[.ca] Dazed and Confused

From Amazon.com:
Tellingly, director Richard Linklatter's Dazed and Confused was released 20 years after American Grafitti and offers a similar story of troubled young personalities lurking beneath an oversaturated pop culture veneer. Like Lucas before him, Linklatter clearly relishes that gloss and wields it like an ironic chainsaw. His soundtrack is a raucous, authentic collection of mid-70's radio fare, be it sharp-edged pop (Sweet, the vastly underrated Rick Derringer), nascent metal (Black Sabbath, Deep Purple) and out-and-out hard cheese (Foghat, Black Oak Arkansas). Dazed and Confused is the real sound of 70's teenage America. --Jerry McCulley

rip off.:
yeah, i thought this soundtrack was gonna be all kool and everything but when i looked at the track listings there was one song missing the only song i really wanted. yeah that Bob Dylan song is not on this soundtrack, you know the one that plays when matthew McCoughnehey's character walks into the Emporium. you know what i'm talking about? if not you should watch the movie again and listen to the song that plays when matthew mcconehey or whatever walks into the emporium you know when he looks all kool and the pool room is all smoky. anyways yeah that song is by bob dylan and i don't know what it is called and i don't want to buy a bunch of Bob Dylan cd's looking for it because personally i don't really like his music, i like that song on the dazed and confused movie though that song rawks hard. but yeah bob dylan is boring and depressing and i think that is probably the only song by bob dylan that i like because it kicks so much balls. and i wanted to buy the soundtrack to listen to that song but it's not on there so i think the soundtrack blows. but there are some really good songs on there though but i still only give this soundtrack 1 star the soundtrack people could of at least put that song on there but they left it out. yeah whatever.

One of the best soundtracks out there:
I'd have to give this album 4.5 out of 5 stars. I posted 5,but 4 wouldn't cut it. Just about every song rocks balls out. But there is one MAJOR disappointment: "Jim Dandy". Man,this song & the band,(Black Oak Arkansas), is beyond crappy. It's the only song I skip while jamming on this album. I have NO idea why Linklater,the movie's director,put this band's material in the film. Unlike some of the other reviewers, I throughly enjoy Nugent's unedited "Stanglehold", it jams. There were,however,two missing songs that would have just put it over the top. And yes,those songs are "Sweet Emotion" by Aerosmith,and "The Hurricane" by Bob Dylan. After I saw the movie, the first thing I did the next day was go by the soundtrack. It was on top of my "to-do" list. IT'S THAT GOOD,TRUST ME!! Its companion, Even More Dazed & Confused, rates about a 3.5 in my book. That cd has some of the weaker songs.

great soundtrack....:
Simply put, the Dazed and Confused Soundtrack 1 and 2 is the best 70's rock compilation ever put together.

Very Good:
I thought that this album was great, but some of the songs weren't my favorite. And to the guy that is wondering about that Dylan song it is called Hurricane, and yes I missed that song too.

So Close but yet So Far: WHERE IS BOSTON?:
First off, the movie is great. I could relate to so many characters and situations in this movie. I graduated in 1977 and you can feel the vibe of that time in this flick...however, It is impossible to remember that time in high school and not to remember how important Boston's debut album was to that era. Their music dominated those high school days (daze) like nothing else! This soundtrack is great, don't get me wrong - and so is the remastered sound, but to leave off a Boston track is unforgiveable.

• Rock and Roll, Hoochie Koo - Rick Derringer
• Slow Ride - Foghat
• School's Out - Alice Cooper, Alice Cooper
• Jim Dandy - Black Oak Arkansas
• Tush - ZZ Top
• Love Hurts - Nazareth
• Stranglehold - Ted Nugent
• Cherry Bomb - The Runaways
• Fox on the Run - Sweet, Sweet
• Low Rider - War
• Tuesday's Gone - Lynyrd Skynyrd
• Highway Star - Deep Purple
• Rock and Roll All Nite - Kiss
• Paranoid - Black Sabbath