Sony Music 100 Years: Soundtrack for a Century
CD
- Release Date: 10/12/1999
- 26 Disc Set
- Label: SONY
- UPC: 074646575024
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Sony Music 100 Years: Soundtrack for a Century
Editorial Reviews
Weighing in at a gargantuan 26 discs and encompassing over 109 years of pop, classical, jazz, rock, country, R&B, and stage and screen hits, Sony Music's SOUNDTRACK FOR A CENTURY is an unprecedented achievement. Gorgeously packaged, this box is essentially a tribute to the Epic, Okeh, Columbia, Vocalion, and many other labels marketed by CBS and Sony over the last hundred years. With four discs of classical, six of pop, two each for jazz, country, rock, movie music, Broadway, and the catch-alls "R&B," "international" and "folk, gospel, and blues," you'll find hundreds of songs you probably didn't own -- and many you didn't want to. That's because, unlike other archival, history-minded collections -- AMERICAN POP: AN AUDIO HISTORY or THE ANTHOLOGY OF AMERICAN FOLK MUSIC -- the main theme behind the compilers' picks is the unknowable logic of the marketplace. This is as much a history of American popular taste as it is a celebration of a recording conglomerate. So Meat Loaf precedes Elvis Costello, the theme from M*A*S*H goes right next to Dylan's theme from PAT GARRET & BILLY THE KID, "Knocking On Heaven's Door." No, you won't like every one of the 547 songs here. But throw any ten of 'em in your disc-changer and you'll get some astounding historical juxtapositions. Like John Philip Sousa conducting the boomin' United States Marine Band in 1890 and Public Enemy sandblasting American jingoism 100 years later. Perhaps you'll reconsider the 1903 Grand Opera performing Rossini's "Largo al factotum" as a precursor to modern vocal giants Barbra Streisand and Celine Dion. Variety makes the best discs the ones filed under "pop" -- which means anything from the California Ramblers' "The Peanut Vendor," to Dinah Shore's "Buttons and Bows," to Bob Dylan's "Like a Rolling Stone," Looking Glass's "Brandy You're a Fine Girl," Lauryn Hill's "Doo-Wop (That Thing)," and a lot more. All in all, this is as fun and fascinating as any pop collection ever recorded. Jon Dolan, Barnes & Noble
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