Help with the music.... - Coming Home (1978) Discussion

[–] kostelnyd 20 years ago

Here are some of the songs(that I remember )

Out of Time- Rolling Stones
Expecting to Fly- Buffalo Springfield
Once I was- Tim Buckley
Strawberry Fields- Beatles
Follow- Richie Havens
Ruby Tuesday-Rolling Stones
Time-Chambers Brothers

The soundtrack to "Coming Home" is great. I have not seen this movie for a while; there are some other great songs. The song at the end (Once I Was)
is chilling!!

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[–] ladybug11302003 20 years ago

Thanks! If anyone knows if there are anymore please post them for me....

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[–] reckoner 20 years ago

why don't you just watch the end credits. it's what they're there for.

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[–] meglmt 20 years ago

There is a jimmy hendrix song and a janis joplin song on this sound track that i can't figure out. I spent the evening watching the movie and writing down every song, because i have not been able to find a soundtrack for this film.

Unfortunately i don't know the titles of those songs..Can you help??

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[–] kostelnyd 20 years ago

Is the Hendrix song "Manic Depression"?

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[–] gorinclan 20 years ago

Another song just occurred to me: Jumpin' Jack Flash - Rolling Stones (scene where wheelchair-bound vets play basketball)

The Jimi Hendrix song is Manic Depression.

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[–] gorinclan 20 years ago

Two more songs...

"Sympathy for the Devil" - Rolling Stones

"Hey Jude" - Beatles

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[–] INdeep7503 20 years ago

Why can't IMDB list the soundtrack listing? Yeah, Sympathy For The Devil plays when Luke takes off in the Mustang.

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[–] DrEinstein 20 years ago

One somewhat obscure song is "Time Has Come Today" by the Chambers Brothers. It's the long one with the ticking clock made on the cowbell. I believe this is during the buildup to the confrontation between Luke and Bob Hyde.

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[–] mkotler 11 years ago

"Time Has Come Today" is not obscure ;-) In fact, it was a hit (The Chambers' Brothers only one).

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[–] nutsberryfarm 10 years ago

the mix used was great.

🌴🌴🌴🌴🌴🌴🌴🌴🌴

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[–] alvarodavilatoral 20 years ago

When I started to watch this movie, I felt that the music didn't fit. The songs are great: Rolling Stones, Beatles (never saw Beatles´ song on movies), Simon & Garfunkel in the beginning, but not proper.
Suddenly, I don't know when, the songs start to go in the same mood and I felt that music and images go along.
I liked: For what it´s worth, Manic Depression, Sympathy for the devil, and the most stunning moment of the film "ONCE I WAS" by Tim Buckley, what a song!.

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[–] gold_una 19 years ago

I had a similar reaction to the music. I liked the movie, although it was hard to find a focal point at times. And I couldn't tell if it was an anti-war movie or an anti-Vietnam War movie. The movie does not endeavor to find a distinction between the two, and the motives for that particular war are not discussed at all. Sally and Luke's love is the strongest part of the film. But how does a barrage of music from that time period fit into a love story? The first few songs I thought were vaguely appropriate to the emotions on the screen, but after that they became increasingly superfluous, and eventually laughable. The songs draw unwarranted and unexplained attention to themselves. It felt kind of like when a movie displays a name brand (e.g., a Pepsi can) as a product placement. I think it is merely a weak and superficial presentation of music as being somehow a part of what was going on in society at that time. The change in Sally's hair and the psychadelic designs she paints on Luke's body are presented in a similar manner. The filmmakers don't tell us what these conspicuous elements have to do with the movie. It's almost as if they reasoned: how could this music possibly be out of place in a movie about a homecoming from Vietnam? In other words, they thought that just because the music was from the same time period, it would be at home anywhere and everywhere in the movie.

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[–] Owlwise 9 years ago

I know this reply is years later in coming, but the music from the period does fit the story ... which is not so much a love story (though there is a love affair) as it is an awakening story, for all of the characters. Each of them began in a very different place from where they wound up at the end. Everything they had based their lives on, the certainties, the values, were all called into question. That's a defining aspect of the 1960s, and that's why the music is used, because the music expresses & embodies that questioning of the status quo. The entire era was about looking at your own life, and the culture around you, and questioning everything instead of just blindly accepting it as The Truth. And it often led to the realization that much of what you'd been taught to believe was a lie or an illusion -- that you didn't have to go along with it, that you could be free of another person's or of society's model of The Way Things Are. Because as it turned out, The Way Things Are really was The Way Things Never Were.

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[–] chloeallen86 19 years ago

Beatles:
Hey Jude
Strawberry Fields

Big Brother & The Holding Company feat. Janis Joplin:
Call On Me

Tim Buckley:
Once I Was

Buffalo Springfield:
Expecting To Fly
For What It's Worth

Chambers Brothers:
Time Has Come Today

Bob Dylan:
Just Like A Woman

Aretha Franklin:
Save Me

Richie Havens:
Follow

Jimi Hendrix:
Manic Depression

Jefferson Airplane:
White Rabbit

Rolling Stones:
Out Of Time
No Expectations
Jumpin' Jack Flash
My Girl
Ruby Tuesday
Sympathy For The Devil

Simon & Garfunkel:
Bookends

Steppenwolf:
Born To Be Wild

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