Arlo Guthrie - Alice's Restaurant
Product Information
Track List: Alice's Restaurant
Click on or song title to hear an audio clip. Windows Media player is required.
- Alice's Restaurant MassacreDownload & Buy
- Chilling Of The EveningDownload & Buy
- Ring-Around-A-Rosy RagDownload & Buy
- Now And ThenDownload & Buy
- I'm Going HomeDownload & Buy
- The Motorcyle SongDownload & Buy
- Highway In The WindDownload & Buy
Yahoo! Shoppers Who Viewed This Item Also Viewed:
-
$10 - $14
-
$18 - $18
More Arlo Guthrie CDs and Albums
Album Details: Alice's Restaurant
- Release Date:
- 09/01/1987
- Label:
- Warner Bros / Wea
- UPC:
- 075992743921
User Reviews: Alice's Restaurant
-
THE ONLY THANKSGIVING SONG!
, November 25, 1999Reviewer: classicrockdj - See all classicrockdj's reviews1 of 1 Yahoo! Users found this Alice's Restaurant review helpful I work at a classic rock station and the phone calls were incredible. Its nice to know people haven't forgotten a true classic. -
Alice's Restaurant 2002 DVD (Original 1969)
, June 28, 2006Pros: Superb anti-war, flower child, acoustic, Arlo Guthrie music.
Cons: That the US executive branch government is repeating the history that led young adults and youths to create the hippie counter culture.
I'd seen this movie in 1969 or 70 when it first came out. Oddly I didn't remember one thing about it once I saw this 2002 DVD version. Now I remember what it was all about. Vietnam. The Hippie peace movement. A super-power (rather than great power) US that inspired its teenage and young adult generation to create a nonviolent counter-culture because they literally hated war and the lifestyles of the violent US "leaders."
Right after the assassinations of Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr., and during the failures of the Vietnam War, a generation of long haired-Hippies with "flower-power"; and acoustic guitars with home spun songs about loving each other evolved in reaction to US war mongering anti-Asian supremacism. ...
Though this film is about a small group of Hippies who buy a church to live in, and then a restaurant for Alice, the wife of the gatherer of the flock, to sell her delicious food from, the back ground is about a social culture change due to an excess of US governmental violence. Sound familiar? Like history repeating itself in 2002-2006?
Arlo Guthrie is the main troubadour who brings the "family" together through his music, like his real and not real father, who in the picture is dying, had done. Appearances by social changers by way of music, Pete Seeger, join with Guthrie to make lasting political statements through their music about anti-war, group protest, and social change.
History seems to be repeating itself from 1969 to 2006. Because the older people won't love their neighbors and fear them instead, because the older people won't negotiate with their neighbors and must dominate them instead, because the older people won't resist fighting and love war instead. A new generation is posed to take their stand, just like in the late 60's when violence in the US got way out of hand and didn't represent the true will of the American public. That's what this movie is about. It speaks to us now just like it did back when. m_d.md.m_d
read all (4) user reviews for Alice's Restaurant
Pro Reviews: Alice's Restaurant
| EXPERT RATING: From AMG Reviews Although he'd been a fixture on the East Coast folk circuit for several years, Arlo Guthrie did not release this debut album until mid-1967. A majority of the attention directed at Alice's Restaurant focuses on the epic 18-plus-minute title track, which sprawled over the entire A-side of the long-player. However, it is the other half-dozen Guthrie compositions that provide an insight into his uniformly outstanding -- yet astoundingly overlooked -- early sides on Warner Bros.. Although arguably 100 percent factual, "Alice's Restaurant Massacree" -- which was recorded in front of a live audience -- is rooted in a series of real incidents. This decidedly anti-establishment saga of garbage dumps closed on Thanksgiving, good ol' Officer Obie, as well as Guthrie's experiences with the draft succeeds not only because of the unusual and outlandish situations that the hero finds himself in; it is also his underdog point of view and sardonic delivery that maximize the effect in the retelling. After decades of refusing to perform the work in concert, he trotted it back out in the late '80s, adding fresh perspectives and side stories about the consequences that the song has had, such as the uncanny role that the track played in the Watergate tape cover-up. In terms of artistic merit, the studio side is an equally endowed effort containing six decidedly more traditional folk-rock compositions. Among the standouts are the haunting "Chilling of the Evening," which is given an arrangement perhaps more aptly suited to a Jimmy Webb/Glen Campbell collaboration. There is a somewhat dated charm in "Ring-Around-a-Rosie-Rag," a sly, up-tempo, and hippie-friendly bit of jug band nostalgia. "I'm Going Home" is an underrated minor-chord masterpiece that is not only reminiscent of Roger McGuinn's "Ballad of Easy Rider," but also spotlights a more sensitive and intricate nature to Guthrie's craftsmanship. Also worth mentioning is the first installment of "Motorcycle Song" -- which was updated and discussed further on the live self-titled follow-up release Arlo (1968) -- notable for the extended discourse on the "significance of the pickle." None of the performances on this disc were used in for the Alice's Restaurant (1969) film. However, the soundtrack -- which was issued on CD by Rykodisc in 1998 -- contains a full-length studio version of the "Massacree." In 1995 Guthrie marked the 30th anniversary of the original Thanksgiving Day incident which sparked the need for a Massacree in the first place. He re-recorded this entire album to uniformly superior results. Alice's Restaurant: 30th Anniversary Edition is a fun update as well as a stirring reminder of what a national treasure Guthrie's music and lyrics really are. - Lindsay Planer, All Music Guide |
Related Artists
Similar Artists
Roots & Influences
Followers
Arlo Guthrie Biography
Like his father Woody Guthrie, Arlo Guthrie has carved out a career as a folksinger and songwriter with a social conscience who leavens political messages with humor. Though Woody Guthrie was hospitalized for much of Arlo's youth, the youngster never...Full Arlo Guthrie Biography
Compare New Prices: Alice's Restaurant
| Store | Price / Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| $10.99 |
Calculate Total Price
Price
+ Tax + Shipping
= Total Price
|
Go to Store
|
|
| ModernRock.com | $7.52 |
Go to Store
|
|
| Amazon.com Marketplace | $6.56 |
Go to Store
|
|
Compare Used and Refurb Prices: Alice's Restaurant
| Store | Price / Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| $5.69 |
Calculate Total Price
Price
+ Tax + Shipping
= Total Price
|
Go to Store
|
|
-- ©2008 All Media Guide, LLC