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Title: Great, but Not Great Enough
Review: Having bought this album a number of years ago, I recall my first reaction upon hearing it - disappointment.I found that some of the songs that I heard and loved in the movie ("Jack of Diamonds") were missing on this soundtrack.The brilliance of Cooders musical underscore to one of the best Westerns ever made prompted me to buy this soundtrack, but whomever compiled this album let both Cooder and the filmakers down in a big way. Adding insult to injury, there a few tracks on this album that aren't even in the movie, mediocre and unworthy of such a great soundtrack and film.In a perfect world, whenever the Distributor decides to release the DVD format of this picture, they would include a superior version of the soundtrack, so that we could all finally enjoy what Ry Cooder and his musicians accomplished in "The Long Riders", a truly great Western.I would recommend the soundtrack grudgingly since some of what's there is great.
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