strange listen.

[–] rwsmith29456 16 years ago

The sound track does make it distinctly 'Crumb'.

[–] infanttyrone-1 16 years ago

Oh golly yes. A co-worker had this soundtrack and played it at work way back in the olden days, and I had to go pick up a copy myself. Of course I love the movie (in it's fascinating and depressing glory) but while I can only watch the movie once in a while, the soundtrack has been in regular rotation around my shack for what, 14 years now?

One of the weird things that I've noticed is that Robert Crumb-- unmistakably the most instantly recognizable cartoonist of his era-- and Chris Ware-- the most iconic cartoonist of recent memory-- seem to have a similar taste in music. I don't know if they've ever met, and since they're both (reportedly) such misanthropes any meeting would probably be a nightmare of awkward twitching and grimacing. But wouldn't it be excellent to seat them both on a porch and hand them each a banjo? Gosh, what a nerdy thing to dream about.

[–] Hermitage171 15 years ago

Just to clarify, I believe that the song at the beginning is "A Real Slow Drag" by Scott Joplin. It repeats a couple of times during the movie.