The Crow (soundtrack)

The Crow
Soundtrack album by Various artists
Released March 29, 1994
Genre Alternative rock, heavy metal, industrial rock, gothic rock
Length 63:52
Label Atlantic
Producer see personnel
The Crow soundtrack chronology
Fear and Bullets
(1994)		 The Crow
(1994)		 The Crow (score)
(1994)
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Allmusic [1]

The soundtrack to the movie The Crow was released in 1994.[2] Its biggest hit song was "Big Empty" by the Stone Temple Pilots, which was also on their album Purple.

Contents

Album information

The album featured covers, including Nine Inch Nails who covered Joy Division's "Dead Souls", Pantera who covered Poison Idea's "The Badge", and Rollins Band who covered Suicide's "Ghost Rider", which is about a Marvel Comics character. Rage Against the Machine re-recorded their 1991 b-side "Darkness of Greed" and renamed it "Darkness" for this soundtrack. Also, The Cure re-wrote their song "Burn" for the movie.

The inclusion of songs written by The Cure and Joy Division are notable because the influences of both bands are present in the original comic book. James O'Barr, the creator of The Crow, reprinted the lyrics to the song "The Hanging Garden" by The Cure on an entire page, and some chapters of the comic book are named after Joy Division songs, "Atmosphere" and "Atrocity Exhibition", for example. In one panel, Eric even quotes a lyric from the song "Disorder" from the album Unknown Pleasures. O'Barr was a big fan of both bands when he was creating the comic book.

Track listing

  1. "Burn" - The Cure (Robert Smith, Simon Gallup, Boris Williams, Perry Bamonte) – 6:39
  2. "Golgotha Tenement Blues" - Machines of Loving Grace (Scott Benzel, Mike Fisher, Stuart Kupers, Brad Kemp) – 4:01
  3. "Big Empty" - Stone Temple Pilots (Dean DeLeo, Scott Weiland) – 4:56
  4. "Dead Souls" - Nine Inch Nails (Joy Division) – 4:54
  5. "Darkness" - Rage Against the Machine (Rage Against the Machine) – 3:41
  6. "Color Me Once" - Violent Femmes (Gordon Gano, Brian Ritchie) – 4:09
  7. "Ghostrider" - Rollins Band (Suicide) (Martin Rev, Alan Vega) – 5:45
  8. "Milktoast" (also known as "Milquetoast") - Helmet (Page Nye Hamilton) – 3:59
  9. "The Badge" - Pantera (Poison Idea) – 3:54*
  10. "Slip Slide Melting" - For Love Not Lisa (For Love Not Lisa) – 5:47
  11. "After the Flesh" - My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult (Buzz McCoy, Groovie Mann) – 2:59
  12. "Snakedriver" - The Jesus and Mary Chain (William Reid, Jim Reid) – 3:41
  13. "Time Baby III" - Medicine (Jim Goodall, Brad Laner, Jim Putnam, Ed Ruscha, Beth Thompson) – 3:52
  14. "It Can't Rain All the Time" - Jane Siberry (Graeme Revell, Jane Siberry) – 5:34

Personnel

Chart positions

Year Chart Position
1994 The Billboard 200 1
Preceded by
Not a Moment Too Soon by Tim McGraw		 Billboard 200 number-one album
June 4–10, 1994		 Succeeded by
The Sign by Ace of Base

References

  1. ^ Allmusic review
  2. ^ "As 'The Crow' Flies". The Los Angeles Times. http://articles.latimes.com/1994-05-29/entertainment/ca-63390_1_toni-braxton. Retrieved 2010-12-04. 

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