I've heard of Chick Hearn and of Chuck Norris but who the heck is Chick Harris?

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Anyone who finds the music off in this film simply is not old enough to have been around during the era the movie portrays.
Just as simple as that.
For those of us who were around back in the day, the musical score in this film is absolutely spot on, especially the background song selections when Patric and Leigh are out and about.
A terrible shame so many people in newer generations have Bieber and Gaga as their primary musical references.
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I have the soundtrack in regular rotation on my phone
It was perfect, its Clapton after all, and he got involved with the film due to his own addiction. No one was more qualified to express what the film was about through music.
Clapton has probably played more incidental music on more movies than any modern artist, i think he knew what he was doing ..for me it fit perfectly with the scenes and moods portrayed.
Like i said, i still listen to the soundtrack 24 years later, and im fussy about my music.

Yeah, in particular, the overstatedly stylish, almost kitschy guitar mangling made the undercover couples lowest lows of addiction seem WAY too cool and sexy in their glorious wretchedness; it was like watching some cheapo power ballad video at times. Some pretty bad taste there in a movie that otherwise manages to hit a number of right notes and ultimately work pretty good.
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"I believe Clapton wrote Tears and Heaven about his child who passed away"
The young son didn't really just pass away. He fell out Clapton's apartment window or off the balcony in NYC,and it was several floors up.
I don't know if Clapton was home at the time or who was responsible for watching the child,but either way it was traumatic for Clapton.

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I love the soundtrack for this movie. I'm sorry but I don't think of electric guitars for "porno" music. Most of those usually have some disco sounding/techno BS.

I think Tears and Heaven was a nice comedown from the rest of the movie, especially after a dark song like Bridge of Sighs and what happened during that scene.
I believe Clapton wrote Tears and Heaven about his child who passed away so the lyrics and mood were fitting for the ending. She's running on the beach thinking about her partner.
I just watched this movie on HBO for the first time since the mid 90's and it brought back so many memories. The soundtrack was spot on.

Wow, OP, I had the exact opposite take on it. I thought
most
of the music was fine and situation appropriate until Tears in Heaven. I had to just roll my eyes at that scene. I mean, come on, how cheesey are we trying to be? Either change the rest of the music to be sappy too or get rid of that. Yeah, it sucks that her partner died butrunning on the beach while we listen to a sad song? Pure cheese. We could have just cut that scene altogether. I would have been happier to see her at a bar getting drunk. At least it would have matched the rest of the movie.
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Those were the days when guitar solos dominated music - especially duel guitar solos. It may have been much by today's "standard", but appropriate for the time.

I haven't even read through the entire thread but uh OP, you most likely enjoy t-pain or any other douche who has a harmonizer over his voice.

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I have to respectfully disagree. The music fit with the time period, place, and tone of the film. The drug world can be a slimy, disgusting, and destructive nightmare. I thought that the music captured that rather well. Plus the story takes place in Texas where such a style of music would be popular at the time that the film takes place which is in the 1970's. Eric Clapton, who scored the film, was a rock God in the 1970's. I think he did a hell of a job because he knew what would work in the film at that time.

He also ruined Nil By Mouth with his awful score.

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Totally agree, MuleDeer. The OP - vertigoa - obviously is an idiotic moron.
"Youth is wasted on the young." - W.C. Fields

Hell yeah. Saw this movie last night for the first time and the soundtrack rocks hard. And lets not forget the useage of Hendrix's version of All Along The Watchtower.
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I can't help but notice that the OP has not said a word to support his/her original statement or rebut anyone's support of the music in this film. I am watching the movie right now, and I used to own the soundtrack, and I have yet to hear a single misplaced note. As a matter of fact, I think this was one of the first soundtracks I ever bought on CD.
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What did the original poster expect the music to be? Was the OP even alive in 1974-75? The music was perfect for the time period, settings and subject matter.

What are you talkin' about?! Music was great! Eric Clapton is GOD! Every soundtrack he ever worked on was briliant.

Huh? It was perfect for that era. I still hear and love much of it on classic rock stations today.
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I don't get it. If Oliver Stone does it then it's artistic genius, but here, using music from the era is cheesy? This is a movie dealing with the drug culture of the time, you think they would have been listening to Mozart? Or how about a Grateful Dead soundtrack? This is one of my favorite flicks of all time and I couldn't see the soundtrack any other way AND I was about 15 when this was released. Bridge Of Sighs was perfect for the closing scene. Allmans would have been cool too but then that might have stepped over the line into cheese territory when you have an Allman in the film.

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I think you missed the point on so many levels. Weather or not you appreciate the films music from the actual historic perspective of the storyline or not, is sort of irrelevant. As far as the time period of the screenplay, I feel the music is absolutely spot on. The songs and the artists who wrote them are and/or were at the forefront of the music business, and therefore indicative of the pop culture of the time. Very well done!