Easy Rider

by Various Artists

Easy Rider cover art

Revolutionizing cinematic history, Dennis Hopper's 'Easy Rider' largely abandoned traditional orchestral scoring to instead heavily feature contemporary, pre-existing rock and roll. The resulting compilation perfectly captures the restless, counter-cultural zeitgeist of the late 1960s, heavily sequencing driving psychedelic rock alongside pastoral folk-rock from artists like The Byrds and Steppenwolf. The album's massive commercial success permanently established the rock-oriented soundtrack as a viable, culturally dominant art form.

Genres

  • Film Soundtrack
  • Psychedelic Rock
  • Psychedelia

Tracklist

  1. Wait A Million Years
  2. Easy To Be Hard
  3. Baby It's You
  4. It's Getting Better
  5. I Wasn't Born To Follow
  6. Move Over
  7. One
  8. Rock Me
  9. Make Your Own Kind Of Music
  10. The Weight
  11. Ballad Of Easy Rider
  12. The River Is Wide