Big Dog 92-7 Music Guide

Skidoo/The Point!

RELEASE
September 12, 2000
LABEL
BMG Ariola
GENRES
Pop/Rock, Baroque Pop, Contemporary Pop/Rock, Psychedelic, Psychedelic Pop, Sunshine Pop, Singer/Songwriter, AM Pop

Album Review

Nilsson's two late-'60s/early-'70s soundtrack albums, Skidoo and The Point!, were released as a single-disc two-fer as part of RCA Camden's Nilsson reissue campaign. Of the two, The Point! holds up a bit better, since it was designed to stand on its own more than Skidoo, yet the two are an ideal pairing, showing Nilsson's silly humor, studio inventiveness, and pop songcraft if not at a peak, then at least in a highly distinctive, amusing setting. There are three bonus tracks: an alternate mix of "I Will Take You There" from Skidoo, "Girlfriend," and "Down to the Valley."
Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Rovi

Track Listing

  1. The Cast and Crew
  2. I Will Take You There
  3. Skidoo/Commercials
  4. Goodnight Mr. Banks/Let's Get the Hardware/Murder in the Car Wash
  5. Angie's Suite
  6. The Tree
  7. Garbage Can Ballet
  8. Tony's Trip
  9. Escape: Impossible/Green Bay Packers March
  10. Man Wasn't Meant to Fly
  11. Escape: Possible
  12. Skidoo/Goodnight Mr. Banks
  13. Everything's Got 'Em (Narration)
  14. The Town
  15. Me and My Arrow
  16. The Game (Narration)
  17. Poli High
  18. The Trial & Banishment (Narration)
  19. Think About Your Troubles
  20. The Pointed Man (Narration)
  21. Life Line
  22. The Birds (Narration)
  23. P.O.V. Waltz
  24. The Clearing in the Woods (Narration)
  25. Are You Sleeping?
  26. Oblio's Return (Narration)
  27. I Will Take You There [Alternate Mix][*]
  28. Girlfriend [*]
  29. Down to the Valley [*]
  30. Buy My Album [*]