NIN's "Dead Souls" was THE reason I got this, but I didn't know it was a cover until a couple of years after I got it. *I* think NIN did it justice though... & yes, I love Joy Division (& New Order) too, so don't condemn me for not knowing about it before :P RATM's "Darkness" will satisfy any Rage fan (like myself) with it's funky vibe, but the title alone gives it a place here. The Femmes "Color Me Once" is definitely one of the highlights on here... so much infact that one VERY late night I came home & listened to it prolly 10+ times in a row... which made it skip REALLY bad after that & I had to get another copy :-D Don't ask how it affected me, it just kinda crept up on me, & now it's prolly my 2nd favorite song on here.

I usually have to be in the mood for tracks 7-9, but they're cool songs too. FLNL's "Slip Slide" is an exceptional track for one of the least known of bands on here. TKK's "After the Flesh" & Mary Chain's "Snakedriver" are good ones from them, & will satisfy old fans as well as others who've never heard of these good "late '80's" bands. Medicine's "Time Baby" kinda signals the end with its more mellow vibe, but is a good song, & both this band & TKK are featured in the movie. I definitely have my favorites on here that I wanted to hear more than once, so I rarely got through it all the way & heard the slow last track "It Can't Rain All the Time" the least.

This definitely has something for every true rock fan... alternative, metal, goth, industrial, whatever you wanna call it. It's a consistently dark soundtrack for a dark movie, & even better when listened to at night. This soundtrack & the movie also far surpass the sequels. If you like any of these bands or any of the songs from the movie, GET THIS NOW!!


A great soundtrack to a great movie   September 29, 2003
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Watching "The Crow" and listening to its soundtrack will live in my mind an experience that marked my late college times. Its dark appeal, the fascinating theme of love beyond death and Brandon Lee's enticing performance prior to his death while shooting the picture could not have been better framed musically. The soundtrack provided a perfect background against which the scenes that evolved on the screen were simply perfect, as if choreographed.

But three songs did the most for the movie and transcended it: Jane Siberry's fascinating "It Can't Rain All The Time" along with the final credits, Nine Inch Nail's "Dead Souls" and The Cure's "Burn". Years later, I can still see Lee on my mind, putting on make up, crashing mirrors, and trashing everything around him and as his transformation was under way with The Cure in the background, sounding at their best: one vibrant moment in movie history!


The blueprint for alternative music soundtracks.   October 29, 2003
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I remember when this came out it seemed custome made for my musical tastes at the time, and still does really. I mean the quality of bands here is great. Of the first five tracks alone you got "Nine Inch Nails", "Rage Against The Machine", "Stone Temple Pilots", and one of the best "Cure" songs ever, and that's saying alot. Plus in the middle of the album you get a 1-2-3 punch from "Rollins Band", "Helmet", and "Pantera". Then it ends with cool tracks from "The Jesus and Mary Chain", "The Thrill Kill Kult", and a soft finale from "Jane Siberry". I'm sure the point of the music here was to reflect the feeling of the movie, and it succeeded much better than other soundtracks have. The other "Crow" cd's have some good stuff too, but overall they don't even touch this one.


one of the best soundtracks out there   December 19, 2003
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this sountrack is wonderful. just listening to the album takes you through the movie itself. the frist track by The Cure is great. being the first track, it really draws you in and keeps you curious about the rest of the album. overall i think its just plain great.


Superb Soundtrack That Compliments A Great Movie...   January 30, 2006
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I remember the first time I watched THE CROW movie when it came out in theaters and loving the movie, and sadly learning that Brandon Lee's poetic performance was undercut by his premature death. It was an unfair end for such a brilliant performance, and guaranteed had he still been alive to do the sequel, it would have done almost as well as this stellar movie did. The soundtrack almost eclipses the movie itself, but the movie and the music both match. The sound that dominates most of this soundtrack falls into alternative, metal, goth, industrial, and even a touching ode to close the album.

The album opens gracefully with The Cure's "Burn", an atmospheric and dreamy rock ballad that is about as sentimental as this album gets, and you're going to find most of it teething at your bones. But it's good, because Machines of Loving Grace follows right up with their menacing and airy industrial number "Golgotha Tenement Blues". Right after that, you've got the hard rock power of "Big Empty" by Stone Temple Pilots, which suits this soundtrack quite nicely, as does Nine Inch Nails fine rendition of Joy Division's "Dead Souls". Other noteworthy mentions include Pantera's blistering "The Badge"; My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult's fast-paced manic energy of "After The Flesh"; Rage Against The Machine's semi-political jazz-ish rock in "Darkness"; and Helmet's demo-version feel of "Milquetoast" which feels live-ish and pounds away. Jane Siberry closes off the album with the hauntingly melodic "It Can't Rain All The Time", which pulls the album from its heavy rock industrial sound to an atmospheric number that completely lightens and, for girls, may induce tears.

This soundtrack is one of the best ever created for a film of such depth and menace. For all the dreary feel and sense pervading the brilliant film, the soundtrack is energetic and a pure rush of the action you'll find in the movie. THE CROW soundtrack is my favorite soundtrack, and for those who enjoyed the movie, it should be yours too.