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)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
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.

Album information

The album featured many 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 simply renamed it "Darkness" for this soundtrack. Also, The Cure re-wrote their song "Burn" for the movie. Despite requests, they have never performed the song live.^{[citation needed]}

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

• * Uses samples from the 1976 film Taxi Driver

Personnel

• Jane Siberry - performer
• The Cure - group, performer
• Helmet - performer
• The Jesus and Mary Chain - performer
• Nine Inch Nails - group, producer, performer
• Pantera - performer
• Brian Ritchie - bass guitar, vocals, producer
• Henry Rollins - performer
• Violent Femmes - performer
• Victor de Lorenzo - drums, vocals, producer
• My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult - performer
• Rage Against the Machine - performer
• Medicine - performer
• Stone Temple Pilots - performer
• Perry Bamonte - guitar, keyboards
• Henry Bogdan - bass guitar, producer
• Doug Carrion - producer, engineer
• Zack de la Rocha - vocals, producer
• Nick DiDia - engineer
• Elizabeth Fraser - vocals
• Simon Gallup - bass guitar
• Gordon Gano - guitar, violin, vocals, producer
• Djivan Gasparyan - duduk
• Robin Guthrie - remixing
• Page Hamilton - guitar, producer
• Brad Laner - producer
• Machines of Loving Grace - performer
• Buzz McCoy - producer, engineer, mixing
• Tom Morello - guitar, producer
• Roli Mosimann - mixing
• Bryan New - engineer
• Brendan O'Brien - producer, mixing
• Vinnie Paul - engineer, mixing
• Jim Reid - producer
• William Reid - producer
• Trent Reznor - producer, engineer
• John Siket - engineer
• Robert Smith - guitar, vocals, producer
• John Stanier - drums, producer
• Tim Commerford - bass guitar, producer
• Theo VanRock - producer, engineer, mixing
• Butch Vig - producer
• Brad Wilk - drums, producer
• Boris Williams - drums
• For Love Not Lisa - performer
• Dick Meaney - engineer
• Rollins Band - performer
• John Flannery - engineer
• Stuart Kupers - bass guitar, guitar, producer
• Chris Apthorp - engineer
• Scott Benzel - voices, producer
• Ray Mascarenas - assistant engineer
• Brad Kemp - drums, producer
• Brian Williams - programming, sound design
• Chip Woodward - choir master
• Matt Hyde - producer, engineer, mixing

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. 

External links

• The Crow (soundtrack) at MusicBrainz