Song id: soundtrack from a 70's cartoon movie

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Okay, so there's this cartoon movie from the 70's. I don't know the name of it, but Ringo Starr is the narrator. It's about a kid who is born in the "Pointed City" where everything has a point, and all the people have points on their head, but this kid doesn't. So he gets banished to the pointless forest.

It's kind of Yellow Submarine style. What band is it that performs all those songs throughout the movie? Is their regular material as good?

Thanks.

― Mickey, Tuesday, 23 November 2004 05:20 (twenty-one years ago)

you're thinking of the point by harry nilsson.

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 05:23 (twenty-one years ago)

The day I found a copy of this soundtrack at a flea market was one of the best days of my life.

― i am nervous (cochere), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 07:15 (twenty-one years ago)

I saw this in the park this summer. It was awesome. No idea about Harry Nilsson's other stuff.

― seedy poops in the woods (Queen Electric Butt Prober BZZ), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 10:34 (twenty-one years ago)

I've never seen the film, sadly, but Nilsson is astounding. You should certainly find some of his records. The Point is particularly good, actually.

― Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 10:43 (twenty-one years ago)

I thought Dustin Hoffman narrated "The Point"?

― Den Dadaismus in seinem Lauf hält weder Ochs noch Esel auf... (Dada), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 11:25 (twenty-one years ago)

I have the LP, but has anyone actually ever seen the film for sale? Have tried Amazon to no avail.

― emil.y (emil.y), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 12:49 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067595/

Ringo, correct. And Dustin, correct. and so on

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 13:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes, that is the movie! And it looks like the soundtrack is easily available

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000077SX4/qid=1101220246/sr=2-2/ref=pd_ka_b_2_2/002-0917150-3164051

Thanks for the help.

― Mickey, Tuesday, 23 November 2004 14:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Is their regular material as good?

i'm sure there are various nilsson threads floating around but, suffice it to say, his regular material is often fabulous but also somewhat scattered and uneven. the dude liked to drink, and it sometimes showed.

nilsson schmilsson is both the commercial and critical high point, with, among other things, his mega-hit cover of the badfinger pop ballad "without you" and the hard-grooving "jump into the fire." the former was covered (again) by mariah carey; the latter is currently being covered by lcd soundsystem. son of schmillson gets you the upbeat piano rocker "you're breaking my heart" (with the punchline, "...so fuck you") and "i'd rather be dead" (with the punchline "...than wet my bed," fittingly sung by a choir of elderly men and women). nilsson sings newman is a gorgeous album of randy newman covers, with randy on piano. his earlier records are psychedelic pop that beatles fans worship. the beatles themselves worshipped him, too, for whatever that's worth.

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 14:33 (twenty-one years ago)

"Nilsson Schmilsson" isn't the best album he made, it was really the beginning of the end, quality-wise, for Harry - it was all downhill from there on in. Still a good album of course.

― Den Dadaismus in seinem Lauf hält weder Ochs noch Esel auf... (Dada), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 14:39 (twenty-one years ago)

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