Vietnam: A Musical Retrospective (1998)

About this title: The soundtrack to Good Morning Vietnam often came off as a little too Hollywood, so here's an album that's more reminiscent of historical documents than unit-shifting. Vietnam: A Musical Retrospective includes many of the same tracks as its predecessor, but it does have the actual Adrian Cronauer introducing the show, not Robin Williams. On purely musical merits as well, the compilation is a bit more weighty than Good Morning Vietnam. Each of the tracks here is a classic -- "Nowhere to Run," "Rescue Me," "Born to Be Wild," "Wild Thing," "Good Vibrations," "Somebody to Love," "Wipe Out ... read more

Tracks:

1. Show Opener
2. Nowhere to Run [Holland/Dozier/Holl]
3. One [Nilsson]
4. Good Vibrations [Love/Wilson]
5. Born to Be Wild [Bonfire]
6. Somebody to Love [Slick/Slick]
7. Rescue Me [Miner/Smith]
8. Wipe Out [Berryhill/Connolly/]
9. Sooner or Later [Bottler/McNamara/Pa]
10. Incense and Peppermints [Gilbert/Carter]
11. California Dreamin' [Phillips/Phillips]
12. On the Road Again [Wilson/Jones]
13. Wild Thing [Taylor]
14. California Dreamin' [Phillips/Phillips]

Note: This is a general synopsis. Each listing is further described below.