American Pie

Artist: Don McLean
Label: Capitol
Category: Music

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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 077774655521
EAN: 0077774655521
ASIN: B000002UBU

Release Date: 1990-10-25

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Tracks:

American Pie
Till Tomorrow
Vincent
Crossroads
Winterwood
Empty Chairs
Everybody Loves Me, Baby
Sister Fatima
The Grave
Babylon

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Customer Reviews:

Empty Chairs.......2007-03-11

I was so strongly in agreement with an earlier review of The Don McLean "American Pie" Album which I have loved for almost as many years as its initial release. The song "Empty Chairs is a forever favorite and also brings a tear as often as I allow myself to experience the strong emotion of its heartfelt performance. I missed the cover by Garth Brooks and I'm very sure it must have been first rate.

Great music, packaged in a CHEAP cardboard sleeve!.......2007-01-23

"American Pie" is an undisputed classic. The remastered CD sounds quite faithful to the original, as I remember it. However, I would not have bought it had I known that Capitol packaged it in a cheap cardboard sleeve. I would have gladly paid (a little) more to get this in a traditional plastic jewel case, which protects the disc much better. Packaging aside, I'm glad to add it to my collection.

Nothing like the real thing.......2007-01-09

My 9 year-old loves this. Really wanted her to have the full length version. Other good songs as well. Glad we got it!

It's still "American Pie".......2006-12-27

For years, the character actor Bud Cort hated the movie "Harold and Maude." His bravo performance in that film overshadows every other thing he's ever done. So it is with Don McLean and "American Pie." I can understand McLean's ambivalence; even so, "American Pie" is still the greatest song of all time.

That nine-minute wonder captures the essence of the 1960s -- Buddy Holly, of course, but also gymnasium proms, the "God is dead" controversy, Lenny Bruce, the Vietnam War and the protests, the threat of nuclear annihilation, the Free Speech Movement at Berkeley, Charles Manson, the Beatles and "Sergeant Pepper," Janis Joplin, even the Rolling Stones' tragic performance at Altamont Speedway. Despite McLean's protestations, the references are much too spot-on to be accidental.

"American Pie" is simply a work of genius.

"The Church Bells all Were Broken................".......2006-12-18

Not meaning for this to be a nostalgic piece, but of ALL the songs that I most remember when I was 20 years old, one heard this all over the radio in 1972. This can both make me smile, and cry at the same time.Those of you that are my peers, know what I am talking about. This entire album, from start to finish, is a "must" for every record(that's right-I said record)collection.

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