The Crow: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

The Crow
Soundtrack album by Various artists
Released March 29, 1994
Genre Alternative rock, alternative metal, industrial rock, gothic rock, groove metal
Length 63:52
Label Atlantic
Producer Various
The Crow soundtrack chronology
Fear and Bullets
(1994)		 The Crow
(1994)		 The Crow: Original Motion Picture Score
(1994)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[1]

The soundtrack to the movie The Crow was released in 1994.[2] Its biggest hit song was "Burn" by The Cure, which was written for the movie.

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. The Cure also wrote the song "Burn" for the movie. Stone Temple Pilots originally re-recorded a song off their Mighty Joe Young demo, titled "Only Dying", but removed it when Brandon Lee died.

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.

The other music in the film which is not included in the soundtrack is instead on The Crow: Original Motion Picture Score of original, mostly orchestral music, with some electronic and guitar elements, written for the film by Graeme Revell.

Track listing

  1. "Burn" - The Cure
  2. "Golgotha Tenement Blues" - Machines of Loving Grace
  3. "Big Empty" - Stone Temple Pilots
  4. "Dead Souls" (Joy Division cover) - Nine Inch Nails
  5. "Darkness" - Rage Against the Machine
  6. "Color Me Once" - Violent Femmes
  7. "Ghostrider" (Suicide cover) - Rollins Band
  8. "Milktoast" (also known as "Milquetoast") - Helmet
  9. "The Badge" (Poison Idea cover) - Pantera
  10. "Slip Slide Melting" - For Love Not Lisa
  11. "After the Flesh" - My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult
  12. "Snakedriver" - The Jesus and Mary Chain
  13. "Time Baby III" - Medicine
  14. "It Can't Rain All the Time" - Jane Siberry

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. May 29, 1994. Retrieved 2010-12-04.

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