“It was juvenile, it was something wild,” the band shouts in “You Had to Be There.” JON PARELES Armabillion Recordz (A Stillwater EP, minus the demos, is also available separately.) Stillwater’s vintage style was meticulously reconstructed - booming drums, screaming lead guitar (from Mike McCready of Pearl Jam) - with hints of meta self-consciousness in the lyrics. They also include a disc of mostly folksy soundtrack instrumentals by Nancy Wilson, from Heart, and the complete recordings of the film’s invented band, Stillwater - a Led Zeppelin/Bad Company knockoff stomping through songs written by Crowe, Wilson and Peter Frampton - along with, in boxed-set style, the demo versions. The expanded anniversary editions are overstuffed with familiar songs alongside a few live rarities. (UMe multiple configurations with deluxe editions starting at $169.98)Ĭameron Crowe’s 2000 film, “Almost Famous,” was his fond reminiscence about writing for Rolling Stone during the hard-partying, all-access 1970s. As Taylor Swift proved this year, there’s no reason the old can’t be experienced as new, too. But this year’s resurrections and recontextualizations in boxed sets and reissues gathered up what’s been forgotten or overlooked - or in some cases, what’s been dissected ad nauseam but still commands attention - and put it back at center stage. ![]() ![]() In an era of abundance when every day brings a deluge of new music to consume, it may seem particularly futile to turn to the past.
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