Easy Rider
If you enjoyed "Easy Rider," and remember singing along to "Don't Bogart That Joint," you'll love this CD. It's a good representative collection of the music we loved in 1969.

The full realm of Classic Rock is in here
This is a fine album of classic rock music. I like to take the CD camping for my own fireside pleasure (recalling that awesome Jack Nicholson mental image moment), and to irritate the old curmudgeons on the adjoining campsites. The best thing about the cuts on this one is that they practically cover a history of 60s rock sounds. You'll be much pleased with this purchase if you're really into the classic rock music experience. It's a true and accurate reflection of the era.

Easy Rider Original Soundtrack
Product was recorded from LP to CD without remastering. Okay to listen to on occassion

Mother Earth will swallow you...
Before the soundtrack was issued on CD in the states, only this German import was available. Boasting some superb period tracks like the Byrds' "Wasn't Born To Follow" and Hendrix's "If 6 was 9" alongside some harder to find stuff like the Electric Prunes' "Kyrie Eleison" and Roger McGuinn's version of Bob Dylan's "It's Alright Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)," it's easy to overlook some of the omissions and flaws. Of course there's the substituted version of "The Weight," not a bad version at all really.

Sound quality-wise, it sounds like a lot of early unremastered CD re-issues. That is, not great. But not terrible either. Audiophiles take heed and run screaming for the pricier re-issue, which is bulked out with more "period" music (which, honestly, is really nice as a "value add-on" but does nothing for the soundtrack since most of these extra songs weren't featured in the film and are thus just a post-summer of love pastiche).

An interesting sidenote: The closing track, McGuinn's "Ballad Of Easy Rider," (a different mix than the version recorded by the Byrds) was originally going to be Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young's "Find The Cost Of Freedom." Apparently Dennis Hopper wasn't into it at the time, so the song became CSNY's longstanding show-closer instead.

chopper rock
This landmark album launched the whole Harley Davidson biker movement. It features great tracks from most of the heavyweights of the day. It introduced America to the "chopper" motorcycle which was almost unknown outside of the west coast and the whole nomadic motorcycle outlaw culture that went with it. My favorite is "kyrie Elison" by the Electric Prunes but every song is memorable.