Original released on LP MGM SE 4668ST
(US, March 1970)
"Zabriskie
Point" - just when you thought it was safe to hurtle into the entertainments of
the so-called counterculture, this half-baked slice of nonsense arrived under
the direction of Michelangelo Antonioni, who had previously directed "Blow-Up", a
great success. "Zabriskie Point" eventually became notorious for its Death Valley orgy sequence and the tragic fate of its
neophyte star, Mark Frechette, but artistically it served, in the main, to do
little but devastate Antonioni's reputation. As a way of accenting the counterculture
he thought he was depicting, Antonioni chose to hire a selection of
contemporary rock performers. The results of this effort were mixed indeed,
with some performers having their music rejected outright after weeks of work,
while others left the project after arguments with the ever-evasive director. In
the end, MGM tacked on a Roy Orbison song to garner a hit single, and the
soundtrack album featured an odd melange of songs from Pink Floyd, the Grateful
Dead (whose "Dark Star" is only excerpted), the Kaleidoscope, and
others. This compilation is well worth hearing for the Floyd numbers, including
an altered "Careful with That Axe, Eugene" presented as "Come in
Number 51, Your Time Is Up."
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