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)1994 The Crow (1994) The Crow: Original Motion Picture Score (1994)The Crow: Original Motion Picture Score1994

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The soundtrack to the movie The Crow was released in 1994. 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

• 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

External links

• The Crow: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack at MusicBrainz (list of releases)