Almost Famous (soundtrack) explained

Almost Famous
Type:	Soundtrack
Longtype:	from Almost Famous
Artist:	Various Artists
Cover:	stillwater73.jpg
Released:	September 12, 2000
Genre:	Rock
Length:	75:09
Label:	DreamWorks
Producer:	Danny Bramson & Cameron Crowe

Almost Famous is a soundtrack album to the film of the same name, released in 2000. It was awarded the 2001 Grammy Award for Best Compilation Soundtrack Album for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media.

In May 2021, UMe announced the reissue of the soundtrack as an expanded five CD/seven LP boxed set.^[1] It will be the first time all of the music featured in the film will be released in one set.^[1]

Personnel ("Stillwater")

• Billy Crudup ("Russell Hammond") - lead guitar
• Jason Lee ("Jeff Bebe") - lead singer
• John Fedevich ("Ed Vallencourt") - drums
• Mark Kozelek ("Larry Fellows") - bass guitar

Personnel

• Peter Frampton
• Mike McCready
• Jon Bayless
• Ben Smith
• Gordon Kennedy
• Marti Frederiksen – vocals

Additional music

Other music used in the film^[2] did not appear on the soundtrack album. As with the songs in the released soundtrack, they are usually snippets of a minute or less.

• Alvin and the Chipmunks: "The Chipmunk Song (Christmas Don't Be Late)"
• Brenton Wood: "The Oogum Boogum Song"
• The Stooges: "Search and Destroy"
• Black Sabbath: "Paranoid"
• Jethro Tull "Teacher"
• Yes: "Roundabout"
• Joni Mitchell: "River"
• Black Sabbath: "Sweet Leaf"
• Nancy Wilson: "Cabin in the Air"^[3]
• Little Feat: "Easy to Slip"
• Raspberries: "Go All the Way"
• Stillwater: "Hour of Need"
• The Guess Who: "Albert Flasher"
• Stillwater: "Love Thing"
• Neil Young and Crazy Horse: "Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere"
• Fleetwood Mac: "Future Games"
• Deep Purple: "Burn"
• Stillwater: "You Had to Be There"
• Blodwyn Pig: "Dear Jill"
• Steely Dan: "Reelin' in the Years"
• MC5: "Looking at You"
• Stillwater: "Love Comes and Goes"
• The Jimi Hendrix Experience: "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)"
• Free: "Wishing Well"
• Buddy Holly and The Crickets: "Peggy Sue" #
• Dr. Hook & The Medicine Show: "The Cover of "Rolling Stone"" #
• Elton John: "Mona Lisas and Mad Hatters"
• Stevie Wonder: "My Cherie Amour"
• Chicago: "Colour My World" #
• Neil Young: "Cortez the Killer" (live recording from the Paramount Theater in Oakland, California on 20 March 1999)
• Led Zeppelin: "The Rain Song"
• Led Zeppelin: "Bron-Yr-Aur"
• Led Zeppelin: "Tangerine"
• Led Zeppelin: "Misty Mountain Hop"
• Stillwater: "Chance Upon You" @
• Pete Droge and Elaine Summers: "Small Time Blues" # Portraying Gram Parsons and Emmylou Harris at the Riot House Hotel

# Sung or performed by a character in the film @ Only featured in the director's cut, Untitled

Chart performance

Album

Year	Chart	Position
2000	Billboard 200	43
2000	Billboard Top Internet Albums	8
2001	Billboard Top Soundtrack Albums	16

Year-end charts

Year-end chart performance for Almost Famous!Chart (2001)!Position

Canadian Albums (Nielsen SoundScan)^[4]	163

Notes and References

1. Web site: Young. Alex. Almost Famous Soundtrack Reissued As Massive 103-Song Box Set. Consequence of Sound. May 21, 2021. May 21, 2021.
2. Web site: Music from Almost Famous . MusicfromFilm.com . 2010-11-16 . 2015-05-15 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150515025931/http://musicfromfilm.com/movies/almostfamous.php . dead .
3. Web site: Scores for Almost Famous and Vanilla Sky . TheUncool.com . 2012-07-22 .
4. Web site: https://web.archive.org/web/20031106085719/http://www.jamshowbiz.com/JamMusicCharts/200-2_2001.html. November 6, 2003. Top 200 Albums of 2001 (based on sales). Jam!. March 26, 2022.