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I Am Sam (CD)

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DISC 1 for I Am Sam (CD) Album By Original Soundtrack
1   Two Of Us - Aimee Mann/Michael Penn
2   Blackbird - Sarah McLachlan
3   Across The Universe - Rufus Wainwright
4   I'm Looking Through You - The Wallflowers
5   You've Got To Hide Your Love Away - Eddie Vedder
6   Strawberry Fields - Ben Harper
7   Mother Nature's Son - Sheryl Crow
8   Golden Slumbers - Ben Folds
9   I'm Only Sleeping - The Vines
10   Don't Let Me Down - Stereophonics
11   Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds - The Black Crowes
12   Julia - Chocolate Genius
13   We Can Work It Out - Heather Nova
14   Help - Howie Day
15   Nowhere Man - Paul Westerberg
16   Revolution - Grandaddy
17   Let It Be - Nick Cave
 

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Review

Entertainment Weekly (12/14/01, p.84) - "...These songs are like old friends...and you don't have to see the movie to enjoy it..." - Rating: B
Q (4/02, p.125) - 3 out of 5 stars - "...The right stuff..."

Title Note

Original score composed by John Powell.

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.

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